AikaOS 11.1

Released on 2026-11-02.

AikaOS 11.1 is the first installable AikaOS release: an Arch-based x86_64 desktop with KDE Plasma, Aika artwork and an offline Calamares installer.

Included

• KDE Plasma Wayland and the Aika desktop, lock-screen, launcher, selected icons and GRUB theme.
• Calamares 3.4.3 with Aika branding, German keyboard preview and explicit target-disk confirmation.
• Offline installation to ext4, with either no swap or a 512 MiB swap file.
• Password-protected user login and sudo, locked root account and disabled SSH autostart after installation.
• Kernel/initramfs, package-provided Intel/AMD microcode images, UEFI GRUB and a fallback EFI loader.
• Firefox, Dolphin, Konsole, Kate, NetworkManager and Fastfetch with the supplied Aika portrait.

Download and install

Download AikaOS 11.1 (single ISO, 2.33 GB)

The release filename is aikaos-11.1-stable-x86_64.iso. The checksum, build manifest, package inventory and provenance bundle are attached to the GitHub release. The ISO is hosted as one complete file on SourceForge.

• Size: 2,334,775,296 bytes.
• SHA-256: c14421479741e7ea8de9fda50af7ea617ca451ac38f869bf36078e4710f00116.
• Build source: f07245344426639dab65dd5087df73ed202a208c; Linux 7.2.14 and KDE Plasma 6.8.2.

Verify the image, then use Rufus → ISO Image mode to write an 8 GB or larger USB drive. Boot its UEFI entry with Secure Boot disabled. See the installation guide and verification instructions.

The live session uses German language/keyboard and Europe/Berlin time by default. Calamares allows these choices to be changed. The live account is aika, with automatic login and passwordless sudo; those live settings are removed from the installed system.

Supported scope for this release

The supported installation path is a fresh x86_64 UEFI installation to a dedicated target disk, using ext4. Erase-disk installation deletes the contents of the selected disk. Select the target carefully and back up files first.

8 GB RAM is recommended. Installer checks require at least 4 GiB RAM and 20 GiB storage; the complete VM installation tests used 8 GiB RAM and a 64 GiB disk. Secure Boot, legacy-BIOS installation, dual boot, encryption, hibernation and recovery procedures are not validated release paths.

Validation and known limitations

The corrected installer profile passed a physical installation, a full 25-package update and reboot, and timed S3 suspend/resume. The exact final stable ISO passed a separate fresh KVM swap-file installation: all 33 jobs, 29 installed checks and 11 extended checks, including Firefox HTTPS, password lock/unlock and installed shutdown. See final-image acceptance and the separate earlier swap test.

Earlier QEMU TCG tests had startup timeouts and unreliable graphics transitions. Later KVM tests passed the visible desktop/unlock flow. A live shutdown delay, optional desktop/backend warnings, old-hardware ACPI messages and earlier RA24 graphics warnings remain recorded. Discover's graphical Arch package backend is not configured; use full pacman upgrades. Read known issues and scope.

Updates and support

Installed Arch packages use the official Arch repositories and complete sudo pacman -Syu upgrades. AikaOS-specific configuration changes are announced separately; see maintenance. Report reproducible issues on GitHub.

The project scripts use GPL-3.0-or-later. Bundled packages retain their licenses; artwork has separate provenance and terms. See third-party notices and artwork information.