In kicking off 2026, AerynOS developers have continued to make progress on their build tooling and infrastructure for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. They have also been working on a new website design and other updated branding to start the new year.

AerynOS recently established a policy that contributions to the project cannot include content generated by large language models (LLMs) or similar tooling. Due tp ethical concerns, "disproportionate use of electricity and water of building / running them", negative influence on quality, and potential copyright violations, AerynOS will not be accepting "AI" LLM-backed contributions.

For assisting in AerynOS debugging/development, there is now a debuginfod instance of AerynOS that has been launched for providing debug information on-demand for packages.

Over on the packaging side, AerynOS has rolled out COSMIC 1.0.3 / GNOME 49.3 / KDE Plasma 6.5.5 desktop updates, Firefox 147.0.2, Fish 4.3.3, Mesa 25.3.4, and a variety of other package updates.

AerynOS released a 2026.01 ISO refresh to ship with all of the latest packages.

More details on the progress made by AerynOS over the month of January can be found via the AerynOS.com blog .