Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.1 as a new stable update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution featuring new and updated components.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series with CachyOS patches, Nitrux 5.1 features the Hyprland 0.52.2 desktop with new key bindings, support for window blur, revamped Waybar with a modern floating “island” design, and an updated lock screen with a battery indicator and media player information.

Nitrux 5.1 also comes with new tools, including Cinderward, a simple, Wayland-friendly GUI for firewalld built with MauiKit, firewalld, a dynamically managed firewall, and ADIOS (Adaptive Deadline I/O Scheduler), a block-layer I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel.