Hey pals. A fresh dev build is out today — 10.2.1-dev2026.05.04. Nothing dramatic, just a focused session of things that needed fixing before 10.2.1 goes stable.
Utility Panel
- Fixed: the trash bin was always showing as empty regardless of its actual state. It now correctly shows as full when there's something in it.
- Fixed: the trash empty sound effect was only playing when emptying through
nebide-shell-trashdirectly. The audio code has been moved into the Utility Panel itself, so it now plays regardless of how you clear the trash — Nautilus, command line, or anything else. - Fixed: Flatpak app icons pinned to the Utility Panel were falling back to a generic
application-x-executableicon instead of the app's actual icon. - Partially fixed: the Utility Panel refresh issue. The remaining limitation comes from Waybar itself — there's only so much that can be done within that constraint. NebiOS 11's planned custom panel system will handle this properly.
nebide-shell-trashhas been folded intonebide-shellaction.nebide-shell-trashstill exists for backwards compatibility with earlier 10.x patches, but it probably won't be around in NebiOS 11.- Fixed: the wdisplays dialog was staying visible on screen after you clicked "Continue in wdisplays". It now closes as soon as wdisplays opens, which is what it should have been doing from the start.
Wallpaper Engine
- Improved: the image loading algorithm in the Wallpaper Engine properties dialog has been reworked. Previously, opening the dialog while a wallpaper was still loading would leave the window unresponsive until the image finished loading. The dialog now opens immediately, and images load noticeably faster. The desktop wallpaper engine itself is unaffected — this only applies to the properties dialog.
- Fixed: memory leaks in several Wallpaper Engine widgets.
Widgets
- Improved: lyrics sync in the music player widget has been significantly improved, especially for fast-paced tracks where the previous sync would fall apart noticeably.
- Fixed: a race condition where switching songs mid-load would result in lyrics from the previous track being displayed for the new one. If you switched songs while lyrics were still loading, whichever lyrics finished loading last would stick — regardless of which song was actually playing.
- Fixed: the same race condition existed in the comic reader widget for images. Same pattern, same fix.
Build note
This build was assembled while Ubuntu's global infrastructure (archive.ubuntu.com, security.ubuntu.com) was under an ongoing DDoS attack. German mirrors (de.archive.ubuntu.com) were used as a temporary workaround. If you install from this ISO and want to switch back to global mirrors once the situation resolves, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and run sudo apt update.
Still a beta. If you run into anything, hop on Discord.
Bundle Store update coming tomorrow — spent most of today fighting Ubuntu's DDoS situation, so the ISO is going out at midnight on my timezone. Thanks for sticking around either way.
— Sarp M.