[altlinux-announce-en] Distribution Release: ALT Workstation K 11.1

[altlinux-announce-en] Distribution Release: ALT Workstation K 11.1

[Мария Фоканова]

Hello!

11.1 minor release of ALT Workstation K operating system is available.

Stable version announcement:
https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/altlinux-announce-en/2025/000047.html

The build is available for x86_64, based on the 6.12 (LTS) kernel.

More about the distribution images and updates:
https://packages.altlinux.org/en/p11/images/alt-kworkstation

Download the release image:
https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/
http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p11/images/kworkstation/


Key Updates

* Wi-Fi setup during installation added: сonnect to wireless networks 
before the first system login.
* Haruna video player now supports direct playback of smb:// links: 
seamless video streaming from SMB shares enables.
* Support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50xx series graphics cards added.
* Nouveau driver available for older NVIDIA GPUs: activate by removing 
the blacklist-nouveau package.
* Expanded KDE applications suite:
** Ghostwriter: focused Markdown-oriented text editor.
** Kleopatra: comprehensive certificate manager and GUI for 
OpenPGP/GnuPG cryptography.
** Marknote: lightweight note-taking editor.
** NeoChat: feature-rich Matrix network client.
** Tokodon: client for the decentralized Mastodon microblogging network.


Package version updates to 11.0

systemd 255.21
Frameworks 6.14
Mesa 25.0
Bash 5.2
Qmmp 2.2
Сhromium(GOST) 135.0
Yandex Browser 25.2


Fixes

* Fixed system hang with a black screen during login on systems with 
dual graphics cards.
* Wayland session is now automatically enabled for modern NVIDIA GPUs 
with Wayland support (previously, the X11 window system was used for all 
NVIDIA cards by default).


More

Please find our distributions at:
https://getalt.org/en/