COSMIC Epoch 1 was released December 11th, 2025. Point releases include new features and bug fixes. On Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, updates are rolling and released as they pass Quality Assurance review. Other distributions tend to release tagged releases.

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.3

Release tagged for packaging 01/20/2026

• Translation updates to all projects

COSMIC Files

• Add open button to multiple preview
• Open multiple directories in separate tabs
• Handle hidden items during shift click
• Copy file times

COSMIC Notifications

• Clean up logging
• COSMIC Media Player
• Mute when thumbnailing

COSMIC Settings

• Fallback to saving network password in system if secret agent channel is closed
• Option to apply RON theme files via the CLI

COSMIC Terminal

• Properly load and clear passwords in memory when passwords page is toggled
• Fixes for nix flake

xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic

• Do not abort portal backend if dma-buf support is missing
• Set pipewire data flags for memfd, potentially fixes issues with OBS screen cast
• Only save config when rectangle drag ends

All 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.3

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.4

Release tagged for packaging 01/27/2026

• Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects

Cosmic Applets

• Add variant information

COSMIC Comp

• Fix visual artifacts in overview mode
• Fix Super+Click on a tiled window having unexpected behavior

COSMIC Edit

• Improve large file load time and memory usage, fixes crash when opening large files

COSMIC Files

• Do not list hidden files in path completion
• Improve copy and extract performance

COSMIC Greeter

• Improvements for fingerprint login

COSMIC Idle

• Use configurable system actions for suspend, to allow for alternatives to systemctl suspend

COSMIC Session

• Improved logic for setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK, fixes nixos ssh issue

COSMIC Settings

• Fail early if it is not possible to connect to secret service, fixes repeated failures

COSMIC Store

• Update appstream if more than one hour old, partially fixes outdated version numbers
• Wide set of performance improvements

All 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.4

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.5

Release tagged for packaging 02/03/2026

• Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects

COSMIC Applets

• Add option to show battery percentage

COSMIC App Library

• Update libcosmic, fixes crashes

COSMIC Edit

• Fix ligature support

COSMIC Files

• Only show open button if something can be opened
• Tab drag and drop

COSMIC Launcher

• Prefer SVG app icons

COSMIC Session

• Update values of existing env vars

COSMIC Settings

• Fix rotation frequency of wallpaper slideshow resetting
• Improve network authentication reliability
• Fix features and add CI tests, improves portability
• Show a descriptive label instead of an empty dropdown if no default apps are available
• Ensure startup app delete dialog shows when triggered from search
• Support user-defined XKB layouts

COSMIC Store

• Performance improvements
• Support Ctrl+Q hotkey for exiting app
• Improve display of system and flatpak runtime updates

COSMIC Terminal

• Fix ligature support

xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic

• Add hotkeys Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard and Ctrl+S to copy to Pictures

All 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.5

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.6

Release tagged for packaging 02/10/2026

• Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects

COSMIC Applets

• status-area: Use separate socket-activated daemon for StatusNotifierWatcher, and other fixes

COSMIC Comp

• Update smithay to latest commit
• Improvements for damage tracking
• Expose wl_fixes protocol to clients

COSMIC Edit

• Tab drag and drop

COSMIC Files

• Fix enter key not extracting password-protected ZIP files
• Move to and copy to context menu items
• Support pasting images, videos, and text from clipboard
• Disable save button when filename is empty
• Fix display name for GVFS items

COSMIC Launcher

• Fix mime type icons not loading

COSMIC Notifications

• Support file:// URLs in app_icon field

COSMIC Media Player

• Play next file automatically

COSMIC Settings

• Reset input if shortcut replacement dialog is cancelled

COSMIC Terminal

• Configurable hotkeys
• Hide cursor when scrolled in unfocused terminal

xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic

• Use fallback background from cosmic-wallpapers

All 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.6

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.7

Release tagged for packaging 02/17/2026

• The workspaces overview now supports an action on typing. This can be configured to open the launcher or app library in cosmic-settings Desktop -> Workspaces -> Workspaces overview -> Action on typing.
• Add pull request template to all projects
• COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Store, and COSMIC Terminal will now generate their desktop and metainfo files using Fluent, so they can be translated using weblate.
• Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects

COSMIC Applets

• Fix audio route changing when changing volume
• Focus COSMIC Settings when an applet requests it

COSMIC Comp

• Fix panic when full-screening windows
• Remove redundant configure in popup reposition request
• Fix panic from tiling placeholders not being cleaned up
• Update smithay to fix image-copy memory leak
• Fix cursor follows focus when traversing monitors
• Fix keyboard shortcuts for non-Latin layouts

COSMIC Files

• Respect Path desktop entry key
• Clear the type to select buffer when changing location
• Add Move to and Copy to to the Edit menu
• Update compio-driver, fixes musl compilation
• Add setting to toggle the Recents feature

COSMIC Settings

• Only consider active routes when setting volume and mute
• Show WPA3 networks
• Only display Install additional languages if gnome-language-selector is available
• Fix reset to default not showing up after importing theme in Appearance page
• Set the language via AccountsService when reordering languages
• Fix automatic theme switching after suspend or time change

COSMIC Settings Daemon

• Fix automatic theme switching after suspend or time change

COSMIC Store

• Cache explore results to disk for instant startup

COSMIC Terminal

• Tab drag and drop

All 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.7

COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8

Release tagged for packaging 02/24/2026

• Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects

COSMIC Applets

• Lazy-load status notifier menu layouts to prevent D-bus timeouts - fixes VLC freezing
• Focus password input in Wi-Fi authentication dialog

COSMIC App Library

• Add standalone mode for local development
• Fix cargo vendor --locked

cosmic-bg

• Parallelize gradient generation

COSMIC Comp

• Fix window state preservation for maximized/snapped windows
• Update dependencies
• Update smithay

COSMIC Files

• Add option to copy path when pressing shift
• Gray out paste menu when clipboard is empty or location is not supported
• Show count of files for Apply to all
• Close context menus in various cases
• Remove unsupported context menu options in Recents
• Add Clear Recents history to Recents nav bar context menu
• Ellipsize text for long file names
• Disable wgpu feature in cosmic-files-applet. Reduces VRAM usage

COSMIC Player

• Unmute when changing volume

COSMIC Session

• Enable cutecosmic or qt6ct with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME

COSMIC Settings

• Ensure disabled shortcuts are re-added after replacement
• Use jiff instead of chrono where possible. Corrects handling of polar days/nights
• Prevent duplicate custom wallpaper entries

COSMIC Settings Daemon

• Support Qt theme generation with qt5ct & qt6ct

COSMIC Store

• Do not auto refresh updates on nav - loads pages instantly after cache
• Update flathub stats to January 2026

COSMIC Terminal

• Add --working-directory argument - Enables “Open in terminal” button in GitHub Desktop
• Activate nearest tab only if closing focused tab
• Add Copy link to context menu
• COSMIC Light theme update - improves color contrast
• Increase menu width

COSMIC Workspaces

• Use ellipsis and update dependencies

All 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.8

Check the COSMIC roadmap for a list of planned features in future Epoch versions.