System76 has released COSMIC 1.0.5, a point update to its Rust-based desktop environment first stabilized in December 2025 alongside Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS. New features include battery percentage display in the system tray, plus enhancements for Pop!_OS and other GNU/Linux distributions.
Building on the stable COSMIC 1.0 debut last December—which brought native apps like COSMIC Files, Terminal, and Store to Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and other distros—System76 announced COSMIC 1.0.5 on February 3, 2026.
Highlights include a system tray option for battery percentage, aiding laptop users. Keyboard shortcuts now feature Ctrl+C for clipboard copy and Ctrl+S for saving screenshots to Pictures. COSMIC Files adds drag-and-drop for tabs.
COSMIC Settings improves with better network authentication, user-defined XKB layouts, and fixes for wallpaper slideshow frequency. Empty default app dropdowns now show descriptive labels.
Ligature support arrives in COSMIC Edit and Term for enhanced text rendering. COSMIC Launcher supports SVG icons and Ctrl+Q to quit apps. COSMIC Store refines update displays for system and Flatpaks. Various performance and bug fixes complete the release.
Source tarballs are on GitHub for compilation, with distro integrations forthcoming for Arch, Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Ubuntu PPA, and more.
