August 25 2026
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Nobara's updater has been updated to update packages prioritizing important groups first, with full rollback per-group automated in case of a failure, including dkms/kmod compile failures and initramfs regeneration:

Ordered transactions: Kernel → Graphic stack → System core → Desktop environment → Non-essential.

any packages not defined in these groups will be appended to non-essential. 

The goal here is so that when a large set of updates is available, it updates important bits first group by group so as to not break the system, as opposed to all packages at once being attempted in one massive point of failure.

Hoping this provides a better overall update experience. Large updates in Nobara are something that have always been a controversial pain point, and we're constantly working on making the experience better.

I shouldn't have to mention this but this is specific to nobara-sync/nobara-updater, (which is also used in the dnf app center) -- not the default dnf command. For those using Nobara you may already know nobara-sync is the recommended and preferred method for updating the system as a whole.
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August 22 2026
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-EDIT- Update issue resolved.

old:
Current known issue with updater:

2026-08-22 17:07:06 - INFO - Downloading packages...
2026-08-22 17:07:07 - ERROR - DNF package download failed: Failed to download packages

We are working on it
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August 21 2026
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latest kde-nobara package now includes most of the reddit community
wallpapers and all of the AI wallpapers are removed.
if you were using one of them it will likely disappear,
just reapply the theme and a new default will be used.
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