Skip to content

Linux reliability patch, Wayland rendering fixed, GPU self-healing, crash reports everywhere

Empryo 3.3.1-beta, released Jul 10, 2026. Part of the 3.3 line.

Release notes

A fast patch for Linux users hitting crashes on 3.3.0. If Empryo went black, invisible, or down in flames on your machine yesterday, this one's for you.

Fixed

  • Wayland black window / render-loop crash. Chromium 144's new wp_color_manager path is broken on KWin/Plasma-family compositors (endless "Unable to set image transfer function", invisible windows). The feature is now disabled, the desktop renders correctly on Wayland again. On an affected 3.3.0 build: --disable-features=WaylandWpColorManagerV1.
  • GPU crash-loops self-heal. Three GPU-process crashes in a run and the desktop relaunches itself with hardware acceleration off and remembers the choice. A broken driver no longer reads as "the app keeps crashing".
  • TUI crashes leave evidence. Fatal TUI/CLI errors now write a crash report to ~/.empryo/logs/crash-tui-*.txt (mirroring the desktop's ~/.config/@empryo/desktop/logs/), so "it crashed" comes with a file.
  • Clean piped output. empryo … | jq and friends no longer risk truncated output or stray terminal escapes on exit.

Notes

  • On Ubuntu 23.10+ prefer the .deb over the AppImage, Ubuntu's AppArmor blocks the AppImage's Chromium sandbox by design, the .deb installs a proper AppArmor profile. The new Linux troubleshooting docs cover all of this.