CachyOS rewrites Shelly in Zig and lays the groundwork for its server edition

On August 9, 2026 CachyOS shipped its fifth ISO of the year: the Shelly package manager was rewritten from C# to Zig, and the first experimental server-edition profiles landed in the installer. The Zig and Rust rewrite is the tell — the performance-oriented distribution is no longer aiming only at the gaming desktop.