Hey, this is Greg, bringing you the latest news about Omarchy.

Let's start with Omarchy Core related news.

Omarchy 4.0.3 has been released!
Besides fingerprint-setup improvements, Panther Lake kernel 7.2.3, Broadcom Wi-Fi via DKMS, and security hardenings , this release also adds out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes and Openclaw.

Omarchy.org has a new design and is available in 29 languages
The website has a completely new design with a theme switcher and it was also made available in 29 languages on local domains.

Omacom Foundation adds another ~$510k
OpenRouter pledged $150k worth of tokens, Four Technologies pledged $100k/year for 3 years and ~$60k pledged from ~500 community patrons.

DigitalOcean joins as Founding Corporate Patron with $3M
DigitalOcean will contribute $1M/year for three years to the Omacom Foundation. This brings total backing to about $18.5M!

outfoxxed hired as Head of Omarchy Shell
The creator of Quickshell (the toolkit behind Quattro’s desktop) joins Omacom full-time and Omarchy Core. This replaces the earlier three-year Quickshell sponsorship.

Emir Beganović hired as Head of Infrastructure
Emir is the foundation’s third full-time hire. He is known for TryOmarchy, the Omarchy desktop booting in the browser on Cloudflare.

The Omarchy Doctrine
Omarchy has a doctrine now, and let me just put this quote from it here:

Omarchy is for everyone willing to learn and participate. From billionaires to anons on X. From staff engineers to script kiddies. From China to Malibu. Show up, fix something, or just spread the enthusiasm. You're somebody now.
Now let's see what's new regarding Omarchy plugins. If you want to browse the almost 3k plugins, the registry is on this link: https://plugins.omarchy.org/

Flea 0.2.0 — dual-pane file manager
Not on the registry yet, but this keyboard-first file manager is worth a mention.

hyprmoncfg — multi-monitor manager
This plugin allows you to make profiles by make/model/serial, hotplug + lid + suspend restore. It is one of the most-used third-party plugins.

Omarchy News Radar
A keyboard-first front page for meaningful Omarchy activity, like announcements posted, plugins released, etc.

Calendar Sync Clock
A provider agnostic clock and calendar replacement for the Omarchy bar.

Lotus — Framework Laptop 16 LED matrix
A plugin for the Framework Laptop 16 LED matrix, the 9×34 greyscale module that sits next to the keyboard. It has a bunch of different modes, definitely worth a look if you own the hardware.

Now let's see what's new regarding the themes.

Omarchy Giants
Very fresh and still a work in progress, this plugin aims to honor the giants of computer science.

Omarchy Gallery
Not a plugin itself, but a gallery of every Omarchy theme, photographed the same way.

Now let's see some miscellaneous Omarchy related stuff in the wild!

Omarchy Can Do WHAT?! 50 Features You’re Missing
NetworkChuck goes over 50 features of Omarchy he thinks are good to know.

Confronting The Creator Of Omarchy
Tech over tea had DHH on as a guest and they talked about Omarchy mostly.

Inside the Omarchy Security Team – Mehmet Ince @mdisec | Omarchy Stories 001
The first episode of the Omarchy Stories podcast interviewed Mehmet Ince from the Omarchy Security team.

Cybersecurity Without a CS Degree - Erik Melton | Omarchy Stories 002
The second episode of the Omarchy Stories had Erik(another member of the Omarchy Security team) as a guest.

Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers
Omarchy debugs itself. Mind blowing.

That's it for the week!

And if you read it this far, you might be interested to join me an be a co-editor of this newsletter? If you do, send me an email at greg@molnar.io.

Until next week!

Greg