deepin 25.3.0 is here! This release delivers a comprehensive upgrade across three core areas: system stability and performance, experience and intelligence, and ecosystem and compatibility. From freeze protection and faster startup for Control Center and everyday applications, to UOS AI's whole-disk knowledge base and multi-agent orchestration, to the default inclusion of PC Manager, kernel updates, and coordinated support for GPU acceleration and Linyaps containers — this release further improves deepin for daily use, intelligent experiences, application compatibility, and system maintenance.

Release Highlights at a Glance

  • UOS AI gets a major upgrade: system-level intelligence for the Agent OS, within easy reach. Retrieve anything from your entire disk with a single sentence — every document on your computer becomes knowledge you can call on at any time. MCP, Skills, and dedicated agent capabilities now share a unified entry point, with UOS AI automatically dispatching whatever capability a task requires. The system takes the initiative, so your work moves faster.
  • Significantly better stability and performance: new freeze protection keeps the taskbar, Launcher, and System Monitor responsive even when the system is severely stalled. The Control Center home page loads far faster, and commonly used applications start quickly even under heavy load, so the system stays smooth over long-term use.
  • Effortless system maintenance and data protection: snapshot and restore in the Immutable System is more intuitive — snapshots can be saved to a local disk, USB drive, or portable hard drive, and restores can be started from a chosen location. PC Manager is now included in the image by default, combining detection, cleanup, and repair in one place, making system maintenance as simple as a health check.
  • Stronger kernel and hardware compatibility: the default kernel is updated to 6.6.159, fixing security vulnerabilities across x86, arm64, and loong64 architectures and resolving boot issues on select devices. The higher-version kernel is updated to 6.18.56 and can be installed from Kernel Manager for better support of the latest hardware platforms.
  • Continued desktop and application improvements: connected devices can be disconnected directly from the taskbar, and the shutdown animation is displayed throughout the shutdown process. Image Viewer now offers image editing, Document Viewer restores your reading position and adds three eye-care modes, Text Editor supports Markdown rendering, and Calendar supports third-party schedules.

 

Full Release Notes

I. New Features and Optimizations

1. UOS AI

  • Create reminders, scheduled tasks, and recurring tasks in natural language, so repetitive work runs automatically;
  • Whole-disk knowledge base, enabling queries against the content of local files you have authorized;
  • Unified entry point for MCP, Skills, and dedicated agent capabilities, with UOS AI automatically dispatching the capabilities each task requires;
  • Improved conversation memory and automatic context summarization, plus task queuing and history management organized by workspace;
  • Per-conversation permission modes, with secure and controllable file save permissions that reduce repeated approvals.

2. System Stability and Performance

  • New freeze protection: when the system is severely stalled, the taskbar, Launcher, and System Monitor can still be brought up, so you can quickly close the application causing the freeze;
  • Substantially faster Control Center home page loading;
  • Faster startup for common office applications, which stay responsive even under heavy load;
  • System logs now capped at 5 GB by default, regardless of the debug mode setting. Logs stop growing automatically when free disk space falls below 5%, effectively preventing logs from consuming excessive disk space;
  • Kernel update: kernel and hardware compatibility are further improved — the default kernel is updated to 6.6.159, fixing security vulnerabilities across x86, arm64, and loong64 architectures and resolving boot issues on select devices. The higher-version kernel is updated to 6.18.56.

3. Immutable System

  • Improved snapshot and restore: snapshots can be saved to a local disk, USB drive, or portable hard drive, and restores can be started from a chosen location;
  • Refined backup and rollback strategy before upgrades, reducing extra disk usage during the upgrade process.

4. Desktop Experience

  • Improved taskbar interaction: hover over a connected device to quickly disconnect Wi-Fi or Bluetooth;
  • The shutdown animation is displayed throughout the shutdown process, so a brief black screen is no longer mistaken for a failed shutdown.

5. Treeland

  • Extensive protocol adjustments and improvements: the new protocols are planned for use as a stable version, with compatibility guaranteed;
  • Improved visuals on the login screen, with controls remaining clearly legible on light wallpapers.

6. Application Updates (update via App Store)

  • Image Viewer: new image editing capabilities, including cropping and rotation, markup tools such as brush, line, arrow, rectangle, and circle, plus text, mosaic, and blur. Edit images right after viewing them without opening another tool;
  • PC Manager: integrated system, hardware, and network checks, with disk cleanup, large-file and duplicate-file cleanup, startup application management, and common troubleshooting tools;
  • Document Viewer: restores your previous reading position, view, and layout, and adds three modes — Classic eye-care, Green eye-care, and Night eye-care;
  • App Store: new network proxy settings; when an application fails to install, you can view the error details in Notification Center and open the relevant help guidance;
  • Text Editor: supports Markdown rendering, with an improved search experience;
  • Calendar: supports adding third-party schedules.

7. Hardware Ecosystem

  • GPU acceleration support for Linyaps containers, with the NVIDIA toolkit (nvidia-container-toolkit) preinstalled, so Linyaps applications can make full use of GPU acceleration for smoother video playback and graphics rendering;
  • GPU driver updates: new CDI support added to GPU drivers and an updated integrated GPU driver, further strengthening graphics support across hardware platforms;
  • The NVIDIA driver option during installation now matches the installed GPU automatically, selecting the appropriate driver version for you.

8. Other

  • Improved installer loading animation and icons, providing clearer progress feedback during installation;
  • Tree-style directory view in the File Manager sidebar, which can be set to expand or collapse by default from the graphical interface;
  • Removed the translation recruitment icon from the desktop and Launcher, for a cleaner desktop environment.

 

II. Bug Fixes and Stability Improvements

1. Desktop and System Settings

  • Fixed an issue where the taskbar tray context menu was displayed as empty;
  • Fixed slow taskbar icon loading after logging out and logging back in;
  • Fixed abnormal smart hide behavior on the taskbar after switching workspaces or minimizing a window;
  • Fixed interface stuttering in the Launcher that could occur when reading application autostart status from the context menu;
  • Fixed an issue where some screen saver options in Control Center could not be selected;
  • Fixed the face recognition entry still being displayed on devices without a camera;
  • Fixed an extra password prompt appearing after waking from hibernation;
  • Fixed screen brightness not updating promptly after switching power modes, and taskbar volume adjustments not responding in real time;
  • Fixed abnormal tap and long-press gestures on touchscreens;
  • Fixed offset mouse click positions after rotating some displays;
  • Fixed failures when transferring long file names containing Chinese and English characters over Bluetooth;
  • Fixed Control Center not displaying audio devices promptly after connecting or disconnecting an HDMI monitor with an audio jack on certain devices;
  • Fixed unresponsive buttons when clicked within notifications in Notification Center;
  • Fixed the OSD showing English text when opening window effects mode via keyboard shortcut in Traditional Chinese environments.

2. System Update and Immutable System

  • Fixed the smart mirror source failing to switch to an available source, which caused system updates to fail;
  • Fixed update source names still being displayed in Chinese in non-Chinese language environments;
  • Fixed "Restart Now" from the taskbar or Control Center not responding;
  • Fixed system upgrades failing due to corrupted local packages;
  • Fixed loss of software repository and network configuration information after rolling back an Immutable System upgrade;
  • Fixed uninstalling deepin-home also removing default settings packages;
  • Fixed incomplete security configuration for some system services;
  • Fixed the missing VPN DNS mode entry caused by systemd-resolved not being preinstalled;
  • Fixed packages failing to install when the package path contained a colon;
  • Fixed the package installation queue hanging in some scenarios;
  • Fixed incompatibility between shared /opt deployments and initrd when initramfs updates failed;
  • Fixed the "View Image" button in the full-system backup results page not responding;
  • Fixed warning messages not clearing promptly after switching the backup path to a valid directory;
  • Fixed the backup and restore page remaining visible but unusable after authorization was cancelled when accessed from Control Center;
  • Fixed full-system backup failures when the system was installed with manual partitioning and an external portable hard drive was connected;
  • Fixed the backup and restore operation log page not being centered within the application window;
  • Fixed the "Select Existing Backup" button disappearing after switching between backup and restore modules.

3. File Management

  • Fixed abnormal display of file creation and modification times;
  • Fixed USB drive file badges still being displayed after the feature was disabled;
  • Fixed the inability to continue operations after an unexpected restart during partition encryption, and abnormal context menu state on the system disk;
  • Fixed abnormal display of long file names in the Trash;
  • Fixed icons in desktop organizer collections not being center-aligned;
  • Fixed overly thick dividers between window tabs and default tabs occupying too much space;
  • Fixed incorrect messages when Global Search index updates failed;
  • Fixed abnormal index update notifications when running on battery power;
  • Fixed list options in the "Open With" interface not being centered.

4. Treeland

  • Fixed input method pre-edit letters being pasted into the input field by mistake;
  • Fixed multiple Xwayland issues, making X11 applications run more reliably;
  • Fixed abnormal display in some cases when maximizing, entering fullscreen, restoring windows, and window previews;
  • Fixed several other issues.

5. Image Viewer, Album, Documents, and Multimedia

  • Fixed abnormal state after cropping in Image Viewer, and the inability to delete markup outside the cropped area;
  • Fixed screen flickering during blur processing in Image Viewer, and the Redo shortcut not working;
  • Fixed blurry display of some long images when zoomed in, and slow opening of large images;
  • Fixed incomplete display after rotating images in Album;
  • Fixed abnormal display of bookmarks and annotations in Document Viewer under the dark theme;
  • Fixed lost annotations in documents with the same name but different formats, and abnormal display of some images in night mode;
  • Fixed Music failing to import AC3 and AMR audio files;
  • Fixed abnormal progress bar state after switching tracks in Music;
  • Fixed the inability to select search results with arrow keys and misaligned search areas when searching for albums in Music;
  • Fixed black screens during video playback in Movie and abnormal hardware decoding in some GPU environments;
  • Fixed WMV videos not using hardware decoding properly in some GPU environments;
  • Fixed failures when exporting crash logs from the log collection tool.

6. Security and System Components

  • Fixed security issues in System Update and Log Viewer, including permission validation, command injection, and information disclosure;
  • Fixed security vulnerabilities in multiple system components, including Qt, curl, FFmpeg, VLC, Poppler, glibc, BIND9, Unbound, OpenVPN, BlueZ, Xorg, nginx, Wireshark, PHP, Expat, dnspython, python-git, SQLite, libgphoto2, tor, and node-shell-quote;
  • Fixed out-of-bounds access, buffer overflows, and improper handling of malformed input in multiple network protocol, media parsing, and file processing components;
  • Fixed issues with temporary directory isolation, user directory protection, and permission validation in some system services;
  • Updated Intel microcode data files, restoring Meteor Lake security mitigations and fixing fatal MCE issues.

7. Installer and Application Compatibility

  • Fixed the inability to boot into the system after a successful full-disk Ghost installation;
  • Fixed the installer interface being displayed in English in Hong Kong Traditional Chinese environments;
  • Fixed truncated fonts in installer error dialogs;
  • Fixed abnormal display of the architecture indicator carousel and the back area on some installer pages;
  • Fixed GNURadio failing to install due to missing dependencies;
  • Fixed window misalignment in the Minicom Chinese interface;
  • Fixed the App Store appearing twice in the default "Open With" list;
  • Fixed slow response on the print preview page;
  • Fixed preinstalled system packages being removed when installing qemu-user;
  • Fixed qbittorrent failing to install due to missing dependencies;
  • Fixed the auxiliary component pointer not being reset after switching protocols in Remmina;
  • Fixed Archive Manager reporting that tar.bz2 archives are unsupported;
  • Fixed deleting or appending comments in Archive Manager having no effect;
  • Fixed incorrect modification times in the file list of 7z archives.

 

Known Issues

A few minor issues that do not affect normal use are still present in this image and are being actively fixed, including:

  • In Launcher group folders, the display style of folder and application names is incorrect;
  • In Image Viewer, memory usage grows when adjusting the zoom level with the scroll wheel after opening an image;
  • When Multitasking View is opened after the Launcher, the Launcher window appears in Multitasking View.