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🌮 TACO DAO Neuron

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Change the set of currently elected HostOS versions, by electing a new version, and/or unelecting some priorly elected versions.

HostOS versions are identified by the hash of the installation image.

The version to elect is added to the Registry, and the versions to unelect are removed from the Registry, ensuring that HostOS cannot upgrade to these versions anymore.

This proposal does not actually perform the upgrade; for deployment of an elected version, please refer to "Deploy HostOS To Some Nodes".

Release Notes for [**release-2026-08-20\_03-30-base**](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/tree/release-2026-08-20_03-30-base) (79c01052b5f7f49d3cf53d04d696cb2893294cd3)
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This release is based on changes since [release-2026-08-13\_03-55-base](https://dashboard.internetcomputer.org/release/59c42492cd6ee3ef5e60cd35d7b766e7bfd085da) (59c42492cd6ee3ef5e60cd35d7b766e7bfd085da).

Please note that some commits may be excluded from this release if they're not relevant, or not modifying the HostOS image. Additionally, descriptions of some changes might have been slightly modified to fit the release notes format.

To see a full list of commits added since last release, compare the revisions on [GitHub](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/compare/release-2026-08-13_03-55-base...release-2026-08-20_03-30-base).

Features:
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* [`449b18087`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/449b18087) Node: Overcommit vCPUs to support more 4.2 nodes ([#11204](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11204))
* [`ec265894e`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/ec265894e) Node: use pure-Rust libsystemd crate ([#11163](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11163))

Bugfixes:
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* [`4a658043c`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/4a658043c) Node: Correctly report the updated config version ([#11176](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11176))

Chores:
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* [`eb5587356`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/eb5587356) Node: Small misc comment fixes ([#11106](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11106))
* [`6d2d6c6a7`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/6d2d6c6a7) Node: Use a tar lib instead of shelling out in fs build ([#11107](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11107))
* [`d04e42169`](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/commit/d04e42169) Node: Update Base Image Refs [2026-08-13-0830] ([#11125](https://github.com/dfinity/ic/pull/11125))

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Full list of changes (including the ones that are not relevant to HostOS) can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/dfinity/dre/blob/6d56c1590284331becb91bb71d248207c4c292a7/hostos-releases/79c01052b5f7f49d3cf53d04d696cb2893294cd3.md).

# IC-OS Verification

To build and verify the IC-OS HostOS disk image, after installing curl if necessary (`sudo apt install curl`), run:

```
# From https://github.com/dfinity/ic#verifying-releases
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dfinity/ic/79c01052b5f7f49d3cf53d04d696cb2893294cd3/ci/scripts/repro-check | python3 - -c 79c01052b5f7f49d3cf53d04d696cb2893294cd3 --hostos
```

The two SHA256 sums printed above from a) the downloaded CDN image and b) the locally built image, must be identical, and must match the SHA256 from the payload of the NNS proposal.

While not required for this NNS proposal, as we are only electing a new HostOS version here, you have the option to verify the build reproducibility of the GuestOS by passing `--guestos` to the script above instead of `--hostos`, or the SetupOS by passing `--setupos`.


Elect new IC/HostOS revision (commit 79c0105)