tl;dr: Asahi Linux 7.1 addresses two macOS 27 beta breakages: a new APFS "bootable" flag requirement that hid Asahi from the boot picker, and an SMC firmware ABI change that triggered false emergency shutdowns—both now patched. The release also brings substantial M3 support (audio, cpufreq with big.LITTLE scheduling, PCIe, WiFi/BT, NVMe), and a novel approach to the Apple Video Decoder: rather than shipping Apple's firmware, contributors wrote custom AVD firmware paired with a V4L2 driver, currently supporting 10-bit 4K AVC decode. m1n1 1.6.0 now requires Rust for stage 2 builds.