diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest b/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
index 07b28f70af..4ff6e28e57 100644
--- a/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
+++ b/gui-apps/noctalia/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-DIST noctalia-5.0.0_pre20260702.tar.gz 5182705 BLAKE2B 556a6825323fc0786a01dda586f0c035353e42715c29fe35bf0d82171b399f312fc3446fedc9cf2b79c2775a26214c112b37aafd4d9821fe4213be3b32b74459 SHA512 4e15a78e6c1f05fbb9780cc46b489ccf3eb1d4647b909cf4e34ff4d1001eeaf8fe9a421af86aca03094f2b9fe1bc0143eef02556cd695838dd6b535b8735e969
+DIST noctalia-5.0.0_beta1.tar.gz 5185610 BLAKE2B b5fbb732af28625493e075575adc10c423d3bab54f94ca143af255bdae5f8efcd43f4e10ad999969647e38f9f860149c3a40a336c4306410f7e18582e80feeba SHA512 88a8d6fcf080ee798bf6e606d5cf701d09b0be1cbcd22fc663c8942071e99eb74e3dd7ebe2f9747700390f5dfddfbfa04c88d987982ff4ed0d7d75e55b5447fc
 DIST noctalia-v4.7.7.tar.gz 25414718 BLAKE2B a8af942e0b746d8fc52a0e979aab27e1ebd91190ec71924b519d56d5224a560e2edaf9c64c51768d68cb791d70d03c7ba5572fec1d1fa38f3244fd698189d89c SHA512 7f1ccdd6180e40ce1e898688f93aab348d327e8b46a90e1a193a73f00468fb7ae4dd2655588006da7774ccace4675853cb05dcd3cee540a7c5bbedf57da202c2
diff --git a/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_pre20260702.ebuild b/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_pre20260702.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 75a99cae7d..0000000000
--- a/gui-apps/noctalia/noctalia-5.0.0_pre20260702.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit meson optfeature xdg-utils
-
-MY_COMMIT="8d2c6881d3e1e7f1e894fc2e811c36fe9ffa6989"
-
-DESCRIPTION="A lightweight Wayland shell and bar built directly on Wayland + OpenGL ES"
-HOMEPAGE="https://noctalia.dev/ https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia"
-
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia/archive/${MY_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_COMMIT}"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-
-IUSE="+jemalloc"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-cpp/sdbus-c++
-	dev-libs/glib:2
-	jemalloc? ( dev-libs/jemalloc:= )
-	dev-libs/libxml2
-	dev-libs/wayland
-	gnome-base/librsvg:2
-	media-libs/fontconfig
-	media-libs/freetype
-	media-libs/libwebp
-	media-libs/mesa
-	media-video/pipewire
-	net-misc/curl
-	sci-libs/libqalculate
-	sys-auth/polkit
-	sys-libs/pam
-	virtual/opengl
-	x11-libs/cairo[glib]
-	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
-	x11-libs/pango
-	dev-cpp/tomlplusplus
-	dev-libs/md4c
-"
-
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/wayland
-	dev-libs/wayland-protocols
-	dev-util/wayland-scanner
-"
-
-DOCS=( README.md CREDITS.md example.toml )
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_feature jemalloc)
-		-Dsystem_md4c=true
-		-Dsystem_tomlplusplus=true
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_icon_cache_update
-	optfeature "external display brightness control" app-misc/ddcutil
-	optfeature "hardware-accelerated screen recording" media-video/gpu-screen-recorder
-}