Heya folks! Welcome to the first weekly update post of 2024! We're looking forward to making this a great year. Without further ado, let's jump into this week's updates.

We start the year off with a couple of security updates. This time around we have both Erlang and python-paramiko resolving CVE-2023-48795, and libsass fixing CVE-2022-26592. Always apply your security updates, folks!

Kernels received the usual bumps this week. linux-current was updated to 6.6.9 and linux-lts to 5.15.145. The BORE scheduler was updated to 3.6.1 and F2FS security labels (for AppArmor) and file system Unicode support (for case-insensitive ext4 support) were both enabled. Note that we are now entering the "stabilize" period for the linux-current kernel in preparation for updating the linux-lts kernel to 6.6. We are likely going to skip kernel 6.7 in order to give more time for fixes to be landed for our 6.6 kernel prior to moving it to the linux-lts package. If you are a linux-lts user, PLEASE switch to the linux-current kernel and test it to see what is and isn't working for you. The sooner we see your reports, the sooner we can make sure they are addressed!

A new package has been included for the new year: fastfetch. It is an actively-developed replacement for utilities like screenfetch and neofetch, aiming to be more performant and customizable. Check out their GitHub repo if you'd like to learn more.

Packaging for the upcoming Plasma 6 kicked off in full force this week. Many KDE Frameworks 6 libraries were packaged, though unfortunately you won't be able to actually do anything with them just yet. Note that users of the breeze-icons icon pack that we went ahead and updated this to the Plasma 6 version of it. You will likely notice some slight changes as a result of this.

Other updates this week include:

  • Sudo was updated to v1.9.15p5. -Reilly
  • A revert was added to our mesa package for some reported crashes on Nvidia hardware. This may also improve the situation for those using software rendering. -Reilly
  • runc was updated to v1.1.11 -Reilly
  • AMDGPU_TOP was updated to v0.6.0 -Reilly
  • f2fs-tools v1.16.0 -Reilly
  • SMPlayer was updated to v23.12.0. -Harvey
  • VisiData was updated to v3.0. -Algent
  • Telegram was updated to v4.14.1. -Reilly
  • Fish shell (the best shell - Reilly) was updated to v3.7.0. -Reilly
  • Weechat was updated to v4.1.2 -EbonJaeger
  • Github-CLI v2.40.1 -EbonJaeger
  • EZA v0.17.0 -EbonJaeger
  • Ardour v8.2 -Harvey
  • Gimp v2.10.36 -Harvey
  • rclone v1.65.0 -Harvey
  • MediaInfo v23.11 -Harvey
  • Putty v0.80 -Harvey
  • IRSSI v1.4.5 -Harvey
  • Spotify-QT v3.11 -Harvey
  • rav1e v0.7.0 -Aleksor
  • bibata-cursors v2.0.5 -Algent
  • Klayout v0.28.13. Thanks hashhsah (A new contributor!)
  • Yosys v0.36 -Also hashhsah!
  • Caja v1.27.2 -Malfisya
  • Filezilla v3.66.4 -Harvey
  • Alacritty v0.13.0 -Harvey
  • yt-dlp v2023.12.30 -Harvey
  • Ripgrep v14.0.3 -Harvey
  • fd v9.0.0 -Palto42
  • sshfs-fuse v3.7.3 -Harvey
  • Yuzu v1656 -Infinitymdm
  • font-iosevka-ttf v28.0.4 -Nazar
  • Sunshine v0.21.0 -Joey
  • Vivaldi v6.5.3206.50 -Harvey
  • cmus v2.10.0 -Malfisya
  • Calibre v7.3.0 -Algent
  • Signal Desktop v6.43.1 -Algent
  • Verilator v5.020 -David
  • Keybase v6.2.4 -David
  • Wine v9.0-rc3 -Staudey
  • Brave v1.61.114 -Algent
  • MKVToolbox v82.0 -Harvey
  • CGAL v5.2.4 -Malfisya
  • cgdb v0.8.0 -Malfisya

That’s all for this week, folks! Check back next week for more exciting sync news!

How did the sync go for you?

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    All good. I did install fastfetch. Needs configuring for sure. Not the color logo neofetch gives but like the variety of the default information.

    Observation not complaint: after updates, and reboot, slick-greeter defaults to my current wallpaper instead of the budgie snowy mountains. This is fine with me, you saved me the trouble of learning how to do it.

    lastly thanking the hard-working team in this new January, and @Harvey who did a big update to a tool I use everyday: yt-dlp

    EbonJaeger Fish shell (the best shell - Reilly) was updated to v3.7.0. -Reilly

    Agreed, been using it for a week. It is definitely better than bash (anything is) and more simple than zsh. With fisher, customizing is easy.

        0 problems this time.

        alfisya Agreed, been using it for a week.

        I've looked through @EbonJaeger 's post above several times carefully, and I see nothing about the Fish shell. Where did you find this reference?

            alfisya you can click the "Detail" text.

            Thanks. That's probably been there with every update, but I didn't realize it is a link.

              For me it was a weird sync this week.
              Rocminfo installed 3 times during the update but it wasn`t installed anyways.
              I had to install it again from software centre.
              The openCL package says OpenCL 2.2 but info centre still shows openCL 2.1 with the same driver number as before. (3558)

              Is this normal ?

              Just cherry-picked an update for dbus-broker that was causing a crash (a bad one that could lead to the system showing a black screen on boot). Also, you may see some extra updates appear since there was a micro-sync before that with some appstream/icon changes. Nothing major in there those ones though.

                ReillyBrogan I was having an issue related to greeter in which I wasn't able to log in; when I typed in the password, greeter seemed to enter desktop and then goes back to its display. I was able to log in via tty. This mini-update fixed this issue. Thanks.

                  Hello Devs,

                  I have an issue with this week's sync.
                  I was unable to sync at all.

                  I did the usual "sudo eopkg up"
                  it shows updating the usual 2 files ... eopkg-index.xml.xz.sha1sum and the other one
                  it kind of "hung there" for 3 mins, I couldn't move my mouse.
                  it did not proceed to the download phase.
                  after which I had to reboot.

                  after rebooting, i did sudo eopkg up again.
                  this time round, it outputs :
                  "Updating repositories
                  Updating repository: Solus
                  eopkg-index.xml.xz.sha1sum (40.0 B)100% 0.00 --/- [--:--:--] [complete]
                  Solus repository information is up-to-date.
                  No packages to upgrade."

                  Kindly advise what is the issue here.
                  Thank you.

                  UPDATE 1 : I did a sudo eopkg dc

                  After which I did sudo eopkg up, it says
                  eopkg-index.xml.xz.sha1sum (40.0 B)100% 0.00 --/- [--:--:--] [complete]
                  Solus repository information is up-to-date.
                  Program terminated.
                  Error parsing repository index information. Index file does not exist or is malformed.

                  Please help.

                  UPDATE 2 : Thanks for pomon, Justin and stalebread over at Matrix, I managed to resolve the issue.
                  For my own reference, this is what I did (credits to pomon)

                  sudo eopkg rr Solus
                  sudo eopkg up

                  Justin mentioned that it could be an issue with the CDN server.

                  alternatively, we could also (credits to Justin)
                  sudo rm /var/lib/eopkg/index/Solus/eopkg-index*
                  sudo eopkg ur

                    snowee it could be an issue with the CDN server.

                    Sounds like the download or the extraction of the index was interrupted for whatever reason, which resulted in a corrupt or missing index and eopkg is not smart enough to recover from that. Hence "Error parsing repository index information. Index file does not exist or is malformed." So its not clear that the CDN is to blame.

                    The solution deleted any index present and downloaded it again.

                    We should probably add the solution to the troubleshooting section of the help center because I have heard of this happening before. Thank you for reporting back and to the users who assisted you in finding the solution.

                      discord 0.0.40 cherry-picked.

                      Rocminfo still doesn`t work.

                      hsa api call failure at: /home/build/YPKG/root/rocm-info/build/rocminfo-rocm-6.0.0/rocminfo.cc:289
                      Call returned HSA_STATUS_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT: One of the actual arguments does not meet a precondition stated in the documentation of the corresponding formal argument.
                      hsa api call failure at: /home/build/YPKG/root/rocm-info/build/rocminfo-rocm-6.0.0/rocminfo.cc:1227
                      Call returned HSA_STATUS_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT: One of the actual arguments does not meet a precondition stated in the documentation of the corresponding formal argument.

                      EbonJaeger unstickied the discussion .