Heya folks! It's Friday, and you know what that means! Update time!
KDE Gear has been updated to 24.05.1 this week. It brings new features to KDE applications, as well as lots of bugfixes. Check out their full announcement here.
OBS Studio was updated to 30.1.2. The 30.1 version series adds HDR for HEVC over RTMP support, a reworked Image Slideshow source, an option for automatic cropping to bounding box, GPU rescaling options for streaming and recording outputs, and more, including a host of bugfixes. You can read the full details here.
Clear Boot Manager (CBM) now supports multiple kernel-dependent initrd extensions. With this feature added, our NVIDIA Beta Driver supports early KMS (kernel mode setting). This allows the graphics driver to initialize earlier in the boot, which can reduce flickering. Eventually, this will be rolled out to the stable NVIDIA driver to reach feature parity with AMD and Intel systems.
Papers has been added to the repository this cycle. It is a new PDF viewer for the GNOME desktop. Forked from Evince, Papers has been ported to GTK 4 and modernized. If you use a PDF viewer on GNOME, try it out.
As a part of our plan to fully remove Python 2, the Solus Software Center will (at some point in the not too distant future) be replaced by GNOME Software and KDE Discover, since we don't have the developers to maintain the Solus SC application, let alone port it to a newer technology like GTK 3/4, or Qt.
However, in order for us to be able to first deprecate and then later remove Solus SC, AppStream metainfo files have to be added to packages so they show up in the new software centers. Right now, our focus is on doing this for graphical applications; AppStream metainfo for console applications will be added at a later time. Thanks to a script written by @sheepman4267, we know that there are 319 packages that need metainfo added before a switch can be made.
Adding metainfo is a good and simple way to get started with packaging. We have an issue up on our tracker containing the list of packages, as well as how to add the metainfo files. If you would like to help, and/or you have questions, get in touch in the Solus Packaging room on Matrix. A big thank you to our contributors who are helping with this task! Your work is very much appreciated!
Security updates
General updates
As usual, the full update list this week can be found here.
That’s all for this week, folks! We'll be here same time, same place next week for another roundup of the news!
