Heya folks! It's time for another weekly roundup!
The Linux kernels have been updated to the latest versions. Our current branch is now on 6.9.12, and the LTS branch is on 6.6.43. Additionally, SimpleDRM has been enabled in linux-current, replacing the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev). This switch means that Wayland environments will work in cases where no DRM driver is in use.
Our NVIDIA GLX driver has been updated to 550.107.02. This release fixes a few bugs:
- Fixed a race condition involving modeset ownership which could lead to flip event timeout errors when enabling the 'fbdev' kernel module parameter in nvidia-drm
- Fixed a regression that caused nvidia-powerd to exit when
nvidia-dbus.conf was not present in the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ directory
- Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption while handling ACPI events on some notebooks
- Fixed a bug that could cause external displays to become frozen until the next modeset when using PRIME Display Offloading with the NVIDIA dGPU acting as the display offload sink
The initrd extension has also been re-enabled in the mainline GLX driver.
In order to make it easier for users to install and use flatpaks, Flathub is now enabled as a repository by default. After installing this update to our Flatpak package, a systemd service will run during the next system boot to add Flathub as a configured flatpak repository if it does not already exist. Once completed, the service will not run again.
For XFCE4 users, xfce4-screenshooter has been updated to 1.11.1. In the 1.11.0 release, they removed built-in support for uploading screenshots to Imgur.
Peek, a simple tool for recording short, animated GIFs of your screen, has been deprecated. The author of the program discontinued it in January 2023.
Our Solus Cleanup Crew:tm: has been hard at work this week bringing the repository up to current standards:
Most of these tasks are beginner-friendly, and can be a great way to learn Solus packaging. We invite anyone that has the time and inclination to join us!
If you would like to join:
- Join Solus Packaging Room on Matrix
- Read and practice our packaging documentation
- Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing the homepage task
- Follow along the review process until your PR gets merged
- Continue on contributing!
Security updates
We have a few security updates this week. Make sure to install updates to have the latest vulnerability protections!
General updates
The full list of updated packages 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!
