Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
@ReillyBrogan updated KDE Frameworks to 6.5.0 this week. This release has many fixes and improvements, including critical fixes for BluezQt and Breeze Icons. KArchive and KAuth now have improved file handling and authorization features, facilitating better inter-process communication. The full list of changes can be found here.
GNOME has been updated by @joebonrichie to 46.4. This is a simple bugfix release. Notably, this version includes improvements to overview startup notification, keyboard navigation in app folders, and nested popovers on Wayland. Also in this release are improvements for connecting to WPA2 enterprise networks. The full changelog is here.
The new version of the ProtonVPN GTK app (proton-vpn-gtk-app
) has landed in the repository this week. It has been rewritten from the ground up, making it more efficient, and easier to develop new features. It does conflict with the old CLI and GUI client, so they are not co-installable.
Gleam made its way into our repository this week. It is "a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale". It features a type system, function programming, and reliability from the Erlang runtime, with familiar and modern syntax.
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
There are a couple of security fixes this week. Be sure to install all available updates!
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!