Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
We have a lighter list of updates this week. Much of the team's focus recently has been on finalizing plans and tools for the upcoming Usr Merge. There'll be a lot more detail on that subject Soon™️!
The current branch of the Linux kernel this week has been updated to 6.10.6, and the LTS branch to 6.6.47. With these updates, a lot of hardware for GPIO, I2C, and mux have been enabled.
The NVIDIA Beta driver has also been updated to the latest in the 560 series, version 560.35.03. This has a few fixes and improvements:
- Fixed a bug, introduced in 555.58, where some DVI outputs would not work with HDMI monitors.
- Fixed a bug that could cause KDE Plasma Shell to freeze while hovering over or opening applets when running in Wayland compositor mode.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the display to freeze when presenting windows using Wayland direct scanout on multiple monitors.
- Fixed a bug that could cause kernel crashes upon attempting KMS operations through DRM when
nvidia_drm
was loaded with modeset=0
.
Activate Linux has been added to the Solus repository this week. If you've ever had Windows deactivate itself and show a watermark in the bottom corner of your screen and thought: "man, I wish I could get that on Linux", then this package is for you! Yes, really, this actually exists.
Our Solus Cleanup Crew™️ 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
All the Chromium-based web browsers had security fixes this week to address CVE-2024-7971. Make sure to install these 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!