Heya folks! It's Sync time, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
First up, the NVIDIA Developer driver (nvidia-developer-driver) has been updated to 550.40.70. This is a minor update, adding an extension for VK_KHR_pipeline_binary.
After a lot of work, our Haskell stack and GHC is now on version 9.4.8, the currently recommended version by GHCup. Note that if you are doing actual Haskell development, we recommend that you use GHCup to manage your Haskell installation instead of the Solus packages. The packages are meant for building other packages, not your own software, so you may be better served by using the official upstream tools.
The mate-desktop package has been split into two parts:
mate-desktop contains the MATE specific portionmate-desktop-libs contains only the shared libraries used to develop other software
This was done to enable users to install certain MATE packages without having to also install parts they don't need, such as the MATE About program, which is a part of the mate-desktop package. After installing this week's updates, users of MATE applications on other desktop environments should be able to safely uninstall mate-desktop without any issues.
With this week's updates to packagekit and eopkg, package download size is now supported in GNOME Software.
We have a few deprecations this week. All of these are either archived upstream, and/or are no longer used by other Solus packages:
libfannlibdigidocwine-nine-standalonetoluapphal-flash
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
As usual, we have some security updates this week. Make sure to install them for 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!
