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:

  1. mate-desktop contains the MATE specific portion
  2. mate-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:

  • libfann
  • libdigidoc
  • wine-nine-standalone
  • toluapp
  • hal-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:

  1. Join Solus Packaging Room on Matrix
  2. Read and practice our packaging documentation
  3. Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing the homepage task
  4. Follow along the review process until your PR gets merged
  5. 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!

How did the sync go for you?

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just rebooted, opened all the stuff I had open before, and went back to work. thank you. and for your nice dispatches. can dig.

Smooth update as usual on Gnome and XFCE

Hello everyone,
Thanks again for the work done.
Just for information no "TTY" with kernel 6.10.6-300 Solus Budgie. Ok with old kernel 6.9.12.297.

Have a nice day everyone 🙂

    atriaze Just for information no "TTY" with kernel 6.10.6-300 Solus Budgie. Ok with old kernel 6.9.12.297.

    What do you mean?

        atriaze Yeah, only black screen for any TTY, but the desktop work fine.

          Staudey Nothing serious, just a black screen, no access to TTY

            A very tiny bug, me found.

            Inkscape in Plasma doesn't have an entry in "Open With" suggestions.

              Well, in my case, nemo doesn't work anymore. 😥

              $ LC_ALL=en_US nemo
Could not register nemo as a remote: Timeout was reached

              No problem with nautilus.

              OK, solved, it was just a systemd unit for a remote folder that is not active anymore !