Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Today is the first sync since we released the Solus 4.6 Convergence ISOs. If you haven't yet, definitely check out our blog post about it!
Updating from 4.5 to 4.6
As a reminder, you do not have to reinstall to get 4.6. All you have to do is install the weekly updates as normal.
Note that, after you update your existing install, it will still show 4.5 Resilience. This is a purely cosmetic issue.
We are working on a fix for existing installs not showing 4.6 Convergence, despite being fully up-to-date.
Changes this week
There aren't a lot of changes this week, since we wanted to still keep things as stable as possible in case we had to do emergency syncs or cherry-picks following the release of Solus 4.6. After this sync, though, the floodgates will be opening! We have accumulated a sizable backlog of package updates waiting to be landed, including some much-anticipated desktop updates. 👀
Bug fixes
The issue where accountsservice was not installed on new Plasma systems has been fixed by making it a dependency of plasma-workspace, which provides the Users settings module.
New packages
We have some new packages this week. First, we have ibus-bamboo, a module for IBus that enables users to input Vietnamese characters on Linux.
Next is xarchiver, a desktop-independent archiver front-end.
(Screenshot taken with the Fluent Dark GTK theme)
Lastly, we now have ponysay. It is a rewrite of cowsay, but with ponies. Need I say more?
Solus Cleanup Crew status
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!
How you can help
If you would like to join:
- Join the 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
This week brings security updates. As always, install all available 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!
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