Heya folks! We have an early sync for you today! We wanted to sync early so that we can get LLVM 19.1 in and have some additional testing time.

Netdata has been updated to 2.0.3. The 2.0 version is a major update and rewrite of the project. The full release notes can be found here. 2.0.1 through 2.0.3 are bugfix releases after 2.0. Note that the dashboard now has a login prompt for the Netdata cloud, but you can just click "use anonymously" below it to use it without logging in.

Hyprland has been updated to 0.46.2. This is a minor bugfix release. Check out the release notes here.

NVIDIA driver is now 565.77. This version fixes many bugs and issues. The full release notes are here.

Our kernel baseline has been bumped to 5.15. This means that Solus will no longer run on kernels older than 5.15. This only affects people who are compiling their own kernel, running Solus in a container, or otherwise using an old kernel, including chrooting into Solus using a very old ISO. Our previous baseline was 5.10. This baseline is updated regularly, about once a year.

Mesa has been updated to 24.3. Check out the full release notes here.

David edit

The Pokeget package is now in the repo! It’s a simple and fun tool to fetch Pokémon details right from the command line. Give it a try!

Security updates

  • I DON'T SEE ANYTHING TAGGED "SECURITY"
  • SAME. THE WORKLOG TOOL DIDNT FIND ANYTHING
  • WHY ARE WE YELLING
  • I WAS ALSO WONDERING THIS
  • MOSTLY SO THE TEXT WOULD STAND OUT AND BE DELETED BEFORE THE POST, UNLESS EVAN WANTS TO KEEP IT; FINE BY ME
  • I MEAN, IT WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME I ACCIDENTLY LEFT COMMENTS IN XD

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General updates

The full list of updated packages can be found here.

For the list of currently known issues, see the dedicated thread for it.

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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Please note: Thunderbird 128.5.2 and spotify-qt 3.12 were landed late so were not in the full list of updated packages.

Sneaky putting out updates on a Wednesday, think it was Christmas soon. 2 Plasma Bare metals done and no oddities noted. 🙂

I have a hybrid intel /nvidia card. updated today to the new nvidia driver both current and lts. no way to start with nvida it falls back to intel driver. tried many times to uninstall and reinstall with doflicky. no success.

    I've updated 3 PCs with Discover on KDE Plasma, no problems found.
    The 3 PCs are AMD.

    On my Lenovo T14s(Gen 3) AMD with Solus Budgie the update went smoothly both for the default and for my Hyprland session.

    However I'm currently getting my next machine ready its a Lenovo P16s Gen 2 also AMD version and I have had a lot of trouble with Solus Gnome:

    Before week50 sync

    1. Installing Solus Gnome is fine and goes smoothly as long as the laptop is plugged in.
      1.A. On battery power the installer quits without warning when I try to write my name.

    2. After Install and reboot, the first system update fails. As far as I can tell its centered around gnome-control-center and gnome-desktop-branding. And it is regardless of whether I'm using the gui or terminal.

    3. The only solution I could find was to Install -> Reboot -> remove the problematic packages and dependencies -> update system -> Install the packages back. -> relog.

    This was hours before week 50 sync - so perhaps ill wipe it a fourth time and try again tonight. And provide more detailed error messages.

    Edit:Update

    So I guess this issue is neither related to nor fixed by the updates in this sync. Without knowing the eopkg internals it seems the uninstall scripts for gnome-control-center and gnome-themes-extras are looking for files in the wrong place. This is not really an issue if you directly remove them - this just gives a warning. But in the case of installing and the doing the first sudo eopkg up it results in the update failing/exiting.

    30 Solus packages (732,68 MiB) updated and I encountered a problem in Thunderbird: the calendar (agenda in French) and the tasks (tâches in French) are empty.
    I had already noticed it previously, but since I keep a backup after each consultation of my mailbox, I managed to restore them, thinking I had made a mistake.
    But here we go again: they are still empty, so I will restore them, but I wonder if I'll run into the same problem when I next update Thunderbird?
    Has anyone encountered this anomaly?
    Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance.

      geo I have a hybrid intel /nvidia card

      Which card?

        geo I use uefi . the notebook is a msi katana gf66 12ud. Nvidia geforce rtx3050

          No problems with updates all since the band got back together!

          penny-farthing
          Hello!
          Lately, I've had similar problems with thunderbird.
          Seems to be very SLOW to pick up caldav data (from my nextcloud server). Kalendar gets and treats the same caldav data instantaneously.
          Thunderbird's latest release was meant to handle that.
          Not sure it did..

              Experienced a problem with the Mesa update, it seems to be breaking the various Second Life viewers. Have since learned that it's an issue with one line of code in the baseline code that has to trickle down to the other developer teams, so my update went fine.

                Mascaret

                I don't have any slowness issues in Thunderbird, it's just that, when I open the application, when I select calendar and tasks, they appear empty.

                This seems to happen after a Thunderbird update (I'm using Solus Budgie).
                I'll pay attention to the next application update.

                So, to be continued.