Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!

Our kernels have been updated this week. The current Linux kernel is now version 6.12.9, and the LTS kernel is now version 6.6.70. LTS kernel users should begin testing the current kernel to make sure that it works on their systems! We will be thinking about updating our LTS kernel to the next LTS branch in the next few months. The earlier issues are found, the earlier they can be fixed! If you encounter a problem, please file an issue on our issue tracker.

KDE Frameworks has been updated to 6.10.0. This version has many fixes and improvements. Check out the release announcement here.

CodeLite has received a major update, marking its first significant release in nearly two years. Version 18.1.0 introduces numerous enhancements, including support for importing Alacritty themes, improved syntax highlighting, and a new ChatAI bot feature.

Security updates

There are a couple of security updates this week. As always, be sure to install updates to get the latest security protections!

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. If you begin experiencing a bug, please look for an issue on our issue tracker, and open a new one if one does not exist.

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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Hi I’m new, just installed today. (Plasma 6) I had a bit of trouble with getting locked out of my session after trying to change a wallpaper, had to hard reboot for that. And waking from sleep makes my screen turn black. (computer uses intel, so I’m not sure why exactly) aside from that I think everything went ok?

    Running great again.
    Everything as expected. How could it be otherwise.

    But I would also like to say this.
    I don't just want to say thank you like every week.

    I don't have to tell us Solus enthusiasts every time that Solus is the best Linux distro. Stability, best team in the background, best community, etc...
    For me, the weekly sync has become a real ritual. Every Saturday morning (German time, UTC+01:00) I go to my laptop with a cup of coffee to install the update. I look forward to it every week. And then the update runs as smoothly as a Swiss clockwork. That pleases the little Monk in me.
    So, once again, a big thank you to all you good and lovely people in the background for giving us such a great distro. Here's to many more good years.

    Smooth update of Plasma on two bare metal and a VM. Thanks peeps. 🙂

    Everything works fine on my 2 Tablets and 2 Notebooks with Gnome , Thanks a lot 🙂

    As usual no problems with the updates. This here on an ASUS TUF DASH F15 laptop. With as DE Budgie.

    Kiess

    Welcome to the Solus community 🙂 I'm pretty sure there are open bug reports on the KDE bug tracker for the issue you're seeking on waking the system. You can search to find them if you're interested in following their progress.

        Updated my GNOME system with no problems.

        • FFiach

          • Post #10
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          Update went well, thanks.

          Kiess

          TraceyC

          If I am correctly understanding @Kiess this bug might be what is being referred to about the wallpaper change crash. When running Plasma 6.2.5, the first time you try to change any of the global theme settings you will get a black screen and must relog. I ran into this on Solus and Fedora KDE this past week.

          Nothing to be done by the Solus team but something to be aware of in a fresh install to 6.2.5.

                Fiach oh that’s why. Thanks for letting me know!

                  Except I had to manually add my language back to Firefox, nothing to report, all went well 🙂

                  Cherry-picked discord 0.0.80

                  • silke

                  • Post #16

                  Cherry-picked rsync for CVE-2024-12084, CVE-2024-12085, CVE-2024-12086, CVE-2024-12087, CVE-2024-12088 and CVE-2024-12747, git for CVE-2024-50349 and CVE-2024-52006 and git-lfs for CVE-2024-53263.

                    silke read about those 6 vulnerabilities discovered in Rsync yesterday. you all are fast, thank you. it's a monthly tool to be sure.

                    also could not figure out of those 6 problems were only for this saving in the cloud and not a home setup? either way, thanks.

                        • silke

                        • Post #18

                        brent Four of the six vulnerabilities are for the rsync daemon used by servers/mirrors. The other two are also applicable to 'normal' usage.