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

Our core GNOME stack has been updated to 47.3. This is primarily a bugfix release.

KDE Gear was updated to version 24.12.1. The full changelog for this version of Gear can be found here. With this update, the following packages are now built with Qt6:

  • kmix
  • kwave
  • marble
  • skanlite

Additionally, akonadi-notes has been removed from the repository as it has been removed upstream.

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. The full release notes can be found here.

Our Zig package has been moved back to the stable 0.13 release using in-tree LLVM build. In order to work with our LLVM 19 package, we had to move to a pre-release version of Zig, which itself doesn't work with some programs. Thus, for the best compatibility, we now build Zig from the stable release using a bundled LLVM.

With the above Zig work, we have been able to add Ghostty terminal at version 1.0.1. Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration, using GTK 4 and libadwaita.

Some of our branding packages have been updated with new default wallpapers. I wonder what this could be for? :eyes:

Security updates

There are a few security updates this week. Be sure to install updates for the latest vulnerability 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!

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    EbonJaeger what's the pretty city in the greeter? An Asian metropolis? Or some make-believe AI city?

        brent Based on the name of the file, it is Singapore.

            Yeah, it's Singapore, you can even see the famous Merlion a bit right of the center when you zoom in

              Staudey "The Merlion (/ˈmɜːrˌlaɪən/) is the official mascot of Singapore. It is depicted as a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Being of prominent symbolic nature to Singapore and Singaporeans in general, it is widely used to represent both the city state and its people in sports teams, advertising, branding, tourism and as a national personification.[1]:"

              more righteous

                EbonJaeger
                The espeakup package has been added to the repository, enabling speech output for the terminal using the eSpeak TTS engine. It integrates seamlessly with ALSA to provide accessibility features for visually impaired users.

                  Issue 1: after the recent update for the Budgie build I rebooted, then locked my screen, and it won't let me log back in with it partly showing my password in plain text, in a weird spot off to the left of my screen, so I had to goto switch users, then reboot, but everything is fine if I put my system into suspend mode, then wake it up.

                  Issue 2: I can't find a way to change the lock screen wallpaper that changed itself after the latest update, & I've tried LightDM-settings, clicking draw user backgrounds and even making sure my wallpaper is in the same folder as default for LightDM-settings as a .jpg file.

                  Issue 3: on my gameroom desktop with near exact specs as my main desktop except using an ASRock Challenger AMD RX 6650 XT 8GB GPU connected to a Sceptre 55" 4K non smart TV, Solus Budgie(same happens on Solus Gnome)it identifies it as a 32" display and any option above 1080p(1440p, & 4K are the only 2 options) on HDMI 2.0, or Displayport to HDMI 2.0 with a proper adapter, and cable it only gives me 30Hz, but does find on Manjaro Gnome under Wayland seeing full 4K 60Hz over both display setups, so don't know if it's my TV, GPU, Solus itself, or just X11 vs. Wayland 🤷‍♂️

                  Here are my system specs of my main 2 system if that helps
                  Motherboard: Erying Polestar MicroATX mobo
                  CPU: BGA soldered Intel 12th gen Core I9 12900H(yes it's a mobile chip on a desktop board, but works very well)
                  GPU: Sapphire AMD RX 6650 XT 8GB (main desktop) Asrock Challenger AMD RX 6650 XT 8GB(game room PC)
                  RAM: 32GB(2 X 16GB) DDR4 3200Mhz Dimms
                  Storage: 512GB NVME boot
                  2TB WD Green HDD
                  dual 24" 165Hz Sceptre IPS monitors(main desktop)/Sceptre non smart 55" 4K TV (gameroom PC)

                  So far I've only updated my main machine, I've not tried my other desktop in my gameroom with near exact specs, nor my Lenovo Ideapad AMD Ryzen 5 5625U laptop, or my Lenovo Ideapad Intel Core i5 1235U, w/both running 1TB NVME SSD, and 24GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM(8GB soldered, 16GB SODIMM will update both soon as I have time over the weekend.

                  I'm truly sorry for the long post, and some things that might not be exactly relevant to the latest update, but I didn't want to have to make multiple post that might get lost in the shuffle, and any help would be greatly appreciated
                  Thank you!

                    Updates went smooth on my GNOME system as per usual. Nothing exciting to report.

                    Went excellently, saw the python3 eopkg too.

                    cherry-picked discord 0.0.81