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

KDE Frameworks has been updated to 6.11.0. It has many bug fixes and enhancements. The full release announcement can be found here.

Krusader is now being built with Qt6. This update brings two other major features:

  • Improve debugging kioslaves by using environment variables and also stdout instead of a separate log file.
  • Save settings on crash and when signals are received.

Their full changelog is here.

deno has been updated to v2.1.10. This update brings Deno 2.0, the latest major version release, of this alternative JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. For more details on the most notable changes, see the official Deno 2.0 announcement.

The Budgie and Xfce desktop branding packages have been updated to prefer xarchiver as the file archive application instead of Engrampa.

Our sway and labwc packages have had their login sessions split out into subpackages (sway-session and labwc-session, respectively). A bunch of the runtime dependencies of these packages have also been moved to the new sessions packages. This means that other desktops can take advantage of these window managers/compositors without needlessly downloading and installing packages that you don't need. If you use sway or labwc as a full desktop experience, you will need to install the relevant session package!

OpenTofu has been added to the repository to replace terraform. OpenTofu is a community fork of terraform following HashiCorp's decision to move all of their projects to the Business Source License (BUSL-1.1). The BUSL contains a clause that distributions cannot enforce. Thus, all HashiCorp projects (consul, nomad, and terraform) will be removed from our repository.

We have two more new packages this week. The first is gammastep, a program for users to automatically change the brightness and color output on their monitors when using wlroots-based compositors based on time and geographic location. This is how Budgie 10.10 will manage the Night Light feature, and it is useful for other compositors, as well.

The last one is the zenergy driver. This driver is a fork of amd_energy modified to allow non-root users to monitor the energy usage of their AMD Zen CPUs. Combined with MangoHud, users are able to log power usage when gaming.

Security updates

We have a security update this week. If you use github-cli, make sure to update!

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!

Issues with download speed of linux-firmware?

There appears to be an issue with the CDN. Please use this workaround:

wget https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg

sudo mv linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg /var/cache/eopkg/packages/

and then update again.
sudo eopkg up -y

How did the sync go for you?

This poll has ended.

    I work from home Fri afternoons so this has been ritual for me: update, reboot, get back to work. this week a lot of stuff I use daily got updated and it's all fine.
    @EbonJaeger congrats on :xarchiver. last time I looked nemo was still my default so I will know if it changed next time I have to extract.

    also thanks to whoever stays on top of yt-dlp every week. I appreciate it.
    gracias team

    Very odd, helium in the matrix room is reporting the same

    VTMarik I have the same issue, and then it errors out. Only half of the updates are downloaded and the rest are queued, nothing installed.

        VTMarik Same. I'm using GNOME Software to download the updates and the download progress bar is completely frozen.

            Using sudo eopkg up:

            the same issue, net speed test and I full speed 200Mb/s

            p.s. my unstable Solus VM did fine in this week when I updated it

            This is my result after a couple attempts...

              Okay thanks for reporting.

              I couldn't figure out what the issue was with the CDN so I bumped the package and synced again. So try update again. In my testing it downloads at a reasonable speed now.

                For Informations
                Thanks

                Sadly it is not fixed for me. Download speed for the linux-firmware package is around 70 KB/s. Everything else is around 10 MB/s. I ran "eopkg up -x linux-firmware" to have the other packages installed. Downloading the firmware package now, ETA 45 minutes.

                • Harvey

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                • Edited

                No idea wtf is going on with the CDN. For people who still have an issue cancel the update and do this:

                wget https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg

                sudo mv linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg /var/cache/eopkg/packages/

                and then update again.
                sudo eopkg up -y