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

We have determined that last week's issue with downloading the updated linux-firmware package is that the package size is over the CDN's file size limit of 512 MB, causing constant cache misses. This has been addressed by splitting linux-firmware into several subpackages, instead of lumping them all into one huge package.

Note: Installing the package update will take a significant amount of time (likely between 8 and 15 minutes). Many file conflict warnings will also appear if the update is done in the terminal; these can be completely ignored.

Our KDE Plasma packages have been updated to 6.3.2. Plasma 6.3 contains many new features and improvements, including the ability to clone an entire panel, zooming with KWin, and enhanced support for drawing hardware. kwin-vk-hdr-layer has also been updated to the latest commit to pick up the final HDR changes. There are many other changes, so be sure to check out the announcement!

We have a few new packages this week. To start with, gpu-screen-recorder has been added to the repository. gpu-screen-recorder is a Shadowplay-like screen recorder for Linux. It records using the GPU with minimal impact on the system. There is a GUI version offering ease of use, and a CLI for users who prefer a minimal installation.

Next up is r2modman. r2modman makes modding supported games ridiculously easy, and also separates modded configurations from the game's OOTB configuration so that you can easily play your games unmodded as well. Mods are downloaded from Thunderstore.

Lastly, we have Adwaita Fonts. This package contains GNOME's variation of Inter, along with Adwaita Mono, which is a customized version of Iosevka to match Inter.

Security updates

We have several security updates this week. Be sure to install this week's updates for the latest security patches!

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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Thanks for adding GPU Screen recorder; it's easily my favorite foss software project right now

    Updates went smooth as usual.

    Zenurik Only problem is I don't think the shadowplay-like overlay is included in this package. The flatpak notified me about how to access the shadowplay overlay, but not this one.

        My Plasma laptop updated cleanly. Now on to the rest of them!!

          Everything went perfectly! It took longer as usual, as you wrote in the post, but with patience, everything went well... Thanks very much for the amazing work you are doing!!!!! It is very much appreciated!!!! Since years using Solus Linux with Budgie Desktop!

          Cherry-picked fix for onionshare issue reported here

          Yes with the newest update of the lts kernel and nvidia lts driver my system is also no longer booting.

          I will try the day the newest beta driver maybe this will help maybe? I report back.

          A fresh ISO would another good choice to avoid new user to fill like "oops this distro is problematic..."
          remember not everyone is a tech person , in today tech many people adopt linux because it is a player can't be ignored anymore and often do better in most cases.
          btw, thanks for your great job and keeping this beautiful distro alive

          JTCPingas That was what I was looking forward to 🙁 Guess l'll keep using the flatpak for now

            Two laptops, download capped to 1.2 MB/s so probably slower for that part than most will experience. Budgie DE.

            A) Samsung Galaxy Book 12 (i5-7200U), using software Center—17min download, 6min install, 23min total. Reboot normal, everything looks good.

            B) Lenovo Legion Slim 5 14” (7840HS, RTX 4060), using console—17min download, 4min install, 21min total. Reboot stalled with black screen for 2min then a message stated that it was rebooting. Black screen (no cursor) for 5min. I then forced shutdown with power button, started up and all seemed fine. Ran Skyrim SE w/500 mods, no prob., then got a pop-up that my wifi died. I couldn’t reconnect. Reboot seems to have that working again.

            Not smooth for my gaming laptop, but looks like a success. Much relieved. 😅

            The nvidia beta driver with the newset current linux kernel is also saddly changing nothing. Same error, no booting system. Looks like I have to buy a new old amd gpu if nvidia can't or will not fix it.

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              WetGeek Now on to the rest of them!!

              Everything updated without an issue this week. Everything was slow dealing with Linux-firmware, of course, but that wasn't unexpected. So, three laptops, two desktops, and four VMs are now all up-to-date. 😄

              My Windows10 VM - the fifth one - took so long to do an update that I gave up and went to bed. I think they may be throttling Win10 to force more people to use Win11. It's not gonna work on me, though. I've tried Win 11 and wasn't impressed. Actually, just the opposite.

                Phiqu thanks for the info. I'm using the old Kernel: Linux 6.12.9-312.current while waiting for the fix

                  Pas de problème update ok
                  Plasma 6.3.2 ok
                  Merci bien
                  Bonne soirée