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

KDE Plasma has been updated to 6.3.3. This is a bugfix release for the Plasma 6.3 series. The full changelog can be found here.

KDE Gear has also been updated this week to v24.12.3. This is also a bugfix release. The full changelog can be found here.

Our glibc has been updated to v2.41. This version brings many improvements to this libc implementation. Their changelog can be read here.

Mesalib has been updated to v25.0.1. Mesa 25.0 brings usable support for AMD Radeon RX 90x0 "RDNA4" graphics with the RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) and RADV (Vulkan) drivers. Mesa 25.0 also enabled the ACO compiler back-end by default for pre-RDNA GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. This release also brings various Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan enhancements, many new Vulkan extensions supported by the Arm Mali "PanVK" driver, better Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan support with Turnip, and various Intel Xe2 optimizations for Lunar Lake and Battlemage. Check out the full changelog here.

Vulkan has been updated to v1.4.304.1. spirv, shaderc, and glslang have all been updated to the correct versions for this version of Vulkan. intel-graphics-compiler has also been updated to the latest from the legacy branch.

The Hyprland desktop stack has been updated to v0.47.2. The 47 series focuses on internal rewrites for memory safety, the renderer, and the animation system. Speed and stability for most users will not change, but support for edge cases is better.

Fragments has been added to the repository this week. This is a torrent client for GNOME Desktop, making use of GTK4 and libadwaita. As a part of its inclusion, our transmission package has had the CLI interface part split out into a new package called transmission-cli.

Also being added to the repository this week is Authenticator, a two-factor code generator for GNOME Desktop. Codes can be backed up or restored from/into known applications like FreeOTP+, Aegis (encrypted / plain-text), andOTP, and Google Authenticator.

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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It's a big one. 🙂

One laptop and four VMs updated so far, and all's well. Tomorrow is another day.

Nice! That is a solid update. Working well on my ThinkPad T14 Gen 1.

1.8 gigs, every bit seems to be working and in its correct place

Gnome and no problem

Confirm the new kernel fixed boot issue with my NVMe SSD.

Not a Solus problem: Now there's a Thunderbird tray icon. In my case it's a black blob on a dark gray background. I wasn't able to find a way to disable this, so if anyone knows a way, your help would be much appreciated.

    For some reason, it failed when it got to linux-current, so I did another backup for some things just in case and tried sudo eopkg up again and there were no issues, especially with everything being cached up to that point.
    I tried sudo eopkg check, got OK on everything but tried a few packages and didn't have any issues.
    This was on a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-ds1xxx laptop.

    Went smooth on Plasma/KDE.

    linux-current over 200 MB > downloadspeed cap KB/s

    EDIT: An hour later, download speed return to normal.
    Tnank you

    Everything OK in my three machines, two with Solus KDE, one with Solus Xfce.

    I know it's in the 3rd party repos, but I use Google Chrome stable, and after this weeks updates it seems messages for web loads briefly, & then crashes, where it was working before the update, same with a few of my extensions, and no it's not a Chrome update that broke it, but a system update. not a huge deal as I can make it work with Firefox, but it's annoying as I do use Chrome for work. Also to note I have gone through all the steps to uninstall Chrome, and purge it from my system, and then reinstall, but the problem still exist. I also verified it's a possible issue with the latest Solus Budgie updates by making sure my one Chrome OS Flex Thinkpad was upto date, and messages for web along with my extension Emoji Keyboard by JoyPixels works with no issues syncing with my Google Pixel 8a phone,& Motorola Moto Watch 70 smart watch like normal. Any help would wonderful.

      CommodoreFan64 Try the flatpak version.

      flatpak install flathub com.google.Chrome

      With 3rd party repo on the way out, I would suggest to try other installation method for obtaining Google Chrome. Either Flatpak, Snap, Appimage or precompiled binary(tarball) should work. Cheers!

          alfisya Thank you for the fast reply, I did install Google Chrome via Flatpak, and that seems to work better, but sadly it doesn't follow Budgie theming, but o well can't have everything LOL!

              pillmuncher I also recognized it and wonder why it is appearing now. It only has one right-click option to quit Thunderbird, can't see any other functionality.

                Work very well on Gnome (Three weeks of update for mine, I've worked in another computer)