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

KDE Frameworks has been updated to 6.12.0 this week. This release has many improvements and bug fixes. The release announcement can be read here.

The Fish shell has been updated to the new major release, 4.0! This is a monumental update, as the entire codebase has been ported from C++ to Rust. There are a lot of changes, including some breaking changes, so be sure to check out the release notes.

Speaking of Rust, our package has been updated to 1.85.1. The 1.85.0 release marks the 2024 Edition as Stable, stabilizes async closures, stabilizes #[diagnostic::do_not_recommend], adds unpredictable_function_pointer_comparisons lint to warn against function pointer comparisons, adds a lint on combining #[no_mangle] and #[export_name] attributes, and much, much more. Check out the full release notes here.

ISOs that go out to release backers this week will, for the first time, come with either GNOME Software or Discover pre-installed. The GNOME edition will have Software, while all other editions have Discover. Each software center will be automatically installed on already installed systems at a later date. These applications will co-exist with the old Solus Software Center for a good while yet, but users are encouraged to start using and trying out the new ones.

Mir and Miriway have been added to the repository this week. Miriway is a starting point to creating a desktop session based on the Mir Wayland server from Canonical. They have been added to the Solus repository 1) because the projects are cool, as Mir is not based on wlroots, and 2) as a way to aid Budgie Desktop development. By having an easy alternative available, developers can test code quickly between multiple compositors, enabling them to troubleshoot whether issues are from their code, or in the compositor. Down the road, they could serve as alternatives for users, too, should they prefer the experience.

Security updates

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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    Solus Gnome : GT4 desktop icons extension doesn't work.
    Big bug with Files who appears in desktop when this extension work.
    I removed all gnome extensions and I was test them one by one : problem came well of GT4 desktop icons.
    (currently problem with gnome extensions)

    There seems to be a bit of an issue with Bluetooth. My pebble mouse (Bluetooth 4) stopped working directly after updating and restarting. Another Bluetooth mouse (Bluetooth 3) connected without any problem so I'm guessing that it is only connectivity to the more recent versions of Bluetooth that is affected.
    My pebble mouse has worked flawlessly on Solus since 2022.
    Edit: Bluetooth can 'see' the mouse and will attempt to connect to it via the wizard but connection fails each time.
    Edit II: Solus Plasma running Wayland session.

    The default theme and wallpapers are still a small selection, so to speak.

      oh so thats the new dolphin pathbar i saw people complaining about elsewhere. seems fine to me.
      otherwise allg ood on both plasma and gnome

      Updated perfectly on Gnome and resolved an issue where my nvidia card didn’t have a name in Gnome information page. Now the card is detected correctly.

      Updating from Software Control does not work. It always restart... I found the error... rust and rustup are in conflict... I eliminated rustup and now it works!!!

      Not the best Update Sync for me...

      Having problems with bluetooth

      • Had to reconnect my mouse

      Having problems with vivaldi

      • Takes ages to start

      Gnome Solus

        All good in my three computers (2 Solus KDE, 1 Solus xfce).

        Gnome: The quick power change button (power saver, balanced, high performance) has disappeared in the top right drop-down control panel.

        AlphaElwedritsch

        aarrggghhh
        Did a rollback

        Vavaldi was updated to 7.2
        Only problems
        Takes ages to load
        Then, after every wakeup from standby, it don't load any page. No upload/download any bit.
        Only after reboot, it works for a while

        Bluetooth
        even the rollback did not solve my bluetooth problems again
        My laptop no longer connects to the mouse.
        I have tested a second one. Same problem.
        If I delete the mouse completely and reconnect it works again for a while. after standby the mouse is no longer connected. I have to delete it completely again.

        I have also started gnome with X11, but that only causes more problems

        My setup
        Gnome / wayland

        Too bad. these are the first serious problems I've had with solus.

        But they are so annoying that I can't live with them.
        Nothing works without a mouse
        And a browser that doesn't load pages is also tragic

          Update:
          Status quo:
          Thanks to the rollback, my system is now back to where it was shortly before today's Sync 12/25 update

          Vivaldi in version 7.1
          No more problems Everything as usual

          Bluetooth:
          By rebooting again, the mouse now works as usual again. She doesn't hang out anymore.
          Not after a certain time and not even when the system comes back from standby.
          Here too, everything is as usual

          I don't know if I'll test it again, wait and see if I'm the only one, if the team does or can do something, or skip this sync completely and don't take action again until next week.

            Super, fonctionne nickel Solus KDE
            Bonne soirée a tous

            EbonJaeger

            Thanks, nothing to report in this new Solus update (71 packages, 810,64 MiB).

            Just a question:

            The GNOME edition will have Software, while all other editions have Discover. Each software center will be automatically installed on already installed systems at a later date.

            Having installed Budgie desktop on my computer, I thought I had to use Gnome Software (I have it installed and am currently using it) and that Discover was reserved for Plasma users.
            Reading your post, it seems I have to use Discover.
            Could you please tell me if I need to correct this?

            Thanks for your feedback.

                no ploblems to report again 👍️

                penny-farthing In reality, you can use whichever you want. What will come installed on Budgie and Xfce editions will be Discover, though, and Discover will probably be added as a dependency of the branding packages or something so that everyone has some software center installed once Solus Software Center goes away.