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

Our Firefox package is now using beaconDB for geolocation. This enables geolocation to work on systems without geoclue, or without Wi-Fi. Check out the thread by @Staudey for more information on what beaconDB is, and how to contribute to it.

libicu has been updated to 76.1. ICU 76 updates to Unicode 16 (blog), including new characters and scripts, emoji, collation & IDNA changes, and corresponding APIs and implementations. Check out the full announcement here.

Some Xfce packages have been updated this week. Notably, the latest xfce4-session and xfce4-session-wayland packages have considerable improvements to the Wayland experience. One important item to note is that Xfce is now using its own directory for labwc (.config/xfce4/labwc/) configuration. This makes Xfce easier to use alongside other desktop environments that also use labwc, as the settings won't be shared across the desktop environments. If you have already customized your labwc config for Xfce, you will have to do it again with the new config files.

Hyprland has been updated to 0.48.0, bringing a few new features: An "Application not responding" dialog box, improvements to the groupbar, better color management, and lots of sync fixes for lag under high GPU use.

mpv has been updated to 0.40.0. This release adds HDR support, better stream support for Blu-ray, DVD and CDDA, and a bunch more. The release notes can be found here. To use HDR, run mpv like this: mpv --vo=dmabuf-wayland path/to/file

You can also create or edit ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf and add the line vo=dmabuf-wayland so HDR is enabled by default.

Blender has been updated to 4.4.0. Check out the release announcement here.

There are two new packages this week. First is mmv, a program to move, copy, or link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. Also, new this week is sv2v, a SystemVerilog to old-school Verilog converter to ease compatibility with yosys, Siemens QuestaSim, Xilinx Vivado, and others.

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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I have been waiting for new mpv! Great update! 🥳

theres a plasma bug, probably should go to kde some
where but i dont know how and where, its no big deal in any case, just mentioning it

    Everything OK with my three computers.

    There is a new update of Firefox, 136.0.4, which fixes a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-2783

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-19/

    I was going to file an update request, when I read this:

    This only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.

    So, everything's good 🙂

    This only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.

    Yeah as fun as it sounded to build Firefox for about an hour -> test it -> push it to the build server to build all over again, for an update that did absolutely nothing. I decided it probably wasn't the best usage of my time.

    I will get the joy of doing that in a few days when 137.0 is released.

    Lucien_Lachance

    What you've shown in that screenshot is indeed a bug in KDE Plasma that Solus can't fix. It should be reported to the KDE project. Please look to see if there's an open issue on the KDE tracker, and feel free to open a new one if necessary. Thanks.