Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
As we outlined at the end of our epoch blog post, we are now going into Release Mode. Over the next two weeks, the team's focus will be on making sure every edition is good to go for an ISO release. We'll be doing another sync early next week for kernel and branding updates.
If you are using the default wallpaper on your Solus installation, you may notice that it will be different after the next sync. We've overhauled our included artwork to have all new 4K resolution images in the JXL format, greatly reducing the size of the installed package. As always, Solus is a rolling release distribution, so you do not have to re-install your system in two weeks. If you install package updates, then you will have the same system as a fresh installation.
Budgie Desktop has been updated to 10.9.4. This release ports the plugin API to libpeas-2. Our package already had this patch set included with the 10.9.3 update. We also backported a patch to fix a crash when loading applets on some systems. On a related note, we've patched our network-manager-applet package to no longer automatically start in a Budgie session. This fixes a race condition that caused the network indicator to disappear from users' systems.
Our Plasma edition now only ships the Wayland session by default. In the interest of keeping our Plasma offering in line with GNOME, the X11 session has been split out into its own package, plasma-x11. Check out our forum thread for more information.
solseek has been updated to 0.3.2. This release added the ability to list, search, and manage flatpaks. Now, it will notify user upon launch if there are any updates for eopkg or flatpak. Also, a few bugs were fixed.
yt-dlp can no longer rely on its built-in JavaScript interpreter, and now requires an external JavaScript runtime called deno, as well as yt-dlp-ejs, in order to continue supporting YouTube downloads. While these are technically optional dependencies (required for YouTube support), eopkg does not understand this concept, and so to avoid user confusion, they will be required dependencies on Solus.
Security updates
We have some security updates this week. As always, be sure to install package updates to get the latest vulnerability fixes.
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!
