Solus Updates for Week 50, 2025

EbonJaeger

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

KDE Plasma has been updated to version 6.5.4 this week. This is primarily a bugfix release for the Plasma 6.5 series. The full changelog is available here.

Firefox has been updated to 146.0. Check out the changelog here for more details. Important! There is an issue with Firefox on Budgie that causes a session crash under certain circumstances. The crash occurs when Firefox's autoscrolling feature is enabled, and the user tries to activate scrolling by pressing the middle mouse button. Users are recommended to disable this feature until a fix is in place. This affects Firefox, and any Firefox fork or derivative that is based on Firefox 146.0. Investigation into the cause is still ongoing.

The NVIDIA GLX driver has been updated to the 580 series. The changelog for the current version can be found here. At the same time, the beta driver branch is now on the 590 series. Important! The NVIDIA 590 driver drops support for Pascal, Maxwell, and Volta series cards!

We now have the NVIDIA open source kernel modules in the repository. If you use a 4000 series or newer card, this is the driver set you will probably want to use. Note that it currently cannot be installed via GNOME Software or KDE Discover. This is because the project does not ship an icon, which is required for AppStream generation. We're thinking about solutions to this. Important! If you are using the linux-current kernel, you will need to install the nvidia-open-current package; LTS users need to install the nvidia-open package. The full list of compatible cards for the open kernel module is here.

Mesalib has been updated to 25.3.1. Version 25.3 brings significant enhancements to Vulkan and OpenGL for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers. The full changelog can be found here and here.

Security updates

As usual, there are some security updates this week. Install updates to get the latest vulnerability fixes.

c-ares was updated to 1.34.6-17 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2025-62408.
glib2 was updated to 2.86.3-125 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2025-13601.
httpd was updated to 2.4.66-35 (@davidjharder). Includes security fixes for CVE-2025-65082, CVE-2025-66200, CVE-2025-55753, CVE-2025-59775, CVE-2025-58098.

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!

Original-Syn

Looking good across my VM Lab and bare metal systems.

Posted to social

Harvey

Plasma users update and reboot again.

Cherry-picked a kwin fix

Julien68

Harvey According to the discussion thread, the problem is solved in 6.5.5.

Axios

All is well.

wazjf

No issues with solus gnome

Solarmass

Important! The NVIDIA 590 driver drops support for Pascal, Maxwell, and Volta series cards!

This thing is real! I updated beta driver branch from 580 to 590 (for science) and my system booted into black screen. To fix it I had to uninstall beta driver and install nvidia-glx-driver-current (580 driver)

Harvey

Julien68

Yes and 6.5.5 does not exist yet as a stable release. 6.5.4 is the latest and was released on 9th December 2025 which is what is on stable now.

Upstream put out an alert to maintainers highly recommending that we pull in the patch to fix the issue for 6.5.4 instead of just keeping people dealing with the issue until 6.5.5 is released in January 2026. Which is what i did, this is not uncommon.

Moltes34

Mise à jour sans problème.... merci beaucoup

bruno@bruno-solus
OS: Solus 4.8 Opportunity x86_64
Host: UX390UAK (1.0)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.8-324.current
Packages: 1029 (eopkg), 7 (flatpak)

plutuplutu

I had a minor inconvience after this week's update, after not updating for weeks/months so I can't tell which update caused it.

I could not login (GNOME) : wrong password. After trying several times, more and more concerned, I checked the locale which was wrong (not fr) at login only. Fixed it with localectl set-x11-keymap fr because localectl status returned 'unset' for VC Keymap and X11 Layout. All good now.

Also, my computer seems to talk to me now, I have to investigate that.

AlphaElwedritsch

All well on little gnome

BuzzPCSOS

Everything Plasma looks sweet on my Dell Latitude & Venue. Many thanks to the team.

bubba66

Looking good on Gnome 1 x box and 2 x laptops

Thank you 🙂

Klow-e

Hey! On a recent update you removed the wallpaper with the blurred purple background and the word "solus" on it from the default wallpapers in the gnome version. Could you add it back? Was my favourite wallpaper.

Sebastian

Klow-e This probably won't be added back. BUT you can download this package:
https://packages.getsol.us/polaris/s/solus-artwork/solus-artwork-31.0-53-1-x86_64.eopkg
from here:
https://packages.getsol.us/polaris/s/solus-artwork/

That's the previous version of the package that contains the wallpapers.

Do not install it. Open it with archive program. In folder solus-artwork-31.0-53-1-x86_64/install/usr/share/backgrounds/solus you will find your wallpaper.

Save it to your pictures directory or ~/.local/share/backgrounds or wherever.

PS: Welcome to the Forum 🎉

Klow-e

Sebastian Thank you so much! Glad to be here!

ernesto

Looking good on xfce. Many thanks to the team.

UncleSlacky

Firefox still crashing on Budgie here, though I've never had autoscrolling selected (smooth scrolling only). Turning off smooth scrolling seems to have helped a bit (crashes less frequently).