Week 7, 2026

EbonJaeger

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

GNOME users that use the Nvidia 470 drivers should begin looking into alternatives. Once GNOME 50.0 comes out, GNOME will no longer run on X11, and the 470 driver cannot run on Wayland. Version 50.0 comes out in one month, and 50.1 is scheduled for the month after that. KDE Plasma users may have a little more time, but Plasma will also only support Wayland later this year. Adding to the list, Budgie 10.10 is also Wayland-only. Time is quickly running out for the 470 driver series!

KDE Gear has been updated to 25.12.2 this week. This is a bugfix release for the 25.12 series. Check out the full changelog here.

Our kernel packages have been updated. The Linux current branch is now at 6.18.9, and the LTS branch is at 6.12.69. Additionally, xone has been updated to 0.5.5. The release notes are here, here, and here, respectively.

We have a bunch of new packages this time around. First up is sudo-rs, an implementation of sudo and related tools in Rust. Next is TIDAL-HiFi, a version of Tidal with Hi-Fi support. Then, we have GHDL, an analyzer, compiler, simulator and (experimental) synthesizer for VHDL. Next comes dua-cli, a utility to view disk usage and delete unwanted data. Last, but not least, is Fresh, a terminal text editor and IDE.

Security updates

We have some security updates this week. Make sure to install available updates to get the latest vulnerability protections.

freerdp was updated to 3.22.0-46 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-24676, CVE-2026-24678, CVE-2026-24675, CVE-2026-24679, CVE-2026-24683, CVE-2026-24682, CVE-2026-24491, CVE-2026-24677, CVE-2026-24681, CVE-2026-24684, CVE-2026-23948, CVE-2026-24680.
golang was updated to 1.25.7-138 (@davidjharder). Includes security fixes for CVE-2025-61732.
libgnutls was updated to 3.8.12-52 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-1584, CVE-2025-14831.
libpng was updated to 1.6.55-34 (@davidjharder). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-25646.

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!

flanier

EbonJaeger

Do the devs have any long term plans for sudo-rs? I believe Ubuntu already includes sudo-rs in the short term releases, and is aiming to include it(and Rust versions of the coreutils) in the 26.04 release.

I'm not someone who is fundamentally opposed to adding Rust incrementally to the kernel and core programs. I actually like Rust from the very limited amount I've used it, and I'm trying to learn more.

brent

rebooted, kicked tires, and back to work. 👍️ thank you

Original-Syn

Updates went great in the lab and on bare metal.

Posted to socials

ForumPheasant

All good on KDE w/ Nvidia. Thank you!

VTMarik

All smooth here cap'n

banger

All good on one machine Plasma noticed an error with Brave in eopkg but after reboot Brave seems to run ok.

Well done team. 😃

Samill543

64 Packages updated. Everything still works like expected.

RexFactorem

Minor issue during initial boot (shutdown). Not sure if related to this process. Added photo. No persistent boot logs for a complete dump, sorry.

Opera crashes sometimes, and it still does with this update. (did eopkg check opera-stable, fixed it one time but crashes continue occurring). KDE.

But updates seem went well overall.

Thank you.

Harvey

There was a significant update to scx-scheds / scx-tools which I am guessing could theoretically result in issues until you have rebooted after updating as the guts are ripped out from underneath the scheduler. So long as it doesn't happen again I would not worry.

brent

Harvey There was a significant update to scx-scheds / scx-tools which I am guessing could theoretically result in issues until you have rebooted as the guts are ripped out from underneath the scheduler.

that's the one ( scx-scheds) that threw a bunch yellow file conflict errors for me which historically have been 100% harmless.
Mine in no way resembled that output in that picture,however, fwiw.

Harvey

brent that's the one ( scx-scheds) that threw a bunch yellow file conflict errors for me

Unrelated to the other users issue, everyone will get these conflict warnings. scx_loader was split out of scx-scheds upstream so its a new package and ownership of those files was just changing. Nothing wrong.

Jaredy899

Thanks for the status updates!

Original-Syn

Jaredy899 I am liking Fresh added to the repo. Working very well so far.

Xoph

All good for me on my 2 systems. Wife is also now on Solus as her Windows 10 laptop was not upgradeable to Windows 11, so I used the excuse to introduce her to Solus. She just does email, browsing, and light office docs. She has had no issues. She also said to tell the Solus team she like their logo as well.

brent

Xoph Windows 10 laptop was not upgradeable to Windows 11

d**m you TPM 2.0 🙂
[this has happened to me too]

Jaredy899

Original-Syn It updates very quickly so my plan is to update every tenth update.

Original-Syn

Jaredy899 Yeah I had taken a look and thought about packaging it, but the update cycle and my limited available time didn't work. Happy you put it in. Thanks for that and all the others you have added. Truly appreciate it.

Solarmass

report from Budgie: good update

Original-Syn

flanier Looking at the original PR it looked like it was more for testing and validation then. So not sure if there are plans beyond that at this point.