Week 9, 2026

EbonJaeger

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

Our kernels have been updated again this week to the latest point releases in each series. The current kernel is now at version 6.18.13, while the LTS kernel is now 6.12.74. Important! We are looking at updating the LTS branch to a newer LTS kernel series very soon! Please make sure that if you are using the LTS kernel that the 6.18 series works on your hardware!

WARNING: If you are using the nvidia-470* driver, this driver has not been supported by Nvidia for over a year and a half. It will be removed from the Solus repository in the not-so-distant future! When it is deprecated, you will be forced back to the nouveau driver, which will result in massive performance drops compared to what you are used to.

Your choices are upgrade your GPU, or accept worse performance.

KDE Plasma has been updated to 6.6.1. Plasma 6.6 is a major update to the Plasma experience aimed at improving usability and accessability, with some new practical features thrown in. This release features a new built-in on-screen keyboard, and the Spectacle screenshot tool can now extract text from screenshots. Check out the release announcement here.

The budgie-session package had a fix backported (and cherry-picked to Polaris users) to fix the session crashing when using Firefox and Firefox forks.

Developers using the Vala programming langauge can now install two tools from the Solus repository. Now packaged are Vala language server, and vala-lint. These tools make it easier to write better Vala code.

Security updates

As usual, we have some security updates this week. Make sure to install available updates for the latest vulnerability fixes.

caddy was updated to 2.11.1-24 (@davidjharder). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-27585, CVE-2026-27590, CVE-2026-27586, CVE-2026-27587, CVE-2026-27589, CVE-2026-27588.
nodejs-20 was updated to 20.20.0-8 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-21637, CVE-2025-55132, CVE-2025-55130, CVE-2025-59465, CVE-2025-55131.
nodejs-22 was updated to 22.22.0-9 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-21637, CVE-2025-55132, CVE-2025-55130, CVE-2025-59465, CVE-2025-59466, CVE-2025-55131.
python-cryptography was updated to 46.0.5-34 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-26007.
qt6-webengine was updated to 6.10.2-58 (@HarveyDevel). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-2648, CVE-2026-2649.
udisks was updated to 2.11.1-32 (@HarveyDevel). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-26103, CVE-2026-26104.
valkey was updated to 9.0.3-11 (@androidnisse). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-21863, CVE-2026-27623, CVE-2025-67733.
yt-dlp was updated to 2026.02.21-267 (@HarveyDevel). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-26331.

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!

brent

rebooted, kicked tires, back to the grind 🙂. thanks!

Harvey

All Plasma users who stuck to the default Solus Plasma theme will notice a change to their theme this sync. Old Solus Plasma theming had been partially broken for awhile and fixing it has made existing installs load the old theme. To switch to the intended theme switch away from Solus PlasmaDark/Light and back again.

Theme before switching away and back again:

Theme after:

Or just leave it if you like it how it is.

Jaredy899

Thanks! I forgot to add to sync notes but chafa is in the repo. It renders images in the terminal and it's pretty cool. Check it out! sudo eopkg it chafa

brent

Jaredy899 I always understood that embedding graphics into certain terminals was
1) limited to like 2-3 linux terminal-emulators only and
2) done via the usr/share/applications/ABC.desktop file

is chafaa whole different animal that has nothing to do with this? curious, thanks.

wazjf

Solus Plasma Update done, just rebooted and everything works.

banger

No probs on 2x Plasma. Thanks team.

Jaredy899

brent It can render in ASCII art in all terminals but it's true some emulators render it better (higher quality) than others. Budgie's built-in terminal isn't very good but konsole is better. And especially emulators like kitty, ghostty, alacritty do really well with it. and no desktop file needed or included. Just chafa image.png, chafa image.svg.

brent

Jaredy899 when I get some down time I will play with this. Glad it's in repo. always loved pictures of terminals where cool graphics were embedded left of the output. Thanks for getting back to me.

ForumPheasant

All good on KDE Nvidia and Budgie AMD, thank you for the update as always! Got my retired father on Solus and this is his first update. Haven't heard anything so far, and that is the best possible outcome. So thank you from him as well!

pokmu

Does this plasma update switch Solus to the new login greeter that they just added, or do I have to do that manually somehow?

Harvey

pokmu

No. I was not able to get it to work and gave up for now.

RexFactorem

Everything seems up and steaming. Thanks guys!

VTMarik

I can't open Deluge since the update, here's what the terminal spits out:
https://pastebin.com/GaXChPTT

alfisya

VTMarik Try installing python-zope.interface as mentioned at the bottom of that log.

androidnisse

alfisya
~~I have that same issue as well, but I do have that package installed.~~

Scratch that the issue is in python-openssl. Updating that fixes this. I will do a PR.