Week 16, 2026

EbonJaeger

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

We have a smaller number of updates this week as the team has been focused on building and testing ISOs for the upcoming 4.9 release. A part of this is updating the entries in /etc/os-release. This means that the About System pages in the various desktop environments will now show Solus 4.9 as the operating system.

RSSGuard has been updated to 5.0.4. The 5.x series sees a major overhaul to the project. Many things have changed, and some past features may no longer be supported. Custom filters may break, and settings will be reset. The old 4.x series database is not compatible. Important! You are recommended to export your RSS feeds and copy your filters manually before upgrading, then close/re-open RSSGuard and import your feeds. It will ask you to import your old database. This is located in ${HOME}/.config/RSS Guard 4/database/.

The gaming performance optimization daemon falcond has been added to the Solus repository. This program automatically detects when a game is running, and sets various system performance settings, and automatically reverts them once the game is closed. Note that it is not compatible with the gamemode package, and as such, both cannot be installed at the same time.

Security updates

There is another bunch of security updates this week. Be sure to install updates to keep on top of the latest vulnerability fixes.

imagemagick was updated to 7.1.2.19-212 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for GHSA-f4qm-vj5j-9xpw, GHSA-2442-cq27-vf6x, GHSA-r83h-crwp-3vm7, GHSA-26qp-ffjh-2x4v, GHSA-pcvx-ph33-r5vv, GHSA-w54j-7wpm-crhj, GHSA-x928-4434-crqj, GHSA-v67w-737x-v2c9, GHSA-jvgr-9ph5-m8v4, GHSA-pmpg-6pww-fg6q, GHSA-q8h3-jv9v-57qx, GHSA-8vfj-q2cp-5m5j, GHSA-98cp-rj9f-6v5g, GHSA-qvhr-jj4p-j2qr, GHSA-5xg3-585r-9jh5, GHSA-cr67-pvmx-2pp2, GHSA-5592-p365-24xh, GHSA-pwg5-6jfc-crvh, GHSA-x9h5-r9v2-vcww, GHSA-fwvm-ggf6-2p4x.
incus was updated to 6.0.6-3 (@clintre). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-28384, CVE-2025-64507, CVE-2026-23953, CVE-2026-23954.
libexif was updated to 0.6.26-8 (@joebonrichie). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-40386, CVE-2026-32775, CVE-2026-40385.
python-poetry was updated to 2.3.4-19 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-34591.
xorg-server was updated to 21.1.22-111 (@joebonrichie). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-33999, CVE-2026-34002, CVE-2026-34003, CVE-2026-34000, CVE-2026-34001.
xorg-xwayland was updated to 24.1.10-38 (@joebonrichie). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-33999, CVE-2026-34002, CVE-2026-34003, CVE-2026-34000, CVE-2026-34001.

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!

banger

All good on 2 x Plasma with new old GTX 1650 cards. 🙂

Xoph

I love rolling. All of the sudden I am on a "new" version, even though it is just another routine update for us that have already been on it.

All good on Plamsa x 2 and my XFCE old laptop.

RexFactorem

Thanks! Just wondering? What is the logic behind every numbered release? Looks random in my end when comparing the dates of the last handful of releases.

Xoph

RexFactorem Seems just simply sequential to me. Looking at previous release 4.0, 4.1, 4.3...4.9. Does seem a little different for a rolling, which I would think a date based for the ISO release. But never really thought much about it, until you brought it up.

ForumPheasant

Thank you devs! All is well. I'm patiently awaiting kernel 7.0 (despite knowing it'll be perfectly cromulent as always and 7.0 is due to Linus' dislike of the number 21)!