Week 18, 2026

EbonJaeger

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

Our kernels have been updated this week. The LTS kernel is now at version 6.18.25, while the current kernel at 7.0.2. Check out the highlights for kernel 7.0 here. Note that we had already updated our kernels last week to 6.18.23, which is unaffected by the recently dubbed "CopyFail" exploit.

Important! With this week's kernel updates, `nvidia-470-glx-driver-current` and `nvidia-developer-driver-*` are being deprecated! If you are using the 470 driver, you will have to switch to the LTS kernel!

The NVIDIA GLX driver and open kernel modules have also been updated to 580.142.

Niri has been updated to 26.04. This is a major update for Niri, featuring blur effects, optional configuration file loading, pointer warping while scrolling, screencasting improvements, and more. Check out all that's new here.

Users of window managers such as Niri, Sway, Hyprland, and others may be excited to learn that DankMaterialShell has been added to the Solus repository. It offers a complete desktop experience with no hassle, and no manual editing of configuration files. Make your desktop dank today! Note: If you previously installed DMS or any of its dependenies manually, you may want to remove them first to ensure that you're using the correct versions of all programs.

A new system resources application called Resources has been added to the Solus repository. It is a system monitor designed for GNOME as an alternative to GNOME System Monitor.

You can now donate to Solus through GitHub Sponsors. All money will be routed to our Open Collective balance. We've added this to provide an alternative to Open Collective, but we still prefer people donate through Open Collective.

Security updates

We have a lot of security updates this week. Make sure you install available updates to receive the latest vulnerability fixes!

composer was updated to 2.9.7-10 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-40176, CVE-2026-40261.
cups was updated to 2.4.19-44 (@uni-dos, @uni-dos). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-34979, CVE-2026-34990, CVE-2026-27447, CVE-2026-34980, CVE-2026-39314, CVE-2026-34978, CVE-2026-39316.
curl was updated to 8.20.0-115 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-5545, CVE-2026-5773, CVE-2026-7009, CVE-2026-6429, CVE-2026-6276, CVE-2026-6253, CVE-2026-7168, CVE-2026-4873.
gstreamer was updated to 1.28.2-135 (@androidnisse, @Jaredy899, @EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-5056.
inetutils was updated to 2.8-17 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-32746, CVE-2026-24061, CVE-2026-28372.
libgnutls was updated to 3.8.13-53 (@EbonJaeger). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-42010, CVE-2026-3833, CVE-2026-42011, CVE-2026-33845, CVE-2026-33846, CVE-2026-42009, CVE-2026-42012, CVE-2026-42013, CVE-2026-3832, CVE-2026-5419, CVE-2026-42014, CVE-2026-5260, CVE-2026-42015.
libjxl was updated to 0.11.2-9 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-1837, CVE-2025-12474.
liblcms2 was updated to 2.19-21 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-41254.
mako was updated to 1.3.12-13 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-41205.
openexr was updated to 3.4.11-14 (@Jaredy899, @Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-42216, CVE-2026-41142, CVE-2025-12840, CVE-2026-27622, CVE-2023-5841, CVE-2026-34588, CVE-2026-42217, CVE-2025-12839, CVE-2025-12495, CVE-2024-31047.
podman was updated to 5.8.2-46 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-33414.
python-lxml was updated to 6.1.0-27 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2026-41066.
python-rencode was updated to 1.0.8-10 (@Jaredy899). Includes security fixes for CVE-2021-40839.

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!

davidjharder

Oh my god, I came as fast as I could!

🔥 HAPPY SYNC DAY 🔥

craigtoyoracer

Eopkg up had a hard shutdown with a gimp dependency not being met. (some brush files) sorry didn't pay attention, just deleted gimp and reinstalled flawlessly.

Harvey

mini-sync.

gimp fix + new mesalib

Update again.

brent

installed & rebooted 10.10.2 Budgie. all is good, thanks team.

VTMarik

Holy crap is my timing lucky today, I updated right after that!

Everything fine here.

tinchoeze27

I can't change profile energy saver to perfomance this kernel.

The rest is good. I use KDE Plasma

Axios

I dont Understand had clrboot manager no update issue again seems to be common thing

for me on budgie How do all these keep showing back after I delete them?

Is their something else I need to do?

Never use to have issue then one day it started.

Before

This is even borked not even the kernel I had it set for before update.

After

* com.solus-project.current.7.0.3-336

com.solus-project.lts.6.18.26-286

Shrugs sorry for sounding little hyper.

banger

One Plasma (UEFI) ok but other Plasma (GRUB) would not boot. Hung on a black screen with the new kernel and Nvidia open drivers. Solution was to add nomodeset to the grub command line and use grub customiser to make it permanent but I will have to do this again when the kernel is updated possibly unless it is a kernel regression.

getsolus/packages8746

tomscharbach

Resources is a solid tool. I have been using Resources on Ubuntu 26.04 builds for several months. I've installed. As usual, a smooth update and smooth sailing.

brent

tomscharbach nice to see ye

Solarmass

Who tried DankMaterialShell? With what DE you can have it along?

stocc

Solarmass Who tried DankMaterialShell? With what DE you can have it along?

I use DankMaterialShell with niri.

RexFactorem

Kinda scared of this one. It went smoothly and the workflow looks alright so far. Thanks team!

On KDE.

Xoph

The only good thing was Solus update today. My main system drive decided to die and I mean it won't even power on. Luckily for me I am a bit OCD on backups. My other systems updated no problem. Moved the drive from my secondary system to my main for now while I enjoy these lovely prices for a new 4TB nvme which I do actually need due to the work I do. Bad time to be an independent contractor.

CorvusRuber

All works fine, but I noticed a strange behavior related to megacmd: the mega-cmd-server process eats up 100% of CPU (never happened before), with temperatures spiking at 80+ degrees almost immediately. Stopping the process, of course, halts the behavior.

EDIT: could be version related, our repo megacmd is version 2.4.0 but apparently there's 2.5.2 out. Mega licensing being… funny, I don't know if we're still on 2.4 because we can't legally update or because nobody requested an update.

bubba66

Two Gnome boxes updated no problems, and the extensions updated and work again.

Thanks 🙂

BuzzPCSOS

Plasma update all looks good here. Many thanks to the team.

Phiqu

Xfce updated and runs atm default settings, without flickering and random boots to tty.

Seems so, that the nvidia driver related problems are gone. 🙂

bubba66

XFCE Dell Laptop updated okay.

Thanks again 😊