Week 19, 2026

EbonJaeger

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

Our kernel packages have been updated. The LTS package is now at 6.18.28, and the mainline package is at 7.0.5. These versions contain a partial fix for the recently-revealed DirtyFrag (CVE-2026-43284) vulnerability.

Clear Boot Manager (clr-boot-manager) has been updated to 3.7.0. This release buys users with 512 MiB EFI partitions some time by doing the cleanup before installing the new kernel. This is safe because the currently running kernel (i.e., last known working) is never removed.

We've modified the usysconf trigger to update the manpage database. It now calls out to systemd to run the task, meaning we no longer have to wait for the generation to complete. This results in massively reduced update and install times. Note that if the trigger tries to run multiple times in quick succession, the it may fail because it is already running. This is fine, and not really something we can do a whole lot about.

The default update flow now goes from 1) install new kernel, 2) install current kernel, 3) remove oldest kernel (three kernels installed at most) to 1) install current kernel, 2) remove oldest kernel, 3) install new kernel (two kernels installed at most).

We have a couple of new packages this week. LibrePods is a Qt-based desktop application for pairing and managing Apple AirPods on Linux systems, including battery and device controls outside of Apple's ecosystem. VHS is a tool that generates GIFs and videos of terminal GIFs from code. To generate a GIF with VHS, you write a simple .tape file, which instructs VHS how to interact with the terminal, and pass it into the vhs binary.

Security updates

There are a bunch of security updates this week. As always, make sure to install updates so you have the latest vulnerability fixes!

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 for kernel, all is fine, thank you team

EbonJaeger Clear Boot Manager (clr-boot-manager) has been updated to 3.7.0. This release buys users with 512 MiB EFI partitions some time by doing the cleanup before installing the new kernel. This is safe because the currently running kernel (i.e., last known working) is never removed.

@elfprince ^^ hey how about that? 🙂

Xoph

Wireshark gobbling up all the vulnerabilities this week.

All good my Plasma systems and XFCE on the old Thinkpad went smooth

Solarmass

report from Budgie Wayland: all good. More faster update this time 🚀

EbonJaeger

Cherry-picked usysconf to (hopefully) fix ISO generation.

banger

All good on Plasma.

JayC

I almost thought something was wrong when I did the update as the last part went so fast, then I actually read the post. That was a great QoL update, because honestly that got kind of annoying that it often took longer than the the rest of the update on my Plasma systems.

Everything updated smooth as ever only faster.

Solarmass

JayC I almost thought something was wrong when I did the update as the last part went so fast

right!?
I blame manpages database!

Clintre

Solarmass Trust me we did as well.

Jaredy899

Manpages update is so nice! Thanks all!

RexFactorem

KDE.

Main system updated okay, but I had some flathub issues when updating:

Warning: While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.codecs-extra/x86_64/25.08-extra from remote flathub: Invalid rev

Trying again later.

brent

RexFactorem that exact error, according to https://ostechnix.com/fix-flatpak-no-such-ref-error-flathub-linux/, can be cleared with 4 commands:

Clear temporary files: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak/repo/tmp/*
Remove cached refs: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak/repo/refs/remotes/flathub
Run system repair: sudo flatpak repair --system
Clean unused packages: flatpak update && flatpak uninstall --unused

unsure that /var/lib is the place Solus keeps the flatpak tmp though…you might have a peek

RexFactorem

brent Thanks for your answer. Yes, I cleared caches and it worked again.

spp71

The update went well. Matebook D15 + gnome.. Matebook D15 is known to be a not so linux friendly machine, but solus is the only one that has worked flawlessly on that machine. Good job guys

mkl

cannot recognize any issues so far…

Lucien_Lachance

the manpages thing was starting to get a little annoying. not anymore 😃

all good here

bubba66

Both Gnome boxes updated and no problems.

Thanks 😊

zed

Thanks 4x Gnome and 1x KDE

I like it when it goes smoothly ,like this !!