Heya, folks!
It's time for your weekly savory updates. We have a big one this week with GNOME 44, along with at-spi2, wxwidgets, and more! It took a lot of hard work, but the team got it done. Shoutout to Zach, Joey, and everyone else who contributed!
If you use GNOME extensions, be sure to disable any extensions from outside the Solus repository before updating to minimize the risk of breakages! After installing the updates, reboot your system as well. See here for the goodies that 44 brings: https://release.gnome.org/44/
Also this week, PipeWire is enabled by default for everyone! We’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, and that time has finally come. If you use Bluetooth audio devices, this will likely improve your experience.
And now, the good stuff! There's a lot here, so strap in:
- I updated Budgie to use Magpie instead of Mutter. Please keep in mind that this is not necessarily a finalized version of this Mutter-based Magpie, and additional updates may be forthcoming from the Buddies of Budgie team as further work is performed. (https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/magpie)
- @ZachBacon spent a frankly heroic amount of time updating us to GNOME 44. Read all about GNOME 44 here
- @joebonrichie and Zach hammered out rebuilds for wxwidgets and at-spi2, with special thanks going to Silke for last minute help making prusa-slicer behave
- @algent continued his excellent work on our python related packages, updating pipenv and friends
- @ReillyBrogan has been busy updating the following important packages:
- Systemd v253
- Mesalib v23.1.4 (AMD users, enjoy your faster shader compilation during games)
- Pipewire v0.3.75
- Git v2.41.0 (https://github.blog/2023-06-01-highlights-from-git-2-41/)
- Qt5 stack updated to latest v5.15.10 (KDE branch)
- Qt6 stack update to v6.5.1
- Libssh and libssh2 both updated to latest (fixing a few CVEs and bringing more compatibility with modern ssh ciphers/algorithms)
- Openssh updated to v9.3p2 (fixing a recent CVE)
- sudo updated to v1.9.14p2
- power-profiles-daemon updated to v0.13. This brings better support for Intel CPUs and adds AMD pstate support for those of you using that ahead of being enabled by default in the 6.5 kernel.
- Added power-profiles-daemon as a rundep of powerdevil (the Plasma battery integration) so it should be available on all Plasma systems.
- @ermo and Zach have been upgrading pcsx2 (A PS2 emulator). The new version is 64-bit native, supports Vulkan and generally performs rather a lot better than the old v1.6.0 version.
That's everything for this week! Come check us out next week for the next round of delicious updates. You won't want to miss it! Until then, take care, be kind to each other, and we’ll see you next time.
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