Heya folks!
It’s time for your (usually) weekly dose of package update news! This week, @algent updated the entire Perl stack, @ReillyBrogan updated the kernels, systemd, and much, much more.
Team member Algent this week undertook the Herculean task of updating our whole Perl language stack to 5.38.0. While we now have much newer, better versions of all these packages, you may have to re-install Perl modules that you had installed previously through CPAN or other non-Solus sources.
ReillyBrogan updated our kernels to 6.4.9 and 5.15.125 while enabling many more network, Bluetooth, and sound drivers. If you’ve had trouble with uncooperative Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices, it might be a good time to test them again. He also fixed a few issues, including sound no longer working after logging out and back in, re-enabled core dump collection, spice-vagrant not launching automatically in Virtual Machines, and more.
Our version of systemd was updated with separate initrd and global systemd timeout defaults. This ensures that less performant systems do not have mount units fail during boot. This should help people who had swap inexplicably fail to start on boot previously. In addition, we have summoned more Celtic magic / improved system shutdown speed, as units which are slow to stop will be killed after 10s (down from the default of 90s).
@joebonrichie and Algent deprecated more Python2 packages, greatly reducing the number that are left. Python 2 is dead, long live Python 3!
@ZachBacon updated some GNOME applications and libraries to the latest point releases.
Other package updates were done by our wonderful contributors. Thank you!
As mentioned last week, we were strongly considering deprecating Julia. We now plan to deprecate the Julia and package juliaup instead. This will simplify maintenance of other packages while leaving a straightforward way for Julia users to manage their own environment.
That’s all for this one, folks! If you haven’t seen our recent blog post or our recent package repo migration announcement, check them out!
