Heya, folks! We have a relatively small sync this week due to the migration to GitHub.

Migration Status

As of now, all the package recipe repositories have been moved to a Solus organization on GitHub, and open issues from this year have been migrated to the new packages repository under our getsolus organization. This is where new issues and package requests should be filed going forward.

Documentation for contributors is still being updated, so please hold tight for a little while longer! If you had an open differential on Phabricator, please see our new article on converting it into a GitHub Pull Request.

This week’s updates

Updates this week include:

  • Linux Kernels
  • Updated mesalib
  • LVM2
  • Thunderbird 115
  • Fixing PipeWire issues
  • Storage library updates
  • Ccache
  • Python modules
  • Budgie Backgrounds v2

That’s all the news for this week. See you for the next one!

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    Known Issues and Workarounds

    • Issue: Adding both budgie-screenshot-applet and budgie-weathershow-applet to a Budgie panel crashes the desktop/causes it to hang because of libsoup version mismatch.
      Solution: Fixed in Stable (cherry-picked). Note that budgie-screenshot-applet has been unmaintained for 3 years and may be deprecated in the near future.

      congrats on the successful package migration. amazing days, man.

      EbonJaeger

      The team deserves a round of applause for getting any update out this week.

        I still had 46 packages (732.44 MiB) to install/update last night.

        Let's salute Thunderbird's move from version 102.13.0 to 115.1.1: a real change that few Linux distributions have to date.

        I join @WetGeek to applaud the whole Solus team again for this performance. 👏

          penny-farthing Yes i noticed something was different in Thunderbird and then checked the version number. This was a pleasant surprise, i really appreciate this.
          Good job Solus team 🙂

            penny-farthing Let's salute Thunderbird's move from version 102.13.0 to 115.1.1: a real change that few Linux distributions have to date.

            I need to do some research on this one. I can tell it's now 115 in help-about, but I can't see anything that's clearly different. I'm sure it's significant, but just not obvious.

                WetGeek

                Here is a link detailing what's new in Thunderbird v.115:
                https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/whatsnew/

                NB. Please note that some extensions are no longer operational, as expected, on this new version, for example:

                • Auto Select Latest Message
                • ImportExportTools NG
                • Manage Emails/ Nostalgy++
                • Manually sort folders
                • Thunderbird Conversations
                  Some of them will probably be updated later to be compatible with it.

                  BTW, we did fix the Pipewire issue causing duplicate devices to appear and for Bluetooth profiles not to switch. If you still have this issue after an update delete your ~/.local/state/wireplumber folder and restart. You may need to re-select your default audio devices and set your volume but it should work after that.

                  Hey after update and login into budgie, white screen appears and shows message "oh no! something has gone wrong. please log out and try again". Swapping into terminal I installed gnome, and gnome works fully, so it must be some budgie issue.

                    ReillyBrogan

                    So, our thanks to @Harvey for bringing us this Thunderbird version upgrade so quickly, which will be much appreciated by the Solus community. 😃

                      kubasama Can you get journalctl logs from a failed login? That's the only way we can narrow down what part is failing.

                          kubasama This has happened to me several times. It was always a mesalib error. I would suggest:

                          1. Go to TTY Ctrl+Alt+F2 or other function key.
                          2. Log in to your account. Enter your name and password (it will not be visible).
                          3. Execute sudo eopkg it --reinstall mesalib and reboot.
                            If this does not help then do steps 1 and 2, write sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall and reboot