Heya folks! This week brings more CVE fixes, and a new version of Budgie Desktop. Make sure you’re applying your updates! Let’s dive into the details.

The security updates this week fix CVE issues with glibc, libxpm, and libx11. These fixes were synced to Stable earlier in the week already, but it’s always important to shine a spotlight on security fixes. If you would like to learn more about the CVEs fixed this week, see here for glibc and here for libxpm and libx11.

Did you know that we’re participating in Hacktoberfest this month? If you didn’t, check out the blog post by @TraceyC here! We have a few pinned tasks on our issue tracker, so everyone is encouraged to help out! If you’ve never touched a package before, don’t worry. Our recently updated documentation should answer all of your questions, and if it doesn’t, we’re always happy to assist on Matrix.

Two desktop environments saw updates this week as well. Budgie Desktop was updated to 10.8.1, which fixes some issues found with the 10.8 release. Check out the Buddies of Budgie blog post for more information. If you instead use Plasma, KDE Plasma was updated to 5.27.8 and KDE Gear was updated to 23.08.1. You can read all about those updates here and here, respectively.

Other updates this week include:

  • Initial incusion of Waycheck
  • KDE Plasma is updated to 5.27.8
  • KDE Gear is updated to 23.08.1
  • Budgie Desktop is updated to 10.8.1
  • PostgreSQL is updated to 16.0
  • Brave is updated to 1.58.137
  • Vivaldi Stable is updated to 6.2.3105.58
  • Vivaldi Snapshot is updated to 6.4.3152.3
  • Discord is updated to 0.0.31 (already in Stable)
  • Signal Desktop is updated to 6.33.0
  • Vim is updated to 9.0.1994
  • Element is updated to 1.11.45
  • Golang is updated to 1.21.2
  • Wireshark is updated to 4.0.10
  • Dav1d: Add homepage for display in Software Center

That’s it for this week, folks! Check back next week for more sync goodness!

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Edited post to include Waycheck, a tool from Budgie developer Campbell Jones (aka serebit) to check what Wayland protocols your current Wayland compositor supports. It's really cool, be sure to check it out if you're interested! Do note that only GNOME and KDE Plasma can run on Wayland at the moment.

    EbonJaeger updated system but haven't rebooted so I didn't vote yet---but thanks for the great links with your updates. Your links have several other links which I spent learning about those cve's by every respective A/V company etc which was fascinating as well as hacktober, issue tracker and all else.
    --I'm of those people that love to chase footnotes--very informative and keeps the user in the loop. great approach, thanks again.

      davidjharder Ah yes, the addition of the homepage for it in the Software Center is very much appreciated, David, updater of Dav1d 😛

        davidjharder

        eopkg info david
david package is not installed
david package is not found in binary repositories

        por que?

            EbonJaeger I was bamboozled by the the old 'l-that-looks-like-an-I' illusion. not much sleep this week, sorry🙂

              I processed 69 updates for Solus (176.94 MiB) today.
              I can confirm that the right-click menu display problems in the Onboard and Network Manager applications have now been resolved.
              Thanks to the developers concerned for their efficiency.

              Thank you also to @Patrice for correcting the spelling mistake in the budgie-user-indicator-redux-applet in the French version (Verrouillé has replaced Vérouillé).
              However, I notice that the default applet user-indicator uses the infinitive for all the different actions offered on the workstation, which seems logical. Would it be possible to do the same thing for the budgie-user-indicator-redux-applet?

              In this case :

              • Verrouillé would become Verrouiller
              • Déconnexion... would become Se déconnecter
              • Mise en veille would become Mettre en veille
              • Arrêter... would become Eteindre
                No changes for Suspendre and Redémarrer which are identical in both applets.
                Of course, no rush.
                And if that's not possible, it will stay as it is and that will be fine too.

              Hi,
              @penny-farthing , strangely, according to the Transifex page, it has been correctly translated 7 month ago.
              Maybe, there is something to translate I am not aware of.

                Patrice

                However, after the latest Solus update, this is what the budgie-user-indicator-redux-applet shows:

                Was there a problem with the update?

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