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!
