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  • In Solus Updates for Week 8, 2025

    Heya folks! It's Friday, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!

    KDE Frameworks has been updated to 6.11.0. It has many bug fixes and enhancements. The full release announcement can be found here.

    Krusader is now being built with Qt6. This update brings two other major features:

    • Improve debugging kioslaves by using environment variables and also stdout instead of a separate log file.
    • Save settings on crash and when signals are received.

    Their full changelog is here.

    deno has been updated to v2.1.10. This update brings Deno 2.0, the latest major version release, of this alternative JavaScript/TypeScript runtime. For more details on the most notable changes, see the official Deno 2.0 announcement.

    The Budgie and Xfce desktop branding packages have been updated to prefer xarchiver as the file archive application instead of Engrampa.

    Our sway and labwc packages have had their login sessions split out into subpackages (sway-session and labwc-session, respectively). A bunch of the runtime dependencies of these packages have also been moved to the new sessions packages. This means that other desktops can take advantage of these window managers/compositors without needlessly downloading and installing packages that you don't need. If you use sway or labwc as a full desktop experience, you will need to install the relevant session package!

    OpenTofu has been added to the repository to replace terraform. OpenTofu is a community fork of terraform following HashiCorp's decision to move all of their projects to the Business Source License (BUSL-1.1). The BUSL contains a clause that distributions cannot enforce. Thus, all HashiCorp projects (consul, nomad, and terraform) will be removed from our repository.

    We have two more new packages this week. The first is gammastep, a program for users to automatically change the brightness and color output on their monitors when using wlroots-based compositors based on time and geographic location. This is how Budgie 10.10 will manage the Night Light feature, and it is useful for other compositors, as well.

    The last one is the zenergy driver. This driver is a fork of amd_energy modified to allow non-root users to monitor the energy usage of their AMD Zen CPUs. Combined with MangoHud, users are able to log power usage when gaming.

    Security updates

    We have a security update this week. If you use github-cli, make sure to update!

    General updates

    The full list of updated packages can be found here.

    For the list of currently known issues, see the dedicated thread for it. If you begin experiencing a bug, please look for an issue on our issue tracker, and open a new one if one does not exist.

    That’s all for this week, folks! We'll be here same time, same place next week for another roundup of the news!

    Issues with download speed of linux-firmware?

    There appears to be an issue with the CDN. Please use this workaround:

    wget https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg

    sudo mv linux-firmware-20250211-88-1-x86_64.eopkg /var/cache/eopkg/packages/

    and then update again.
    sudo eopkg up -y