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Heya folks! It’s time for another roundup of the news! Let’s dive in.

Driver Updates:

  • NVIDIA Beta Driver:
    • Updated to 555.42.02.
    • Adds support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for Wayland explicit sync in EGL.
    • Issue: Rebooting directly into a Wayland session with Vulkan using the Beta driver causes Vulkan not to work. Workaround: Log into an XOrg session first, then into a Wayland session.

Software Updates:

  • Neovim:

    • Updated to 0.10.0.
    • Major release with numerous changes and breaking changes for plugins and configurations. Make sure to update plugins and check configs.

  • MimeType Handling:

    • Branding packages that ship a mimeapps.list file are now co-installable again.
    • Files added to the MATE and XFCE desktop branding packages.

  • Desktop Environment Updates:

    • KDE Plasma:
      • Updated to 6.0.5.
      • Contains many bugfixes.
      • KDE Frameworks 5 updated to 5.116.0 for applications not yet on Frameworks 6.
    • Qt:
      • Updated to 6.7.1.
      • Brings new features and bugfixes.

Performance Improvements:

  • Bash Optimization:
    • Significant speed improvement achieved by building Bash with Profile-guided optimizations (PGO).
    • Startup speed for running a script improved by approximately 60%.
    • Example script startup speed reduced from 1.409 seconds to 1.366 seconds.
    • Shellbench benchmarking tool confirms the performance increase.
    • Trade-off: Binary size increased from 9.68 MB to 9.82 MB, and build times are longer due to multiple compilations required for PGO.

Security Updates:

  • gnome-remote-desktop: Updated to 46.2-15. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-5148.
  • podman: Updated to 5.0.3-42. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-3727.
  • postgresql: Updated to 16.3-49. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-4317.
  • qt5-networkauth: Updated to 5.15.13-24. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-36048.
  • skopeo: Updated to 1.15.1-29. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-3727.
  • wireshark: Updated to 4.2.5-87. Includes fixes for CVE-2024-4853, CVE-2024-4854, and CVE-2024-4855.

Browser Updates:

  • Opera and Vivaldi: Updated to include the latest Chromium security updates.

That’s all for this week, folks! Check in next week for another Solus news roundup.