Sync Updates for Week 21, 2024

This summary is generated by ChatGPT with edits from me

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.