Another week, another update. Changes since last sync:
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GNOME 48.4
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KDE Gear 25.08.0
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KDE Frameworks 6.17.0
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systemd 257.7
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glibc 2.42
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binutils 2.45
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gcc 15.2.0
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Rust 1.89.0
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libdisplay-info 0.3.0
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dbus was fixed so that it reloads on package changes
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Firefox updated to v141.0.3
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Both Firefox and Thunderbird had their language packs split out to a separate package and had an issue fixed where they wouldn’t switch the UI automatically based on system language
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Fontconfig stateless support overhauled so it works more intuitively
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Plasma had an issue fixed where GTK apps might not use the system fonts (especially the monospace font)
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Non-GNOME DE/WMs had an issue fixed where GTK terminals might have messed up font rendering if GNOME wasn’t also installed
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GNOME had an issue fixed where mountable disks and drives weren’t showing up
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Plasma had more of the PIM stack enabled, which means more integration with calendars and other groupware systems
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mesa had an issue fixed that could cause crashes if applications attempted to use certain EGL extensions
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GNOME pkgsets had zed removed, so it should now be possible to uninstall it without uninstalling the rest of GNOME
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taglib added to repo and various packages rebuilt to include support for it
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GTK3 updated, cleaned up, and had more features enabled
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New packages
- cargo-flamegraph: Easy generation of performance flamegraphs, including for non-cargo applications
- samply: Performance profiler that uses the Firefox profiling UI as the visualizer
- imagemagick: Commandline tools for image manipulation
- kdiff3: Diff viewer built with Qt6
- lftp: Commandline tool for interacting with HTTP and FTP services
- syncthingtray: Qt-based tray application for configuring and managing syncthing, as well as keeping track of sync status. Note that Plasma users should install syncthingtray-kde which includes a Plasma widget as well as Dolphin integration.
- variety: Tool for automatically changing the wallpaper from various sources.
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Other updates include cmake, codespell, easyeffects, gdbm, glfw, glib2, gnome-shell-extensions, gnome-shell-extension-appindicator, googletest, graphviz, gstreamer, harfbuzz, iio-sensor-proxy, inputplumber, intel-microcode, ktextaddons, libjpeg-turbo, libpaper, libquotient, libxkbcommon, linux-firmware, mimalloc, ncurses, nheko, poppler, powerstation, ptyxis, scx-scheds, syncthing, vscode-bin, zlib-ng