Changes
This round of updates was dominated by the landing of LLVM 22 and GNOME 50. For good measure, @ReillyBrogan also threw in KDE Plasma 6.6.3 and Mesa 26.0.3. In other words: There were a lot of builds and rebuilds.
As part of the compiler work, LLVM and GCC now work with some common alternate x86_64 triples (which has the side effect of increasing compatibility with Solus).
In addition, all packages supporting FFmpeg are now built against version 8.1 of that stack.
We are sticking to the 6.18 LTS kernel for now, and will probably end up skipping the entire 6.19 series, as it has seen comparatively many annoying issues that have only been fixed quite late in the cycle.
Highlights
- GNOME 50 (The usual extension update caveats apply)
- KDE Plasma 6.6.3 & KDE Frameworks 6.24
- LLVM 22 toolchain
- ffmpeg 8.1
- linux 6.18.19
- mesa 26.0.3
Major updates
- accountsservice 26.12.8
- dankmaterialshell 1.4.4
- dash 0.5.13.2 (notable as finally all dash 0.5.13 regressions appear to be fixed)
- ghostty 1.3.1 + search wrap backport
- giflib 6.1.2
- gstreamer: Add chromaprint support
- iwd 3.12
- kitty 0.46.1
- mangowm 0.12.7
- pipewire 1.6.2
- riftbar 0.1.8
- sudo-rs 0.2.13
- systemd 257.13
- vlc: Add chromaprint support
- wayland 1.25.0
- webkitgtk 2.52.0
- wine 11.5
- wlroots 0.19.3
Fixes
- Build WayDroid with AppArmor support. This fixes a crash on startup.
New packages
- apache maven (Build automation tool for Java Projects)
- chromaprint (Library for extracting fingerprints from any audio source)
- diffoscope (Tool for in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories)
- kanshi (Dynamic output configuration for Wayland Window Managers)
- libdmtx (Library for working with Data Matrix 2D bar-codes)
- system76-scheduler (Auto-assigns process priorities for improved desktop responsiveness)
- wluma (Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and Ambient Light Sensor data)
- yaru-icon-theme (Community-backed default icon theme for GNOME from Ubuntu)
- zls (LSP support for the Zig programming language)
Full git changelog
As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:
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