Sync Updates for Week 6, 2024 - eviltoast
Sync Updates for Week 6, 2024 - Solus Forum
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  1. Repository Additions:

    • Introduction of skanpage, a scan-to-PDF tool for KDE Plasma.
    • Inclusion of polylith, aiding in building reusable Clojure components.

  2. Systemd and Kernel Updates:

    • systemd now built with libaudit and libseccomp support.
    • Kernel package updated to v6.6.16 with improvements and transparent huge pages enabled.

  3. libicu and glibc Updates:

    • libicu stack updated to version 74.2
    • Upgrade of glibc package to version 2.39, following shortly after the 2.38 release.

  4. Security Updates:

    • python-notebook updated to 7.0.7 resolving CVE-2024-22420 and CVE-2024-22421.
    • eza updated to 0.18.2 addressing CVE-2024-24577.
    • libuv updated to 1.48.0, fixing CVE-2024-24806.
    • WebKit packages updated to 2.42.5 to address multiple CVEs.

  5. Media Updates:

    • Various media-related packages updated including Alsa stack, beeref, darktable, gifski, libavif, libheif, libjxl, libpng, picard, rapid-photo-downloader, and shotcut.

  6. Gaming Updates:

    • Updates to gaming-related packages including citra, fuse-emulator, gem, hatari, Heroic Games Launcher, mangohud, mbga, mupen64plus, pcsx2, ppsspp, retroarch, steam, stella, vice, and visualboyadvance-m.

  7. CLI Tool Updates:

    • Updates to CLI utilities such as amdgpu_top, bandwhich, doxygen, less, makedepend, mdbook, phoronix-test-suite, restic, s-tui, wine, winetricks, and yq.

  8. System Updates:

    • Updates to various system packages including AppArmor, docker, hwdata, libtraceevent, Linux (current), moby, nvidia-beta-driver, openldap, snapd, thin-provisioning-tools, xkbcomp, xprop, and xdg-utils.

  9. Language Updates:

    • Updates to programming language packages including golang, gradle, ruby, and rust.

  10. Other Desktop Updates:

    • Updates to various desktop-related packages including anki, birdtray, bitwarden-desktop, Blender, Brave, brewtarget, ddcutil, Filezilla, Firefox, fritzing, homebank, LibreOffice, logseq, mozjs, Numix icon themes, Opera (stable), papirus-icon-theme, protonmail-bridge, poppler, scrcpy, syncthing, Telegram, texlive, transmission, torbrowser-launcher, Vivaldi (stable), vscode, and wxmaxima.