Sync Updates for Week 4, 2024 - eviltoast
Sync Updates for Week 4, 2024 - Solus Forum
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In this week’s update:

  1. New packages: input-remapper for modifying input device behavior and maliit-keyboard for virtual keyboards on 2-in-1 and tablet devices for Plasma users.
  2. Introduction of GNOME Software and KDE Discover software centers to replace the existing Software Center, providing Flatpak and eopkg management in one place.
  3. Security updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, Vivaldi, and Jasper to address various security issues.
  4. Media updates, including a significant upgrade of the FFMpeg package to version 6.1.1 and an update to SFML.
  5. Gaming updates for Heroic Games Launcher, maelstrom, minigalaxy, lutris, and visualboyadvance-m.
  6. CLI tool updates, such as clustershell, emacs, eza, Numix icon themes, rclone, and weechat.
  7. Desktop updates, including the split of gedit-plugins, support for SDDM under Wayland, and updates for Discord, KDE Connect, nextcloud-client, papirus-icon-theme, rpi-imager, qdirstat, winff, variety, and improved AppStream metadata for NVIDIA drivers.
  8. System updates for btrfs-progs, fwupd, glib2, mesalib, PipeWire, and thermald.

Note: GNOME Software and KDE Discover are considered experimental, and users are encouraged to participate in testing through the provided tracking issues.

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