Sync Updates for Week 3, 2024 - eviltoast
Sync Updates for Week 3, 2024 - Solus Forum
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  1. Security Fixes:

    • Stable channels of Vivaldi and Opera updated to address vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0517, CVE-2024-0518, CVE-2024-0519).
    • XOrg stack updated for security (CVE-2023-6816, CVE-2024-0229, CVE-2024-21885, CVE-2024-21886, CVE-2024-0408, CVE-2024-0409).
    • GNUTLS updated to v3.8.3 for security (CVE-2024-0553, CVE-2024-0567).
    • PAM security fix back-ported from v1.6.0 (CVE-2024-22365).
    • Qt5-base and Qt6-base security update (CVE-2023-51714).

  2. GNOME and Plasma Updates:

    • GNOME desktop updated to version 45.3; introduces Loupe image viewer.
    • Plasma-related updates: Qt5 to v5.15.12, KDE Frameworks 5 to v5.114.
    • Preparations for Plasma 6 with extensive updates; new scalable Solus icon in Plasma 6 teaser images.
    • New packages include xfce4-places-plugin and nvtop for XFCE users.
    • JPEG-XL support enabled; some packages pending update for compatibility.

  3. Media Updates:

    • Gstreamer framework updated to v1.22.8.
    • Intel-Media-Driver updated to v23.4.3; other media-related package updates.

  4. Gaming Updates:

    • Heroic Games Launcher updated to v2.12.0.
    • Discord wrapper script added for Wayland-native mode.
    • Updates to CEMU and Lutris.

  5. Office and Desktop Updates:

    • Updates to various applications including Brave, OwnCloud Client, Gnumeric, Focuswriter, Bisq, and more.
    • New package additions such as megacmd for MEGA command-line access.

  6. CLI Utils:

    • Updates to various command-line utilities including Eza, Fastfetch, Github-CLI, Restic, Bitwarden-cli.

  7. System Updates:

    • Updates to system components like inetutils, QEMU, libvirt, iio-sensor-proxy, iproute, containerd, Docker Buildx, Docker Compose, nvme-cli, libnvme, libdrm.

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