The earlier maintenance mishap has been righted, and Solus packages are once more available for download! Thank you for your patience.
- Evan
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Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12409-week-5-2026-updates
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- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
Notably this week, we've transitioned the privileged user group from sudo to wheel. We recommend users to reboot as soon as feasible after installing updates so your admin users can be put in the new privileged group!
Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12386-week-4-2026-updates
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- Evan
Today's scheduled maintenance has been completed well ahead of schedule! The package server is now fully operational. Huge thank you to @sheepman for performing these operations.
- Evan
Maintenance on our package server has begun! During this time, the package server may be unavailable. This means that package updates and installs may not work.
- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12363-week-3-2026-updates
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- Evan
Maintenance is now complete on the Solus build server! The package repository server still needs attention. A new maintenance window is scheduled for Saturday, January 17th, beginning at 5:00 PM UTC, and ending at 1:00 AM UTC. During that time, the Solus package repository will be sporadically unavailable.
- Evan
Maintenance on our build server has begun! During this time, the build server may be unavailable. This should only impact members of the Solus staff.
- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12338-week-2-2026-updates
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- Evan
Updated the notice for user impact.
- Evan
Heya, folks! A maintenance window for Solus infrastructure is scheduled for Monday, January 12th, from 1:00 PM (UTC) until Tuesday, January 13th at 3:00 AM (UTC). The build and package servers will be intermittently unavailable during the entire day. We will post an update when work is completed.
During this time, package installations and updates may be unavailable.
- Evan
Solus boosted:
The AerynOS team have taken a retrospective look at 2025 for our latest blog post
Heya folks! Heya folks! Today marks the first sync of 2026. The last year was a momentous one for Solus. We unveiled a new website, removed Python 2, completed the Usr-Merge epoch, and more. It is time now for us to look ahead to what we'll accomplish in the new year. Thank you to everyone for sticking with us, and for your continued contributions and support. Now, for the sync notes.
Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12322-week-1-2026-updates
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- Evan
The holidays are here, and that means spending time with friends and family. As such, barring security updates, there are no plans to sync next Friday.
- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12273-solus-updates-for-week-51-2025
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- Evan
#Budgie users should be aware of a crash when using the "autoscrolling" feature of Firefox, and Firefox forks and derivatives. When enabled, a session crash will occur when the middle mouse button is pressed to activate scrolling in the browser. The issue is still being investigated.
- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup!
This week, we have #Firefox 146, the addition of the #NVIDIA open source kernel modules, and more!
Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12242-solus-updates-for-week-50-2025
#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource
- Evan
Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12206-solus-updates-for-week-49-2025
#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource
- Evan
Thanks to the contributions from a number of community members, we now have language server support for our package definition files. Try it out in your favorite editor!
-David
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