Solus 4.4 ISO checklist
Quick ISO release for hardware enablement, important fixes and integrating two years worth of patches/updates
General
- Blogpost: Solus 4.4 release
- Fresh solbuilds image for stable/unstable after we cook the release ISOs (@joebonrichie)
- Update Budgie branding / defaults (@EbonJaeger)
- Update GNOME branding / defaults (@ikey / @ZachBacon)
- Update MATE branding / defaults (@ikey/@ermo, @Staudey as mentor)
- Update Plasma branding / defaults (@joebonrichie / @ReillyBrogan)
- Update to latest 6.3 kernel (6.3.8 + an important Nouveau bug fix) (@ikey)
- Kernel
6.26.3 - LLVM 15
- Mesa 23
- Enable Intel NVMe Raid mode support in our kernel (https://www.kernelconfig.io/config_vmd)
- Nvidia: deprecate 390.xx driver series (driver package, doflicky, docs)
- Refresh appstream data for solus-sc
- Add intel VAAPI drivers to default iso package list
- Figure out ZRAM by default
- OpenCL: Verify basic ROCM support is working
- OpenCL: Verify basic intel-compute-runtime support is working
- Fix installer geoip
- New users will have their $HOME directory set to drwxrwx--- (T10379)
- Make samba usershares work again (T10466)
- STRETCH GOAL: T10508 - go-based qol-assist (can be deferred to 4.5 without issue, but would be nice to have in)
- STRETCH GOAL: Fix scary boot message about being unable to mount /run/overlay (@silke)
- STRETCH GOAL: LD cache generation takes 5 seconds every boot. Solution: systemctl mask ldconfig.service during image generation. (@joebonrichie)
- STRETCH GOAL: Ensure that users get added to correct groups post install (T10380) (@joebonrichie)
DE specific
- Budgie @EbonJaeger
- Ensure that Nemo gets added to the base install
- Boot: UEFI
- Boot: BIOS
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM+LUKS
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM+LUKS
- VM
- VirtualBox
- Virt Manager
- SAMBA smoketest with Windows Shares and Shares created on Linux are visible on Windows/Android
- NVIDIA GPUs
- AMD RDNA 2 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Any other issues here
- MATE - @ermo (/ @Staudey as mentor)
- Update to 1.27
- Ensure gnome-keyring gets added to the base install (rundep of mate-control-center)
- Boot: UEFI
- Boot: BIOS
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM+LUKS
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM+LUKS
- VM
- VirtualBox
- Virt Manager
- SAMBA smoketest with Windows Shares and Shares created on Linux are visible on Windows/Android
- NVIDIA GPUs
- AMD RDNA 2 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Any other issues here
- GNOME @ikey / @ZachBacon
- Boot: UEFI
- Boot: BIOS
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM+LUKS
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM+LUKS
- VM
- VirtualBox
- Virt Manager
- SAMBA smoketest with Windows Shares and Shares created on Linux are visible on Windows/Android
- NVIDIA GPUs
- AMD RDNA 2 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Any other issues here
- Plasma @ReillyBrogan @joebonrichie
- qt5 5.15.9
- KDE Frameworks 5.105
- Plasma 5.27.4
- KDE Gear 23.4.0
- flatpak-kcm and colord-kde added to default packages (https://dev.getsol.us/T10515)
- Fix default browser not being Firefox (which should fix the icon in the task bar) (I can't reproduce this anymore)
-
Rebase launchfeedback patch(It's dead, Jim) - Boot: UEFI
- Boot: BIOS
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM
- Boot: UEFI w/ LVM+LUKS
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM
- Boot: BIOS w/ LVM+LUKS
- VM
- VirtualBox
- Virt Manager
- SAMBA smoketest with Windows Shares and Shares created on Linux are visible on Windows/Android
- NVIDIA GPUs
- AMD RDNA 2 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- FIXME: SDDM defaulting to wayland as the default session
- Add ISO mounting script to Dolphin context menu (turns out it is part of R4032)