Solus 4.5 ISO checklist
The bigger feature release after 4.4
General
- Blogpost: Solus 4.5 release
- Fresh solbuild image
- Refresh appstream data for solus-sc
- Implement merged /usr for systemd (T10615)
- OpenCL: Verify basic ROCM support is working
- OpenCL: Verify basic intel-compute-runtime support is working
- VAAPI: Ensure firefox VAAPI works without hacks on intel/amd, verify that nvidia-vaapi-driver is working. (T10554)
- GNU Toolchain upgrade
- Implement T9500 due to new glibc dropping support for legacy HWCaps
- Update PAM & friends (and streamline as appropriate)(may resolve T9518)
- Ensure that baselayout is up to date (iana-protocols is 10 years out of date for instance -- use this repo going forward)
- Update Samba to newest maintenance release (4.17.x as of this writing)
- Serif font defaults to Clear Sans (should be a serif font -- see T8739)
- Switch out os-installer for calamares
- Land working Xfce stack w/Wayland support (@ZachBacon)
- STRETCH GOAL: XFS support for installer
- STRETCH GOAL: btrfs support for installer
- STRETCH GOAL: f2fs support for installer
- STRETCH GOAL: wxwidgets gtk3
- STRETCH GOAL: dbus-broker by default
- STRETCH GOAL: pipewire by default
- STRETCH GOAL: wayland session support across DEs (see also T10362)
- STRETCH GOAL: flatpak support in Software Center(s)
- STRETCH GOAL: Fix LDM (@ikey)
- STRETCH GOAL: Nvidia: enable nvidia-drm.modeset=1 for OOTB wayland support (needs GDM fixes) (@ikey)
- STRETCH GOAL: Sort out livecd gdm config vs. installed system gdm config (@ikey) (T10547)
- STRETCH GOAL: Fix LSI (@ikey)
- STRETCH GOAL: Check up on brisk menu and do misc. cleanups (@EbonJaeger)
DE specific
- Budgie @EbonJaeger
- 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
- AMD RDNA 2/3 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Nvidia GPUs
- 470
- Current
- Beta
- Any other issues here
- GNOME @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
- AMD RDNA 2/3 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Nvidia GPUs
- 470
- Current
- Beta
- Any other issues here
- Plasma @ReillyBrogan @joebonrichie
- 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
- AMD RDNA 2/3 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Nvidia GPUs
- 470
- Current
- Beta
- Any other issues here
- Xfce @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
- AMD RDNA 2/3 GPUs
- Intel Arc GPUs
- Nvidia GPUs
- 470
- Current
- Beta
- Any other issues here