Trying something new... For those unaware, all of Pop!_OS software development is on github.com/pop-os and you can track which packages are updated each week by following the pop-os/repo-release repository.
Of course, not everyone has the time to follow these this repository or can easily parse what it all means, so here is my humble initial attempt of summarizing and highlighting the changes for the week (note, I will not list all the changes, just the ones that I think are interesting or noteworthy... I will also be skipping all the COSMIC related packages as most people are not using those yet).
July 24, 2023
-
nvidia-graphics-drivers: Updated from
525.116.04to535.86.05 -
system76-acpi-dkms: Modify behavior regarding keyboard LEDs
July 25, 2023
- system76-power: Tweaks for the
bonw15, particularly regarding hibernate, resume, and suspend
July 26, 2023
-
desktop: Reorganize meta-packages into 4 levels:
- pop-container-runtime
- pop-container-interactive
- pop-server
- pop-desktop
ubuntu-minimal is replaced by pop-container-runtime, and ubuntu-standard is replaced by pop-container-interactive.
July 27, 2023
- desktop: Remove conflict between pop-de-gnome and sddm
By far the biggest change is the metapackage reorganization and it will be interesting to see where that leads.
Final note, this is only concerning the Pop!_OS specific package updates. You will most likely also receive updates from Ubuntu... which I failed to track this week and so I didn't list here. I may try to do that in the future.
Feel free to let me know what you think of the idea of a weekly package summary or share your experiences with this week's updates!
Thanks that was a great read