Pop Package Updates (Week of July 23, 2023)

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 525.116.04 to 535.86.05
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:
1. pop-container-runtime
2. pop-container-interactive
3. pop-server
4. 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!

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