Qubes OS updates Weekly Review - Y2024-W40

General Discussion
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Introduction

Weekly review of new packages uploaded to Qubes OS repositories. Notes on how it is prepared and what resources are used to write this newsletter is available in previous versions.

Alphabetically sorted list of new packages uploaded to Qubes OS repositories 
qubes-core-dom0-4.3.7-1.fc41.noarch.rpm
qubes-core-dom0-linux-4.3.3-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm
qubes-core-dom0-linux-kernel-install-4.3.3-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm
qubes-core-dom0-vaio-fixes-4.3.3-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split_2.0.75-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split_2.0.75-1+deb13u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-2.0.75-1.fc39.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-2.0.75-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-2.0.75-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split_2.0.75-1+jammy1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-2.0.75-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
qubes-gpg-split-dbgsym_2.0.75-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-dbgsym_2.0.75-1+deb13u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-dom0-2.0.75-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-dom0-2.0.75-1.fc41.noarch.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-tests_2.0.75-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-tests_2.0.75-1+deb13u1_amd64.deb
qubes-gpg-split-tests-2.0.75-1.fc39.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-tests-2.0.75-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-tests-2.0.75-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm
qubes-gpg-split-tests_2.0.75-1+jammy1_amd64.deb
qubes-mgmt-salt-dom0-update-4.2.0-1.fc37.noarch.rpm
qubes-mgmt-salt-dom0-update-4.3.1-1.fc41.noarch.rpm
qubes-template-fedora-40-xfce-4.3.0-202409291929.noarch.rpm
qubes-vm-core-4.3.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
qubes-vm-keyring-4.3.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
qubes-vm-networking-4.3.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
qubes-vm-passwordless-root-4.3.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Highlights

  • Updater fixes
  • Core fixes
  • Temporal policy directory patches
  • Split-GPG is Fedora 41 compatible.

Details

In addition to the usual minor fixes and patches:

  • core-admin v4.3.7 (r4.3)
    A patch for qubes-prefs default_kernel KERNEL to validate existence of the specified kernel. Setting this property to invalid value prevented start of any qube.
    Paused qubes will be rapidly killed on shutdown. This behaviour is not different from before. It is only faster. Previously they had to time-out before being killed.
    Patches related to temporary policy directory within /run
    A fix for Thunderbird on Fedora 41

  • core-admin-linux v4.3.3 (r4.3)
    Updater patches. Debian based updates will try to auto resolve conflicts.
    A patch for DNF5 on Fedora 41

  • mgmt-salt-dom0-update v4.2.0 & v4.3.1 (r4.2 & r4.3)
    DNF5 is the default package manager for Fedora 41

  • app-linux-split-gpg v2.0.75 (r4.2 & r4.3)
    Making split-gpg compatible with Fedora 41 / Thunderbird 128. Dropping support for r4.1

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