Pop Package Updates (Week of August 20, 2023)

Here is a summary of the Pop!_OS package updates for the week starting August 20, 2023.

Overview

The previous two weeks were pretty quiet and Pop!_OS did not update any packages themselves, so I didn’t make a post. This week, however, saw a few significant updates such as intel-microcode, amd64-microcode, linux-firmware, pipewire, and lutris.

August 14, 2023

Ubuntu

intel-microcode: Update from 3.20230214 to 3.20230808 (Ubuntu)
- CVE-2022-40982, INTEL-SA-00828, CVE-2022-41804, INTEL-SA-00837, CVE-2023-23908, INTEL-SA-00836

August 15, 2023

Ubuntu

apt: Update from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10 (Ubuntu)
- Bug fixes regarding phased updates
samba: Update from 4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.2 to 4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 (Ubuntu)
- Bug fixes for authentication to Windows domain after an update
tiff: Update from 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4 to 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5 (Ubuntu)
- A lot of security fixes (CVEs)

August 16, 2023

Ubuntu

git: Update from 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.9 to 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.10 (Ubuntu)
- Bug fixes for git stash operation

August 21, 2023

Pop (270)

amd64-microcode: Update from 3.20230719.1pop1 to 3.20230808.1.1pop1
- Fixes for CVE-2023-20569 “AMD Inception” on AMD Zen4 processors
linux-firmware: Update from 20230629 to 20230731
nvidia-graphics-drivers: Update from 535.86.05-1 to 535.98-1
- Fixed a bug which prevented DKMS from registering kernel modules.
- Fixed a bug which could cause the screen to flicker.
packaging-firefox: Update from 1:116.0 to 1:116.0.3
pipewire: Update from 0.3.74 to 0.3.77

August 22, 2023

Pop (271)

linux-firmware: Update from 20230731 to 20230815
- Reverts a partial revert that caused some amdgpu “to fail to resume from S3 and some systems to fail to boot.”
lutris: Update from 0.5.12 to 0.5.13
- Release notes

August 23, 2023

Ubuntu

docker.io: Update from 20.10.25-0ubuntu1~22.04.2 to 20.10.25-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 (Ubuntu)
- Build with Go 1.20
gnome-remote-desktop: Update from 42.7-0ubuntu1 to 42.9-ubuntu0.22.04.1 (Ubuntu)
- Fixes a crash found during verification of 42.8 (related to PipeWire)

Notes

Information for this post was collected from pop-os/repo-release and Ubuntu Updates.
The draft for this post can be found at pbui/pop-package-updates.
Feel free to let me know what you think of the weekly update or to share your experiences with this week’s updates.

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