Solus 4.2 comes with the Linux 5.10.12 kernel, with support for newer fifth-generation AMD Ryzen processors, such as the 5600X to 5950X, and newer Intel Comet Lake processors, such as the Intel Core i9-10850K.
The table was updated to 20.3.3. It introduces support for new GPUs, Vulkan 1.2 API compatibility, numerous fixes for the latest game titles, and ACO shader compilation is now enabled by default for the Vulkan RADV driver.
- ffmpeg 4.3.1, the most recent in the 4.3 series.
- the latest dav1d AV1 decoder, version 0.8.1, offering significant performance improvements and decoding optimizations compared to its original inclusion in Solus 4.1.
- the latest version of gstreamer, 1.18.2.
- Pulseaudio 14.1