12th Release - M114.0.5735.205
Thorium 114 See changes between 113 and 114 here > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/releases/tag/M114.0.5735.134
- mesa-reven updated for even better Nvidia support (It now runs on my GTX 970, which it never did before)
- SOF (Sound Open Firmware) added to support more audio chipsets
- fdutils removed because of compiling problems (😢 *sniff sniff*)
- Discovery App now works, and I populated it with my own content. You can launch it via the icon.
- Google DriveFS updated to latest version from a ChromeOS Flex 114 image
- Better laptop screen brightness control (from upstream)
TIP: To use the image in disk imager apps like Etcher, PopOS USB Flasher, Ubuntu disk writer, etc, rename the file extension from ".bin" to ".img"
The image has "v3" at the end of the name, because I had to rebuild it three times to get the discovery app working.
IMPORTANT UPDATE The Linux developer environment in ChromiumOS ("Crostini") sometimes doesn't work because of "unmitigated CPU vulnerabilities" like Spectre (which often aren't fixable sans a BIOS update). Sometimes you can fiddle with telling the kernel that the CPU is fine, or (what I do) you can install and use Crouton, which uses a chroot instead of virtualization. However, both of these methods require having the Kernel NOT in LockDown mode, and debugfs enabled. I have changed the kernel config to allow this > 6f8a96d
, while keeping AppArmor enabled. This slightly decreases security, but I think it is more than worth it, and in fact, until ChromeOS/ChromiumOS 110, it was disabled. I will be rebuilding the image with the new kernel and it will be named 'thoriumos_image_v4.bin'. If you have no idea what I'm talking about here, then that means you don't need it, and can stick with the (slightly more secure) v3 image.