[strob3]

Plugin

• Id: strob3/dnf-updater
• New plugin
• Update to an existing plugin (version bumped in plugin.toml)

What it does

Updates dnf-updater from v1.1.0 to v1.2.0.

DNF Updater manages and monitors pending DNF5 and Flatpak updates from the Noctalia bar with interactive package selection, real-time search filtering, reboot detection, download size & disk impact estimation, and terminal or background execution.

v1.2.0:

• Disk Space Impact: Tooltip displays net disk space added or freed by updates alongside download size.
• Last Updated Time in Tooltip: Moved last update timestamp from panel to tooltip.
• Refresh Metadata Setting: Added optional refresh_on_update setting to force-refresh DNF cache on upgrade (#7).
• Obsoleting Packages Support: Properly detects packages that replace older versions (e.g. kernel-headers).
• Multi-arch Support: Fixed size calculation and exclusion selection when 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a package are installed.
• Faster Checks: Package size querying now uses --cacheonly to avoid redundant network metadata refreshes.
• Stale Exclusion Cleanup: Excluded packages automatically reset when pending updates change.
• Panel Header Cleanup: Removed redundant timestamps to simplify panel.
• State Persistence Fix: Preserves last update time across desktop reboots without forcing checks (#6).

Credits

Thanks to @fabienjuif for PR #6 and @katabame for PR #7.

External dependencies

• dnf5: Package management on Fedora (checking upgrades, querying transaction history, and checking reboot requirement).
• flatpak: Flatpak application and runtime management.
• pkexec: Polkit authentication for non-interactive privileged package installation helper.

Testing

• Tested on Niri
• Tested on Hyprland
• Tested on Sway
• Tested on another compositor:
• Noctalia version tested against: v5.4.1
• Plugin API level: 43

Screenshots / Videos

Checklist

• The directory name matches the part of id after the / in plugin.toml exactly.
• It ships plugin.toml, README.md, thumbnail.webp, and translations/en.json.
• README.md follows the README template, documents every entry id and dependency, and includes exact panel IPC commands and launcher prefixes where applicable.
• thumbnail.webp is present and relevant; for a new plugin I created it with the thumbnail generator, and for an update I regenerated it with the generator if the visual identity or user-facing appearance changed.
• version follows semver and is bumped in this PR; plugin_api is the oldest API level this plugin requires.
• Every non-English translation in this PR uses a locale supported by Noctalia core, and I can read, write, and understand that language well enough to review and maintain it (no unreviewed machine/LLM translations).
• I did not edit catalog.toml; CI generates it.
• This PR touches exactly one plugin directory.

Code review attestation

• The code is readable and not obfuscated, minified, or generated.
• Code identifiers and code comments are in English.
• It does not download and execute remote code.
• Every network call, filesystem write, and spawned process is something the description above accounts for.
• I have the right to publish this code under the license declared in plugin.toml.

[github-actions]

The description now contains the required template structure.