zathura 2026

[dkwo]

• I tested the changes in this PR: YES
• I built this PR locally for my native architecture, (aarch64-glibc)

cc @lemmi

[dogknowsnx]

Regarding girara: Upstream moved Gtk+-specific parts to zathura

Regarding musl: #57776 (comment)

[fanyx]

can be rebased on master, meson fix is merged.

[dkwo]

@dogknowsnx I believe girara soname was already taken care, and disabled seccomp on musl for now (issue upstream), since we already use landlock that should be fine. What do you think?
@fanyx Thanks, rebased.

[dogknowsnx]

girara builds fine w/o gtk+3-devel last time I tried, should probably be moved to zathura's makedepends?

EDIT (post-thumbs-up):

disabled seccomp on musl for now

Some thoughts: Not entirely sure, but personally I'd still prefer (temporarily) disabling tests (waiting for fix by upstream) over switching off a built-in security measure, given that the zathura-sandbox binary still runs fine on a native musl system (can't test myself) despite the one failing weston-based test - again, we currently don't even run tests for weston itself.

[dkwo]

@dogknowsnx Sure, I can do that. Note that the musl fix has been merged upstream, so it will be in the next release, and also that the landlock snadbox (imho better) is always enabled.

[dogknowsnx]

There don't seem to be any advantages of updating right now, imho. Personally I'm happy to keep using zathura-0.5.13_1 as long as the issues mentioned above aren't sorted out upstream.

[dkwo]

All issues are fixed for me with v2026.03.27

[lemmi]

Alright. Thanks for keeping up. I'll try and have a look this week.

[Andrew-Elia]

I would love to see zathura updated soon to help with the issues of PDFs having different page sizes. pulls: pwmt/zathura#851 and pwmt/zathura#849 (some issues fixed: pwmt/zathura#724, and pwmt/zathura#447 Felipe-9's comment, the latter is the issue I am currently having.)

I really appreciate your work, Thanks a lot!

[dkwo]

This happens on ci only, after update to gtk4:

6/12 xvfb_session     ERROR             0.60s   (exit status 134 or signal 6 SIGABRT)
>>> MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 MALLOC_PERTURB_=130 GTK_A11Y=none UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1 G_TEST_SRCDIR=/builddir/zathura-2026.07.02/tests G_TEST_BUILDDIR=/builddir/zathura-2026.07.02/build/tests ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1 EGL_LOG_LEVEL=fatal LIBGL_DEBUG=quiet MESA_LOG=null NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 /usr/bin/xvfb-run -s '-screen 0 1400x900x24 -ac +extension GLX +render -noreset' -a tests/test_session

[dkwo]

@sebastinas Thanks for taking a look! Is there a way in meson to skip a single test, which should not be run in ci?

[sebastinas]

If it's the tests running with xvfb that should be skipped, don't have xvfb installed. The tests requiring xvfb are skipped in this case.

[dkwo]

@lemmi This could be good to go.

[lemmi]

@dkwo sure, can you just comment on the static linking thing of zathura-pdf-mupdf (it's not a real blocker, just want to know the rational for the change)

[dkwo]

if I do not link mupdf statically, I get a build failure on aarch64:

[12/12] Linking target libpdf-mupdf.so
FAILED: [code=1] libpdf-mupdf.so 
cc  -o libpdf-mupdf.so libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_document.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_image.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_attachment.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_index.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_links.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_page.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_plugin.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_render.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_search.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_select.c.o libpdf-mupdf.so.p/zathura-pdf-mupdf_utils.c.o -flto -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -shared -fPIC -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed -fstack-clash-protection -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -march=armv8-a -O2 -pipe -mbranch-protection=standard -ffile-prefix-map=/builddir/zathura-pdf-mupdf-2026.07.18/build=. -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64 -Wl,--start-group /usr/lib64/libgirara.so /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libcairo.so /usr/lib/libmupdf.a -Wl,--end-group
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libmupdf.a(load-jpx.o): in function `jpx_read_image':
(.text.jpx_read_image+0x8c): undefined reference to `fz_opj_set_default_decoder_parameters'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xa4): undefined reference to `fz_opj_create_decompress'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xbc): undefined reference to `fz_opj_set_info_handler'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xd0): undefined reference to `fz_opj_set_warning_handler'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xe4): undefined reference to `fz_opj_set_error_handler'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xf0): undefined reference to `fz_opj_setup_decoder'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xfc): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_default_create'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x114): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_set_read_function'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x124): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_set_skip_function'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x134): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_set_seek_function'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x144): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_set_user_data'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x150): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_set_user_data_length'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x160): undefined reference to `fz_opj_read_header'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x174): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x17c): undefined reference to `fz_opj_destroy_codec'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x280): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x2d8): undefined reference to `fz_opj_decode'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x2e4): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x2ec): undefined reference to `fz_opj_destroy_codec'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x2f4): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0x420): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xc34): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xcb8): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xdc8): undefined reference to `fz_opj_image_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xe24): undefined reference to `fz_opj_stream_destroy'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xe2c): undefined reference to `fz_opj_destroy_codec'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text.jpx_read_image+0xe48): undefined reference to `fz_opj_destroy_codec'
/usr/bin/ld: libpdf-mupdf.so: hidden symbol `fz_opj_set_info_handler' isn't defined
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[lemmi]

Thanks for taking care of this :)

[tornaria]

After this upgrade the print dialog doesn't show my (cups) printer anymore, only the "Print to pdf" choice shows up. Is this a known issue?

[lemmi]

Works for me. Did you check using other programs?

[tornaria]

Yes, the printer shows up in evince, but not in zathura. Downgrading to zathura-0.5.8_1 makes the printer show up again.

[dkwo]

@tornaria Any warnings or errors printed? At pwmt/zathura#936 possibly similar issues are mentioned.

[tornaria]

@tornaria Any warnings or errors printed? At pwmt/zathura#936 possibly similar issues are mentioned.

Installing xdg-desktop-portal-gtk fixes the issue. I wonder if we should either (a) make it a dep of zathura (or gtk4) or (b) add an install message

The other programs I was trying are using gtk3 (evince, firefox).

[Andrew-Elia]

From my point of view adding an install message seems like the better option.

Not that much users use/need printers so making it a dependency for everyone may pull unneeded packages especially for those using tiling window managers and/or don't have the dependencies for xdg-desktop-portal-gtk already installed.