[Testing Update] 2023-12-12 – Kernels, Linux-Firmware, Blender – Testing Updates
Hello community,
Another testing branch update with some usual package updates for you.
Recent News:
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Previous News
Finding information easier about Manjaro
Finding information easier about Manjaro always has been a topic that needed to be solved. With our new search we have put all Manjaro data accessible in one place and divided by sections so it makes it easier to digest: New Manjaro search engine is available | Blog
Notable Package Updates:
- Some Kernels got updated
- a wifi regression got fixed
- we have now more or less a full feature complete support of the ASUS ROG ALLY
- linux-firmware got updated to December release
- packaging of blender got fixed to add package assets
- Usual KDE-git, Haskell and Python updates
Additional Info
Info about AUR packages
AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.
For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.
Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.
Our current supported kernels
- linux419 4.19.301
- linux54 5.4.263
- linux510 5.10.203
- linux515 5.15.142
- linux61 6.1.67
- linux65 6.5.13 [EOL]
- linux66 6.6.6
- linux67 6.7-rc5
- linux61-rt 6.1.66_rt19
- linux65-rt 6.5.2_rt8
- linux66-rt 6.6.0_rt15
Package Changes (Tue Dec 12 03:48:38 CET 2023)
- testing core x86_64: 21 new and 21 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 174 new and 173 removed package(s)
- testing kde-unstable x86_64: 230 new and 229 removed package(s)
- testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
A list of all changes can be found here.
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- Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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2023-12-12
2023-11-10
Nvidia 545 drivers might have issues
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
If you are having no issues with the 545 series, there is nothing to do. If you are, you can downgrade to the 535 series with pamac update --enable-downgrade or sudo pacman -Syuu.
So far we know about these issues the Nvidia 545 driver series has:
If you experience similar or new issues please run sudo usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh and post either in an already given post or create a new one, including your generated nvidia-bug-report.log.gz for Nvidia to fix the issue: Linux – NVIDIA Developer Forums
Changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-11-02 – Frederik Schwan
We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21.
To sum it up instead of having JDK and JRE packages coexist in the same system we will be making them conflict. The JDK variant package includes the runtime environment to execute Java applications so if one needs compilation and runtime of Java they need only the JDK package in the future. If, on the other hand, they need just runtime of Java then JRE (or jre-headless) will work.
This will (potentially) require a manual user action during upgrade:
- If you have both JDK and JRE installed you can manually install the JDK with
pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk && pacman -Suand this removes the JRE related packages.- If you have both JRE and JRE-headless you will need to choose one of them and install it manually since they would conflict each other now.
- If you only have one of the JDK/JRE/JRE-headless pacman should resolve dependencies normally and no action is needed.
At the moment this is only valid for the upcoming JDK 21 release.
– Arch Linux – News: Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-10-21
Mechanical HDDs may not spin-down properly on shutdown
There might be a regression introduced with 6.6.0-rc4 which got also backported to 6.1.59 and 6.5.8 Kernels. There is a discussion with the author of the offending patch ongoing here.
ZFS package changes
ZFS extramodules; i.e., linuxXX-zfs, have been dropped from the repos. There have been recent difficulties building them and no one on the Manjaro Team uses ZFS.
Please install zfs-dkms instead. You will to need to manually remove the old 2.1.13 extramodule package(s) first to install the new 2.2.0 packages; i.e., with linux61:
sudo pacman -R linux61-zfs && sudo pacman -Syu zfs-dkms
Restarting gnome-shell using Alt+F2 and entering R, causes a crash
FS#79884 : [gnome-shell] Restarting gnome-shell using Alt+F2 and entering R, causes a crash
GNOME Extensions that target older GNOME versions will not work in GNOME 45
It is recommended to remove all third-party extensions before updating, then install the compatible versions after updating and rebooting. All Most extensions in the Manjaro repos are already updated.
2023-10-05
glibc-locales update requires manual intervention
If you had the old glibc-locales package from the extra repo installed, the update to the new core package will need manual intervention:
sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/*/*
2023-09-27
Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
2023-09-22 – David Runge
With shadow >=
4.14.0, Arch Linux’s default password hashing algorithm changed from SHA512 to yescrypt [1].Furthermore, the
umask[2] settings are now configured in/etc/login.defsinstead of/etc/profile.This should not require any manual intervention.
Reasons for Yescrypt
The password-based key derivation function (KDF) and password hashing scheme yescrypt has been chosen due to its adoption (readily available in libxcrypt, which is used by pam [3]) and its stronger resilience towards password cracking attempts over SHA512.
Although the winner of the Password Hashing Competition [4] has been argon2, this even more resilient algorithm is not yet available in libxcrypt [5][6].
Configuring yescrypt
The
YESCRYPT_COST_FACTORsetting in/etc/login.defsis currently without effect, until pam implements reading its value [7]. If aYESCRYPT_COST_FACTORhigher (or lower) than the default (5) is needed, it can be set using theroundsoption of thepam_unix[8] module (i.e. in/etc/pam.d/system-auth).General list of changes
- yescrypt is used as default password hashing algorithm, instead of SHA512
- pam honors the chosen
ENCRYPT_METHODin/etc/login.defsand does not override the chosen method anymore- changes in the filesystem (>=
2023.09.18) and pambase (>=20230918) packages ensure, thatumaskis set centrally in/etc/login.defsinstead of/etc/profile[1] yescrypt – scalable KDF and password hashing scheme
[2] umask(1p) — Arch manual pages
[3] PAM – ArchWiki
[4] https://www.password-hashing.net/
[5] https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/pull/113
[6] Add support for Argon2 by maandree · Pull Request #150 · besser82/libxcrypt · GitHub
– Arch Linux – News: Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
Previous testing threads:
Updated RT-Kernels to fix Wifi-Regression:
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linux61-rt 6.1.66_rt19-1 6.1.66_rt19-2
linux61-rt-headers 6.1.66_rt19-1 6.1.66_rt19-2
linux66-rt 6.6_rt15-1 6.6.5_rt16-1
linux66-rt-headers 6.6_rt15-1 6.6.5_rt16-1
:: Different overlay package(s) in repository extra x86_64
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PACKAGE testing unstable
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linux61-rt-acpi_call 1.2.2-14 1.2.2-15
linux61-rt-bbswitch 0.8-14 0.8-15
linux61-rt-broadcom-wl 6.30.223.271-14 6.30.223.271-15
linux61-rt-nvidia-390xx 390.157-14 390.157-15
linux61-rt-nvidia-470xx 470.223.02-5 470.223.02-6
linux61-rt-nvidia 545.29.06-4 545.29.06-5
linux61-rt-r8168 8.052.01-5 8.052.01-6
linux61-rt-rtl8723bu 20220818-14 20220818-15
linux61-rt-tp_smapi 0.44-8 0.44-9
linux61-rt-vhba-module 20211218-14 20211218-15
linux61-rt-virtualbox-host-modules 7.0.12-5 7.0.12-6
linux66-rt-acpi_call 1.2.2-4 1.2.2-5
linux66-rt-bbswitch 0.8-4 0.8-5
linux66-rt-broadcom-wl 6.30.223.271-4 6.30.223.271-5
linux66-rt-nvidia-390xx 390.157-4 390.157-5
linux66-rt-nvidia 545.29.06-2 545.29.06-3
linux66-rt-r8168 8.052.01-4 8.052.01-5
linux66-rt-rtl8723bu 20220818-4 20220818-5
linux66-rt-tp_smapi 0.43-4 0.43-5
linux66-rt-vhba-module 20211218-4 20211218-5
linux66-rt-virtualbox-host-modules 7.0.12-4 7.0.12-5