[Testing Update] 2024-01-08 – Kernels, Mesa, Systemd, Plymouth, AMDVLK, Phosh, Phoc, Qt5 – Testing Updates
Hello community,
What is great to start 2024? With a new update to our testing branch. This time we think the blocker packages systemd, mesa and plymouth should work just fine. Let us know if you still see some regressions.
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
- this also include the final release of 6.7
- We updated Mesa to 23.3.2
- Systemd got renewed to 255.2
- read the news to see what this series provides on new features!
- Plymouth is updated to 24.004.60
- Phosh and Phoc got updated to 0.35.0
- AMDVLK is now at 2023.Q4.3
- Qt5 is at 5.15.12
- please report back if we forgot some rebuilds
- Updates to Gnome, Cinnamon and Deepin
- 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 4.19.303
- linux54 5.4.265
- linux510 5.10.206
- linux515 5.15.146
- linux61 6.1.71
- linux65 6.5.13 [EOL]
- linux66 6.6.10
- linux67 6.7.0
- linux61-rt 6.1.66_rt19
- linux65-rt 6.5.2_rt8
- linux66-rt 6.6.7_rt18
Package Changes (Mon Jan 8 06:08:58 CET 2024)
- testing core x86_64: 25 new and 24 removed package(s)
- testing extra x86_64: 1456 new and 1449 removed package(s)
- testing kde-unstable x86_64: 257 new and 253 removed package(s)
- testing multilib x86_64: 15 new and 15 removed package(s)
A list of all package changes can be found here
- No issue, everything went smoothly
- Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
- Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Known issues and solutions
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2024-01-08
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/*/*
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