[Unstable Update] November 2023 Edition – Unstable Updates
Welcome to the new monthly unstable branch thread.
What’s new this month?
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A new idea for Unstable Updates threads was suggested by @medmedin in the previous thread. From now on, we will create a new thread monthly.
For now, there will be no poll. As package updates in the unstable branch occur several times a day, the poll is meaningless.
Please suggest any ideas you may have and/or provide feedback.
Noticeable Package changes so far
We do a rough comparing to our testing branch and will update it either weekly or when we do a testing snap: Package Changes
- changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages
- see also troubleshoot section for more info
- Nvidia 545.29.02
- October Linux Firmware updates
- LibreOffice 7.5.8
- Pipewire 0.3.84
Additional Info
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Known issues and solutions
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November 2023
Incoming 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-openjdkand 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
2023-10-08
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
Incompatible GNOME extensions
- GTile: No news yet. (
gnome-shell-extension-gtile)
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
kpeoplevcard update requires manual intervention
A “newer” version of kpeoplevcard accidently existed, so to install the current version, either update with sudo pacman -Syu kpeoplevcard or sudo pacman -Syuu
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