normally it is the calm part of the year. However it seems in December we get a lot of nice updates, we from Manjaro won't hold back from you. Nvidia managed now to update all their drivers to support xorg19-stack. Expect all other drivers around xorg also to be updated soon. Mozilla released a new point-release for their firefox browser and we updated some of our kernels.
All upstream updates are current till Fri Dec 16 19:25:24 CET 2016. Detailed package changes can be viewed here
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Report back your findings as usual ...
Kind regards,
Philip Müller and the Manjaro Development Team
Update instruction
FOR SYSTEMD USERS HAVING STILL v231-1 INSTALLED, IT IS RECOMMENDED TO USE PACMAN, AS X-SESSION MIGHT GET LOST DUE THIS UPDATE. THEREFORE WE SUGGEST TO FOLLOW OUR UPDATE RECOMMENDATION . YOU CAN TRY IF FOLLOWING CMD MIGHT CRASH YOUR SYSTEM: sudo systemctl --system daemon-reexec
Check if your mirror has synced , then do the following steps to have a smooth update:
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sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman -SuTroubleshoots
Information for Catalyst users
If you are using an AMD card with Catalyst it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to use pacman for this update!!! The new style how Catalyst works now, would be this:
Catalyst-Utils needs now three new packages: catalyst-video, catalyst-input and catalyst-server.
Catalyst-Video provides some needed drivers like Intel and Vesa, since we have some hybrid systems too
Catalyst-Input provides the needed input drivers
Catalyst-Server provides the compatible Xorg-Server
Without these packages it would be not possible to still provide Catalyst at all. So it is logical to remove conflicting packages on these AMD systems. It can be tested with a new dev-build. If there are still issues regarding Catalyst, open an issue or a new thread, so we can discuss it.
Disable random mac address for your WLAN
Use nmcli to set 802-11-wireless.mac-address-randomization to never on a per connection basis or set
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[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
Issues with updating MATE
Some users have mate-menu installed from AUR. Please remove this package if you use the GTK2 version of MATE before trying to update. If you have a different issue with updating, please post.
LibreOffice and GTK3
LibreOffice might be broken on gtk-based Desktop Environments. Workaround would be to force a look to Libreoffice by editing /etc/profile.d/libreoffice*sh. We recommend to uncomment SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk. Our KDE edition isn't affected by this issue.
GTK3
With this we updated Gnome and GTK to 3.20. This will break most of the themes, which will be fixed if and when their developers decide to update them. Some GTK 3.20-compliant themes are ready now - see further down this post.
The new default Manjaro GTK theme, which is GTK 3.20 compatible, is Vertex-Maia
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sudo pacman -Sy vertex-maia-themes vertex-maia-icon-theme xcursor-maia
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sudo pacman -Sy maia-icon-theme gtk-theme-maia plasma5-themes-maia xcursor-maia
QT apps style with GTK - only needed for non-KDE desktop environments!
With QT 5.7 you need to install qt5-styleplugins and qt5ct and configure your system to have an unified look again.
ufw
If you have issues with ufw not working anymore, you have to copy your custom rules to a different folder. Do it like this:
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sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user.rules
sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user6.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user6.rulessteam
We support now several different steam-clients:
steam-manjaro: is our definition how steam should work on Manjaro.
steam-native: is our definition how steam should be used with our native libraries
steam: is the upstream client by Archlinux
steam-native-runtime: is the addon by upstream Archlinux to use native libraries
The clients by Manjaro are better tested and prefered for Manjaro Linux. However the upstream versions might also work for you.
Reference: Archlinux wiki
Current supported kernels
linux310 3.10.104
linux312 3.12.68
linux316 3.16.39
linux318 3.18.45
linux41 4.1.36
linux44 4.4.39
linux48 4.8.15
linux49 4.9.0
linux-RT-LTS 4.4.38_rt49
linux-RT 4.8.14_rt9
Packagse change
stable community i686: 306 new and 277 removed package(s)
stable community x86_64: 339 new and 310 removed package(s)
stable core i686: 14 new and 14 removed package(s)
stable core x86_64: 14 new and 14 removed package(s)
stable extra i686: 189 new and 184 removed package(s)
stable extra x86_64: 189 new and 184 removed package(s)
stable multilib x86_64: 8 new and 9 removed package(s)
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