Lack of updates past 3 months?

[heyjo]

@lagagnon

I have noticed that I am getting very few updates over the past 3 months. Every quarter there has normally been a major update with hundreds of packages updated. That has not been the case for quite a while now.

@lagagnon
I noticed that too and I also have been using Manjaro for a couple of years (and there is no reason to open an acoount in this forum upon first install, right?). Strategy of updating Manjaro stable branch has changed sometime in February this year.
I’m wondering if that is only temporary or is that a directional change. I have been reading forum articles almost every day in the past 18 month but I did recently not run across anything with a clear statement (maybe at a higher forum trust level?).
In all fairness kernels and security related packages have seen regular updates on stable as well as Manjaro promoted non-foss packages such as Softmaker-office.
I also think that holding back plasma 6 from stable is wise.
But facing current issues on stable such as non-available flatpak security update or the validity check with some AUR packages (such as AUR - Librewolf-bin) will force me to move on.

[soundofthunder]

@heyjo

But facing current issues on stable such as non-available flatpak security update or the validity check with some AUR packages (such as AUR - Librewolf-bin) will force me to move on.

The AUR is unsupported on Manjaro. I’m sure you must have seen that mentioned on more than one occasion. However, if you must move on, it’s your choice - you are not being forced. Cheers.

[anon51566685]

@heyjo

or the validity check with some AUR packages (such as AUR - Librewolf-bin)

This has nothing to do with Manjaro and I told you this already.

@heyjo

Strategy of updating Manjaro stable branch has changed sometime in February this year.
I’m wondering if that is only temporary or is that a directional change.

There has been no change. But every year when some update lags a bit (yes, it’s every year) there are few people like you spewing out this crap.

[Ganimede]

@heyjo

Strategy of updating Manjaro stable branch has changed sometime in February this year.

While that’s not enough time to detect a change of general strategy, this might be connected to the fact that KDE Plasma 6 released end of feburary. And Gnome 40 short after before this huge change for KDE could reach stable.
So with the two mayor DE’s getting a mayor overhaul that might be what keeps the team busy for some time.
Both of these updates not only bring a lot of testing and waiting for upstream fixes. But also require to adapt some of Manjaros own theming for those environments.

[longusnickus]

@Mirdarthos

Although I doubt this very much, this is EXACTLY the point, you don’t get to make 1 single demand.

i was NOT demanding. i was asking WHY!

@beermad

In my experience of using Linux for the best part of 30 years, there are very few distros with more up-to-date applications than is Manjaro.

i think i can easily name you 10 with research. MXLinux, kdeneon, elementaryOS, EndeavourOS, nobara are normally very fast

@soundofthunder

flatpak version of OBS.

actually i do since 30.1 beta. but i do not like this bloated packagemanager. i also updated yt-dlp by myself, but i thought that this is 1 big advantage of linux. update the whole system with one click, but it feels like windows again.

@anon51566685

Yeah and someone else will ask for 3 different programs, and then another one will want to have those other 5 apps, and so on.

sorry, but imho if they put it in their packagemanager, they have to take care about them. and OBS was released 2 months ago. there also was a BETA, which they can test in unstable and have even more time
and as is said above: i use it for months without any troubles, so i still do not get it why it takes so long and no one gave me an answer.

[cscs]

You’ve been told already that you have options in the way of branches.

Stamping your feet is not going to make the snap to Stable Branch come any quicker.

If you cannot wait … use a different branch.

PS.

Partial upgrades are unsupported and among the worst ideas in this thread.

Please familiarize yourself with the system. The wiki is a great place to start.

PPS.

The query is answered.
I’m closing this as it is already resolved … and so that you dont continue to get dog piled.