Manjaro 21.0.2 Ornara released!

philm · 19 April 2021 10:14

Unbenannt

We are happy to publish our latest stable release 21.0.2 we named Ornara.

Our last release Nibia was from January and a lot of things changed between those releases. For once, we dropped Gnome Initial Setup routine from our ISOs. It was nice to try out, but the feedback overall was not so great. Since we also have optional OEM ISOs for our manufacturers, we see no need to further investigate into GIS.

Gnome edition got exciting new features: GNOME 3.38 replaces the previously split Frequent and All apps views with a single customizable and consistent view that allows you to reorder apps and organize them into custom folders. Simply click and drag to move apps around. Settings can now manage parental controls for Standard user accounts through the new Parental Controls option in the Users section. GNOME Shell can now drive multiple monitors with different refresh rates, making sure that you get the best possible experience out of your desktop. Under the covers, the screen recording infrastructure in GNOME Shell has been improved to take advantage of PipeWire and kernel APIs to reduce resource consumption and improve responsiveness.

Our KDE edition is all about upgrading the looks and usability of Plasma. Find, reach and run your apps faster and easier than ever with Plasma’s new app launcher. The new launcher features two panes to make it simple to locate your programs and comes with improved keyboard, mouse, and touch input, boosting accessibility across the board. Plasma System Monitor is a brand new app for monitoring system resources. KDE is pushing to have first class support for Wayland, and Plasma 5.21 makes massive progress towards reaching that goal. A new page to System Settings got added: the Plasma Firewall settings. This configuration module lets you set up and configure a firewall for your system. The Media Player widget’s layout has been improved and now includes the list of applications currently playing music in the header as a tab bar. Another upgrade is that the album cover now takes up the whole width of the widget.

With our XFCE edition, we have now Xfce 4.16. The window manager received lots of updates and improvements again in the area of compositing and GLX. Support for fractional scaling was added to the display dialog, along with highlighting the preferred mode of a display with an asterisk and adding aspect ratios next to resolutions. The settings manager has improved search and filter capabilities. Thunar file manager received a boatload of fixes and quite a few notable features, including pause for copy/move operations, support for queued file transfer, remembering view settings per directory and support for transparency in Gtk themes.

Kernel 5.10 LTS is used for this release, such as the latest drivers available to date. With 5.4 LTS-Kernel minimal-ISOs we offer additional support for older hardware.

Last, but not least, our installer Calamares also received many improvements. Among other things, Calamares has now a table of ‘best guess’ languages for each country and when GeoIP is enabled, it will automatically select that country’s language as default – the user can of course pick a different one. The ‘best guess’ is based on Unicode / ISO data, which is sometimes dubious. Calamares also ships now a table of ‘best guess’ keyboard mappings, allowing native language input. However, usernames and passwords should be in US-ASCII (this is a limitation of the login system – some parts of the system will support non-ASCII input, but it’s better safe than sorry).

We hope you enjoy this release and let us know what you think of Ornara.

Changes since 21.0

we fixed issues with Gnome 3.38 shell
Grub Theme got restored
we added latest KDE software

Our downloads are now provided thru cdn77.com

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https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso
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https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-210419-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal (linux54)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.2/manjaro-gnome-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54-pkgs.txt

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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso.sig
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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-210419-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-210419-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal (linux54)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.2/manjaro-kde-21.0.2-minimal-210419-linux54-pkgs.txt

bittin · 19 April 2021 11:04

Updated this morning and works great so far

Franz-123 · 19 April 2021 11:30

Output from htop:

    1[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||91.5%]   Tasks: 155, 724 thr; 1 running
    2[||                                                  1.3%]   Load average: 0.79 1.34 1.34 
    3[|                                                   1.3%]   Uptime: 02:04:45
    4[                                                    0.0%]
  Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||3.94G/7.62G]
  Swp[                                                0K/7.81G]

    PID USER      PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR▽S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
    593 root       20   0 1969M  382M  330M S  0.7  4.9  4:34.03 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten t
    693 root       20   0 1969M  382M  330M S  0.0  4.9  0:02.00 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten t

I looks like that all is running only one the first core of the CPU. The 3 other cores are not really busy.

I have:

CPU: Dual Core Intel Core i7-7500U (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 3500/400/3500 MHz Kernel: 5.11.14-1-MANJARO x86_64 Up: 1h 53m 
Mem: 3936.7/7801.4 MiB (50.5%) Storage: 931.51 GiB (33.5% used) Procs: 275 Shell: Bash 5.1.0 inxi: 3.3.04
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430 / Radeon 520 Mobile] driver: radeon v: kernel

Any idea where to fix this new issue?

Basepheus · 20 April 2021 06:00

Updated some 6 hours ago and it is working great. No issues to report.

grau · 20 April 2021 09:56

You need to change the sort order of htop to CPU usage. Then you’ll see what process is using the CPU. Then you/we can start analyzing from there. Currently your htop output is sorted by SHR usage, as indicated by the sorting marker.

Yochanan · 21 April 2021 00:44

A post was split to a new topic: Megasync failed to install

jaegar · 23 April 2021 17:04

My VM with libvirt and QEMU stopped connecting to the internet. I’m using community I3. Everything else is working so far.

bittin · 28 April 2021 13:22

21.0.3 released now

Yochanan · 29 April 2021 16:37

A post was merged into an existing topic: [Stable Update] 2021-04-28 - Kernels, Wine, Ruby, JDK, KDE-Dev, Mesa 21.0.3, KDE Apps 21.04, Python, Haskell, Mate 1.24.2, Virtualbox, Thunderbird