Manjaro 21.0.3 Ornara released!

philm · 28 April 2021 17:33

We are happy to publish our latest stable release 21.0.3 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
updated kernels
fixes to Pamac

Download XFCE

Download GNOME

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-210428-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal (linux54)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/21.0.3/manjaro-gnome-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54-pkgs.txt

Download KDE

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-210428-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux510-pkgs.txt

Minimal (linux54)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.0.3/manjaro-kde-21.0.3-minimal-210428-linux54-pkgs.txt

kyberorg · 28 April 2021 18:25

Thanks a lot.
Updated KDE edition + kernel update 5.12.

No problems so far.

toast · 28 April 2021 18:57

KDE update went fine for me too

mirage · 28 April 2021 19:44

everything went smoothly. thanks manjaro team!!

highflyer74 · 28 April 2021 19:58

This is not the update announcement (which is not published at this time) but only the announcement for the new ISOs. Just to let you know…

xAndre · 29 April 2021 00:58

KDE update went fine for me.

BenderClark · 29 April 2021 01:09

Awesome ! Works great with all new Manjaro Deep;in too. Linux Rules !

Computer_Email23 · 30 April 2021 12:34

Minimal isos need more love.

Creto · 30 April 2021 12:43

Hello everyone,

Due to very weak hardware, I’m not using the environment that I like most, which is KDE, but as for version 21.0.3 Ornara in the manjaro community version LXQt, everything is impressive.

What made me create an ISO with my preferences and the version by Creto was also very good

hostnamectl                                                      ✔ 
   Static hostname: creto
         Icon name: computer-laptop
           Chassis: laptop
        Machine ID: e3e8a830046244bfa32df0bbd8ae49f2
           Boot ID: abb6b42a38d04f2880738badb29c2782
  Operating System: Manjaro Linux
            Kernel: Linux 5.10.32-1-MANJARO
      Architecture: x86-64

T+ = So long

philm · 30 April 2021 12:44

Did you tried KDE? We use Plasma for the PinebookPro, which is not so powerful. KDE is in general optimized for low spec hardware these day. Sometimes runs even better than XFCE.

philm · 30 April 2021 12:45

Be more specific in what you expect.

Creto · 30 April 2021 12:48

Wow to be attended by the manjaro wizard @philm!

Wow to be attended by the manjaro wizard

In addition to my hardware being a real horror, it has little ram memory only 4 and the AMD C-60 processor, this processor believe it is a cart pulled by oxen

T+ = So long

Creto · 30 April 2021 12:50

I think the minimum ISOs are very well prepared so that the user can prepare the installation to their liking

T+ = So long

Computer_Email23 · 30 April 2021 12:50

Apparmor is not there…boot process is not silent (file system check)…no issues though…but imo minimal isos should be completely similar to full isos…but with very little extra apps.

And also more people should use minimal isos if they want their own apps

Computer_Email23 · 30 April 2021 12:51

Yes they work perfectly

Creto · 30 April 2021 12:53

But in this you are really right KDE behaves much better than XFCE, I don’t know why but it is the reality

Creto · 30 April 2021 16:15

Look at my test
After booting with KDE on that PC

Click on the image to enlarge

T+ = So long

Yochanan · 30 April 2021 17:38

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

BlueWizard · 1 May 2021 07:56

The Manjaro Website, download section, is still pointing to v.21.0.2

bittin · 6 May 2021 13:59

And today 21.0.4 was released