Manjaro 21.0 (rc1) Ornara released!

We are happy to publish our release candiate of Manjaro Linux 21.0, 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.


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Awesome!

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Trying it now. IMHO the bad press ( at the time of this writing, an announcement that justifies a decision to remove old drivers) shouldn’t overshadow the good news of the new release. As a user of linux since the mid 90’s, I am grateful for the work that the Manjaro team is putting into linux. It reminds me of hanging out in the linux IRC channels 20 years ago, back when everything in computing was still super exciting. Keep up the good work, and don’t let the haters bring you down. Peace.

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Starke Medizin Bruder, Respekt!

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Maybe you want to remove the files from OSDN for now?

Was just about to write that the ISO’s are broken there when I saw the linked post :wink:

Updated to the RC today

Yeah I thought of that - but I don’t know if there is a hanging upload - so I can’t just remove the files - it might break something for another member.

But if the file size has not changed in a couple of hours - maybe we can do it.

EDIT - filesizes didn’t change for more than twenty minutes - @philm - I zapped them … so we don’t have broken downloads from OSDN.

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super hype!!!

Hi Running_Dead89,

I just upgraded to Ornara (everything went smooth) and after reading your question I checked in /etc/default/grub if the entry GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt" was there. On my Gnome edition system the entry is present and not unchecked but I did an update not a fresh install like you did.

Regards, Ulrich

It will only affect new installs from the ISO.

Actually not sure why that post was moved to it’s own thread.
I thought this one is for feedback on the Ornara rc1 ISO?

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I don’t know… I thought this, too… But thanks for clearing this :smiley:

What was the feedback?

I’m on unstable branch, I always update to betas, RCs and to anything what appear in unstable branch. BTW, Manjaro is rolling release distribution and its versions don’t infulence anything.

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It seems have serious bug which caused I can’t update my packages in “Add/Remove Packages”.

I am unable to include links , so please see my post in Support :joy:

Edition: Manjaro KDE

And Thank all of you for your effort to make such a wonderful System. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

We tried to upload to OSDM. As discussed in our telegram internal group. We have 30 kb/s upload, which will take 24hrs to finish, but GH will timeout after 6 hrs. So for now it is SourceForge. Don’t know when OSDN will fix uploads to their storage service via Rsync, as I don’t want to use their old Release function via WebUI.

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Hi Manjaro Team,
Manjaro 21 version is good. I told you about version 20, which was normal , but this time you did very well.

  • Good kernel support
  • Good theme implementation
    I think you should work on

butterfs and system76 power
ram usage tweaks.
bring more no# of packages in software center instead of AUR
thanks!

I’m still testing it.
plz bring more tested packages in software center.

What you looking for? snaps? You can install snaps from the store.
What package you are looking for?

I don’t like snaps.
manjaro app center is fine but not as good as ubuntu and pop software center.
By the way this try was better. I would like to say good work this time.

**** Plz apply system76-power, butterfs & jre for this version.
**** Work on ram usage & recovery of ram after closing apps ( ram leakage )
Thank you!!!

See https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ :wink:

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