Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released

philm · 4 January 2026 18:07

Manjaro 26.0

Since we released Zetar in April 2025 we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Anh-Linh.

The GNOME edition has received several updates to Gnome 49 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when Gnome 49 originally was released in September 2025. You can find find release dates of each upcoming point-release here: Release Calendar. Weekly updates around GNOME can be found here.

Highlights of 49 release series are:

Calendar sees a number of improvements in GNOME 49. The most visible change is the reorganized interface, which is now more flexible, and allows the window to adapt to different window sizes. It also makes it possible to manually hide the sidebar, which is ideal for smaller screens or tiled windows.

Version 49 of the Software app focuses heavily on performance improvements. One major bottleneck has been how the app store parses large amounts of data from Flatpak repositories like Flathub. This release introduces optimizations that greatly reduce memory usage and speed up the parsing process. The result is a snappier, more responsive experience when browsing and searching for apps, especially on systems with limited resources.

GNOME 49 introduces a vibrant new wallpaper catalog that’s specifically engineered for high‑dynamic‑range (HDR) displays and the Display P3 color space. These HDR beautiful wallpapers are possible due to enhanced color-management in GNOME’s window manager (Mutter), which allows it to render wallpapers with their full 16‑bit‑per‑channel RGB depth, giving an unprecedented range of colors and contrast. Image loading backend (Glycin) has also been improved with regard to performance of the color-managed pipelines.

GNOME’s built-in remote desktop capabilities have been extended for version 49, providing more capabilities for those connecting to their GNOME desktops from elsewhere.

The Plasma edition comes with the latest Plasma 6.5 series, Frameworks 6.21 and KDE Gear 25.12. It brings exciting new improvements to your desktop.

Plasma 6.5 includes a number of highly-requested features:

First up: rounded bottom window corners! Breeze-themed windows will now have the same level of roundness in all four corners. If you don’t like this, you can un-round them, too. Another one is automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on the time of day. You can configure which global themes it switches between, and also which themes are shown on the manual toggles on System Settings’ Quick Settings page. As a part of this feature, you can also configure whether you want the wallpaper to switch between its light and dark versions based on the color scheme, the time of day, or be always light or dark.

The Flatpak Permissions page got transformed into a general Application Permissions page, where you can configure apps’ ability to do things like take screenshots and accept remote control requests.

Plasma’s built in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server now lets you share the clipboard. You’re also no longer required to manually create separate remote desktop accounts; now the system’s existing user accounts work as expected, and you can just supply their credentials to the RDP client app.

The utility that reads the level of ink or toner from your printer now informs you when it’s running low or empty.

And finally, you can now hibernate your system from the login screen.

With our XFCE edition, we have now Xfce 4.20. Here some highlights: A new file highlighting feature (accessed from the file properties dialog) in Thunar file manager lets you set a custom colour background and a custom foreground text colour – an effective way to call attention to specific file(s) in a directory laden with similar-looking mime types. On the subject of finding files, Thunar includes recursive search.

The panel picks up a pair of new preferences. First, panel length is now configured in pixels rather than percentages, as before. Second, there’s a new “keep panel above windows” option. This allows maximised app windows to fill the area behind the panel rather than maximise its bottom or top edge to sit flush against it.

Control Centre groups all of the desktop’s various modules for managing the system into one easy-to-use window. New options are present in many of these. For example you can disable header bars in dialogs from the Appearance module; show or hide a ‘delete’ option in file context menus from Desktop; and pick a default multi-monitor behaviour before you attach an additional screen – dead handy, that.

Kernel 6.18 is used for this release, such as the latest drivers available to date. With 6.12 LTS and 6.6 LTS we offer additional support for older hardware as needed.

We hope you enjoy this release and let us know what you think of Anh-Linh.

Anh-Linh 26.0.1 (2026-01-14)

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Full

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0.1/manjaro-gnome-26.0.1-260114-linux618.iso
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https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0.1/manjaro-gnome-26.0.1-260114-linux618.iso.sha1
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Minimal

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Minimal (linux66)

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Minimal (linux612)

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Minimal

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Minimal (linux66)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0.1/manjaro-kde-26.0.1-minimal-260114-linux66.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0.1/manjaro-kde-26.0.1-minimal-260114-linux66.iso.sig
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Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0.1/manjaro-kde-26.0.1-minimal-260114-linux612.iso
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Anh-Linh 26.0 (2026-01-04)

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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-260104-linux618.iso
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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha256
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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux66)

https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sig
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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/26.0/manjaro-xfce-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.pkgs

Download GNOME

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux66)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.0/manjaro-gnome-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.pkgs

Download KDE

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-260104-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux66)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.sha256
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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux66.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.sha1
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https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.0/manjaro-kde-26.0-minimal-260104-linux612.iso.pkgs

scotty65 · 4 January 2026 22:09

Metam0rph0sis · 5 January 2026 08:45

Tried to install the KDE Plasma edition on a virtual machine, found that the panel has a shortcut leading nowhere. It also seems strange that by default is used pamac-gtk3 I thought it stopped being supported. Everything else seems fine.

philm · 5 January 2026 09:06

Odd, I just tested the KDE full ISO and pamac is shown as usual. Might be only minimal edition affected …

Metam0rph0sis · 5 January 2026 09:50

i use full edition

Yochanan · 5 January 2026 20:04

A post was merged into an existing topic: [Stable Update] 2026-01-04 - Manjaro 26.0, Mesa, Firefox, LibreOffice, COSMIC

henk717 · 5 January 2026 18:39

This release doesn’t work at all on my dual 3090 system.
Doesn’t matter if i pick open source drivers or closed source drivers (If those even manage to install) it won’t go past plymouth and eventually just blinks the startup log.

I suspect this is compatibility problems with wayland in the open source drivers combined with the propriatary drivers failing to install, but thats speculation. On my AMD laptop and inside Virtualbox I do get to the desktop so its not the iso itself being at fault its something in the nvidia support.

You also broke my existing install the same way in december, but I figured it was because I had such an old install iso and was waiting for a release. Didn’t expect this to get past iso testing.

Daumeier · 7 January 2026 12:09

Just for Info and the great work you all done.

My InternetPC for Testing and for Guests.
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.3-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 2 × AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Memory: 6 GiB of RAM (5.8 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVC8 560 ti might be changed later to RTX 2060
In Testing Branche

My very old Lenovo Notebook with Cracked Display
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.3-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × AMD A8-3500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Memory: 4 GiB of RAM (3.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD SUMO
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 1299DJG
System Version: Ideapad Z575
In Testing Branche

My Main PC
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.3-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: Z590 UD AC
In Stable Branche

My Main Notebook
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.3-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Manufacturer: MEDION
Product Name: P15609
System Version: N/A
In Stable Branche

And even in my Virtualboxes also switched into Testing Branche.
And the panel shortcut#s are all okay with mine.

nikgnomic · 22 January 2026 08:04

3 posts were split to a new topic: Password prompt hidden by splash screen

wongs · 24 January 2026 08:59

Just replaced my 11 year old PC, and thus also my 2015 (XFCE) and 2016 (Budgie) installs of Manjaro on it. Installed this release of Manjaro XFCE on my new machine. Interesting to see a more tricked-out terminal shell this time round. And I notice Calamares installer has fancy animated graphics and more options now.

Otherwise, I think the latest Manjaro XFCE release is still very familiar and comfortable. No issues with it so far. I added Budgie-desktop to the install, and also the 6.12 LTS kernel as a fallback.