[Stable Update] 2021-05-06 - Kernels, Mesa, VirtualBox, LxQt 0.17, Deepin, Gnome Apps 40.1

My system did not notify me about this upgrade.
I noticed malfunctions when I tried to download software using pamac.
Then Discover warned me about having to install a new kernel and language packages.
I concluded I had to refresh mirrors and upgrade via pacman (using the command line)
That’s fine, but I’m not a mind reader…I need the system to tell me when there is an upgrade pending.

Am I experiencing this bug, which a little research led me to: