I just checked and wanted to add this for completeness. I’ve installed Manjaro from the .iso file:
manjaro-gnome-22.0.3-230213-linux61.iso.
My mkinitcpio.conf file is a strange mix of double quotes and parantheses:
MODULES=""
…
BINARIES=()
…
FILES=""
…
HOOKS="base udev …"
The rest is all commented out including the “Compression” section below the HOOKS. I also checked again with sudo find / -name "mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew" but nothing is found.
After following this discussion I’m still not 100% sure if I’ll run into any problems with this update or if I have to do something about the outdated .conf file but as far as I understand the update should be running fine because of the existing ‘base’ hook.