Increasing the panel height solved the problem!
After the update, the volume +/-/mute sound was distorted in KDE.
I solved it by going to āConfigure Audio Devicesā - āNotification Soundsā: the notification volume was at 100% but after reducing it and setting it to 100% again, the distortion was gone.
So it seems like update raised the notification volume beyond 100%.
Everything went well after the update until I moved from the 6.11.x kernel, to the 6.12.x kernel. Manjaro then booted to a black screen. Reverting back to 6.11.x resolved the issue.
I just happened to notice in the comments that Philm says 6.12.x is not supported for the Nvidia proprietary driver that I use, and that this issue is now listed at the top for the 2024-11-30 update.
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2 posts were split to a new topic: Can I take mesa off of hold now and allow it to update too?
Is there a way to set a dependency between the nVidia driver and Linux kernel versions?
That way, until the nVidia driver is known to be compatible, users wouldnāt be able to install an incompatible kernel.
From what I can see in pamac, itās already the case, so why can users still install incompatible kernels?
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Same poblem here.
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
cache: L2: 10 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800
15: 800 16: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
v: 550.135
Device-3: Chicony HD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~144Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.7-arch1.1
renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 drivers: nvidia,intel surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.12.1-4-MANJARO status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
Tested on Kernel 6.1 LTS, 6.6 LTS and 6.12. Nvidia is working well.
A quick warning for anyone who uses RTL/SDR devices. The rtl-sdr package has been updated and youāll need to rebuild any AUR packages that rely on it (such as well.io and abracadabra). Similarly, any youāve built from source yourself will need to be rebuilt.
One nice thing from this update: VLC can now use Blueray menus.
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After the upgrade, there were some orphans that do not seem to be safe to remove:
To remove (5):
v86d 0.1.10-13
linux-nvidia-meta 6.11-1 extra
linux611-nvidia 550.135-3 (Orphan Of: linux-nvidia-meta) extra
libgusb 0.4.9-1 extra
linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta 6.11-1 extra
The kernel was upgraded from 6.10 to 6.11 on my system and I am relying on the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, thus removing linux611-nvidia seems like a bad idea unless Iām missing something.
No issues. But this updates fixed a very long standing issue I had with dual monitor setup that has async refresh rates (fixed + adaptive sync).
Previously my main adaptive sync monitor started displaying severe flickering/banding when itās vrr dropped to 60Hz range, for what ever reason. With this update to KDE 6.2.x this now works flawlessly!
Perhaps no need to purchase a 1440P ultra wide now 
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Had an issue with pamac which refused to update, indicating a conflict. The problem with pamac was that the output was unreadable: the names of the conflicting packages were mangled. I had to use pacman to see what the conflict was, fixed it and then could go through using pamac.
A post was split to a new topic: All sys and dev needs twice the time
Updated flawlessly for me. I just have one question: The Kernel 6.12 release notes mention a bunch of new schedulersā¦ such as the PREEMPT_RT process prioritization, a new scheduler called sched_ext, and apparently another scheduler labeled EEVDF. Are those enabled by default by the kernel and / or Manjaro, without requiring any boot time parameters or other hacks in the boot loader to turn them on?
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LightDM broke for me after this update, though LightDM itself hasnāt been updated at all.
Here is the log, itās a core dump: Journal from last boot - Pastebin.com
I installed SDDM in the mean time to be able to use my desktop again.
See also this thread for reference: After today's update my machine is stuck on loading lightdm, no TTY access possible either
Update: My issue was that for some reason libpixbufloader-svg.so got renamed to libpixbufloader_svg.so. This broke LightDM and also various GTK apps. No idea how this happenedā¦
Further reference: 2.58.90: -/_ switch in the name of the pixbuf loader? (#1075) Ā· Issues Ā· GNOME / librsvg Ā· GitLab
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Upgrade failed the file check: NPM appeared to have files that locked the process. I removed NPM and the update completed without issue. I also remove v86d, although that had NOT caused a problem.
Otherwise, smooth and fast, with no other errors or issues.
Thanks guys! Good work again!
Seems to have gone without a hitch, and the version of tailscale in this update (1.76.6) fixes this bug thatās been in stable for nearly two months 
v86d is safe to remove; in fact, itās no longer needed.
I havenāt used Nvidia for many years so regarding the other packages, Iāll defer to other opinions.
Weāre not alone, seems to be an issue with Plasma 6.2 and Intel graphics. [Plasma 6.2] Performance and speed severely degraded after upgrading - #30 by ezh - Help - KDE Discuss
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There some graphical issues in Wine 9.20 (artifacts when dragging objects) and JDK 23 (wrong tab colors). So I downgraded Wine to 9.16 and use a downloaded JRE/JDK 21 where needed.
Update went smoothly, but canāt really use pamac now.
This is the error Iām seeing:
pamac search albert ī² ā ī² 9s ļ
Failed to read AUR data from /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : Error opening file /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: No such file or directory
Try:
pamac update -a --force-refresh
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