[Stable Update] 2026-02-01 - Kernels, COSMIC, Plasma, GNOME, Mesa

[GloooM]

@philm can you add this small patch to the 6.19 kernel.

[Kobold]

@Nachordez

I was reading the text as if that was something new, important for people upgrading specifically to this new upgrade. It’s a bit confusing, I think, perhaps the warning could be improved

I think so too, the text is outdated… probably a info for people who missed the last few stable release updates. Idk

[Teo]

A small addition to what Daniel wrote:
i would rather use something like cat /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1000 | less to scroll the log. You can also do this from another tty, since ttys cannot be scrolled back. It does not update automagically, unfortunately.
Note that some stuff does not get logged in that file and is only visible on the fly. Comments from package developers for example, and those are often important.

Otherwise, pretty much the same routine is in my personal cheatsheet. It even works on a tty.

My Manjaro cheatsheet in a menu form

Since we advise beginner users to keep a list of commands on file, and it even has such article in the wiki i decided to share with you my list of frequently used command. However, i decided i want it a bit more fancy and interactive, so i made it in form of a dialog menu. Here it is, my menu.sh ver. 15.11.2025 P.s. for the beginner users: save it as a file menu.sh in the ~/.local/bin hidden Folder (create if needed) then right click and in the permissions tab in properties select allow to e…

[beermad]

@Teo

/var/log/pacman.log | tail -1000 | less

Some un-necessary stuff there.
tail -1000 /var/log/pacman.log | less

[Teo]

Indeed. Each tail has a cat attached to it anyway, no need for a second cat.

[Aragorn]

@NZXT

Just noticed that the plasma-login-manager has one annoying thing. It hides the login and when you type with your keyboard it doesn’t pop back in. That makes you have to press Enter twice after your credentials are typed. It does accept the letters, but the view stays hidden

I have plasma-login-manager as well, but it does not behave on my system as per what you describe. As the matter of fact, it behaves just like sddm would.

Ergo, it must be something specific to your system.

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@Kobold

At the moment, Nvidia X-Server is a mess. And GPU Prices went already ~100€ higher just in the last 3 weeks in germany.

Not just in Germany. It’s that friggin’ A.I. mania.

@Kobold

I just wait 2-3 release updates (waiting for more hotfixes, there is a good reason why Manjaro delayed newest KDE releases in the past) and then i switch to plasma-login-manager.

It’s supposed to be the (recommended) default in Plasma 6.6. For now it’s still only a release candidate.

Besides, plasma-login-manager depends on systemd, which means that it’s not usable in FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, and for those people, sddm is still the recommended display manager.

It’s not going to go away any day soon.

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@Carpenter

My Wayland Session on my machine is laggy as f***. What can i do for getting a better performance?

Take out your Nvidia card and put in an AMD card, or an Intel Arc.

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@Nachordez

@discobot

Important Note: Users of Plasma and GNOME may lose their X11 session support. Checkout our guides below before restarting your systems!

Important Note: Users of Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the NVIDIA driver when they were using 580xx series earlier, because the 590xx doesn’t support the older hardware anymore. Only Turing series and newer are still supported.

Which guides? For there is none below…

@discobot

Plasma 6.5 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

On Plasma 6.5 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session after the system update completed, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session for every one using Plasma.

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@Teo

cat /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1000 | less

UUoC (Useless Use of cat).

tail -1000 /var/log/pacman.log | less

…Or…

paclog | tail -1000 | less

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[philm]

@GloooM

can you add this small patch to the 6.19 kernel.

scheduled for upcoming releases of 6.18 and 6.19 …

[dudesoup]

I can’t open Spectacle anymore (KDE), if I run pacman -Syyu nothing updates. This is the error from Spectacle:

spectacle: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libglslang.so.16: undefined symbol: spvValidatorOptionsSetAllowOffsetTextureOperand

Versions:

• glslang 1:1.4.335.0-1
• spectacle 1:6.5.5-1

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@Aragorn

paclog | tail -1000 | less

Interesting… I’d never come across paclog before. And after a quick look at the manpage:
paclog --after=2026-02-05 | more
(more because personally I prefer it to less)

[fonic]

@Kobold

Till then, X11 user’s like me can still stay at least for full 10 Month on X11 (if not longer, no one knows the exact timestamp when Wayland is ultimate forced on all KDE user’s in 2027), hopefully nvidia driver’s will have better Wayland support till then.

At the moment, Nvidia X-Server is a mess.

Nvidia + KDE Plasma user here, switched to Wayland about a year ago. Works just fine. What’s holding you back?

What annoys me is that you still can’t load Nvidia drivers within the initramfs without breaking hibernation, but that’s a different story.

[Kobold]

Right after this update i got Kernel Panic while playing a (Flatpack) game

Edit:
It looks it is cpupower package related.

@fonic

What’s holding you back?

With Wayland, no option’s around Nvidia X Server Settings, no color profile, no way to disable g-sync.
Bash scripts related to Nvidia X Server Settings also no longer working under Wayland.

Kate also has graphic bugs under Wayland with nvidia.

[stormschip]

Hi @philm
Will there be some fresh iso’s 26.02 available ?

[nikgnomic]

New ISOs should be released soon

Manjaro 2026-02-01 - Stable Update

                         PACKAGE             20260113             20260201
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                 manjaro-release             26.0.1-1             26.0.2-1

[Daniel-I]

@Kobold

Right after this update i got Kernel Panic while playing a (Flatpack) game

You’re mentioning Flatpak and appimage… I’m curious if you’re playing other games successfully… like via steam?

[stoke001]

The power management feature that used to blank my monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity no longer works with Plasma Login Manager (switched from SDDM on KDE Plasma).

[Aragorn]

Check the settings for your Activities. Even if you did not create any, you will still have one (default) Activity. Whether the power management can turn off the monitor must also be set in the Activity settings. I got bitten by that too.

[ozangoktan]

Since updating, steam friends & chat applet is invisible.

Setup: KDE Wayland with Nvidia proprietary drivers loaded.

EDIT: And after a while, it is back for no apparent reason at all…

[wpeckham]

RE: KDE/Wayland. I started using Wayland under KDE over a year ago. In case of issues I also have Xorg and run Openbox desktop. This way updating will never remove either, because each is a prerequisite for a intentionally installed package. Also, if one borks I can log into the other for troubleshooting.
This is probably not a recommended configuration, but it works for me.

[NZXT]

The credentials etc. not showing after keypresses except enter was a bug with Plasma 6.5 version of plasma-login-manager. It’s fixed in Plasma 6.6 version it seems.

[dudesoup]

Fixed by removing spirv-tools-git (AUR, don’t remember installing) and installing spirv-tools