[Stable Update] 2026-03-23 - Kernels, Mesa, COSMIC, GNOME, Systemd, Plasma

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I have a Que - Do kernels auto update when the series reach EOL to next LTS kernel?

I see that text at every Stable update announcement post, and this time I looked a little further into it, saw that I was on 6.12 series kernel but did notice changes between updates to that ‘xx’ in 6.12.xx-manjaro (64 bit) meaning minor updates…

So I just installed 6.18 LTS Series so that I don’t forget about it at 6.12 EOL.
My current kernel is - 6.18.18-1-MANJARO (64 bit) (I did not remove 6.12)
But I wanna know about this more and why its doesn’t by default update to latest LTS.

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When I boot from manjaro-kde-26.0.4-minimal-260327-linux618.iso I choose tz=Europe/Copenhagen and keytable=dk and leave lang=en_US, but when I reach the live desktop and open konsole the keyboard is not what I chose, and locale is en_US.

    ~  locale                                                                             ✔  manjaro@manjaro 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

    ~  date '+%x %X %Z'                                                                   ✔  manjaro@manjaro 
03/30/2026 03:35:17 PM UTC
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Thanks for the update. :slightly_smiling_face:

Have issues with the NetworkManager 1.56 update. Can not open websites. Pings with IP addresses are possible. Obviously a DNS problem. Going back too 1.54.3-1 solves the problem.

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6.12 LTS and 6.18 LTS are both supported until December 2028. So when 6.12 becomes EOL, so will 6.18. :grin:

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105

It’s the initial promise. As seen before it’s very probable the support will be extended.

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106

Yes, or at least from what I understand from :

The kernels that go EOL will get updated if the user does nothing and disregards the notifications that newer kernels are available. (if I read this wrong, please correct me)

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107

Yes and no. The linux-lts-meta package will only upgrade to the next oldest LTS kernel still in the repo.

So if you’re still running 5.15 LTS and 5.15 goes EOL in December 2026, then it will install — if you don’t have it already — 6.1 LTS, which goes EOL in December 2027. But it will not install any later LTS kernel, let alone the newest one.

It does for me, but I was not the one with the issue — I keep my panels locked. :wink:

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108

It doesn’t fix it for me. Still unable to rearrange some elements of the panel.

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If I look at 6.6 series, there is also this commit Panel: Save applet position before deleting (df171436) · Commits · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab

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Are there actually still any blockers to prevent the adoption of Plasma 6.6 in the Stable branch upon the next Stable Update?

If not, then perhaps if people were able to muster just little more patience, they could soon be past the problems with 6.5. :thinking: :man_shrugging:

(But of course, 6.6 will bring along its own share of (yet to be discovered) bugs… :roll_eyes:)

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111

I have 6.5 three computers. The Lenovo my partner now uses, the old Dell, and the Starlite Tablet.

I have 6.6.3 on my Slimbook, running testing.

All seem pretty stable. I guess there will be issues, but I have not noticed any.

The upgrade, on the Slimbook was uneventful. I am also running the 7.0 kernel on the Slimbook.

Everything seems pretty stable. Other than the Sliimbook not sleeping, last night. But I have had that happen before, multiple times, over the years, probably because I have too many Applications loaded. So I never worry about it.

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112

@cfinnberg let me know if this fixes your issue: [plasma-desktop] try to fix an issue with panels · manjaro/plasma-6.5@67c473a · GitHub

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Most likely not but our current stable release of Manjaro 26.0 is focusing on the Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 49 series. Since we have Manjaro also on several computers in a department of one of our commercial customers, we simply can’t rush any DE updates without consulting them on possible update issues. People who want to have newer packages can simply switch to our testing branch and help out on reporting issues they may find there.

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114

The one I noticed (after responding to a bug) was that panel items were stuck on 6.5.6, and in edit mode, you couldn’t get the context menu to show up or move them… hardly a deal-breaker.

That just disappeared moving from 6.5 to 6.6.3 - otherwise there’s nothing that I can spot for the moment.

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The new update to plasma-workspace (6.5.6-2) that Philip pushed out just a while ago should also fix the problem in the Stable branch.

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Plasma-desktop 6.5.6-1 breaks panel widget dragging in edit mode
Can’t move or delete elements on plasma panel
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No, it doesn’t. But at least for my part this doesn’t have any priority. I don’t need to modify my panel. I was told about this bug by other user and I only confirmed it and asked about this issue here as I have found nothing about it anywhere.

The user that informed me about this has change to unstable in the meantime.

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You could just go to testing, it just cleared up for me, or simply have a go at editing the file yourself… not like you need to move stuff all that often.

118

Yes, it fixes the issue, thank you for the swift update.

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119

Hi, I’m running Manjaro KDE plasma Wayland on an Intel Lunar Lake laptop with CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, iGPU: Intel Arc Graphics 130V / 140V.

The last update seems to have broken hardware acceleration (in firefox at least). And also the overall GPU usage : didn’t get used by supertuxkart anymore (nvtop and KDE showed 0% GPU usage and CPU spiked really bad, fps was low).

Rolling back to 26.0.3 with timeshift solved the issue, I don’t know precisely which package caused the issue… I am curious tho because I don’t wand to end up doing too much partial upgrades…

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Hard to tell… but two areas to look first might be:

  1. kernel - you never mentioned what kernel you’re using… but if Intel drivers are like AMD (baked into the kernel) then swapping/updating/downgrading kernels could provide some insight
  2. mesa - could try downgrading it as a troubleshooting step if kernel swapping doesn’t yield any fruit.

Note: the output of vulkaninfo --summary may highlight something

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