[Stable Update] 2026-05-19 - Kernels, Plasma 6, KDE Gear, KDE Frameworks, COSMIC, Vulkan

philm · 19 May 2026 12:22

Hello Manjaro user community, here we have another set of package updates. We are continuing our development of the upcoming release of ‘Bian-May’ which can be expected end of May, beginning of June. Development speed may be a little slower the upcoming weeks. However, still let us know any issues you may found thus far.

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Recent News

New in Manjaro GNOME!

When choosing an accent color in Settings, the folder colors will now change automatically to match when using the Papirus Dark or Papirus Light icon theme.

To try it out, install gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer from Add/Remove Software, logout / login and enable Papirus Folder Colorizer from Extensions.

Or, if you prefer the command line:

Install:

sudo pacman -Syu gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer

Enable the extension:

 gnome-extensions enable papirus-folders-colorizer@NiffirgkcaJ.github.com

Logout:

gnome-session-quit --logout

Also, when applying accent colors from Layout Switcher settings, it will also set the matching folder color. Requires accent-color-change r172.c761c84-2 or newer.

KDE Plasma users with SDDM can now migrate to Plasma Login Manager

After ensuring plasma-login-manager 6.5.90-1 (or newer) is installed, run the following:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-login-manager
systemctl disable sddm
systemctl enable plasmalogin
sudo pacman -R sddm-kcm sddm

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older.

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:

Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages.

Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May - Preview released
Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released
Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
As of Linux 5.4.302, the 5.4 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) or 5.15 LTS.
As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
As of Linux 6.19.14, the 6.19 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 7.0, and/or 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.

Previous News

Roman was at Froscon and had a talk about Manjaro
Initial preview of Manjaro Immutable is now available!
Roman published our new Website
Philip was at Computex and showed off the OrangePi Neo
Manjaro Team member @romangg has a new library project with a guest post on Phoronix.
Some Manjaro team members attended FOSDEM 2024 and we showed off a prototype of the upcoming Orange Pi Neo Handheld Gaming Console!
Check out the new Manjaro Slimbook Hero!
Manjaro, like many other open-source projects, relies on the generosity of its community through donations and corporate sponsorships to support its growth and development. These donations are essential in covering the various expenses incurred in the operations of the project such as server costs, software development tools, infrastructure expenses, training, flying people to events or conferences and the salaries of key developers. With the help of these donations, Manjaro is able to secure the necessary financial stability that allows the project to continuously improve and remain active. If you love Manjaro, consider to donate!
As you might have seen some of our team were able to attend FOSDEM 2023 and the conference proved to be incredibly productive for us. See our blog post for more.
Arch Linux and Manjaro on TUXEDO computers - Arch Linux and Manjaro on TUXEDO computers - TUXEDO Computers
Linux, Judo, unicycles and … Baywatch?! How Vivaldi and Manjaro aim above the ordinary. | Vivaldi Browser
https://frame.work/blog/spotlight-on-manjaro-linux-interview-with-the-team

Finding information easier about Manjaro

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Notable Package Updates

Kernel updates
- Note: linux510 and linux515 series got removed from our repos. Please adopt to linux6x series.
- this includes security fixes for Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500)
- including initial fixes for [ALERT] CopyFail 3.0 - Fragnesia - Unpatched vulnerability
- including fixes for [ALERT] ssh-keysign-pwn, unprivileged users are able to read root-owned files
- Note: not all kernel series are patched. It is recommended to keep the suggested mitigations active
GCC 16
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.12
Firefox 150.0.3
Thunderbird 150.0.2
KDE Gear 26.04.1
KDE Frameworks 6.26.0
Plasma 6.6.5
Gambas 3.21.6
Qt 6.11.1
PipeWire 1.6.5
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.13
Vulkan SDK 1.4.350.0
Gstreamer 1.28.3
LibreOffice 25.8.7
ROCm 7.2.3
Heroic Games Launcher 2.22.0
certbot 5.6.0
Updates to python, Deepin and Haskell

Install Medias

Bian-May 26.1.0-pre (2026-05-23)

Download XFCE

Download GNOME

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.pkgs

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux618)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/gnome/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-gnome-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.pkgs

Download KDE

Full

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-260523-linux70.iso.pkgs

Minimal

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux70.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux618)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux618.iso.pkgs

Minimal (linux612)

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sig
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.sha256
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.torrent
https://download.manjaro.org/kde/26.1.0-pre/manjaro-kde-26.1.0-pre-minimal-260523-linux612.iso.pkgs

Additional Info

Python 3.14 info

You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.13.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.13/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13)

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

 checkrebuild

* It’s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

Info about AUR packages

AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in Support > AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

linux61 6.1.173
linux66 6.6.140
linux612 6.12.90
linux618 6.18.32
linux70 7.0.9
linux71 7.1.0-rc4
linux61-rt 6.1.167_rt62
linux66-rt 6.6.133_rt73
linux612-rt 6.12.79_rt17
linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7 [EOL]

Package Changes (5/18/26 15:52 CEST)

stable core x86_64: 92 new and 96 removed package(s)
stable extra x86_64: 3815 new and 3881 removed package(s)
stable multilib x86_64: 47 new and 47 removed package(s)

All package changes can be reviewed here

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Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
Please, consider subscribing to the Stable Updates Announcements RSS feed

Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

Prepare the update beforehand

Preparation steps

From [INFO] Stable branch - BIG update BEST practice

If it has been a long time since your last update, you may want to refresh your pacman-keyring before running the actual update.

Create a list of custom packages for later reference
```
pamac list --foreign > ~/alien-pkgs.txt
```

Remove all foreign packages

pamac remove $(pamac list --foreign --quiet)

Remove all orphans and other unneeded packages
```
pamac remove --orphans --unneeded
```

Optional: ensure the keyrings are up-to-date

sudo pacman -Syy manjaro-keyring archlinux-keyring

Optional: Run a simulated update
```
pamac update --dry-run
```
Looking good? Repeat the above without --dry-run
```
reboot
```
Consult the list of packages created in the first step and rebuild only those you really need

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.

2026-05-19

Yet another vulnerability - local privilege escalation

TLDR: And yet another one
Until patches arrive (should be soon), a mitigation:

sudo sh -c "printf 'kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=2' > /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf"

More vulnerabilities - Pintheft, Dirtydecrypt

More vulnerabilities were discovered. Until patches hit your mirror and update, the mitigation is as always to block the modules:

rmmod rds_tcp rds
printf 'install rds /bin/false\ninstall rds_tcp /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/pintheft.conf

Note that a good Samaritan created a script, proactively blocking all modules not currently loaded from automatic loading. Which mitigates all current and future vulnerabilities connected with modules. If you are interested - here is the script:
GitHub - jnuyens/modulejail: Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use. · GitHub
Please read the description and way of function carefully. If you decide to use that script, check if you have any of the vulnerable modules loaded first:

lsmod | grep -E "esp4|esp6|rxrpc|rds|rds_tcp|algif_aead"

If it returns nothing, you are all good, you can run modulejail with profile desktop.
You do not need to remove other blocking .conf files if you already installed something (unless you want the logging feature).

You might also be interested in the following tutorial which should proactively help:

[HowTo] modulejail

Kernels 5x removed - change kernel before updating!

Although kernel series 5x are still maintained upstream, they are pretty old. To simplify maintenance, Manjaro drops support for those kernels. Note that this change is still not updated in the graphical Manjaro-settings-manager (but mhwd-kernel shows the correct list). Please, if you are still running a 5x kernel, install a newer LTS one first, preferably the latest 6.18 before attempting to update. Then reboot and after that you can update. If linux-latest is blocking the update, remove it too.

2026-05-08

NTFS partitions or usb drives cannot be mounted anymore after update

The explanation:
Concerning NTFS3 and NTFS-3G - #15 by Ben

Note that forcing the system to use the old ntfs-3g driver to mount the drive/partition, although the dirty bit is set, means you will be mounting a potentially damaged filesystem. It is your decision and the responsibility for potential data loss is yours.
The only recommended solution is to check the filesystem from windows. If you don’t have windows anymore, you can get one designed for such repairs free and legal here:

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

DIRTY FRAG VULNERABILITY (also read if scared from Fragnesia)

[ALERT] Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284, CVE-2026-43500) - Root Privilege Vulnerability

Note that the newly discovered vulnerability Fragnesia is still not patched, it is however in the same modules as Dirty frag and the described mitigation works for it too. Just apply the mitigation and you will be ok.

refind - booting problem

The currently shipped version of refind breaks booting on both ext4 and btrfs. Upstream cooks a fix, but until it comes there are several workarounds:

Downgrade refind before rebooting or from chroot with manjaro-downgrade
Make a backup of the refind_x64.efi file on the ESP partition and restore it after the update before rebooting or from chroot
Search for the hook that updates the .efi on package update and remove it
Remove the package refind before updating the system which will also remove the hook, but will leave the efi file on the ESP (not tested)

In any case be sure to have live usb at hand.

P.S. refind is alternative boot loader. It is not part of the default installation. If you don’t know what it is (you didn’t install it yourself) - you don’t have it and this doesn’t concern you.

2026-05-02

Issues with updating Kernels due to Nvidia drivers

We know that some of our users still use either 570xx or 575xx drivers from Nvidia. Both of these drivers are unsupported since several months: Current graphics driver releases - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

The current legacy driver 580xx is still supporting older graphic cards by Nvidia, as in Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. 470xx is unsupported by Nvidia, however the community is still patching that driver for newer kernels so GKxxx “Kepler” GPUs still work. Same goes for the 390xx driver series, which has the support of GF1xx “Fermi” GPUs.

With linux619+ there is no support for 570xx and 575xx. Our kernel-team had no time to look into this issue further, as backporting patches takes a lot of effort. Since we dropped driver support for these series in recent mhwd-db updates, you may still want to stay on linux618 kernel series, if you still need those drivers. To check if newer drivers support your hardware, please use 26.1x install medias and choose proprietary drivers on boot selection. No changes are performed on your installed system. It is a save environment to test new drivers before changing stuff on your OS.

It would be good to remove installed drivers by mhwd before using it to reinstall supported drivers for your system: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Configure_Graphics_Cards

Also look for known issues within drivers at the Nvidia developer forum:

2026-05-01

COPY FAIL VULNERABILITY

On 29 April 2026, a high local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and named “Copy Fail”, was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability affects Manjaro Linux since 2017. A public proof-of-concept exploit has been released.

We have patched most of our kernels and released them to our testing and unstable branches:

patched kernels are: 5.10.254+, 5.15.204+, 6.1.170+, 6.6.137+, 6.12.85+, 6.18.22+, 6.19.12+, 7.0-rc7+
affected kernels are: 6.1.167_rt62, 6.6.133_rt73, 6.12.79_rt17, 6.17.5_rt7 and lower

Temporary Mitigation for non-patched kernels/systems

Disable the algif_aead kernel module persistently on all affected systems until a patched kernel is available:

echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf
    rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true

More Information: CERT-EU - High Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ("Copy Fail")

2026-03-23

pamac-manager gui (Add/Remove Programs) does not start or starts very slow

For now, disable flatpak support (you can just browse flathub.org and install and update from terminal)
sudo nano /etc/pamac.conf
scroll to the end and put # before EnableFlatpak
press ctrl+q , y to save and exit

`plasma-applet-window-buttons` is broken

The plasma-applet-window-buttons package included in this update is version 0.14.0-3, which looks for /usr/lib/libPlasma.so.7, but this library does not exist — the version of the library included in this Stable Update is /usr/lib/libPlasma.so.6.5.6.

The solution is to downgrade plasma-applet-window-buttons to version 0.14.0-2. You do this by way of manjaro-downgrade.

sudo manjaro-downgrade plasma-applet-window-buttons

Update: In the meantime, the faulty package has been replaced in the repository by the working one already, but if you had updated your system and you have version 0.14.0-3 while you did not downgrade the package yet, run…

sudo pacman -Syuu

… just once. It will downgrade the faulty package back to the working one.

2026-02-23

Possible signature validity issues with packages taken over from Arch

Do this before updating!

Edited by @linux-aarhus 2026-02-26T06:35:00Z
Before you jump to the big and wipe the pacman gnupg folder

sudo pacman -Syy archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring

Optionally

sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro

Original suggestion

The problem…

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1rafluf/pacman_and_keyring_issues/

The solution…

 sudo rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
 sudo pacman-key --init && sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro && sudo pacman -Syu

Unreliability of the `pamac` package manager

Rationale

There recently appears to be a high incidence of pamac crashing in the middle of a system update, be it only in the form of the pamac-manager crashing with the update process continuing in the background, or in the form of a complete crash of the pamac infrastructure, leading to a non-bootable system.

Advice

Until the Manjaro Team has managed to correct this issue, we would advise our users…

to either (install and) use octopi — see the screenshot below — as a graphical package manager

…or to use the tried-and-trusted pacman from the command line for updating the repository packages, and to use the pamac command-line utility and flatpak command-line utility afterwards for updating the AUR packages and the FlatPaks, respectively, as follows…
```
sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syu && pamac update --aur --devel && flatpak update
```

2026-01-04

problems with polkit

After a change in polkit, some users report permission problems. Different solutions are suggested:

rebooting
reinstalling polkit (with sudo pacman -S polkit, since pamac may not work in that case)
fixing the suid permissions manually with

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1

fixing the file permissions manually
The proper permissions are:

drwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Directory
-rwxr-xr-x (755) - root:root - Executables
-rw-r--r-- (644) - root:root - Rules files

so to fix you use

sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/polkit-1/rules.d/*

Alternatively, running the full Manjaro packages update via pacman and rebooting before updating the AUR packages withpamac might circumvent the problem from occurring in the first place.

Some users report success with masking the helper service. Please use this as a temporary or last resort solution if everything else fails as this disables an important component and cannot be officially recommended:

sudo systemctl stop polkit-agent-helper.socket
sudo systemctl mask polkit-agent-helper.socket

Another solution for the Polkit issue is to switch Kernel to version 6.6 or above if all the above does not help.

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and Maxwell support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) or Maxwell (GTX 9xx) GPUs

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal or Maxwell cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required: Switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:
Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages. You can use nvidia-driver-assistant to figure out which driver would support your hardware best.

pacman-mirrors 5.3

Release Notes: v5.3 · Applications / pacman-mirrors · GitLab

error: pacman-mirrors: signature from “Frede Hundewadt”

The package is not corrupted - but for unknown reasons your system does not have the manjaro-keyring that was updated early October.

2025-12-22

Users with old Nvidia cards should change the driver first

Users with older cards should check if they have the proper drivers installed on their system:

$ sudo pacman -Sy nvidia-driver-assistant
$ nvidia-driver-assistant
Detected GPUs:
  GeForce GT 740A - (pci_id 0x1292)

Detected system:
  Manjaro Linux 

Please copy and paste the following command to install the legacy kernel module flavour:
  sudo pacman -S linux618-nvidia-470xx

Previous stable update threads:

Stable Updates

9a3eedi · 19 May 2026 12:37

I am completely unfamiliar with refind
If I use btrfs, and I boot via grub but using UEFI and not legacy boot, should I be worried?

Aragorn · 19 May 2026 13:08

It’s an alternative boot loader.

Negative.

Teo · 19 May 2026 14:56

I updated the bullet point accordingly.

WalterNeff · 19 May 2026 14:58

Error message while attempting to update:
“could not satify dependencies”
removing linux510 breaks dependency
linux 510 required by linux latest

Teo · 19 May 2026 15:07

Install some recent, 6 series LTS kernel (since you don’t change your kernels for years, jump directly to 6.18 unless you have an ancient, 10-15+ years old hardware). Reboot. Remove linux-latest and linux510 and 515 if you have it and the corresponding headers or modules if you have any. Then you can update.

Aragorn · 19 May 2026 15:07

Remove linux-latest. You have that package because you were running an unsupported kernel earlier.

WalterNeff · 19 May 2026 16:19

Thanks. Didn’t know what that file was for.
Ran 5.10 until 5.15 came out.
Also got same error when attempting to remove 5.10 a few months ago
I’m ALWAYS current on the kernel updates.

Tomek · 19 May 2026 18:52

This is big update for Hyprland users as v0.55 introduce lua config and it will be only way to configure Hyprland in next releases – you should start migrate your configs if you don’t want problems in future

And no problems with update (and with new Hypland config style)

ddns · 19 May 2026 19:24

After updating, everything works fine except I have this problem: bugs.kde.org - 520120 – After upgrading to Qt 6.11.1, notifications do not close after the timeout ends

This is kde discuss thread: Notifications Not Disappearing - Help - KDE Discuss

They alrready submited a patch

Yochanan · 19 May 2026 19:34

The patch is applied with plasma-workspace 6.6.5-2 which will be available shortly.

ddns · 19 May 2026 19:35

Thank you.

toniovr · 19 May 2026 21:51

Thanks for the update guys!
GNOME user here, only issue I had was a black screen after login. It lasted less than a minute.
Everything else is fine.

oe36 · 19 May 2026 22:12

3 machines… 2 laptops (MSI GT72 / Lenovo Legion 5I) and 1 desktop (ASUS X870E / 9700X / 7900XT).

All 3 successful.

Manjaro team continues to impress big!!! Thank you folks.

Superhero3230 · 19 May 2026 23:04

Thanks for the update.
So far everything seems good except that there was some change on some policy, I use a VPN all the time but after this update when I turn on the pc or just change the server I’m using I get a prompt up asking for my root password saying " System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users".
If someone knows how could I change it back to not requiring my password every time it would be great.

limprimble · 20 May 2026 00:37

There was this post:

Superhero3230 · 20 May 2026 00:55

Well, the lemmy post seems to be the right solution. I just changed the Wheel group to other group my user is in and that did it. Thanks

rizuhaso · 20 May 2026 07:18

I have got two warnings during the update:

'/etc/mkinitcpio.conf' was installed as '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew'
'/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf' was installed as '/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf.pacnew'

Should I do anything with these config files?

pwx · 20 May 2026 07:51

This thread might help:

And: