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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.
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pacman-contrib is now split out from pacman. If you have anything installed that depends on pacman-contrib, update with:
sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
2024-01-11
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
2024-01-09 - Jan Alexander Steffens
We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd.
For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default.
For a more detailed rationale, please see our RFC 25.
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
If you are having no issues with the 545 series, there is nothing to do. If you are, you can downgrade to the 535 series with pamac update --enable-downgrade or sudo pacman -Syuu.
So far we know about these issues the Nvidia 545 driver series has:
Backlight control might not work on certain laptop configurations. Reported also here
If you experience similar or new issues please run sudo usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh and post either in an already given post or create a new one, including your generated nvidia-bug-report.log.gz for Nvidia to fix the issue: Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
Changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-11-02 - Frederik Schwan
We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21.
To sum it up instead of having JDK and JRE packages coexist in the same system we will be making them conflict. The JDK variant package includes the runtime environment to execute Java applications so if one needs compilation and runtime of Java they need only the JDK package in the future. If, on the other hand, they need just runtime of Java then JRE (or jre-headless) will work.
This will (potentially) require a manual user action during upgrade:
If you have both JDK and JRE installed you can manually install the JDK with pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk && pacman -Su and this removes the JRE related packages.
If you have both JRE and JRE-headless you will need to choose one of them and install it manually since they would conflict each other now.
If you only have one of the JDK/JRE/JRE-headless pacman should resolve dependencies normally and no action is needed.
At the moment this is only valid for the upcoming JDK 21 release.
This might be off topic but I’m noticing the last few of times a new testing update announcement is created, they happen to fall on days when bad weather is forecast where I live
Hello.
First of all thank you for your level of dedication to project.
Simple Q:
After latest update i have service with name
dbus-:1.50-org.a11.atspi.Registry@1.service
popped in my system monitor
never saw this before latest testing update
any intel on what is it and why it taking my memory and cpu time?gracias
Update (Because i can’t reply to this topic):
I’ve installed dbus-daemon-units instead of dbus-broker-units which is default now
and this service is still there
i switched back to dbus-broker-units again and it still there
I know for sure that i never saw it few weeks ago and my system does not run anything beside firefox for now
As already pointed out in the previous testing update thread by another user, using sudo pacman -Syu --asdeps pacman-contrib is not a good idea because it also changes the installation reason of upgraded packages. Before this solution makes its way to the Known issues and solutions section of the next Stable Update thread, in my eyes it’s better to give other instructions like:
First: remove packages requiring pacman-contrib (there may be more than just bmenu and pacui)
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.
2024-02-06
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
