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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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Notable Package Updates
Most Kernels got renewed
Firmware got renewed
glibc got fixes added to support Nvidia drivers better on Steam
inputplumber gained many fixes. can now be combined with opengamepadui-git
You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.11.so.
Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.11/ :
pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11/
Rebuild them all at once:*
pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11)
* Note that if any fail to build, you’ll have to rebuild what’s remaining one or a few at a time.
Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:
checkrebuild
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 AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.
The default KDE Plasma session has been changed to X11
As of Plasma 6, KDE decided to make Wayland the default. However, since issues were discovered, we have reverted the default to X11. Users are free to choose whichever works best for them.
2024-03-23
Konsole font rendering issue
if you use manjaro-zsh-config on Plasma 6,
please check your Font settings in Konsole:
Konsole: Open Settings → Edit Current Profile → Appearance,
click Select Font and select MesloLGS NF Regular.
issues with auto-mount of ntfs filesystem using Kernel 6.8
The kernel changed default ntfs driver from FUSE one to ntfs3.
These two are not fully compatible, mainly as far as mount options go. If you have custom mount options in the fstab (or any other application, such as VeraCrypt) they need to be changed.
Symptoms:
Mount fails with: Device or resource busy
DMesg reports: Can't open blockdev
Solution:
Migrate your mount options. For me the changes were:
After switching to Manjaro Testing, the app icons running under wine or java do not have an icon.
It seems that any app that does not have an entry in the menu does not have an icon.
I’m unsure of the cause, but after doing a pamac upgrade, I’m having trouble with AppImages working - nothing is displayed in the window that’s opened, but you can still navigate the application like it’s being rendered, and the application itself is still functioning. This only seems to be a problem on my laptop (Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon RX Vega 6) vs my desktop (i5-13500 with Intel Arc A750). I’ve dug around but haven’t found any logging to indicate what’s happening. Willing to provide more info if needed but I’m not sure where to look.
The two applications I’ve run into so far that are having trouble are Beeper and RadarOmega
[edit] I cleared the GPUCache directory for each application (in ~/.config/<application name> and that seemed to fix it.
One problematic game starts without problem. Wasn´t the case before after the kernel update. Will tell if any new strange things occur
Did you include the patch already or revert the last update? Looking at the issue on gitlab it shouldn´t be upstream yet.
I’ve experienced similar behavior as @angrytux and reverted to linux61 and that was a workaround for me in one case. With 6.8.9-2 this behavior does not manifest itself so far, however I cannot reliably trigger it, I experienced random crashes that do not happen anymore.
Looks like the DMABUF renderer is broken in webkitgtk with the proprietary nvidia driver. Because of this I got a blank screen on the Manjaro Starter application.
The solution in the link below fixes issue for me.
no issue except the computer suddenly logged in with xorg session. I did not see a pacnew related to this so it was a bit surprising and caused glitching and flickering as the display output changed from console mode to wayland mode to xorg mode.
You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to 
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.
2024-05-08
