Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. This also marks the preview cycle of 24.1 release also to been known as Xahea. Preview ISOs will get released as we see fit.
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Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. More info about Nvidia drivers here:
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.
Linux 6.9 is EOL and will - at some point - be removed from the repo.
Suggestion is to install latest LTS to be sure
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux66
2024-07-14
Nvidia driver downgrade
Nvidia drivers got downgraded to 550.100, therefore update with sudo pacman -Syuu. If you want to stay on the 555 driver series you may either switch to unstable or install nvidia-dkms via: sudo pacman -U https://mirror.easyname.at/manjaro/pool/overlay/nvidia-dkms-555.58.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. More info about Nvidia drivers here:
On a real hardware. You can still rollback update with a timeshift backup. I’ve been using testing branch for years, and it proved to be quite stable for me. I occasionally jump to unstable for quicker Plasma updates.
However, I cannot recommend unstable branch for a long run. I had in the past few problems with it when I used it for a longer time. There were sometimes Arch regressions and updates that broke the system, and it couldn’t boot. They fixed it quickly, within hours, but I still had a bad luck of installing it before it. Arch base is always risky. Testing branch mitigates those critical bugs. The rest of bugs that can happen is manageable and not so serious.
There were also times where I had very little time, so I wished my system to work and not bothered be with updates and potential issues, so I was switching to stable branch. However, 90% of time since few years I am using testing branch and it’s quite OK. Also it’s better for AUR packages since testing is not that far away from Arch.
No it’s not. It depends on your specific hardware, the DE, customization and packages you are using and your experience in managing your OS and updates. I also run for years a system on Arch and never had any nameable issues.
a bit exciting to upgrade to plasma 6.1 due to the amount of problems reported when it was first released, but turned out entirely without issues. Thanks for keeping even testing stable
Switched from stable to testing because I wanted to try the plasma update. For now I downgraded to stable again because I couldn’t exit KDE properly. On logout, reboot or shutdown, the system hangs with a black screen with a mousepointer. Also the logout screen is in English, whereas everything else is correctly localized (German). Reboot from tty is working.
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.
2024-09-07