[Testing Update] 2025-01-15 - Kernels, KDE Frameworks, Calamares, Cosmic, Firefox, Gambas, Steam

Announcements Testing Updates
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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

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Notable Package Updates

Additional Info

Python 3.13 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.12.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.12/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12)

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

:warning: 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.

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

  • linux54 5.4.289
  • linux510 5.10.233
  • linux515 5.15.176
  • linux61 6.1.124
  • linux66 6.6.71
  • linux612 6.12.9
  • linux613 6.13-rc7
  • linux61-rt 6.1.120_rt47
  • linux66-rt 6.6.65_rt47
  • linux612-rt 6.12.8_rt8

Package Changes (Wed Jan 15 05:37:56 CET 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 4 new and 5 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 951 new and 923 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 21 new and 21 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 20 new and 18 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 53 new and 47 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Check if your mirror has already synced:

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Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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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:

:arrow_right: 2025-01-15

Critical rsync security release 3.4.0

2025-01-16 - Robin Candau

We’d like to raise awareness about the rsync security release version 3.4.0-1 as described in our advisory ASA-202501-1.

An attacker only requires anonymous read access to a vulnerable rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on. Additionally, attackers can take control of an affected server and read/write arbitrary files of any connected client. Sensitive data can be extracted, such as OpenPGP and SSH keys, and malicious code can be executed by overwriting files such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.popt.

We highly advise anyone who runs an rsync daemon or client prior to version 3.4.0-1 to upgrade and reboot their systems immediately. As Arch Linux mirrors are mostly synchronized using rsync, we highly advise any mirror administrator to act immediately, even though the hosted package files themselves are cryptographically signed.

All infrastructure servers and mirrors maintained by Arch Linux have already been updated.

– Arch Linux - News: Critical rsync security release 3.4.0

2024-12-11

Kernel 6.11 and 4.19 has been marked End Of Life (EOL) on kernel.org

2024-11-27

Partial Cinnamon 6.4 updates

Linux Mint is currently preparing Cinnamon 6.4. The Arch Maintainers went ahead and released some Cinnamon packages which got already tagged 6.4. However, it seems this will break your installation of your Cinnamon desktop. We will monitor the situation and might downgrade to 6.2 packages if needed, before we do a stable branch update. Your feedback regarding Cinnamon overall is highly appreciated.

Known issues so far:

What you can do:

  • Ignore all cinnamon updates when updating.
  • You can try the newly added cinnamon-git package to see if it improves the situation.
  • Update: The issues are resolved with cinnamon >= 6.4.0-1. If you manually installed cinnamon-git, you may now install cinnamon again.

2024-11-13

v86d has been dropped from Manjaro repositories and is no longer required for mhwd

Re: Unstable Update MHWD disussion

If pamac GUI options Enable AUR support and Check for updates are enabled, users should check the package list before agreeing to update and un-check AUR packages

2024-11-01

KVM default behavior change on module loading in kernel 6.12

In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 parameter into kernel command line or unload the corresponding kvm_XXX module. Initial support for 6.12 kernel series was added with Virtualbox 7.1.4.

More info about that in the Linux mailing list

2024-10-20

Kernel 6.10 has been marked [EOL] on kernel.org

sddm login problems with multiple monitors
  • bug report
  • login only works on secondary monitor
  • switching sddm theme to maldives works around the issue

Previous testing threads:

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New security item added to Known Issues :point_up:

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NVIDIA 550.144.03 drivers are now available.

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In other security news … is nvidia with updates released next to CVEs …

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5614

The only things safe are supposedly these

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Already pushed 550.144.03 to the testing branch. :wink:

I hadn’t seen the security bulletin yet, just got home from running errands. Apparently it’s time to ship them to the stable branch as well.

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2 posts were split to a new topic: I’m in an unsupported, partial upgrade state