[Testing Update] 2025-06-20 - Kernels, Mesa, Steam, OpenGamepadUI, ZFS

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Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

2025-04-17 - Andrew Crerar

Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.

Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly 14 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 14 day transition period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of Redis to Valkey as soon as possible to avoid possible complications after the 14 day transition window closes.

– Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

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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.

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Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.295
  • linux510 5.10.237
  • linux515 5.15.185
  • linux61 6.1.141
  • linux66 6.6.93
  • linux612 6.12.33
  • linux615 6.15.2
  • linux616 6.16.0-rc2
  • linux61-rt 6.1.134_rt51
  • linux66-rt 6.6.87_rt54
  • linux612-rt 6.12.28_rt10
  • linux613-rt 6.13_rt5
  • linux614-rt 6.14.0_rt3
  • linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2

Package Changes (Fri Jun 20 09:13:26 CEST 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 13 new and 15 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 140 new and 152 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 13 new and 13 removed package(s)
:: Different overlay package(s) in repository core x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                  linux-headers-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                          linux-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                          linux61-rt       6.1.134_rt51-2       6.1.141_rt52-1
                  linux61-rt-headers       6.1.134_rt51-2       6.1.141_rt52-1
                            linux612            6.12.33-1            6.12.34-1
                    linux612-headers            6.12.33-1            6.12.34-1
                            linux614            6.14.11-1                    -
                    linux614-headers            6.14.11-1                    -
                            linux615             6.15.2-2             6.15.3-1
                    linux615-headers             6.15.2-2             6.15.3-1
                             linux66             6.6.93-1             6.6.94-1
                     linux66-headers             6.6.93-1             6.6.94-1
                          linux66-rt        6.6.87_rt54-2        6.6.93_rt55-1
                  linux66-rt-headers        6.6.87_rt54-2        6.6.93_rt55-1


:: Different sync package(s) in repository core x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                          libnghttp2             1.65.0-1             1.66.0-1


:: Different overlay package(s) in repository extra x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                    inputplumber-git 0.58.6.r1.g6927752-1 0.58.7.r0.g33fb129-1
                linux-acpi_call-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                 linux-bbswitch-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
              linux-broadcom-wl-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
             linux-nvidia-390xx-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
             linux-nvidia-470xx-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                   linux-nvidia-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
              linux-nvidia-open-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                    linux-r8168-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                linux-rtl8723bu-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                 linux-tp_smapi-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
              linux-vhba-module-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
  linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                      linux-zfs-meta               6.14-1               6.15-1
                        linux510-zfs              2.3.2-1              2.3.3-1
                        linux515-zfs              2.3.2-5              2.3.3-1
                         linux54-zfs              2.3.2-2              2.3.3-1
                linux61-rt-acpi_call             1.2.2-45             1.2.2-46
                 linux61-rt-bbswitch               0.8-44               0.8-45
              linux61-rt-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-44      6.30.223.271-45
             linux61-rt-nvidia-390xx           390.157-44           390.157-45
             linux61-rt-nvidia-470xx        470.256.02-23        470.256.02-24
                   linux61-rt-nvidia             575.64-1             575.64-2
              linux61-rt-nvidia-open             575.64-1             575.64-2
                    linux61-rt-r8168           8.055.00-6           8.055.00-7
                linux61-rt-rtl8723bu          20240303-27          20240303-28
                 linux61-rt-tp_smapi              0.44-38              0.44-39
              linux61-rt-vhba-module           20250329-3           20250329-4
  linux61-rt-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-1             7.1.10-2
                         linux61-zfs              2.3.2-6              2.3.3-1
                  linux612-acpi_call             1.2.2-56             1.2.2-57
                   linux612-bbswitch               0.8-54               0.8-55
                linux612-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-55      6.30.223.271-56
               linux612-nvidia-390xx           390.157-56           390.157-57
               linux612-nvidia-470xx        470.256.02-56        470.256.02-57
                     linux612-nvidia             575.64-1             575.64-2
                linux612-nvidia-open             575.64-1             575.64-2
                      linux612-r8168          8.055.00-34          8.055.00-35
                  linux612-rtl8723bu          20240303-55          20240303-56
                   linux612-tp_smapi              0.44-54              0.44-55
                linux612-vhba-module          20250329-17          20250329-18
    linux612-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-3             7.1.10-4
                        linux612-zfs              2.3.2-8              2.3.3-1
                  linux614-acpi_call             1.2.2-24                    -
                   linux614-bbswitch               0.8-24                    -
                linux614-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-24                    -
               linux614-nvidia-390xx           390.157-23                    -
               linux614-nvidia-470xx        470.256.02-23                    -
                     linux614-nvidia             575.64-1                    -
                linux614-nvidia-open             575.64-1                    -
                      linux614-r8168          8.055.00-24                    -
                  linux614-rtl8723bu          20240303-24                    -
                   linux614-tp_smapi              0.44-24                    -
                linux614-vhba-module          20250329-22                    -
    linux614-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-3                    -
                        linux614-zfs             2.3.2-11                    -
                  linux615-acpi_call              1.2.2-4              1.2.2-5
                   linux615-bbswitch                0.8-4                0.8-5
                linux615-broadcom-wl       6.30.223.271-3       6.30.223.271-4
               linux615-nvidia-390xx            390.157-4            390.157-5
               linux615-nvidia-470xx         470.256.02-4         470.256.02-5
                     linux615-nvidia             575.64-1             575.64-2
                linux615-nvidia-open             575.64-1             575.64-2
                      linux615-r8168           8.055.00-4           8.055.00-5
                  linux615-rtl8723bu           20240303-3           20240303-4
                   linux615-tp_smapi               0.44-4               0.44-5
                linux615-vhba-module           20250329-4           20250329-5
    linux615-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-4             7.1.10-5
                   linux66-acpi_call            1.2.2-133            1.2.2-134
                    linux66-bbswitch              0.8-130              0.8-131
                 linux66-broadcom-wl     6.30.223.271-131     6.30.223.271-132
                linux66-nvidia-390xx          390.157-128          390.157-129
                linux66-nvidia-470xx        470.256.02-71        470.256.02-72
                      linux66-nvidia             575.64-1             575.64-2
                 linux66-nvidia-open             575.64-1             575.64-2
                       linux66-r8168          8.055.00-22          8.055.00-23
                linux66-rt-acpi_call             1.2.2-39             1.2.2-40
                 linux66-rt-bbswitch               0.8-38               0.8-39
              linux66-rt-broadcom-wl      6.30.223.271-39      6.30.223.271-40
             linux66-rt-nvidia-390xx           390.157-38           390.157-39
             linux66-rt-nvidia-470xx        470.256.02-27        470.256.02-28
                   linux66-rt-nvidia             575.64-1             575.64-2
              linux66-rt-nvidia-open             575.64-1             575.64-2
                    linux66-rt-r8168           8.055.00-9          8.055.00-10
                linux66-rt-rtl8723bu          20240303-31          20240303-32
                 linux66-rt-tp_smapi              0.44-13              0.44-14
              linux66-rt-vhba-module           20250329-3           20250329-4
  linux66-rt-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-1             7.1.10-2
                   linux66-rtl8723bu          20240303-87          20240303-88
                    linux66-tp_smapi             0.44-130             0.44-131
                 linux66-vhba-module           20250329-9          20250329-10
     linux66-virtualbox-host-modules             7.1.10-2             7.1.10-3
                         linux66-zfs              2.3.2-5              2.3.3-1
                   opengamepadui-git0.39.2.r0.g5109fba7-20.40.0.r0.gb70cf77f-1
                    powerstation-bin             v0.6.0-1             v0.6.1-1
                    powerstation-git v0.6.0.r0.gb5981fd-1 v0.6.1.r0.gb1928ba-1
                            zfs-dkms              2.3.2-1              2.3.3-1
                           zfs-utils              2.3.2-1              2.3.3-1
                        linux615-zfs                    -              2.3.3-1


:: Different sync package(s) in repository extra x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                          abseil-cpp         20250512.0-1         20250512.1-1
                       docker-buildx             0.24.0-1             0.25.0-1
                             freetds              1.5.2-1              1.5.3-1
                               fwupd             2.0.11-2             2.0.12-1
                          fwupd-docs             2.0.11-2             2.0.12-1
                                giac            2.0.0.3-1            2.0.0.4-1
                                glab             1.60.1-1             1.60.2-1
                               gopls             0.19.0-1             0.19.1-1
                        inputplumber             0.58.6-1             0.58.7-1
                         kube-linter              0.7.3-1              0.7.4-1
                   libblastrampoline             5.13.0-1             5.13.1-1
                             libzypp            17.37.5-1            17.37.6-1
                        libzypp-docs            17.37.5-1            17.37.6-1
                                mesa           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                           mesa-docs           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                    mkinitcpio-utils              0.0.4-2              0.0.5-1
                                nccl             2.27.3-1             2.27.5-1
                         opencl-mesa           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                                orca               48.2-1               48.3-1
                             osbuild                151-1                152-1
                         osv-scanner              2.0.2-1              2.0.3-1
                 oxc-language-server              1.1.0-1              1.2.0-1
                              oxlint              1.1.0-1              1.2.0-1
                  proton-vpn-gtk-app              4.9.6-1              4.9.7-1
                   protonmail-bridge             3.20.0-3             3.21.1-1
              protonmail-bridge-core             3.20.0-3             3.21.1-1
                       python-cattrs             25.1.1-1             25.1.1-2
                    python-fakeredis             2.30.0-1             2.30.1-1
          python-proton-vpn-api-core             0.42.4-1             0.42.5-1
                      python-pytorch              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
                 python-pytorch-cuda              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
                  python-pytorch-opt              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
             python-pytorch-opt-cuda              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
             python-pytorch-opt-rocm              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
                 python-pytorch-rocm              2.7.1-2              2.7.1-3
                              rclone             1.70.0-1             1.70.1-1
                              reaper               7.39-1               7.40-1
                         release-plz            0.3.135-1            0.3.136-1
                          ruby-iconv              1.1.0-3              1.1.0-4
                           ruby-mail              2.8.1-5              2.8.1-7
                ruby-mime-types-data        3.2025.0603-1        3.2025.0617-1
                         ruby-rbtree              0.4.6-6              0.4.6-7
                      ruby-rdiscount            2.2.7.3-6            2.2.7.3-7
                          vulkan-dzn           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                    vulkan-gfxstream           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                        vulkan-intel           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                  vulkan-mesa-layers           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                      vulkan-nouveau           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                       vulkan-radeon           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                       vulkan-swrast           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                       vulkan-virtio           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                              wasmer              6.0.0-1              6.0.1-1
                                 zed            0.191.5-1            0.191.6-1
                              zypper            1.14.90-1            1.14.91-1


:: Different overlay package(s) in repository multilib x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                               steam           1.0.0.82-3           1.0.0.83-1
                     steam-installer           1.0.0.82-3           1.0.0.83-1


:: Different sync package(s) in repository multilib x86_64

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                             PACKAGE             20250619             20250620
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                    lib32-libnghttp2             1.65.0-1             1.66.0-1
                          lib32-mesa           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                   lib32-opencl-mesa           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                    lib32-vulkan-dzn           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
              lib32-vulkan-gfxstream           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                  lib32-vulkan-intel           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
            lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                lib32-vulkan-nouveau           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                 lib32-vulkan-radeon           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                 lib32-vulkan-swrast           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1
                 lib32-vulkan-virtio           1:25.1.3-3           1:25.1.4-1

  • 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.
Please, consider subscribing to the Testing 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:

:arrow_right: 2025-06-20

2025-06-19

Possible breaking changes to pacman-mirrors

:warning: With pacman-mirrors 5.0-1, the global mirrors.json data file has been moved from /usr/share/pacman-mirrors to /var/lib/pacman-mirrors.
:warning: This move introduce a possible breaking change if you have custom scripts relying on the mirrors data file.
:information_source: The moving of the file is the only change and has been made to make it possible for users to have their /usr-tree on a separate read-only partition or btrfs subvolume.

2025-06-14

xkeyboard-config 2.45 issue with symlinks

You may fail to upgrade from 2.44 to 2.45 due to some changes to symlinks. A discussion about it can be found here: Cannot update xkeyboard-config to 2.45 / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums

The solution is to update the AUR packages depending on xkeyboard-config or move the files to the new folder /usr/share/xkeyboard-config-2.

More information about it here: xkeyboard-config 2.45 issue with symlinks (#1) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / xkeyboard-config · GitLab

2025-06-01

2025-06-01 - avahi-discover python script

avahi-discover fails when attempting to write the discovered services to a sqlite database in /usr/lib/avahi due to lack of permissions.

The issue can be reproduced using a pristine Arch LInux system - it appears from the issues at GitHub - avahi/avahi: Avahi - Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour the issue is known - but not fixed.

→ Use of dbm causes problems with Python 3.13 · Issue #670 · avahi/avahi · GitHub
→ Fix issue with dbm.sqlite3 on readonly directories by mickael9 · Pull Request #698 · avahi/avahi · GitHub

Even though the issue has been known to upstream since december 2024, the behaviour on unstable branch has changed fairly recently - perhaps 4 weeks.

Temporary workaround
The workaround it is not optimal - but if you rely on avahi discover service - it will work

Move /usr/lib/avahi to /var/lib and symlink it back to /usr

sudo mv /usr/lib/avahi /var/lib/ && sudo ln -s /var/lib/avahi /usr/lib/

Change the ownership of the folder /var/lib/avahi including files

sudo chown root:avahi /var/lib/avahi -R

Change permissions to allow avahi group to write into the folder including the existing db file

sudo chmod g+w /var/lib/avahi -R

Finally add yourself to the avahi group

sudo gpasswd -a $USER avahi

Logoff and login to activate the new group.

Topic in German section
Avahi zeroconf browser zeigt nichts an

2025-03-20

System may hang during splash screen when Nvidia 570 drivers are used

A lot of users with older Nvidia cards report system hanging on Plymouth splash screen after installing Nvidia 570 drivers. In the past we had issues with plymouth in general combined with Nvidia drivers. Therefore we didn’t update plymouth in our stable and testing branch.

As a workaround splash could be removed from /etc/default/grub file followed by a update-grub cmd to remove plymouth from starting. Another alternative is to test the newer plymouth and give feedback if that solves the issue:

sudo pacman -U https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/pool/overlay/plymouth-24.004.60-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

2025-03-05

[community] repo removed from servers

Similar to Arch we removed our [community] repos from our mirrors and servers. You may want to check your pacnew files or manually remove [community] and [kde-unstable] when used in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

2025-05-02
community has been re-created as an empty repository so that systems where package manager configuration /etc/pacman.conf has not been updated can still be used to update packages from other repositories

2025-02-16

Update only regular repository packages first, no AUR

Follow the best practice of first updating only regular repository packages, followed separately by AUR packages.

  1. Update regular repository packages first with
    • pamac update --no-aur
      or
    • sudo pacman -Syu
  2. Then, if needed, update AUR packages.

Failure to follow this practice may result in the installation of packages that you may not need, and may cause problems. For further details, see:

Keyboard layout issues / Update issues with fcitx5

If a system had sdl2 installed and AUR updates enabled, fcitx5 might be installed as a make dependency

It is recommended to remove fcitx5 and any other orphan packages following the update

pamac remove --orphans

Update issues with fcitx5

Previous testing threads:

For what it’s worth, I like having the changed packages list embedded in the first post instead of the link. I rarely remembered to follow the link. Having the list front and center reminds me to examine it. Thanks.

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Trouble updating

Everything went smoothly, but I got the following errors:

(12/25) Install DKMS modules
==> ERROR: Missing 6.15.3-1-MANJARO kernel headers for module v4l2loopback/0.15.0.
==> ERROR: Missing 6.12.34-1-MANJARO kernel headers for module v4l2loopback/0.15.0.

Any thoughts here? Thank you.

Did you install the matching kernel header packages for dkms?

I don’t believe I did so, is there a good document / blog / video that goes through this procedure?

Thank you!

sudo pacman -Syu linux612-headers linux615-headers

Thank you! I’ll have to research what these headers do obviously, but I appreciate the quick fix! =)

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They don’t do anything. :stuck_out_tongue: They are merely the human-readable header files of the pertinent kernel’s source code, allowing the compiler to build other source code — such as the kernel interfaces of graphics drivers — into binaries against the pertinent kernel(s).

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i think there should be a topic/item in the known issues and solutions section that informs the users that they have to install the “plasma-x11-session” package if they want to use x11 in future as for known reasons.

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There will be when Plasma 6.4.x hits the Testing branch. Right now it’s still only in Unstable.

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There is an internal ongoing discussion on our Matrix channels regarding Plasma 6.4 and X11 support. The initial Wayland-Default ISOs can be tested here: Release 202506220801 · manjaro-plasma/download · GitHub

A post was merged into an existing topic: [Unstable Update] June 2025

Lost icons on first boot momentarily, fixed by reinstalling icons pack

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OH, big thanks for that! I was wondering where my X11 session went…lol

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If you are on Stable or Testing branch (your profile says you are on Stable), then your Plasma X11 session should not have gone anywhere (yet). The split of kwin-x11 from kwin is implemented in Plasma 6.4 - Stable & Testing are still on Plasma 6.3:

Output of: mbn info plasma-desktop -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
mbn info plasma-desktop -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch         : archlinux
Version        : 6.4.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 25 Jun 2025 05:52:59 
Branch         : unstable
Version        : 6.4.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 25 Jun 2025 05:52:59 
Branch         : testing
Version        : 6.3.5-1
Build Date     : Thu 08 May 2025 18:32:47 
Branch         : stable
Version        : 6.3.5-1
Build Date     : Thu 08 May 2025 18:32:47 
Output of: mbn info plasma-x11-session -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
mbn info plasma-x11-session -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch         : archlinux
Version        : 6.4.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 25 Jun 2025 05:29:27 
Branch         : unstable
Version        : 6.4.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 25 Jun 2025 05:29:27 

mbn can be found in the manjaro-check-repos package

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Curiosity question… When the date of the testing update is behind stable, is that an indication that testing and stable are in sync?

I’m used to seeing testing updates being “newer” than stable.

Always look for this in announcements.