[Testing Update] 2025-07-24 - Kernels, Firefox, Nvidia, 0ad

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

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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 Support > 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 5.4.296
  • linux510 5.10.240
  • linux515 5.15.189
  • linux61 6.1.147
  • linux66 6.6.100
  • linux612 6.12.40
  • linux615 6.15.8
  • linux616 6.16.0-rc7
  • linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
  • linux66-rt 6.6.99_rt58
  • linux612-rt 6.12.39_rt11
  • linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2

Package Changes (Thu Jul 24 16:30:18 CEST 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1639 new and 1616 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 8 new and 8 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 16 new and 16 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 137 new and 241 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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[Testing Update] 2025-07-19 - Kernels, Mesa, Thunderbird, Grub, Perl, Vulkan
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Known issues and solutions

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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: 2025-07-24

grub update - watch out

Before you reboot - ensure to run install-grub script to sync the efi-stubs and recreate the grub config.

[Testing Update] 2025-07-19 - Kernels, Mesa, Thunderbird, Grub, Perl, Vulkan - #19 by linux-aarhus

2025-07-10

Warning: ksystemstats: local (6.4.0-1) is newer than extra

If you get this warning, run the following command… :point_down:

sudo pacman -Syuu
VLC does not play (certain) videos

For this update, the VLC packages were split up, and not all codecs may be installed on your system. You can install the additional codecs individually, or install the vlc-plugins-all meta-package, which will pull in all available plugins. :point_down:

 sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all

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.

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Previous testing threads:

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Personally, I already have the latest GRUB version, 2:2.12.r350.g0e367796-1, since the last update on July 19th on the testing branch.

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Just one issue during this update. A couple of phonon-qt5 packages I had on my system were moved to the AUR, and this blocked the update due to dependency issues.

pamac search -i phonon-qt 
phonon-qt6-vlc  0.12.0-5                                  extra
    Phonon VLC backend for Qt6
phonon-qt6  4.12.0-5                                      extra
    The multimedia framework by KDE
phonon-qt5-vlc  0.12.0-3                                  AUR
    Phonon VLC backend for Qt5
phonon-qt5  4.12.0-4                                      AUR
    The multimedia framework by KDE

I removed them:

pamac remove phonon-qt5-vlc phonon-qt5

After removal, the update then proceeded without any problems. I don’t think those 2 packages are going to be missed by anything on my system.

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A post was split to a new topic: I lost my operating system

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I removed them too, they were probably needed for Amarok or something like that, but now it’s qt6

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No issues, and I am happy that kernel 6.16 rc7 now boots to a working desktop instead of a black screen. :smile:

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