As of Linux 6.14.11, the 6.14 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.15 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
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.
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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
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.
Warning: ksystemstats: local (6.4.0-1) is newer than extra
If you get this warning, run the following command…
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.
sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all
2025-06-19
Possible breaking changes to pacman-mirrors
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. This move introduce a possible breaking change if you have custom scripts relying on the mirrors data file. 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.
You can check if you have any of these apps installed, it was a dependency of: Arch Linux - knewstuff5 5.116.0-3 (x86_64) There is also our tool called dependency-checker
edit:
pacman or octopi are not finding dependency-checker or manjaro-dependency-checker nor is in manjaro-tools…
I’ve not any apps that require knestuff5 as shown in the right side of arch link
Then you must have removed it yourself, because pamac is one of the packages that come preinstalled with every Manjaro ISO, whether minimal or full, and whether it’s the Plasma Edition, the Xfce Edition or the GNOME Edition.
pamac is one of Manjaro’s halo components, and it was specifically developed for and by Manjaro. Which doesn’t mean that it’s without flaws, of course — quite the contrary, actually — but again, if you don’t have it, then you must have removed it yourself.
Can one use Manjaro without pamac? Yes, one can, provided that one would use pacman for repo packages and yay or another AUR helper for the AUR stuff. I have no experience with Snaps or FlatPaks, but as I gather, they come with their own tools for installation, removal and management.
So if you wish to use all of those individual tools instead of pamac, then it’s perfectly possible to keep maintaining your Manjaro system without it. But pamac has a (gtk-based) GUI, and some people here absolutely prefer that.
Alternatively, octopi is a qt-based front-end to pacman and (if configured to do so) to an AUR helper, so people preferring a GUI for package management can use that instead — and especially so the people using Plasma, because of the tighter visual integration — but people using Xfce or GNOME might object to a qt-based GUI, and for them, pamac-gtk or pamac-gtk3 would be preferable.
Ironic, isn’t it, that I of all people would be recommending pamac?
Zero problems with update. No install-grub script execution required on my single boot UEFI system (never installed it). Just restored the boot loader as usual when grub was updated to enable all new features.
As grub wasn’t one of the updated packages, would install-grub have been necessary? As grub is a bootloader [AFAIK], did you reinstall grub another way? My apologies for not understanding.
@2old4gaming normally you don’t need it. It is designed to work with the default install of Manjaro when auto-partitioning without luks was chosen. Most users might have chosen that option in Calamares. Everything else might be an “advanced” install of Manjaro.
The update went fine. But when I run the checkrebuild command I get this output flagging xnviewmp. I use this application everyday without problems. Should I be concerned? Do need to do anything?
checkrebuild -v INT ✘
foreign xnviewmp
ldd /opt/xnviewmp/XnView
liblibraw.so.1 => not found
libmdk.so.0 => not found
libc++.so.1 => not found
ldd /opt/xnviewmp/lib/styles/libqgtk2style.so
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
ldd /opt/xnviewmp/lib/platformthemes/libqgtk2.so
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
~
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.
2025-08-04
