[Testing Update] 2025-10-07 - Kernels, Firefox, Nvidia, Wine, Erlang

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’. It is not sure yet if we will focus on Plasma 6.4 series or adopt 6.5 series early on. For sure we will introduce GNOME 49 and maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

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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.

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Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.300
  • linux510 5.10.245
  • linux515 5.15.194
  • linux61 6.1.155
  • linux66 6.6.110
  • linux612 6.12.51
  • linux616 6.16.11
  • linux617 6.17.1
  • linux618 6.18.0-rc0
  • linux61-rt 6.1.151_rt54
  • linux66-rt 6.6.106_rt61
  • linux612-rt 6.12.49_rt13
  • linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
  • linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (10/6/25, 11:28 CEST)

  • testing core x86_64: 20 new and 18 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1949 new and 1935 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 13 new and 13 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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Known issues and solutions

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:arrow_right: 2025-09-28

2025-9-27

Heads up: Gnome 49 is here and wayland is the default.

2025-08-24

Graphical issues on older hardware (Black screen, Flickering) due to mesa 25.2.x update

It seems on older hardware the mesa 25.2.x update created some regressions which may result in black screens or flickering. Some older Nvidia cards with nouveau driver seem to be affected.

You can try to use the 25.1.x series of Mesa via this repo. Simply place it on top of [extra] in your /etc/pacman.conf file and use sudo pacman -Syuu to downgrade.

[mesa-251]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Server = https://download.manjaro.org/pkgs/mesa

If you have no graphical session available you can access the bootloader by pressing ESC key during boot and select the bootloader entry. Press CTRL+E for edit and search for the words quiet and splash. Delete those and add 3 to the line. Then execute CTRL+x to start your session. You will land in a text console TTY. Login with your user.

Edit the /etc/pacman.conf with nano: sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf. Perform the downgrade and reboot.

Previous testing threads:

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Due to the ffmpeg (2:7.1.1-5 → 2:8.0-2) update, firefox does not play some streaming videos. I wrote a bug report: 1993140 - NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR after update ffmpeg

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Apparently that’s why Arch built the latest version of Firefox on FFmpeg 4.4:

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There is a small error in the versioning of btrfsmaintenance in the repos:

  • stable

    :1:0.5.2-1

  • testing

    :0.5.2-2

  • unstable

    :0.5.2-2

Easy to resolve by Syyu but should be changed prior to the next “stable upate” i guess

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Thanks! installing ffmpeg4.4 solves my problem :+1:

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Are you using firefox-developer-edition from the repos instead of firefox? Or have you installed firefox by another method? I noticed that your bug report at Mozilla says:

Version: Firefox 144

Firefox in the repos is v143.0.4-1. One of my recent firefox updates also automatically installed ffmpeg4.4 as a required dependency:

pamac info ffmpeg4.4 | grep Required  
Required By           : firefox

However, I noticed that firefox-developer-edition does not have ffmpeg4.4 in its “Depends On” section. It is also not listed as an Optional Dependency:

pamac info firefox-developer-edition
Name                  : firefox-developer-edition
Version               : 144.0b9-1
Description           : Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser (Developer Edition)
URL                   : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/
Licenses              : MPL-2.0
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 281.1 MB
Groups                : --
Depends On            : alsa-lib at-spi2-core bash cairo dbus ffmpeg fontconfig freetype2 gcc-libs gdk-pixbuf2 glib2
                        glibc gtk3 hicolor-icon-theme libpulse libx11 libxcb libxcomposite libxdamage libxext libxfixes
                        libxrandr libxss libxt mime-types nspr nss pango ttf-font
Optional Dependencies : hunspell-en_US: Spell checking, American English [Installed]
                        libnotify: Notification integration [Installed]
                        networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [Installed]
                        onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
                        speech-dispatcher: Text-to-Speech
                        xdg-desktop-portal: Screensharing with Wayland [Installed]
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : --
Packager              : Andrew Crerar <crerar@archlinux.org>
Build Date            : Sat 04 Oct 2025 03:17:57
Validated By          : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature
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It’s not an error. Arch imported btrfsmaintenance from the AUR so I’ve dropped the Manjaro overlay package.

Did you mean, Syuu? :wink:

…or you can just reinstall the package manually. Same difference.

Firefox already depends on it, so you should have had to do absolutely nothing as the dependency is pulled in automatically.

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I’m on the testing branch and using firefox-developer-edition 144, as stated in the bug report above. After updating the entire system, ffmpeg4.4 wasn’t installed automatically, which is what caused the problem, what I didn’t know, so I filed a bug report :thinking:

It also doesn’t have ffmpeg4.4 in its dependencies, although it requires it for work

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:detective: :magnifying_glass_tilted_right:

firefox-developer-edition currently depends on ffmpeg. firefox depends on ffmpeg4.4.

Well, now your bug report will be closed…

Arch built the latest version of Firefox on ffmpeg4.4(thanks Yochanan from Manjaro Team for information):
Media playback issues with ffmpeg 8.0 (rebuild required?) (#19) · Issues · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / firefox · GitLab

So, installing ffmpeg4.4 solves my problem.

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Yes, I already closed it because there is a problem with Arch’s upstream.

upd, 2025-oct-11:
Fixed in 144.0b9-2.

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Understood. Thanks. Anyhow - there is a message coming up (“… is newer …”), regardless if this was changed in Arch or wherever. I thought it might be a good idea to solve this prior to having this in stable… And yes for sure you are correct, Syuu was what I ment … sorry for my typo …

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@Yochanan had the AUR package the epoch or did we add it on our end when we added it to our repos?

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We added the epoch. I don’t recall why.

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maybe commit history might explain …

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