[Testing Update] 2025-11-06 - Kernels, Mesa, Grub, Nvidia, Plasma 6.5, LibreOffice

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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’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, 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.

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 5.4.301
  • linux510 5.10.245
  • linux515 5.15.196
  • linux61 6.1.158
  • linux66 6.6.116
  • linux612 6.12.57
  • linux617 6.17.7
  • linux618 6.18.0-rc4
  • linux61-rt 6.1.156_rt56
  • linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
  • linux612-rt 6.12.49_rt13
  • linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (11/5/25, 17:43 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 47 new and 47 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 3198 new and 3344 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 35 new and 51 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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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:

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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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Could you please consider to add postgresql to “Notable Package Updates”, as there is a major update
postgresql 17.6-2 --> 18.0-1.

This needs special preparation by the user.

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@MaMicha

Perhaps you could specify what special preparation you refer to, or even better – provide a link to wherever this may be documented and quote the specific information you refer to.

If the information is lengthy, please create a new topic and link back to your post above, so that it can be easily referenced.

Regards.

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I generally dump all the data before the upgrade, and then load it into a fresh database after the upgrade, but there are detailed instructions in the PostgreSQL manual: PostgreSQL: Documentation: 18: 18.6. Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster

Having the upgrade highlighted would certainly reduce the chance of surprises :scream:

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Agreed, and knowing what changes are referred to can go a long way toward anticipating and preparing for such surprises – and now we have a link which may be helpful.

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For major releases of PostgreSQL, the internal data storage format is subject to change, thus complicating upgrades. The traditional method for moving data to a new major version is to dump and restore the database, though this can be slow. A faster method is pg_upgrade.

From the link provided by @Phemisters.

In my experience, major version upgrades in Postgres are not backwards compatible and unlike MariaDB, they data file upgrade does not happen automatically, you need manual action in the form of dump/restore, running an upgrade tool, or setting up replication.

People that have experience with Postgres already know this, beginners don’t. The warning/instructions would be for the latter.

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There was no link provided by @MaMicha – I gave him an opportunity to provide one – which I’m sure he might have soon enough, as he often has in the past; albeit with some prompting.

What you quoted (incorrectly, and using a pre-formatted text box instead of a quote box) was taken from the link kindly provided by @Phemisters .

Not unlike many packages where critical functionality changes from one major version to the next.

Something to always keep in mind is that despite this being the Testing update thread, it does indeed attract all classes of user, as you have taken the time to illustrate.

Regards.

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There’s no need to be rude, I’ve mistakenly @ the wrong person and I’ve now corrected that and fixed the formatting to your liking.

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That wasn’t rude, only a reminder; if you want rude, you’ll have to catch me when I’m in that kind of mood; but, that’s not today. Cheers

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Not sure if this is the right place, but as this is related to the testing branch and kernel 6.17. I drop this here:

Only with 6.17. I experienced that the D-Pad of my Xbox 360 Controller is misaligned. I also found this issue, which looks like to be a fix for that. Any way to get this to testing?

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Those who want to use pgupgrade need to run this, in advance to the MANJARO-update or at least before updating the PostgreSQL packages from that update. I delay the postgresql-packages in such cases like described here.

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Please notice this isn’t necessary or rather i wonder how this should work because one has to execute the pg_upgrade of the new version. On major version upgrades Arch provides the necessary things of the old version via the package postgresql-old-upgrade which you have to install alongside the update (or thereafter if you missed it), see the whole instructions in the Arch wiki. This is probably what you meant.

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4 posts were split to a new topic: I can no longer start any Windows applications with Wine 10.18

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A post was split to a new topic: Reboot and shutdown issues

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