[Testing Update] 2026-01-26 - Kernels, Mesa, Thunderbird, COSMIC, PipeWire, QEMU

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

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Recent News

KDE Plasma users with SDDM can now migrate to Plasma Login Manager

After ensuring plasma-login-manager 6.5.90-1 (or newer) is installed, run the following:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-login-manager
systemctl disable sddm
systemctl enable plasmalogin
sudo pacman -R sddm-kcm sddm
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older.

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:

  • Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages.
  • Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released
  • Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
  • As of Linux 5.4.302, the 5.4 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) or 5.15 LTS.
  • As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
  • As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
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Notable Package Updates

Additional Info

Python 3.14 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.13.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.13/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13)

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

  • linux510 5.10.248
  • linux515 5.15.198
  • linux61 6.1.161
  • linux66 6.6.121
  • linux612 6.12.67
  • linux618 6.18.7
  • linux619 6.19.0-rc7
  • linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
  • linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
  • linux612-rt 6.12.66_rt15
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (1/26/26 19:48 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 29 new and 30 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1042 new and 1095 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 37 new and 37 removed package(s)

List of 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

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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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: 2026-01-18

2025-12-29

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and Maxwell support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) or Maxwell (GTX 9xx) GPUs

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal or Maxwell cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required: Switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:
Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages. You can use nvidia-driver-assistant to figure out which driver would support your hardware best.

2025-12-09

.NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-12-11 - George Rawlinson

The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:

  • aspnet-runtime
  • aspnet-targeting-pack
  • dotnet-runtime
  • dotnet-sdk
  • dotnet-source-built-artifacts
  • dotnet-targeting-pack

pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.

If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:

pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0

pacman -Rs aspnet-runtime

– Arch Linux - News: .NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-11-10

mkinitcpio v40 disabled fallback image creation for new installs

mkinitcpio v40, packaging changes and kernel-install - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org
This is only affects new installs as we can’t change the hook files on existing installs.

To disable fallback image creation on older installed systems

  • Change PRESETS=('default' 'fallback') line to PRESETS=('default') in the respective .preset files in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/.
  • Regenerate initramfs - sudo mkinitcpio -P
  • Update boot loader - sudo update-grub

Warning
Disabling all fallback initramfs generation will deprive you of another option to boot into the system in case a default initramfs fails. Before proceeding, make sure you have a bootable installation medium for rescue purposes on hand.

Previous testing threads:

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Plasma Login Manager defaults to Plasma - Wayland! Nice touch! Thank you.

Drove me nuts that everywhere else (including Unstable Branch) it defaulted to GNOME.

Thankfully, I’ll never have to worry about it again.

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I have a problem with the most recent heroic-games-launcher package. Epic-games-games do not run anymore, gog games work flawlessly. The log shows this error:

/bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol: rl_print_keybinding

A downgrade to version heroic-games-launcher-2.18.1-8 works flawlessly. This user on github with manjaro - but with the flatpack package - reports the same issue.

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I can reproduce the issue as well. I’ll keep an eye on it.

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this update installed vim, since I’m not familiar with it, any problem if I will remove it?
I like to use nano…

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ex-vi-compat replaced vi which now depends on vim. Does anything you have installed require vi or vim?

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LC_ALL=C pacman -Qi vi
Name            : ex-vi-compat
Version         : 1-3
Description     : The ex and vi commands based on vim's compatibility modes
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ex-vi-compat
Licenses        : 0BSD
Groups          : None
Provides        : edit  ex  vedit  vi  view
Depends On      : bash  vim
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : vi
Replaces        : vi
Installed Size  : 870.00 B
Packager        : David Runge <dvzrv@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon Jan 26 16:44:05 2026
Install Date    : Mon Jan 26 23:38:10 2026
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

LC_ALL=C pacman -Qi vim
Name            : vim
Version         : 9.1.2077-1
Description     : Vi Improved, a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.vim.org
Licenses        : custom:vim
Groups          : None
Provides        : xxd  vim-minimal  vim-plugin-runtime
Depends On      : vim-runtime=9.1.2077-1  gpm  acl  glibc  libgcrypt  zlib
Optional Deps   : python: Python language support [installed]
                  ruby: Ruby language support
                  lua: Lua language support [installed]
                  perl: Perl language support [installed]
                  tcl: Tcl language support [installed]
Required By     : ex-vi-compat
Optional For    : fzf  pacman-contrib
Conflicts With  : gvim  vim-minimal
Replaces        : vim-minimal
Installed Size  : 5.02 MiB
Packager        : T.J. Townsend <blakkheim@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sun Jan 11 01:11:36 2026
Install Date    : Mon Jan 26 23:38:10 2026
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

seems not to me or am I wrong?

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If you don’t use vim, then neither of those programs will mind if you don’t have it installed.

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