[Testing Update] 2026-03-16 - Kernels, Firefox, Mesa, Thunderbird, KDE Frameworks, Pipewire, Systemd

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. This might mark most likely the last 26.0.4 update for Anh-Linh release series. Let us know if you see some issues with those package updates.

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New in Manjaro GNOME!

When choosing an accent color in Settings, the folder colors will now change automatically to match when using the Papirus Dark or Papirus Light icon theme.

To try it out, install gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer from Add/Remove Software, logout / login and enable Papirus Folder Colorizer from Extensions.

Or, if you prefer the command line:

Install:

sudo pacman -Syu gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer

Enable the extension:

 gnome-extensions enable papirus-folders-colorizer@NiffirgkcaJ.github.com

Logout:

gnome-session-quit --logout

Also, when applying accent colors from Layout Switcher settings, it will also set the matching folder color. Requires accent-color-change r172.c761c84-2 or newer.

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 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
  • As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
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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 5.10.252
  • linux515 5.15.202
  • linux61 6.1.165
  • linux66 6.6.128
  • linux612 6.12.77
  • linux618 6.18.18
  • linux619 6.19.8
  • linux70 7.0.0rc4
  • linux61-rt 6.1.166_rt61
  • linux66-rt 6.6.129_rt70
  • linux612-rt 6.12.74_rt16
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (3/16/26 18:52 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 9 new and 9 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 946 new and 933 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 39 new and 40 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 19 new and 21 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 105 new and 106 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)

More details about the package changes can be found here

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  • 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] 2026-03-11 - Kernels, Plasma, KDE Gear, COSMIC, NVIDIA, LibreOffice
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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: 2026-03-16

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

Previous testing threads:

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Well that went remarkably drama free, by not using pamac (which I removed recently), and using Octopi instead. I still have one other computer running Testing to update though.

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The second computer also updated drama free, using Octopi.

It looks like I will be replacing pamac on all my computers (the ones with a Graphical UI) with Octopi, and using pacman on the others.. This looks like the best way forward, for as long as Manjaro is a viable Distribution. Hopefully always.

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No issues, and it looks like this update will enable me to switch to the linux7 release candidate. Tried last update, but RC3 froze my desktop when resuming from deep sleep (suspend to RAM) every time.

I’ve just installed & booted into kernel 7.0.0-rc4-1-MANJARO, and have (so far) twice put my PC to sleep & successfully resumed to a working desktop - a 100% success rate.

Edited 2026-03-16T22:42:00Z: I posted too soon. No issue with resuming, but I forgot about the other issue I had with RC3 - downloads (from firefox) just stopping partway through. I haven’t tried moving files, but I also had issues doing that via dolphin with RC3. RC4 hasn’t fixed the issue. So, back to linux619 (which works perfectly on my mini-PC).

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[Testing Update] 2026-03-31 - Linux 7.0-rc6, GNOME, Thunderbird, Deepin, Freecad, Wireplumber
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ISOs including this update: Release 202603171254 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub Please test and report back of any issues found …

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I noticed that the pamac-manager window becomes extremely huge (oversized) when I click on the details tab for the webkit2gtk package.

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That’s possibly due to the very long list of webkit2gtk’s licenses not word-wrapping in the pamac GUI, causing the window to expand beyond the screen:

pamac info webkit2gtk
Name                  : webkit2gtk
Version               : 2.50.6-1
Description           : Web content engine for GTK
URL                   : https://webkitgtk.org
Licenses              : AFL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0 WITH
                        LLVM-exception BSD-2-Clause BSD-2-Clause-Views
                        BSD-3-Clause BSD-Source-Code BSL-1.0 bzip2-1.0.6
                        GPL-2.0-only GPL-3.0-only WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0
                        GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2 ICU ISC
                        LGPL-2.1-only LGPL-2.1-or-later MIT MPL-1.1 MPL-2.0
                        NCSA NCSA OR MIT OFL-1.1 SunPro Unicode-TOU

I can confirm that the issue occurs using pamac-gtk3.

If you find that the pamac-manager window does not return to fitting within your screen, try right-clicking your mouse on it and selecting More Actions → Resize.

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I have an issue in my qemu virtual machines running on host os manjaro, after upgrading kernel 5.15; apparently iommu groups are re-arranged in kernel 5.15.202 and my sata controller is in a iommu group with some more devices, ethernet controllers, usb controllers, etc.; pcie acs override (downstream,multifunction) is not able to split the group and I cannot pass all devices in this group. Kernels 5.15.200, 6.18.18 and 6.19.8 works well. Not sure if this is a bug or what..just be aware if you run virtual machines with passthrough that the 5.15 kernel update can break things.

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Just tried to check this, getting this error when selecting ‘Printers’ in ‘System Settings’; Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_printer_manager.so: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/plasma/kcms/systemsettings/kcm_printer_manager.so: libpackagekitqt6.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

kcm_printer_manager.so is present in said location but I don’t know where libpackagekitqt6.so.2 should be

Refreshed databases in pamac, fixed packages applied. Thank you.

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Seems history repeated: July update and KDE printer manager Fix upcoming: fixes: related to packagekit · manjaro/plasma-6.5@1092467 · GitHub

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What is holding the Plasma release? I have been using it on Cachy without any issues…

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To be fair, especially with the recent updates during the last day or two, there have been a heck of a lot of other people @ CachyOS who haven’t had such a smooth experience.

Can you explain why the rush? You must understand that the whole system must be ‘snapped’ so that some things must be held back before a push to upgrade.

Lots of fixes incoming…

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I haven’t, and this is Manjaro, not Cachy.

What’s the rush, has your system stopped running because 6.6.x was released? Does it stop you from Gaming, now? Has your Business suffered? Did your Programming environment suddenly stop working? Did your Creative tools suddenly stop working?

Yeah I’ve tried it on Solus, and it looks fine, so what, just chill.

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Latest version of Plasma (6.6.3) is available on unstable branch
<edit: fixed typo>

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Typo, it’s Plasma 6.6.3
fixed, cheers <3

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