[Testing Update] 2026-04-14 - Kernels, Gstreamer, Thunderbird, COSMIC, Pipewire, KDE Frameworks

[philm]

Hello Manjaro user community, here we have another set of package updates. We are continuing our development of the upcoming release of ‘Bian-May’ which can be expected end of April, beginning of May. Development speed may be a little slower the upcoming weeks. However, still let us know any issues you may found thus far …

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Recent News

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.

Previous News

• Roman was at Froscon and had a talk about Manjaro
• Initial preview of Manjaro Immutable is now available!
• Roman published our new Website
• Philip was at Computex and showed off the OrangePi Neo
• Manjaro Team member @romangg has a new library project with a guest post on Phoronix.
• Some Manjaro team members attended FOSDEM 2024 and we showed off a prototype of the upcoming Orange Pi Neo Handheld Gaming Console!
• Check out the new Manjaro Slimbook Hero!
• Manjaro, like many other open-source projects, relies on the generosity of its community through donations and corporate sponsorships to support its growth and development. These donations are essential in covering the various expenses incurred in the operations of the project such as server costs, software development tools, infrastructure expenses, training, flying people to events or conferences and the salaries of key developers. With the help of these donations, Manjaro is able to secure the necessary financial stability that allows the project to continuously improve and remain active. If you love Manjaro, consider to donate!
• As you might have seen some of our team were able to attend FOSDEM 2023 and the conference proved to be incredibly productive for us. See our blog post for more.
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• https://frame.work/blog/spotlight-on-manjaro-linux-interview-with-the-team

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Notable Package Updates

• Most Kernels got updated
  • introducing stable 7.0
  • updated firmwares
• GStreamer 1.28.2
• Thunderbird 149.0.2
• COSMIC Epoch 1.0.9
• PipeWire 1.6.3
• KDE Frameworks 6.25.0
• Phosh 0.54.0
• WebKitGTK 2.52.0 / 2.52.1 / 2.52.2

Additional Info

Python 3.14 info

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

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.

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Our current supported kernels

• linux510 5.10.252
• linux515 5.15.202
• linux61 6.1.168
• linux66 6.6.134
• linux612 6.12.81
• linux618 6.18.22
• linux619 6.19.12
• linux70 7.0.0
• 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 (4/14/26 18:25 CEST)

• testing core x86_64: 66 new and 66 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 2749 new and 2807 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 20 new and 20 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:

• System Maintenance - Manjaro
• Check and manage pacnew files

2026-04-14

2026-04-06

udev-usb-sync and kernel 7.0-rc

If you experience slow transfers to USB attached disks, remove the package udev-usb-sync. It is not known why the 7.0 kernel causes this. There may be a regression of some sort. Awaiting the final release of the 7.0 kernel before jumping to conclusions.

See [Unstable Update] April 2026 thread for more info

Previous testing threads:

Testing Updates

[pheiduck]

For linux70 the kernel.org source can be used now.:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v7.x/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.xz

[davidbepo]

pamac is failing to launch
(pamac-manager:17252): GLib-ERROR **: 22:29:33.181: ../glib/glib/gmem.c:106: failed to allocate 5 bytes
Abortado (`core’ generado) pamac-manager

[Yochanan]

Fixed with pamac-gtk 11.7.4-4 coming along shortly.

[Maverick1082]

I agree with you, I get the same.

[2old4gaming]

The packages we have are currently vulnerable

Updated

X.Org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland

[scotty65]

Not an issue, but it looks like there is a change in KDE Frameworks that may cause irritating warning messages such as kf.iconthemes: Icon theme "ubuntu-mono" not found to appear in konsole after running commands.

This will likely only occur when using a custom (user-installed) icon theme (i.e. not breeze or breath). It is easily fixed by opening the icon’s index.theme file (located in the user’s ~/.local/share/icons/<IconTheme>/ directory and removing the missing icon themes from the Inherits= line.

For example, I use the BeautyLine icon theme, and changed the relevant section of ~/.local/share/icons/BeautyLine/index.theme from:

[Icon Theme]
Name=BeautyLine
Inherits=breeze,Adwaita,ubuntu-mono,yaru,Mint-X,elementary,hicolor

to

[Icon Theme]
Name=BeautyLine
Inherits=breeze,Adwaita,hicolor

The missing icon theme warnings have now stopped appearing.

[tracyanne]

I’m still trying to download the update, after multiple attempts. This is not the fault of Phil or actually anything to do with the Repos or the update files. The problem is all on Telstra.

I’m having to rely on Telstra 4G intenet, and their service out here in the bush stinks. My Starlink device is currently waiting for a replacement part.

Update:
At last finally got all the packages downloaded, and the update ran flawlessly.

Rebooted and running on kernel 7.0. So far everything seems OK.

[philm]

Just added few more packages to this one. Too small to create a new thread …

With this we have security fixes to Xorg-Server and Xwayland, updated Mutter plus COSMIC 1.0.10.

Package Changes (4/15/26 07:09 CEST)

• testing core x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 106 new and 106 removed package(s)

:: Different sync package(s) in repository core x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE           2026-04-14           2026-04-15
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            iproute2             6.19.0-2              7.0.0-1
                       libmicrohttpd              1.0.3-1              1.0.4-1


:: Different overlay package(s) in repository extra x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE           2026-04-14           2026-04-15
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         xorg-server            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                  xorg-server-common            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                   xorg-server-devel            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                     xorg-server-src            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                  xorg-server-xephyr            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                   xorg-server-xnest            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1
                    xorg-server-xvfb            21.1.21-1            21.1.22-1


:: Different sync package(s) in repository extra x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE           2026-04-14           2026-04-15
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              ananta              1.3.9-1             1.3.10-1
                                 buf             1.67.0-1             1.68.0-1
                       cargo-nextest            0.9.132-2            0.9.133-1
                      cargo-outdated             0.18.0-2             0.19.0-1
                                cccl              3.3.1-1              3.3.2-1
                  cosmic-app-library            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                      cosmic-applets            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                           cosmic-bg            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                         cosmic-comp            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                        cosmic-files            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                      cosmic-greeter            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                   cosmic-icon-theme            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                         cosmic-idle            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                cosmic-initial-setup            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                     cosmic-launcher            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                cosmic-notifications            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                          cosmic-osd            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                        cosmic-panel            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                       cosmic-player            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                        cosmic-randr            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                   cosmic-screenshot            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                      cosmic-session            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                     cosmic-settings            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
              cosmic-settings-daemon            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                        cosmic-store            1:1.0.9-2           1:1.0.10-1
                     cosmic-terminal            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                  cosmic-text-editor            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                   cosmic-wallpapers            2:1.0.9-1           2:1.0.10-1
                   cosmic-workspaces            2:1.0.9-1           2:1.0.10-1
                 deepin-file-manager            1:6.1.0-5            1:6.1.0-6
                        deepin-shell             2.0.33-1             2.0.34-1
                   deepin-wallpapers           1:1.7.20-1           1:1.7.21-1
                           docparser             1.0.12-1             1.0.13-2
                         easyeffects              8.1.9-1              8.2.0-1
               gnome-settings-daemon               50.0-1               50.1-1
              gnome-shell-extensions               50.0-1               50.1-1
                         localsearch             3.11.0-1             3.11.1-1
               localsearch-testutils             3.11.0-1             3.11.1-1
                             lua-lux             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                           lua51-lux             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                           lua52-lux             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                           lua53-lux             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                           lua54-lux             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                             lux-cli             0.28.0-1             0.28.1-1
                       mod_passenger              6.1.2-4              6.1.2-5
                              mutter               50.0-2               50.1-1
                       mutter-devkit               50.0-2               50.1-1
                         mutter-docs               50.0-2               50.1-1
                             neovide             0.16.1-1             0.16.2-1
                               nginx             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                      nginx-mod-acme              0.3.1-6              0.3.1-7
                  nginx-mod-auth-pam             1.5.5-13             1.5.5-14
                    nginx-mod-brotli         1:1.0.0rc-20         1:1.0.0rc-21
               nginx-mod-cache_purge              2.5.6-2              2.5.6-3
                      nginx-mod-echo               0.64-5               0.64-6
                     nginx-mod-geoip             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                    nginx-mod-geoip2               3.4-16               3.4-17
              nginx-mod-headers-more               0.39-5               0.39-6
              nginx-mod-image-filter             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                      nginx-mod-mail             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                      nginx-mod-memc              0.20-14              0.20-15
               nginx-mod-modsecurity            1:1.0.4-5            1:1.0.4-6
                     nginx-mod-naxsi                1.7-9               1.7-10
                       nginx-mod-ndk         0.33+0.3.4-8         0.33+0.3.4-9
                       nginx-mod-njs              0.9.6-2              0.9.6-3
                nginx-mod-njs-stream              0.9.6-2              0.9.6-3
                 nginx-mod-passenger              6.1.2-4              6.1.2-5
                      nginx-mod-perl             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                     nginx-mod-redis             0.3.9-25             0.3.9-26
                    nginx-mod-redis2              0.15-25              0.15-26
                  nginx-mod-set-misc         0.33+0.3.4-8         0.33+0.3.4-9
                   nginx-mod-srcache              0.33-15              0.33-16
                    nginx-mod-stream             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                      nginx-mod-xslt             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                           nginx-src             1.28.3-1             1.30.0-1
                                orca             50.0.9-1             50.1.2-1
                           passenger              6.1.2-4              6.1.2-5
                    python-editables                0.5-7                0.6-1
              python-huggingface-hub           1:1.10.1-1           1:1.10.2-1
                 python-jupyter-ydoc              3.4.0-1              3.4.1-1
                    python-mediafile             0.16.0-1             0.16.1-1
                    python-packaging               26.0-1               26.1-1
                   python-virtualenv             21.2.3-1             21.2.4-1
                     ruby-chef-utils            19.2.77-1            19.2.78-1
                           ruby-tins             1.52.0-1             1.53.0-1
                               rumdl             0.1.71-1             0.1.72-1
                           seaweedfs               4.19-1               4.20-1
                              skopeo             1.22.1-1             1.22.2-1
                            sniffnet              1.4.2-1              1.5.0-1
                         timescaledb             2.26.2-1             2.26.3-1
             timescaledb-old-upgrade             2.26.2-1             2.26.3-1
                          tinysparql             3.11.0-1             3.11.1-1
                     tinysparql-docs             3.11.0-1             3.11.1-1
              ultramaster-kr106-clap              2.5.5-1              2.5.6-1
               ultramaster-kr106-lv2              2.5.5-1              2.5.6-1
              ultramaster-kr106-vst3              2.5.5-1              2.5.6-1
                         wit-bindgen             0.55.0-1             0.56.0-1
           xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic            1:1.0.9-1           1:1.0.10-1
                       xorg-xwayland             24.1.9-1            24.1.10-1

btw. it’s my birthday …

[Pille]

@philm

btw. it’s my birthday …

Congrats! We should call it the “Phil-honor update”

Just installed it, works without issues (so far)

[davidbepo]

ye, fixed now

[Aragorn]

@philm

btw. it’s my birthday …

[tracyanne]

@philm

Just added few more packages to this one.

Yeah got them.

@philm

btw. it’s my birthday …

I hope you are having a very happy Birthday.

You look about 21.

[Podberezovikov]

@philm

btw. it’s my birthday …

Congratulations! Good health! (Health is the most important thing). Good luck and all the best! I suggest that in honor of your birthday, you update plasma and the 7.0 kernel in the stable branch )))

[expat]

@philm

birthday

I also have one of those a few days hence. God’s Blessings for you and your family and many thanks for all you have done for all of us here!

[pheiduck]

@philm

btw. it’s my birthday …

Happy Birthday! Have a great Time with your friends and family.

[Yochanan]

@philm

Just added few more packages…

These might help as that included GNOME 50.1 packages…

:: Different overlay package(s) in repository extra x86_64

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             PACKAGE             AFTER                BEFORE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         gnome-shell             1:50.1-1             1:50.0-1
                    gnome-shell-docs             1:50.1-1             1:50.0-1
  gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock                105-1                104-1
           gsettings-desktop-schemas               50.1-1               50.0-1
            gsettings-system-schemas               50.1-1               50.0-1

EDIT: Also a few more…

[Unstable Update] April 2026

nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.142-3 will be along shortly with kernel 7.0 support along with the precompiled linux70-580xx-nvidia / linux70-580xx-nvidia-open 580.142-1 packages.

[Aragorn]

@tracyanne

You look about 21.

Birthday. Not booty-kissing day.

[tracyanne]

@Aragorn

Birthday. Not booty-kissing day.

I am 74, nearly everyone looks young from my perspective.