[Testing Update] 2026-05-01 - Kernels (CVE-2026-31431), Nvidia, LibreOffice, Mesa, Deepin

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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 May, beginning of June. Development speed may be a little slower the upcoming weeks. However, still let us know any issues you may found thus far. Don’t expect major updates to stable branch anytime soon! Those who want to have a maintained Distro, may switch to testing branch and give needed feedback …

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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.
  • As of Linux 6.19.14, the 6.19 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 7.0, and/or 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
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Notable Package Updates

  • Most Kernels got updated
    • linux619 kernel series got removed from our repos
    • this includes security fixes for CVE-2026-31431
      • patched kernels are: 5.10.254+, 5.15.204+, 6.1.170+, 6.6.137+, 6.12.85+, 6.18.22+, 6.19.12+, 7.0-rc7+
      • affected kernels are: 6.1.167_rt62, 6.6.133_rt73, 6.12.79_rt17, 6.17.5_rt7
      • more info in troubleshoot guide
  • NVIDIA 595.71.05 / 580.159.03
  • Firefox 150.0.1
  • LibreOffice 26.2.3
  • MESA 26.0.6
  • Updates to Deepin and Haskell

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 5.10.254
  • linux515 5.15.204
  • linux61 6.1.170
  • linux66 6.6.137
  • linux612 6.12.85
  • linux618 6.18.26
  • linux70 7.0.3
  • linux71 7.1.0-rc1
  • linux61-rt 6.1.167_rt62
  • linux66-rt 6.6.133_rt73
  • linux612-rt 6.12.79_rt17
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (5/1/26 06:38 CEST)

  • testing core x86_64: 21 new and 23 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 1623 new and 1742 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 22 new and 23 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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[Testing Update] 2026-04-28 - Kernels, Thunderbird, QEMU, Octopi, Deepin, Haskell
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Known issues and solutions

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:arrow_right: 2026-05-01

On 29 April 2026, a high local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and named “Copy Fail”, was publicly disclosed. The vulnerability affects Manjaro Linux since 2017. A public proof-of-concept exploit has been released.

We have patched most of our kernels and released them to our testing and unstable branches:

  • patched kernels are: 5.10.254+, 5.15.204+, 6.1.170+, 6.6.137+, 6.12.85+, 6.18.22+, 6.19.12+, 7.0-rc7+
  • affected kernels are: 6.1.167_rt62, 6.6.133_rt73, 6.12.79_rt17, 6.17.5_rt7 and lower

Temporary Mitigation

Disable the algif_aead kernel module persistently on all affected systems until a patched kernel is available:

echo "install algif_aead /bin/false" > /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf
    rmmod algif_aead 2>/dev/null || true

More Information: CERT-EU - High Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ("Copy Fail")

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-rc 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

2026-04-23T22:00:00Z
The issue is solved with the release of 7.0 kernel

Previous testing threads:

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431)
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Awesome! Great to see the copy fail kernel fixes flowing through the branches :100:

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Kernel 7 is already upstream patched, is it? Because i do not see it in the list.

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Well … crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-place · torvalds/linux@a664bf3 · GitHub Upstream patches most likely land in linux-mainline first. Most during the merge window and RC-development cycles. Security patches then get backported to stable Kernels. So ya, 7.0.x series was patched since 7.0-rc7.

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ISOs including these updates: Release 202605010714 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub