[Unstable Update] December 2024 Edition

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Welcome to the new monthly unstable branch thread.

Recent News

Notable Package Changes

  • Qt 6.8.1

  • GStreamer 1.24.10

  • NVIDIA 565.77

  • COSMIC Alpha 4

  • Phosh 0.43.1

  • Firefox 133.0.3

  • Thunderbird 128.5.1

  • KDE Gear 24.12

  • KDE Frameworks 6.9.0

  • Systemd 257

  • Mesa 24.3.2

  • Xfce 4.20

  • Python 3.13

    More Info

    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

    * Itā€™s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

  • LibreOffice 24.8.4

  • NetworkManager 1.50

  • Phosh 0.44.0

Known Issues

Linux 6.12.2-1 may cause a kernel panic
  • The team is looking into the issue. Use 6.11 or 6.6 for the time being
  • Resolved with 6.12.2-2
Mesa 24.3.1
NVIDIA 565 Driver
  • Displays connected via DVI may not function on certain graphics cards.

Additional Info

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 AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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libfilezilla just updated. Filezilla 3.68.1-1 needs to be pushed from Arch.

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Indeed. Syncing nowā€¦

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can you check about lib32-fluidsynth version ?

la prƩparation de la transaction a ƩchouƩ (la satisfaction des dƩpendances a ƩchouƩ)
:: lā€™installation de fluidsynth (2.4.1-1) casse la dĆ©pendance Ā« fluidsynth=2.4.0 Ā» requise par lib32-fluidsynth
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lib32-libva-vdpau-driver was dropped and orphaned. It does not depend on anything, as far as I can tell it was installed in 2020 from something I needed in relation to some video issue I experienced when playing old games, it was explicitly installed. Iā€™ve removed the package.

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I see that zip and unzip were recently made orphans on file-roller, piquing my curiosity. Looks like heftig made this commit that made them makedepends instead. I tested by removing those orphans and didnā€™t have any initial problems either extracting legacy zip archives or creating a new zip archive using file-roller so it would appear that this functionality is now built-in. I figured Iā€™d mention this since many people still work with legacy zip files and could be alarmed.

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Iā€™m pretty sure zip and unzip have not been required to interact with .zip archives for quite some time.

Taking a quick look it would appear the unarchiver, p7zip, and others all have varying degrees of support.

Indeed, checking the package information for file-roller zip/unzip are listed as optional dependencies for ā€œbetter ZIP archive supportā€. The word ā€˜betterā€™ of course implying there is some ā€˜lesserā€™ zip support preexisting.

For whatever its worth the same depends and comments are presento n the upstream Arch package as well.

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So far, no issues with the updates. Qt release is fine, but it still is not fixing partial scaling bug (causing graphical glitches).

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With kernels 6.11 and 6.12, laptop freezes upon waking from suspend. Using manjaro-sway unstable.
This proposed solution has not helped, unfortunately.

Razer Blade with CPU: 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX with Radeon Graphics and NVIDIA dGPU

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:warning: Just added two new items to Known Issues :point_up:

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6.12.2 has a regression by missing a commit: Unstable branch - Kernel linux612 6.12.2-1 - #5 by philm

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:information_source: The issue with 6.12-1 is resolved with 6.12.2-2. :+1:

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A post was split to a new topic: Wayland session is giving me a black screen

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Udisks2 mounts removable devices just fine without a password request, but when it comes to non-removable devices it asks for a password. That seems to be the default and no polkit rule is set for that. When I set:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount") &&
        subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

It mounts just fine without password. It is a quite recent unusual behavior. Not the problem of the December update.

It is a QoL bug.

It would be nice to add a rule here by default, if possible.

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A post was split to a new topic: Module cifs not found

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There is regression in Dolphin 24.12.0-1.

After update 24.08.3-1 ā†’ 24.12.0-1 with preview on, after changing fileā€™s name, the preview is gone and file is shown as general file icon.
After downgrading to Dolphin 24.08.3-1 the issue is gone and changing name of a file is not destroying the preview.

Here is the bug report:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497555

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A post was split to a new topic: Updating systemd to 257-1 resulted in no internet connection

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:information_source: Python 3.13 rebuilds will be starting shortly.

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According to This Week in KDE Apps, that issue will be fixed in Dolphin 24.12.1:

Fixed a couple of regressions in the 24.12.0 release. (Akseli Lahtinen, 24.12.1. Link 1, link 2, link 3)

The above links:

497555 ā€“ Dolphin is not automatically updating previews after changing fileā€™s name since 24.12

495878 ā€“ Customizing the default view settings doesnā€™t work anymore

497021 ā€“ Crash when using smb:// and mtp://

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actually those are already fixed in 24.12.0.1 release ā€¦

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