[Unstable Update] February 2026

Announcements Unstable Updates
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Welcome to the new monthly unstable branch thread.

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
Kernel 5.4 is now EOL

5.4.302 is the last maintenance release of the 5.4 kernel series. This kernel is now marked ‘End Of Life’ (EOL). It is recommend to switch to a newer LTS series like 5.10 or 5.15.

Kernel 6.17 is now EOL

6.17.13 is the last maintenance release of the 6.17 kernel series. This kernel is now marked ‘End Of Life’ (EOL). It is recommend to switch to the newer linux618 series:

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux618

[DRAFT] 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.

Notable Package Changes

Known Issues

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.

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[Unstable Update] January 2026
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:gnome: :grin: :+1:

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Thunderbird keeps creating an empty folder ~/Thunderbird every time I start it. Anyone has the same issue? Can’t find anything about that.

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They know about it:

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pacman -Q | grep 'egl-w'                                                                                                                                                   ✔ 
egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r57.g1893c37-1

Do we need both?

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Pamac when it instals any package an empty locked folder is placed in /var/cache/pacmam/pkg

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This library can be installed alongside the previous egl-wayland implementation (https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland). The new library has a higher selection priority by default, so if both are present, then a 560 or later driver will select the new library, and an older driver will fall back to the old library.

I assume no, we don’t need both (if you have an nvidia driver that used the newer one),
I assumed wrong, apparently it’s still a dependency for nvidia-utils.

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Sure

sudo grep "libnvidia-egl-wayland" /proc/$(pidof dolphin)/maps                                                                                                            2 ✘ 
7f5ffe897000-7f5ffe89a000 r--p 00000000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f5ffe89a000-7f5ffe8a4000 r-xp 00003000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f5ffe8a4000-7f5ffe8a8000 r--p 0000d000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f5ffe8a8000-7f5ffe8aa000 r--p 00010000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f5ffe8aa000-7f5ffe8ab000 rw-p 00012000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f5ffe8c8000-7f5ffe8ca000 r--p 00000000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f5ffe8ca000-7f5ffe8d6000 r-xp 00002000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f5ffe8d6000-7f5ffe8da000 r--p 0000e000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f5ffe8da000-7f5ffe8dc000 r--p 00011000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f5ffe8dc000-7f5ffe8dd000 rw-p 00013000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1

sudo grep "libnvidia-egl-wayland" /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/maps                                                                                                       2 ✘ 
7f35b8ab2000-7f35b8ab5000 r--p 00000000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f35b8ab5000-7f35b8abf000 r-xp 00003000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f35b8abf000-7f35b8ac3000 r--p 0000d000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f35b8ac3000-7f35b8ac5000 r--p 00010000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f35b8ac5000-7f35b8ac6000 rw-p 00012000 103:05 4087954                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland.so.1.1.21
7f35b8b11000-7f35b8b13000 r--p 00000000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f35b8b13000-7f35b8b1f000 r-xp 00002000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f35b8b1f000-7f35b8b23000 r--p 0000e000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f35b8b23000-7f35b8b25000 r--p 00011000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1
7f35b8b25000-7f35b8b26000 rw-p 00013000 103:05 4075283                   /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-wayland2.so.1.0.1

we used both
is this correct ?

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Plasma 6.6 looks very polished, I’ve been running it since yesterday and it’s great.

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Nice to hear, I’ll be upgrading soon. Did you have to disable and/or uninstall sddm per the wiki or did pacman take care of all that?

Edit: found out myself, pacman did not take care of it, in fact I didn’t even have plasma-login-manager installed :thinking: . Made a small error in an attempt to be “safe”: tried to enable plasmalogin.service before disabling sddm.service, got a message that it already exists - thought ok wow just installing it took care of it. Turns out that symlink was sddm’s, and on disabling + uninstalling that I was left with no greeter and a tty login after boot lol. Enabling the service then fixed it on the next reboot.

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I made the switch some weeks ago already.
In order for pacman to do anything there, plasma-login-manager package would have to replace the sddm one, which it doesn’t. sddm will also work just fine, the switch is not a necessity.

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The package manager will not change the login screen (display manager) e.g. from sddm to plasmalogin. This is the user’s choice to make.

sddm will continue to work - and it is possible the default for new installation will change, we will see how it goes.

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The instructions are in the first post of this thread:

That’s all you need to do to get plasma-login-manager working.

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Sound Converter fails to open with all updates on Unstable but does work on Stable. Timeshifted back to working and updated in selected groups, this seemed to point to the gstreamer (1.26.10-5 → 1.28.0-2) update being the problem

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 omano  ~ $  soundconverter 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/soundconverter", line 283, in <module>
    options, files = parser.parse_args(args[1:])
                                       ~~~~^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
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Gnac or Freac work fine on Unstable (Xfce). I ditched soundconverter when it wouldn’t honor dark theme. I use Freac just about 100% of the time, anyway.

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Any news on Linux kernel 7 being available in Unstable?

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This version is not available on https://www.kernel.org/ yet
Also, I don’t see any news about the release of RC versions, usually it happens on Sunday

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I can find anything official, but according to this graphical page I found via r/Ubuntu on Reddit, RC1 should be released in the next few days:

I also find Phoronix to be a good site to see what changes/improvements etc are happening with new kernels: