[Unstable Update] January 2026

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

Recent News

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

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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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Clean update on the Unstable machine I set up yesterday. There were 6 packages in my update. Given the Majority of issues seem to revolve around nVidia, I did not expect any issues.

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:construction: Python 3.14 rebuilds in progress :construction:

EDIT: Most rebuilds are now complete.

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Rebuilds are now mostly complete except for Calamares & kernel rebuilds.

EDIT: Rebuilds are complete. :white_check_mark:

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Looking forward to the wine package update.

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@ uncleruckus
Wine update just hit the repository.

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/usr/share/kconf_update/breath2tobreath.upd defined Version=5 but Version=6 was expected

/usr/share/kconf_update/breath2tobreath.upd

Version=5
Id=Breath2ToBreath
Script=breath2tobreath

is this correct ?

kioworker[15395]: "Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/thumbcreator/appimagethumbnail.so: Die Bibliothek /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/thumbcreator/appimagethumbnail.so kann nicht geladen werden: libappimage.so.1.0: Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden"

install libappimage solved

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patchutils (0.4.4-1) and bash-completion have files conflict
patchutils: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/interdiff already exists in the file system (owner — bash-completion)

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not yet in manjaro repository
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/bash-completion/download/

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If CachyOS & Fedora can do it, why can’t we? :grin:

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wow it works :+1:

For autologin users like me

it works

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The KCM module has an Autologin option: System Settings > Security & Privacy > Login Screen

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oh i see thx a lot

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Will themes and settings for SDDM continue to work for plasma-login? I didn’t find any information about it

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Configuration

Plasma Login is configured by users through /etc/plasmalogin.conf, which overrides distro-provided defaults at /usr/lib/plasmalogin/defaults.conf. In managed scenarios, the latter file can be modified to set a default wallpaper or login session, with the settings module disabled via Kiosk.

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i ask about SDDM themes on QML and settings like

[General]
DisplayServer=wayland
GreeterEnvironment=QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=layer-shell

[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --drm --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --locale1

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I did not find any information about compatibility and whether plasma-login uses wayland by default.

and this package does not contain /usr/lib/plasmalogin/defaults.conf configuration file

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I’m not sure about specific settings, but custom themes can no longer be used. Instead, it uses Plasma’s wallpaper plugins, so you can set a custom image for the login screen:

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It’s sad, I liked some of them.

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what is more important is which other DE/WM can it start? maybe no one needs more DE because plasma is a handful, but i would like for it to support some WM atleast

suggestion: can we move the plasma-login-manager chit chat to its own separate thread