2025-06-22 - linux-firmware-amdgpu-20250613.12fe085f may create an unbootable system for RDNA4 GPUs or graphical glitches with RDNA3 GPUs
Currently AMD and the Linux community is working on fixing possible issues with the latest firmware changes for RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs. If you land on a black screen you may need to use a recovery image to downgrade the installed firmware. More information here:
Chrome/Chromium-based browsers and GNOME 48 - Global Shortcuts
If you have extensions who use shortcuts installed on these browsers, you’ll face an issue of many dialogs opening when the browser starts, it’s quite annoying. The bug has been reported and fixed, but the commit is not yet on a stable release.
The workaround for now, is to disable the feature via --disable-features=GlobalShortcutsPortal
With pacman-mirrors 5.0-1, the global mirrors.json data file has been moved from /usr/share/pacman-mirrors to /var/lib/pacman-mirrors. This move introduce a possible breaking change if you have custom scripts relying on the mirrors data file. The moving of the file is the only change and has been made to make it possible for users to have their /usr-tree on a separate read-only partition or btrfs subvolume.
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
2025-06-20 - Tomaz Canabrava
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
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for users of vlc;
so vlc package now is split into multiple plugin packages. only the packages belonging to the vlc-plugins-base are installed by default. it mostly consists of audio codecs only. for video you need to add/install packages as necessary. the shortest route is to install vlc-plugins-all met-package which installs all vlc plugins. FYI it is not quite bad space consumption wise;
vlc-plugins-all
$ sudo pacman -Syu vlc-plugins-all
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
would like to know your input as to any plugins required i have missed.
addendum:
you can finally get rid of ffmpeg-4.4, switching to vlc-plugin-gstreamer. however not all codecs seems to work. have clapper also installed which exclusively uses Gstreamer, i have files that it can play but VLC cant play with Gstreamer, but for most things Gstreamer seems to work with OK.
addendum #2;
apart from the plugins i mentioned, you might also need; vlc-plugin-freetype (a better OSD/subtitile text renderer), vlc-plugin-archive (for VLSub to work)
I’m talking about the vlc package. You have to check for your own specific case if any of those plugins are useful or not. If you remove too much you could easily reinstall packages, the pacman logs will always tell you what you have removed.
There migth be confusion in the stable branch with this vlc plugins … don’t know how to resolve (probably the only “solution” is to install all plugins by default), but at least this should be mentioned in a prominent location that the people know upfront what will happen and what to do.
I’ve got a weird one. After upgrading nvidia-open-dkms from 575.64-2 to 575.64.03 I suddenly started getting unsolicited reboots. Nothing in logs (I was tailing journalctl, and checked after a reboot). My system rebooted randomly between 15 minutes to 1.5h from bootup on 575.64.03 with 6.15.6-1-MANJARO. I was also using lqx kernel, and there I got complete system hang, to the point of using power button to kill the machine. It’s a Lenovo Legion 5, with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q]. Reverting to 575.64-2 fixed the issue.
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The moving of the file is the only change and has been made to make it possible for users to have their 