Dear sir,
When do I get updates? You wrote this system is rolling release, but I get just two packages in 2-3 weeks. I like this system, but it is annoying to wait for the update packages.
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You might have misunderstood what that means.
Don’t use the stable branch of Manjaro when you prefer to get updates in smaller chunks but more often - use the testing or unstable branch.
Or use Arch or EOS.
With those, you get to update a few packages every day on average 
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Yes, it certainly is.
I suggest that you should DEMAND that we create a completely new repository with DAILY updates to satisfy your craving.
If you are asking this question, I think that you don’t understand too well about how Arch works, or about how Arch based distributions work - as Manjaro is apt to delay updates to give you a more stable system.
Manjaro has THREE branches
- Stable (being the most stable - meaning packages are held and released periodically when they’re deemed stable).
- Testing
- Unstable - which SHOULD prove quite stable, but gives more interruptions as updates come through as soon as they are ready.
However, if you have had only 2 packages in 2-3 weeks, this is interesting.
Post for us the output of ‘pacman-mirrors’. Try running the following:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack --api --timeout 3 && sudo pacman-mirrors
Then synchronise:
sudo pacman -Syu
You can let us know what branch you’re using - I assume it’s Stable.
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Welcome to the forum! 
Well, first of all, Manjaro is a curated rolling-release distribution. This means that the packages are thoroughly tested by the community via the Unstable and Testing branches before they land in Manjaro Stable.
Secondly, while we used to have two and sometimes three new Stable Updates per month, the frequency of such large bundled updates in the Stable branch has lowered in more recent times due to the fact that we now have a smaller team of packagers and developers than we had before, in combination with the fact that certain changes upstream — most notably the developers of the desktop environments we offer, as well as Nvidia — require us to more thoroughly test these new versions before we can include them in the Stable branch.
As others have said, if you are too impatient to wait for the next Stable Update, then we recommend switching to the Testing branch instead, or even the Unstable branch. Doing so is as simple as… 
sudo pacman-mirrors -a -B testing && sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
However, you should keep into account that you may encounter more breakage in the Testing and Unstable branches than in the Stable branch, depending on what hardware you have and what applications you wish to use.
In the end, the option to switch is there, as explained above, and if you were to then decide that you don’t like the experience of the Testing or Unstable branches, then you can usually switch back to the Stable branch again in the same manner.
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Pretty much everything is said here, but too small additions:
If you look at the announce section, subsection stable, you will see the last big update was on 01.02.2026. After that indeed only browsers and such things were updated. So it is normal.
Secondly, the stable branch is updated on average every month, can be anywhere from 2 weeks to two months however. As already said, if it does not suit you, there is the unstable branch.
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