Why is there no release announcement for Manjaro 21.2 Qonos yet

[Shirshendu]

By the by, why is there no release announcement for Manjaro 21.2 Qonos yet?

[LordTermor]

Because it’s not out yet?

[Shirshendu]

The output of lsb_release -a in my installation of Manjaro -

~ ❯ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description:    Manjaro Linux
Release:        21.2.0
Codename:       Qonos

I am on stable branch.

[LordTermor]

That’s how Manjaro works. Announcements are about new ISOs release (which typically contain some differences from previous ones).

Update itself could arrive sooner than ISOs and an announcement.

[LordTermor]

Check this:

Final Review of Qonos ISOs

Hi Community Members, we are currently reviewing the more or less final ISOs of Qonos. You may want to jump in and give it a review, before we push it to the wider public! Manjaro 21.2 Since we released Pahvo Mid-Season this year all our developer teams worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Qonos. This release features major improvements to Calamares, including filesystem selection for automatic partitioning and enhanced support for btrfs. For btrfs installati…