Close shave for our beloved Mozilla Firefox.

GNOME 49 re-enables X11 session support in GDM after it broke the ability to launch other desktop environments. It plans full removal in GNOME 50.

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The new Linux Mint 22.2 release is available for download. It features theme changes, fingerprint support, and updated apps. More details inside.

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Warp, the Agentic Development Environment, for Windows, macOS and Linux has launched a suite of new features to improve prompt-based coding.

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

Current Promotions

• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
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Recent News

• Development | Q&A | Zotac Gaming ZONE Pro
• Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.15.11, the 6.15 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.16 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Qemu 10.1.0
• Nvidia 580.82.07
• Updates for Deepin
• Ollama 0.11.8
• Some fixes to Virtualbox
• Haskell and Python updates

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

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Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.297
• linux510 5.10.241
• linux515 5.15.190
• linux61 6.1.149
• linux66 6.6.103
• linux612 6.12.44
• linux615 6.15.11 [EOL]
• linux616 6.16.4
• linux617 6.17.0-rc4
• linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
• linux66-rt 6.6.101_rt59
• linux612-rt 6.12.43_rt12
• linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
• linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (Wed Sep 3 12:46:36 CEST 2025)

• testing core x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1305 new and 1307 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)

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• testing extra x86_64: 37 new and 39 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

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US judge in antitrust case rules Google can keep paying Mozilla and other companies for default search placement, but bans exclusive contracts.

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GIMP 3.1.4 is out, a fresh development snapshot of what will become the next major stable release. It introduces two long-awaited new features.

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When the first World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight 2022 report was published in Dublin at the time we launched Linux Foundation Europe, it painted a picture of a continent with an undeniable passion for open source — a “romantic” relationship, as our researchers called it. European contributors were motivated by learning and enjoyment more than career advancement. Policies across governments encouraged consumption of open source, and industry leaders recognized its value. However, beneath this enthusiasm, a structural imbalance was clear. Organizations were consuming more open source than they were contributing back, and many sectors, in particular the public sector, lagged in fully embracing open collaboration.

by George Whittaker

This article explores how modern DevOps teams are redefining stability and reproducibility in production environments by embracing truly unchangeable operating systems. It delves into how NixOS’s declarative configuration model and OSTree’s atomic update mechanisms open the door to systems that are both resilient and transparent. We'll explain the advantages, technologies, comparisons, and real-world use cases fueling this shift.

The Paradigm Shift: From Mutable Chaos to Immutable Assurance

• Why the change happened: The traditional model, logging into servers, tweaking packages, and patching in place, has led to unpredictable environments, elusive bugs, “snowflake” systems, and configuration drift as environments diverged over time. Immutable infrastructure treats machines like fungible artifacts: if you need change, you don’t fix the running system, you replace it.

• Key benefits:

  • Reliability at scale: Automated, reproducible deployments, no divergence across servers.

  • Simplified rolling back: If something breaks, spin up the previous, working version.

  • Security by design: Core systems are read-only, reducing the attack surface.

Immutable Foundations in Action NixOS: The Declarative, Version-Controlled Linux

• How it works: System configuration, including packages, services, kernels, is expressed in the Nix language in a config file. Rebuilding produces a new system “generation,” which can be booted or rolled back.

• Why DevOps teams love it:

  • Reproducibility: Exact environments can be rebuilt from config files, promoting parity across development, CI, and production.

  • Speed and consistency gains: In one fintech case, switching to NixOS reduced deployment times by over 50 percent, erased environment-related incidents, shrank container sizes by 70%, and cut onboarding time dramatically.

  • Edge readiness: Ideal for remote systems or stateless servers rebuilt nightly to ensure fleet consistency with easy rollback.

  • Personalization meets immutability: With tools like Home Manager, even user-specific configurations (like dotfiles or shell preferences) can be managed declaratively, and consistently reproduced across machines.

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

Current Promotions

• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
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Recent News

• Development | Q&A | Zotac Gaming ZONE Pro
• Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.15.11, the 6.15 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.16 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Some Kernels got rebuilt
  • to fix some AMDGPU regression
  • linux617 got enhanced to support Strix Halo WebCams
  • linux-firmware got ISP firmware backported to support Strix Halo WebCams
• Wine 10.14
• Haskell and Python updates

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.297
• linux510 5.10.241
• linux515 5.15.190
• linux61 6.1.149
• linux66 6.6.103
• linux612 6.12.44
• linux615 6.15.11 [EOL]
• linux616 6.16.4
• linux617 6.17.0-rc4
• linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
• linux66-rt 6.6.101_rt59
• linux612-rt 6.12.43_rt12
• linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
• linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (Tue Sep 2 06:46:14 CEST 2025)

• testing core x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1284 new and 1290 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 4 new and 4 removed package(s)

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• testing core x86_64: 30 new and 30 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 54 new and 56 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 1 new and 1 removed package(s)

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This is a recap of Linux app releases in August 2025, taking in updates to Qemu, Constrict, Gradia, Zen Browser, PeaZip and more!

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Welcome to the new monthly unstable branch thread.

Recent News Kernel 6.15 is now EOL (click for more details) (click for more details) Notable Package Changes

• QEMU 10.1.0
• Phosh 0.49.0
• LibreOffice 25.2.6
• KDE Plasma 6.4.5
• PipeWire 1.4.8
• VirtualBox 7.2.2
• KDE Gear 25.08.1
• KDE Frameworks 6.18.0
• GStreamer 1.26.6
• Mesa 25.2.3
• Vivaldi 7.6
• WebKitGTK 2.50.0
• GNOME 49
• Thunderbird 143.0.1
• COSMIC Beta 1
• pacman-mirrors 5.2
• NVIDIA 580.95.05
• Firefox 143.0.3

Known Issues 2025-07-20 - grub update 2:2.12.r292 -> r350 (click for more details) 2025-06-22 - linux-firmware-amdgpu-20250613.12fe085f may create an unbootable system for RDNA4 GPUs or graphical glitches with RDNA3 GPUs (click for more details) 2025-06-01 - avahi-discover python script (click for more details) Chrome/Chromium-based browsers and GNOME 48 - Global Shortcuts (click for more details) python-gobject 3.52 breaks multiple apps (libpeas related) (click for more details) Possible breaking changes to pacman-mirrors (click for more details) Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11 (click for more details) Additional Info Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

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Though Proxmox is not officially available for Raspberry Pi yet, you can surely be experimental and install it on your Pi like I did.

SuperFile adds colour and clarity to terminal file management. If you're looking for a modern alternative to Midnight Commander on Ubuntu, it's worth trying.

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LibreOffice 25.8.1 brings almost 100 bug, crash and other regression fixes. This is the first of several planned point updates to the latest stable release series.

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Current Promotions

• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
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Recent News

• Development | Q&A | Zotac Gaming ZONE Pro
• Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.15.11, the 6.15 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.16 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Some fixes to Mesa packaging
• LibreOffice 25.8.1
• Qt6 6.9.2
• Some repackaging of ROCm 6.4.3

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.297
• linux510 5.10.241
• linux515 5.15.190
• linux61 6.1.149
• linux66 6.6.103
• linux612 6.12.44
• linux615 6.15.11 [EOL]
• linux616 6.16.4
• linux617 6.17.0-rc3
• linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
• linux66-rt 6.6.101_rt59
• linux612-rt 6.12.43_rt12
• linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
• linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (Sun Aug 31 07:55:30 CEST 2025)

• testing core x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 1470 new and 1467 removed package(s)
• testing multilib x86_64: 14 new and 12 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

• testing core x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)
• testing extra x86_64: 8 new and 8 removed package(s)

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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

Current Promotions

• Get the latest Gaming Laptop by Slimbook powered by Manjaro: Slimbook Manjaro III
• Protect your personal data, keep yourself safe with Surfshark VPN: See current promotion

Recent News

• Development | Q&A | Zotac Gaming ZONE Pro
• Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01
• Manjaro 25.0 Zetar released
• Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
• As of Linux 6.15.11, the 6.15 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.16 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates

• Most Kernels got updated
  • most kernels got a fix for a network regression
• Firefox 142.0.1 and 143.0b5
• php 8.4.12
• ROCm 6.4.3
• steam 1.0.0.84
• Python and Haskell updates

Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

• linux54 5.4.297
• linux510 5.10.241
• linux515 5.15.190
• linux61 6.1.149
• linux66 6.6.103
• linux612 6.12.44
• linux615 6.15.11 [EOL]
• linux616 6.16.4
• linux617 6.17.0-rc3
• linux61-rt 6.1.146_rt53
• linux66-rt 6.6.101_rt59
• linux612-rt 6.12.43_rt12
• linux615-rt 6.15.0_rt2
• linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3

Package Changes (Fri Aug 29 09:13:49 CEST 2025)

• stable core x86_64: 18 new and 18 removed package(s)
• stable extra x86_64: 1748 new and 1745 removed package(s)
• stable multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

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