(Test Update) 2026-02-08 - Kernels, KDE Gear, COSMIC, Systemd, Qt6, LibreOffice - Test Updates

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February 8, 2026 05:19

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

Recent News

KDE Plasma users with SDDM can now migrate to Plasma Login Manager

After the insurance 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

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 not load the driver, which may result in a broken graphics environment.

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards should switch to a legacy driver to retain support:

Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xxor related DKMS packages.

Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released
Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
As of Linux 5.4.302, the 5.4 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) or 5.15 LTS.
As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.
As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 LTS (Long Term Support) and/or 6.12 LTS.

Previous News

Roman was there Froscon and has a talking about Manjaro
Initial preview of Manjaro Immutable is now available!
Novel we published new website
Philip was at Computex and had the OrangePi Neo
Manjaro team member @romang has a new library project with a guest post on it Phoronix.
Some Manjaro team members attended FOSDEM 2024 and we displayed a prototype of the upcoming Orange Pi Neo Handheld Gaming Console!
Check out the new Manjaro Slimbook Hero!
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As you may have seen, some of our team were able to attend FOSDEM 2023 and the conference was incredibly productive for us. See our blog post for more.
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Linux, Judo, unicycles and… Baywatch?! How Vivaldi and Manjaro aim above the ordinary. | Vivaldi browser
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Notable package updates

Additional information

Python 3.14 information

You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install or link files to site packages libpython3.13.so.

Print a list of packages that have files in them /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 rebuilding:

 checkrebuild

* It is recommended to first clean your build cache with pamac clean --build-files

Information about AUR packages

AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are not supported by Arch or Manjaro. Posts about them Announcements topics are off topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic Support > AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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

Our current supported kernels

linux510 5.10.249
linux515 5.15.199
linux61 6.1.162
linux66 6.6.123
linux612 6.12.69
linux618 6.18.9
linux619 6.19.0-rc8
linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
linux612-rt 6.12.66_rt15
linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (2/8/26 05:47 CET)

test kernel x86_64: 34 new and 35 removed package(s)
test extra x86_64: 1870 new and 2016 removed package(s)
test multilib x86_64: 8 new and 6 removed package(s)

List of changes can be found here

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2026-02-08

2025-12-29

NVIDIA 590 driver allows Pascal and Maxwell support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) or Maxwell (GTX 9xx) GPUs

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal or Maxwell cards will not load the driver, which may result in a broken graphics environment.

Intervention required: Switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:
Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xxor related DKMS packages. You can use nvidia driver assistant to find out which driver will best support your hardware.

2025-12-09

.NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-12-11 – George Rawlinson

The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:

aspnet runtime

aspnet target package

dotnet runtime

dotnet-sdk

dotnet-source-build-artifacts

dotnet target package

pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the relevant packages.

If you are affected by this and need the 9.0 packages, eg the following commands will update aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:

pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0

pacman -Rs aspnet-runtime

– Arch Linux – News: .NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-11-10

mkinitcpio v40 disabled fallback image creation for new installations

mkinitcpio v40, packaging changes and kernel install – Arch-dev-public – lists.archlinux.org
This only affects new installations as we cannot modify the hook files on existing installations.

To disable fallback image creation on older installed systems

alter PRESETS=('default' 'fallback') line up PRESETS=('default') in the respective .preset files in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/.
Regenerate initramfs – sudo mkinitcpio -P
Update Bootloader – sudo update-grub

Warning
Disabling all fallback initramfs generation will deprive you of another option to boot into the system in case a default initramfs fails. Before proceeding, make sure you have a bootable installation media handy for rescue purposes.

Previous Test Threads:

bruce

February 8, 2026 2:48 p.m

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I’ve followed one issue all the way from Arch Testing that might deserve a mention when it goes to Stable Branch.

This only affects Proton Mail Bridge and ProtonVPN. (Oddly enough, the Proton Mail Desktop client appears to be unaffected.) Keychain updates mean auto logins need to be refreshed – you need to log in again. Autostart naturally fails until the autologins are refreshed.

It’s good and easy with VPN. However, Bridge requires a total reconfiguration as if installed from scratch. Which means in Thunderbird, removing the old certificate exception, adding a new one and new passwords for IMAP and SMTP.

Then it resyncs local copies of all messages from the server. Boring. And I, for one, struggle to remember where Thunderbird hides everything I need to change when it happens.

This is purely a ProtonAG issue. Nothing to do with Arch or Manjaro. But a mention in the release notes for Stable Branch can help reduce support questions. And maybe a reminder that the outfits that make Proton Mail/VPN/etc. and the Proton, whatever gamers use, are two completely unrelated companies and product lines.

EDIT: I can blame the eye surgery I had last week. I clicked the wrong choice in the poll above. Clicked the “I have a problem” button instead of the “I fixed my problem” button.

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(Test Update) 2026-02-08 – Kernels, KDE Gear, COSMIC, Systemd, Qt6, LibreOffice – Test Updates

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