(Unstable update) February 2026 – Unstable updates

When an accent color is selected in Settings, the folder colors will now automatically change to match when using the Papirus Dark or Papirus Light icon theme.

Install to try it gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer from Add / Remove Software, log out / log in and enable Papirus Folder Colorizer from Extensions.

sudo pacman -Syu gnome-shell-extension-papirus-folders-colorizer

 gnome-extensions enable papirus-folders-colorizer@NiffirgkcaJ.github.com

gnome-session-quit --logout

Also, when applying accent colors from Layout Switcher settings, it will also set the matching folder color. Require accent-color-change r172.c761c84-2 or newer.

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

5.4.302 is the last maintenance release of the 5.4 core series. This core is now marked ‘End Of Life’ (EOL). It is recommended to upgrade to a newer LTS release such as 5.10 or 5.15.

6.17.13 is the last maintenance release of the 6.17 core series. This core is now marked ‘End Of Life’ (EOL). It is recommended to switch to the newer linux618 series:

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux618

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.

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