2016-09-13 - Xorg-Stack, Firefox, Plasma5, KDE Apps, Manjaro (Stable Update)
Verfasst: Dienstag 13. September 2016, 09:14
Hi community,
Manjaro Ellada was a great release so far. However we are already working on our next release we codenamed Fringilla. During the ongoing development we found already some things we can also push to our current stable branch.
One of the bigger changes is the switch to a newer Xorg-Stack including Xorg-Server 1.18 series. We even might adopt Xorg-Server 1.19 series real soon. Is Catalyst gone then? No, we managed to re-introduce matching packages for Catalyst drivers, so they are still working. However, we might have missed some raw edges. Please report them. Nvidia got updated to 370.28, which supports now Pascal Overclocking, PRIME Sync and PixelShiftMode.
For our KDE fans we updated all apps to 16.08 series. The first point release 16.08.1 got now added to our repositories. Plasma on the other hand is now at 5.7.4. Also LibreOffice is now at 5.2.1. Another big issue was NetworkManager. We think we have also managed that problem. Report otherwise if you still have issues with your WLAN.
Most of the browsers, like Firefox and Chromium got updated to the latest releases. This goes also for Wine, Mate, Haskell and Python packages. To round this update-pack up, we switched now to our 0.13.x series of manjaro-tools. The effort is now to provide profile-settings you can install side by side. This will improve the ability to switch between our several desktop environment configurations and enables us to provide an enhanced Net-Install ISO soon. Be tuned for the new modules we write for the installer framework Calamares.
Archlinux upstream fixes are now from: Fri Sep 9 18:31 CEST 2016.
Please report any issues you may have with this update. Also read our troubleshoots to avoid known issues. A detailed list of package changes can be found here.
Kind regards,
Philip Müller and the Manjaro Development Team
Troubleshoots
Disable random mac address for your WLAN
Use nmcli to set 802-11-wireless.mac-address-randomization to never on a per connection basis or set
Issues with updating MATE
Some users have mate-menu installed from AUR. Please remove this package if you use the GTK2 version of MATE before trying to update. If you have a different issue with updating, please post.
LibreOffice and GTK3
LibreOffice might be broken on gtk-based Desktop Environments. Workaround would be to force a look to Libreoffice by editing /etc/profile.d/libreoffice*sh. We recommend to uncomment SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk. Our KDE edition isn't affected by this issue.
GTK3
With this we updated Gnome and GTK to 3.20. This will break most of the themes, which will be fixed if and when their developers decide to update them. Some GTK 3.20-compliant themes are ready now - see further down this post.
The new default Manjaro GTK theme, which is GTK 3.20 compatible, is Vertex-Maia
KDE users should default to Maia theme:
QT apps style with GTK - only needed for non-KDE desktop environments!
With QT 5.7 you need to install qt5-styleplugins and qt5ct and configure your system to have an unified look again.
ufw
If you have issues with ufw not working anymore, you have to copy your custom rules to a different folder. Do it like this:
steam
Steam might not work due incompatiblity of libgpg. You my try followed command to "fix" it:
Reference: Archlinux wiki
Current supported kernels
Linux310 3.10.103
Linux312 3.12.63
Linux314 3.14.78
Linux316 3.16.37
Linux318 3.18.41
Linux41 4.1.32
Linux44 4.4.20
Linux46 4.6.7 [EOL]
Linux47 4.7.3
Linux-RT-LTS 4.4.19_rt27
Linux-RT 4.6.7_rt11
Package Changes
community i686: 446 new and 457 removed package(s)
community x86_64: 465 new and 475 removed package(s)
core i686: 27 new and 27 removed package(s)
core x86_64: 27 new and 27 removed package(s)
extra i686: 901 new and 920 removed package(s)
extra x86_64: 901 new and 920 removed package(s)
multilib x86_64: 22 new and 24 removed package(s)
Quelle
Manjaro Ellada was a great release so far. However we are already working on our next release we codenamed Fringilla. During the ongoing development we found already some things we can also push to our current stable branch.
One of the bigger changes is the switch to a newer Xorg-Stack including Xorg-Server 1.18 series. We even might adopt Xorg-Server 1.19 series real soon. Is Catalyst gone then? No, we managed to re-introduce matching packages for Catalyst drivers, so they are still working. However, we might have missed some raw edges. Please report them. Nvidia got updated to 370.28, which supports now Pascal Overclocking, PRIME Sync and PixelShiftMode.
For our KDE fans we updated all apps to 16.08 series. The first point release 16.08.1 got now added to our repositories. Plasma on the other hand is now at 5.7.4. Also LibreOffice is now at 5.2.1. Another big issue was NetworkManager. We think we have also managed that problem. Report otherwise if you still have issues with your WLAN.
Most of the browsers, like Firefox and Chromium got updated to the latest releases. This goes also for Wine, Mate, Haskell and Python packages. To round this update-pack up, we switched now to our 0.13.x series of manjaro-tools. The effort is now to provide profile-settings you can install side by side. This will improve the ability to switch between our several desktop environment configurations and enables us to provide an enhanced Net-Install ISO soon. Be tuned for the new modules we write for the installer framework Calamares.
Archlinux upstream fixes are now from: Fri Sep 9 18:31 CEST 2016.
Please report any issues you may have with this update. Also read our troubleshoots to avoid known issues. A detailed list of package changes can be found here.
Kind regards,
Philip Müller and the Manjaro Development Team
Troubleshoots
Disable random mac address for your WLAN
Use nmcli to set 802-11-wireless.mac-address-randomization to never on a per connection basis or set
Code: Alles auswählen
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=noIssues with updating MATE
Some users have mate-menu installed from AUR. Please remove this package if you use the GTK2 version of MATE before trying to update. If you have a different issue with updating, please post.
LibreOffice and GTK3
LibreOffice might be broken on gtk-based Desktop Environments. Workaround would be to force a look to Libreoffice by editing /etc/profile.d/libreoffice*sh. We recommend to uncomment SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk. Our KDE edition isn't affected by this issue.
GTK3
With this we updated Gnome and GTK to 3.20. This will break most of the themes, which will be fixed if and when their developers decide to update them. Some GTK 3.20-compliant themes are ready now - see further down this post.
The new default Manjaro GTK theme, which is GTK 3.20 compatible, is Vertex-Maia
Code: Alles auswählen
sudo pacman -Sy vertex-maia-themes vertex-maia-icon-theme xcursor-maia
Code: Alles auswählen
sudo pacman -Sy maia-icon-theme gtk-theme-maia plasma5-themes-maia xcursor-maia
QT apps style with GTK - only needed for non-KDE desktop environments!
With QT 5.7 you need to install qt5-styleplugins and qt5ct and configure your system to have an unified look again.
ufw
If you have issues with ufw not working anymore, you have to copy your custom rules to a different folder. Do it like this:
Code: Alles auswählen
sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user.rules
sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user6.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user6.rulessteam
Steam might not work due incompatiblity of libgpg. You my try followed command to "fix" it:
Code: Alles auswählen
find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
Code: Alles auswählen
find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
Current supported kernels
Linux310 3.10.103
Linux312 3.12.63
Linux314 3.14.78
Linux316 3.16.37
Linux318 3.18.41
Linux41 4.1.32
Linux44 4.4.20
Linux46 4.6.7 [EOL]
Linux47 4.7.3
Linux-RT-LTS 4.4.19_rt27
Linux-RT 4.6.7_rt11
Package Changes
community i686: 446 new and 457 removed package(s)
community x86_64: 465 new and 475 removed package(s)
core i686: 27 new and 27 removed package(s)
core x86_64: 27 new and 27 removed package(s)
extra i686: 901 new and 920 removed package(s)
extra x86_64: 901 new and 920 removed package(s)
multilib x86_64: 22 new and 24 removed package(s)
Quelle
