Manjaro’s sixth preview of v17.0.2 is online now

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Hi community,

currently we are working on our next smaller update of our Manjaro v17.0 release series. This time we ship only x86_64 ISO images for XFCE, KDE and our Gnome edition.

Our KDE edition continues to deliver this powerful, mature and feature-rich desktop environment with a unique look-and-feel, and with the perks of Manjaro's latest tools. We ship now Plasma 5.10 desktop in combination with the latest KDE-Apps 17.04. It was a huge step to get it all playing together smoothly and to give the user experience the same feeling as our KDE4 editions of the past.

The Manjaro Settings Manager (MSM) now provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for installing and removing the many series of kernels we offer. Manjaro's selection of readily available kernels remains the most extensive of all Linux distribution we know of. At the time of this release, ten kernel-series are available directly from our binary repositories, ranging from the mature and rock-solid 3.10 series to the latest 4.11 release. Additionally we offer two realtime kernel series. Such a wide array of available kernel options results in extensive hardware support, getting the most out of your system for you, be it old or new.

Features of the new release Gellivara:

We updated the stock kernel to linux49 4.9 LTS
We updated the Xorg-Stack to v1.19 series
We enhanced and improved our Manjaro Tools & Profiles
MHWD we adopted a more efficient way to handle libglx binaries
Some of our themes got updated and new got designed

Changes since our fifth preview

updated pamac
fixed a regression in installing free drivers for AMD and Intel graphic cards
added vulkan support for AMD and Intel graphic cards
added flatpak support to KDE edition
adjusted AUR support in Gnome edition

Changes since our fourth preview

updated boost
updated DRM and MESA-Stack
updated tool-chain
KDE Plasma updated to v5.10
simplified Grub-Menu

Changes since our third preview

updated ALSA-stack
Mozilla applications updated to latest version
Mesa 17.1 added
fixes to OpenSSL and Steam Client

Changes since our second preview

updated KDE framework and apps
updated Gnome packages
usage of grub v2.02
latest mesa and kernel
updated package managers

Changes since our first preview

updated to latest kernel, bluez, networkmanager and firefox
newest nvidia (long-lived) and gnome packages
plasma theme updates
fixes for pamac
fixed PXE boot

Download one of our current preview editions from here.

Quelle