Category: general

Manjaro 0.8.5.2 Community Releases unleashed (KDE, Cinnamon, Mate)

We are happy to announce three new Manjaro Community Editions featuring Mate 1.6, Cinnamon 1.7, Gnome 3.8 and KDE 4.10.2. “Community Editions” of Manjaro Linux are released as bonus flavours in addition to those officially supported and maintained by the Manjaro Team, provided that the time and resources necessary are available to do so. We [...]

Manjaro 0.8.5.2 got unleashed!

We are happy to announce another maintenance release for Manjaro 0.8.5, released one month ago. With this update we adjusted or install medias to the new repository structure we have now. This release features GTK 3.8, updated graphical installer and includes all updates from the 5th May 2013. Also we fixed slight issues we found [...]

Cinnamon won’t be dropped

Thanks to some Arch developers who helped out to make Cinnamon compatible with Gnome 3.8, we are happy to announce, that Cinnamon won’t be dropped from our repositories. We will provide new Cinnamon LiveCDs and there might be also a Gnome release! Stay tuned for further news

[News] Faster Stable Updates

With our new BoxIt repository management system it is much easier to handle snapshots and synchronizations. We’ll therefore update the testing and stable repositories immediately on any changes. Stable will be delayed if there are some bigger changes which have to be tested first in testing. You can expect a delay between stable and the [...]

Stable Repositories got updated

Today’s merge of Manjaro-Stable from our Manjaro-Testing repositories will bring these changes: All used gtk-themes might not work properly with gtk 3.8. We recommend to use our current default theme, which is called adwaita-manjaro-themes or greenbird.   We now have the following kernels available: linux38: 3.8.10 (stable kernel) linux34: 3.4.42 (LTS kernel) linux39: 3.9.0 (unstable [...]

Manjaro 0.8.5.1 released

We are happy to announce a maintenance release for Manjaro 0.8.5, released two weeks ago. With this update we adjusted or install medias to the new repository structure we have now. This will ease the installation of Manjaro Linux for new users a lot. This release features pacman 4.1 and includes all updates from the [...]

Switching between Branches

Our repository is structured in branches now: If you want to change to another branch, then edit “/etc/pacman-mirrors.conf” and change the Branch value to your desired branch: ## ## /etc/pacman-mirrors.conf ## ## Branch Pacman should use (stable, testing, unstable) Branch=testing …   It is not recommended to use the unstable repository. New packages in unstable [...]

Update News

Our repository structure has changed with the release of BoxIt 2.0. Our repositories are now: Our repositories are now bundled in branches: Therefore the directory structure changes and this might require manual interaction to update successfully, depending on which pacman version you have installed. Please use following commands to update your system:   sudo pacman [...]

pacman-init fixes security risk

We shipped since the introduction of package signing static private keys on our install medias. An attacker who is able to obtain or guess those keys can sign packages that pacman will accept as valid. Those static keys got generated during the creation of our installation medias by ManjaroISO. This shouldn’t compromise but affects the [...]

Manjaro 0.8.5 Community Editions released (Mate, LXDE, KDE)

We are happy to announce three new Manjaro Community Editions featuring Mate 1.6, LXDE 0.5.5 and KDE 4.10.2. “Community Editions” of Manjaro Linux are released as bonus flavours in addition to those officially supported and maintained by the Manjaro Team, provided that the time and resources necessary are available to do so. Yusuf and Cumali [...]