[Stable Update] 2024-05-13 — Kernels, Plasma 6, Gnome 46, LxQT 2.0, Nvidia, Pacman

Hello community, here we are for our massive first Year 2024 update. After two months of work we are happy to finally release Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey to the world. This package includes over 8166 package updates in multiple areas. For desktop environments we have now Plasma 6, Gnome 46 and LxQT 2.0 to name a few. Another cool thing is that we are the first distro shipping Linux 6.9 Kernel as default option. Those who rely on stability can still have install medias with LTS Kernels such as 6.6 and 6.1. A lot of updates to the graphics stack like Mesa and drivers with this update. Also in Office space we have the latest LibreOffice updates such as Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird. If you emulate computers the latest VirtualBox is included also with this one.

We are looking forward to your feedback when our stable install medias of Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey got released …

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Notable Package Updates

Kernel updates
- including linux-firmware updates
Core packages
- Mkinitcpio 38.1
- Systemd is at 255.5
Desktop updates
- GNOME 46.1
- Plasma 6 6.0.4
- KDE Gear got refreshed to 24.02.2
- KDE Frameworks at 6.1.0
- LxQt 2.0.0 gained Qt6 support
Office Updates
- LibreOffice got renewed to 24.2.3 and 7.6.6
- Firefox 125.0.3
- Thunderbird got renewed to 115.10.2
Graphic related
- NVIDIA driver renewed to 550.78
- Mesa updated to 24.0.6
- Xorg Server updated to 21.1.13
Gaming related
- inputplumber 0.21.2
- hhd 2.6.4
- hhd-ui 2.2.3
- adjustor 2.1.5
- HandyGCCS supports now GDF-G2102_F03D_V1.0_240314b MCU firmware
- gamescope plus got renewed to 3.13.16.9.plus1
- steam-deckify defaults now to Wayland also on the Plasma 6 session
Package Management related
- pacman got updated to 6.1.0, which includes dropped SyncFirst option
  - all packages got updated, including libpamac. However there seems to be an issue which may freeze the UI of Pamac
- libpamac gained support to use libalpm internal download engine for downloading files
OS Installer
- Calamares 3.3.6
Virtualization
- VirtualBox is now at 7.0.18
- Wine is updated to 9.8
- New major release of QEMU 9.0.0
Misc
- We dropped various packages related to unmaintained community editions; i.e, Awesome, Bspwm, Budgie, Deepin, MATE, Openbox, etc.)
- various Python and Haskell package updates and fixes
- Python 3.12 rebuilds
- Kodi updated to 21.0