On February 14, this popular distribution based on Arch Linux gave us a new stable version, but with so few really important news that one might think that there was a release that day because it was an important date, at least for those who decide to celebrate it. Today have thrown manjaro 2022-02-27, and with only what we read in the headline, we cannot say the same as a little less than two weeks ago.
And it is that, although there are many components in a Linux-based operating system, what is most striking is when a new version of the kernel or the graphical environments are mentioned. Manjaro 2022-02-27 has arrived with the new versions of the two most used "DE", in the case of GNOME a point update (41.4) and in the case of KDE a new series, already in its second maintenance update : plasma 5.24.2.
Highlights of Manjaro 2022-02-27
- Most of the Kernels have been updated, the newest being Linux 5.16.7-1.
- New Toolchain that many people had expected.
- The Nvidia driver has been updated to 510.54.
- Plasma has its second version for the 5.24 series, another way of saying that Plasma 5.24.2 is included.
- Firefox has a new beta version.
- The man pages have been updated to 4.13.
- AMDVLK is in 2022.Q1.3.
- KDE Frameworks is now at 5.91.0 (
sudo dolphinIt should already be possible, but it isn't in Manjaro). - Wine 7.2. brings more thematic fixes. We remember that the WINE 7 series is the development one; the stable one is still 6.
- GNOME has been updated to 41.4.
- Linux-Firmware has been renewed.
- Gstreamer is now at 1.20.0.
- Pipewire is at 0.3.47.
- Mesa is now at 21.3.7.
- libxcrypt got backwards compatibility.
Manjaro 2022-02-27 is a new stable version, and is now available to install from Pamac or with the sudo command pacman -Syu. In the Manjaro community, the purists like to do it with Pacman via the terminal, but lately Pamac handles some bugs better, or that's my impression, so I would recommend doing it with the Manjaro software, either via the terminal or with the GUI application. Let's do it as we do it, we already have a new stable version. And although the download page has not been updated, there are new Manjaro 21.2.4 ISOs that can be downloaded from here.