They have not taken a long time to launch a new version of stable point. Last Friday they gave us the ISO numbered 210409, and among the highlights we had that they started using the GNOME 40 applications, but they kept their Shell in GNOME 3.38. It was also news among those of us who tried to download an image that the servers were very slow, so much so that it reached up to 10 hours. Today, the developer team has released manjaro 21.0.2, and to avoid problems they have reached an agreement with CDN77.
This time, the edition that has received the most news has been KDE, since the Plasma and Frameworks versions have been updated to the latest released by KDE Project. They also mention that they have updated more applications to GNOME 40, but they will continue to stick with the GNOME 3.38 Shell until they figure out how to make everything work perfectly in GNOME 40, among which is also the decision of how to implement it. Here are the most outstanding news that have arrived with Manjaro 21.0.2.
Highlights of Manjaro 21.0.2
- Updated kernel versions.
- Table 21.0.2.
- More applications have been updated to GNOME 40. They do not mention anything about the Shell, so the exact date of its arrival in the Stable version is unknown.
- Xorg-Server 1.20.11. Security patches have been added in this update.
- Bluez 5.58.
- Plasma 5.21.4 and Frameworks 5.81 in the KDE edition.
- Libre Office 7.1.2.
- PipeWire 0.3.25.
- Many KDE-Dev packages have been updated.
- More regular updates, including Python and Haskell.
manjaro 21.0.2 It is now available as an update for existing users, and the official editions with XFCE, GNOME, and Plasma desktops can be downloaded from this link. As we have mentioned, they have changed the hosting service to avoid problems with the downloads of the version released 9 days ago; we do not know if they will work with the previous service again. The only certainty is that now everything is going faster.