The developers are moving fast with this release

Jan 9, 2015 10:31 GMT  ·  By

The Manjaro Linux developers have released a new update pack for the 0.8.11 branch of the operating system and they have implemented a number of important updates just days after a previous major upgrade.

Manjaro is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, which is also 100% compatible with the repositories of the base system. The developers release big package updates for it, which makes this distro rather different from Arch Linux. Unlike the rolling release model of Arch, which doesn't really need any new periodical releases, Manjaro receives this kind of upgrade packs and a bigger one from time to time.

It's interesting to see that the fifth update for Manjaro 0.8.11 has arrived only days after the previous one and that usually means one thing, that the developers really had something important they needed to make available as soon possible. From what they have published until now, it's nothing out of the ordinary, so it's likely that they are just diligent.

This is a regular update for Manjaro

The Manjaro devs seem to be very busy these days and they have been working very hard to make all sorts of improvements, especially for the file manager and various other smaller packages.

"With this update we have pacman 4.2, pamac 2.1, package-query 1.5 and pyalpm 0.7. Also we can present Kodi 14.0, which replaces XBMC. Beside the change to pacman 4.2, we have our first stable release of manjaro-tools - a replacment for manjaroiso and devtools. Some of our developers are already testing these new tools. If you like, test them too. This includes also regular Archlinux upstream fixes (Jan 8 19:21:52 CET 2015). Please give us feedback and report any findings with this update," say the devs.

If you already have the system installed and you perform regular updates, then you don't really have to do anything extra. You can download Manjaro 0.8.11 right now from Softpedia and upgrade your system through the regular channels.

Manjaro 0.8.11 (13 Images)

Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 desktop
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