14 DAY TRIAL // The Manjaro 0.8.13 operating system has been upgraded a lot in this cycle and developers have just released the ninth update for it, bring support for some new Linux kernels and a few other packages.
Manjaro is a distribution based on Arch Linux, but its developers don't follow the same rolling release model. Intermediary versions are released and then patches are made available. It's a rather unique way of doing things, and it looks like it's been a successful model. The makers of Manjaro are able to push some pretty heavy new features through this update system, like new desktop environments.
Previous versions of Manjaro had about eleven or twelve of these update packs, so it looks like we’re almost nearing the end of the cycle. The upcoming 0.19.0 branch is already in the works, and it's coming along just fine. In fact, it feels even faster than the current generation, but it will take a few months to reach a stable stage.
Manjaro 0.8.13 gets its ninth update
"We are happy to announce our ninth update for Manjaro 0.8.13. With this we updated most of our kernels, glibc to 2.22, Firefox to 40.0.2, Thunderbird to 38.2.0, lumina-desktop to 0.8.6, mesa to 10.6.4 (incl. some Intel fixes) and fixed pamac for AUR4. We also worked on devtools, dropbox and kde-servicemenus-rootactions. As regular, this update includes also the usual Archlinux upstream fixes (Mon Aug 17 06:57:50 CEST 2015). It is always good to check for updated packages, even we don’t notify you about them. As usual people using our testing branch will help us to get snaps over to our stable branch almost smoothly," reads the official announcement.
The Linux kernels that are currently supported are 3.10.86, 3.12.46, 3.13.11.25, 3.14.50, 3.16.7.15, 3.18.20, 3.19.8.5, 4.0.9 (EOL), 4.1.5, and 4.2-rc6. As usual, you can download Manjaro 0.8.13 right now from Softpedia and upgrade the distro via the usual channels.