14 DAY TRIAL // The Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 distro has received its fifth update and it looks like we're getting new versions for various desktop environments, not to mention the upgrades for the supported Linux kernels.
In case you didn't know this already, Manjaro is based on Arch Linux. Surprisingly enough, it's not using the same release model as the base OS and developers push upgrades every once in a while. The main difference from other distributions is that the upgrades are usually pretty big and full of huge changes, the kind of changes that other OSes use as an excuse to get a new version number.
A stable Manjaro release can get up to 10 of these updates, which means we're almost half way through the cycle. This latest one is not as big as the previous, but it's important nonetheless. It's mostly maintenance stuff, yet upgrading would be a good idea.
The fifth update for Manjaro 0.8.13 is here
"With this we updated to Lumina Desktop 0.8.5, Mate 1.10.1, Cinnamon 2.6.13, Calamares 1.1.2, QT 5.5 incl. fixes for Plasma5, kernel 3.13.11.23, systemd v222, clang 3.6.2 and bugfixed xorg-server 1.17.2. Budige desktop got updated, flashplugin fixed, lots of consolekit package updates and other small fixes. To track the development even better, we added 'calamares-dev', which is using 'kpmcore' for partitioning. Remember that this library is still at the beginning and might create data lost," reads the official announcement.
As usual, the regular Arch Linux upstream fixes have been integrated. The currently supported Linux kernels are: 3.10.84, 3.12.44, 3.13.11.23, 3.14.48, 3.16.7.14, 3.18.18, 3.19.8.3, 4.0.8, and 4.1.2.
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 0.8.13 right now from Softpedia and upgrade your system through the regular channels.