14 DAY TRIAL // On March 3, the Manjaro development team had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and testing of the second Preview release of the upcoming Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 operating system.
Distributed in the official Xfce and KDE flavors, the Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 is also available for download as a Cinnamon Community Edition, which you can download right now from Softpedia (see download links at the end of the article).
For users, Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 brings the latest KDE Applications 15.04 software suite for the KDE Plasma 5.2.2 desktop environment, a highly customized and tweaked version of the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment, as well as the latest KDE Frameworks 5.9.0.
"After another two weeks of development we are proud to present to you our second preview of our next stable release, Manjaro 0.8.13," says Philip Müller on behalf of the Manjaro Development Team. "This time we ship XFCE 4.12 tweaked and patched to have the best XFCE experience possible, Plasma 5.2.2, KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 and latest KDE Apps 15.04!"
Thus installer received numerous improvements in Manjaro 0.8.13 Pre2
Under the hood, the Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 release is still powered by Linux kernel 3.18, significantly improves the Thus installer, and includes all the regular in-house built patches and upstream updates from the magnificent Arch Linux operating system.
Download Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 Xfce, Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 KDE, Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2 Cinnamon right now via Softpedia or directly from the official website of the distribution.
When installing Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 Pre2, please keep in mind that it's a pre-release version that might contain unresolved issues. Thus, we do not recommend using it on production machines. Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 is the last maintenance release for the 0.8 series.