14 DAY TRIAL // Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 has received a new update pack, the third for this development cycle, and the devs have upgraded a lot of the biggest packages, including LibreOffice and some of the supported desktop environments.
Even if Manjaro is using Arch Linux as a base, the distribution is not following the same model, meaning that it's not a rolling release. Manjaro has intermediary versions and large updates that bring a ton new stuff. It's not just some minor fixes and a few new packages. Sometimes you can even get support for a new desktop environment.
The previous update pack for Manjaro was made available just a short while ago, and we already have a new one in place. It's full of really interesting stuff, and if you already have Manjaro Linux installed, then you need to update as soon as possible.
The third update for Manjaro 0.8.13 has arrived
"This time we released manjaro-tools 0.9.10 with several fixes. This introduces manjaro-chroot automount feature. We fixed some legacy nvidia drivers for linux318 (x86_64), updated KDE-Apps to 15.04.3, bumped LibreOffice to 4.4.4, added some newer Gnome packages, fixed Xorg-Server, released Cinnamon 2.6.12, Mate 1.10.0 and Plasma5 5.3.2. We have mesa now at 10.6.1, patched gcc5 5.1.0, updated kernels and a bunch of rebuilds. To round-up our update we fixed Steam-manjaro client, pushed out some updates for eric, python and some needed repacks," write the devs.
The Linux kernels that are supported at this time are: Linux310 3.10.83, Linux312 3.12.44, Linux313 3.13.11.22, Linux314 3.14.47, Linux316 3.16.7.14, Linux318 3.18.17, Linux319 3.19.8.2, Linux40 4.0.7, and Linux41 4.1.1.
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. It's also a live CD, so you check it out.