Manjaro Linux 25.1 Anh-Linh Preview 1 released

Manjaro Linux 158 Published 2025-12-09 08:50 by Philipp Esselbach

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Manjaro Linux 25.1 Anh-Linh Preview has been released for testing, featuring the latest Plasma 6.5 series and GNOME 49 desktop environments. The preview also includes updates to various system components such as Mesa (version 25.3.1), Vulkan SDK (version 1.4.328.1), the Linux 6.17-rt kernel series, and firmware.

Manjaro Linux 25.1 Anh-Linh Preview 1 released

Manjaro Linux 25.1 Anh‑Linh Preview is now available for testing, bringing the latest Plasma 6.5 series as its centerpiece while also offering GNOME 49 and the beta release of Cosmic 1.0.

First off, at the heart of this new preview is the latest Plasma version: Plasma 6.5. However, let's not forget that GNOME 49 is also included, so if you’re curious about that workflow or desktop feel, you can try it out here! Plus, for those interested in graphics performance and Vulkan capabilities, things have been updated: Mesa is now on version 25.3.1, and the Vulkan SDK has been refreshed to 1.4.328.1.

The core system gets busy too; welcome the new kernel series Linux 6.17-rt, especially if you were using the older Linux 6.16 (that’s now end-of-life). Other crucial bits like firmware and binutils have also been rebuilt. Applications are generally functional, but a series of updates have been implemented: Xorg Server is at 21.1.21, Firefox receives both stable update 145.0.2 and the beta version (146.0b8), Thunderbird heads towards 145.0, and there are further adjustments with GNOME too, specifically GNOME 49.2.

The desktop environment experienced some changes: LXQt reached 2.3.0, Plasma reached 6.5.3, KDE Frameworks reached 6.20.0, and Manjaro's own KDE Gear reached version 25.08.3 for this cycle.

Multimedia stacks are updated as well: GStreamer upgraded from 1.26.8 to 1.26.9, Pipewire is now at 1.4.9 (good news for audio!), and Qt moved forward to 6.10.1.

The system tools also received attention: systemd has reached version 258, mkinitcpio has reached version 40, Grub is testing version 2.14rc1, Dracut has jumped to 109, and the package includes security updates via Certbot (version 5.1.0).

One thing that should be mentioned for users who rely on packages from the AUR, especially those written in Python, is that Manjaro’s transition means some will need rebuilding because they were compiled against older Python libraries specifically designed for system-wide tools, which now use Python 3.13 instead of previous versions like libpython3.12.so.

To find out if your packages are affected by this change, you can run the command pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12/ followed by another helpful command: pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12), which will rebuild all those dependent AUR packages automatically.

Alternatively, if you just want to determine what might need updating without the full build, use checkrebuild. And sometimes it’s worth clearing your local build cache first with pamac clean --build-files.

Elsewhere in the system, a fresh build of the Manjaro Control Panel is available now. Users should observe everything working well, thanks to updates to the internal development toolchains for Haskell and Python, which lead to smoother operations behind the scenes.