Manjaro Linux 0.8.10 is out

by Pete Vagiakos · June 10, 2014

I am somewhat biased to this, since this is my favourite Linux distribution at the moment, and the one that I am currently using.

The new version boasts a lot of improvements too. Here’s the lowdown:

On behalf of the Manjaro team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Manjaro Linux 0.8.10.

Our team has worked hard over the last three months to put together the most refined and user-friendly Manjaro release to date. This release includes our flagship Xfce edition, feature-rich KDE edition, lightweight Openbox edition and our minimal ‘Net’ edition.

Although the general layout of our supported environments has not changed dramatically, there have been look-and-feel improvements, including a modern graphical bootsplash, new default theme (Menda) and a new look for our welcome screen. Where much attention has been focused since our last release is on infrastructure development, including improvements to our installation framework (Thus), package management & update interfaces (Pamac & Octopi), post-installation configuration framework (Turbulence) and to our user-friendly hardware detection and driver installation tool (MHWD).

In addition to our officially supported environments, our various community editions will be updated to 0.8.10 and released over the coming weeks. Installation images for Gnome 3, MATE, Enlightenment, LXDE and Cinnamon desktop environments will be provided by our community & team, along with the Netbook edition and it’s modified Xfce environment.

Newcomers to the community edition line-up include highly tweaked Fluxbox, AwesomeWM and PekWM editions. For the adventurous, there’s an ISO available using the still-in-development LXQt environment (upcoming successor to LXDE).

Included in this release of Manjaro

Linux 3.12.20

Mesa 10.1.4

Xorg-Server 1.15.1

Gstreamer 1.2.4

LibreOffice 4.2.4

MHWD 0.3.901

libdrm 2.4.54

Catalyst 14.04

Nvidia 331.79

New features in Thus – graphical installer

Fix lxdm for LXDE edition

Fix keyboard and keymap placement before encrypt hook

Fix filesystem and partition shrink operation

Fix partitioning calls to consistently use MiB instead of mixing MiB and MB

Fix ext2 mounting

Fix issue with LUKS and LVM (optional home)

Fix issue with LVM partition creation

Fix issue with LVM partition removal

Fix rsync issue reported by Demiray

Fix issue we have when no plymouth was on install media

Add support for plymouth

Add support for sddm

Add 1MB offset for ROOT size calculation

Add swap to grub kernel parameters

Add xfs freeze function to support grub installation on xfs

Add automatic network driver installation routine to mhwd.sh

Do not swapoff ZRAM

Filter out empty strings from the list of swap partitions

Move swap to the end of free space, and do not leave unused space

Mount swap after manual partitioning

Load_html_string is deprecated since webkitgtk 1.1.1

Remove cairo coloring for check page

Rework auto_partition.py

Set_from_stock_name is deprecated since gtk 3.10

Sort to_be_deleted and changelist in installation_advanced

Using ‘encoding=utf8′ prevents an exception to rise when using env vars in the command line

Update DBusException in misc

Simplify grub installation routine

Use timeout to see if grub installation fails

Do not use /mnt as temporary mount point

Update translations