[manjaro-general] Manjaro 16.06 - first release candidate released

[Manjaro Linux]

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Finaly we are almost there. We are happy to publish our first release candidate of our upcoming stable release we call Daniella.

The Xfce edition remains our flagship offering and has received the attention it deserves. Few can claim to offer such a polished, integrated and leading-edge Xfce experience. We ship Xfce 4.12 with this release of Manjaro. We mainly focused on polishing the user experience on the desktop and window manager, and on updating some components to take advantage of newly available technologies such as switching to a new Vertex-Maia theme, we already using known as Maia for our KDE edition.

Our KDE edition continues to deliver this powerful, mature and feature-rich desktop environment with a unique look-and-feel, and with the perks of Manjaro’s latest tools. We ship now Plasma 5.6 desktop in combination with the latest KDE-Apps 16.04. It was a huge step to get it all playing together smoothly and to give the user experience the same feeling as our KDE4 editions of the past. Kernel 4.4 LTS is used for this release, such as the latest drivers available to date. Relative to the last installation media release, our tools have been improved and polished.

The Manjaro Settings Manager (MSM) now provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for installing and removing the many series of kernels we offer. Manjaro’s selection of readily available kernels remains the most extensive of all Linux distribution we know of. At the time of this 16.06-rc1 release, twelve kernel-series are available directly from our binary repositories, ranging from the mature & rock-solid 3.10 series to the latest 4.6 release. Such a wide array of available kernel options results in extensive hardware support, getting the most out of your system for you, be it old or new. We also created a kcm module to integrate MSM seamlessly into System-Settings of Plasma 5. We have now several notifier for MSM to be installed optionally.

With Pamac 4.0 we have switched to CSD design. Guillaume was working for some time on this new design for pamac. Followed features you can expect:

  * click on a package name and choose details to view details.
  * in dependencies view, click on any dependency to view its details
  * you can continue browsing packages while a transaction is running

So please test this release thru and thru and let us know what you think about this release of Daniella. We hope you enjoy this release.

Please verify the downloaded ISO files with the provided **checksum** before installation, or check the encrypted **gpg signature**: key ID 11C7F07E “Philip Müller philm_at_manjaro.org” (for verification you can use for example ‘gpa’ (Linux), ‘Gpg4win’ (Windows) or ‘MacGPG’ (OSx) )

kind regards, Philip Müller, and the Manjaro development team

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## Links

  * [Download here][2]
  * [Talk about this release][3]
  * [Talk about packages][4]
  * [Release plan][5] - request a change/feature [here][6]

   [1]: https://manjaro.github.io/images/manjaro-1606rc1.png
   [2]: http://manjaro.github.io/download/
   [3]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-16-06-rc1-released/1274
   [4]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2016-05-15-kernels-desktops-pamac-manjaro-tools-calamares/1089/40
   [5]: https://github.com/manjaro/release-plan
   [6]: https://github.com/manjaro/release-plan/issues

URL: https://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-16.06-rc1-released/