[manjaro-general] [Stable Update] 2018-08-18 – Kernels, Xorg-Server, Mesa, Deepin, MATE, Perl, Python

[Manjaro Linux: Philip Müller]

Hi community,

Welcome to another **stable** update. So what do we have with this one?

  * renewed most of our **kernels**, incl. the [**L1TF**][1] fixes
  * we updated our Xorg-Server to [1.20.1][2]
  * **mesa** got updated to [18.1.6][3]
  * xf86-video-ati we used the latest git-snapshot to fix some graphical glitches
  * Nvidia 304xx driver is dropped now.
  * **Virtualbox** got updated to [5.2.18][4]
  * we backported a fix for **kscreenlocker** reducing the [100% CPU usage][5]
  * we reverted commit 6f130e8 in **systemd**, which improves [network speed][6]
  * we pushed our rebuilds for **python 3.7** and **perl 5.28**.
  * LibreOffice is now at [6.0.6][7]
  * we added the latest [MATE][8] packages
  * added some new Deepin packages
  * Stefano updated our Adapta Themes
  * we updated some of our **Grub** themes
  * we fixed an [issue][9] with gpodder
  * updated [firefox][10] and [thunderbird][11]
  * updated [dbus][12]
  * we updated **firefox-dev** and **firefox-kde** and jdk8 to their latest versions
  * **flameshot** got a fix for zh_TW locale loading
  * small fixes to **pamac-cli**
  * the usual python/haskell rebuilds/updates

We hope with all these changes Manjaro to be more efficent for you all.

Our effort and all the needed information about the new security risk can be found [here][13].

So please report back and give us feedback for given changes made to our repositories. Users of our 32-bit Distro should read [this][14].

kind regards

Philip Müller  
_Manjaro Project Lead_

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**Current supported Kernels**

  * linux316 3.16.57
  * linux318 3.18.119 [EOL]
  * linux41 4.1.52 [EOL]
  * linux44 4.4.149
  * linux49 4.9.121
  * linux414 4.14.64
  * linux415 4.15.18 [EOL]
  * linux416 4.16.18 [EOL]
  * linux417 4.17.16
  * linux418 4.18.2
  * linux419 4.19-rc0
  * linux414-rt 4.14.52_rt34
  * linux416-rt 4.16.18_rt11

**Package Updates** (Sat Aug 18 06:46:56 CEST 2018)

  * community x86_64: 2965 new and 2912 removed package(s)
  * core x86_64: 65 new and 64 removed package(s)
  * extra x86_64: 1033 new and 1021 removed package(s)
  * multilib x86_64: 22 new and 25 removed package(s)

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**Links**

  * [Talk about this update-pack in our forum][15]
  * [Download Manjaro 17.1.12][16]
  * [We are always happy for some support via a small donation][17]

   [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html
   [2]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2018-August/059380.html
   [3]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-August/202382.html
   [4]: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog#18
   [5]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347772
   [6]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9748
   [7]: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/02/libreoffice-6-0-6/
   [8]: http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2018-02-07-mate-1-20-released/
   [9]: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/pull/487
   [10]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.2/releasenotes/
   [11]: https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/08/whats-new-in-thunderbird-60/
   [12]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2018-August/017509.html
   [13]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/kernel-page-table-isolation-kpti-severe-intel-cpu-bug/37506
   [14]: https://manjaro.org/2017/11/15/introducing-manjaro-32-a-32bit-community-linux-distro/
   [15]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/55375
   [16]: https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/
   [17]: https://manjaro.org/donate/

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