[manjaro-general] [Stable Update] 2018-09-09 – Kernels, KDE Plasma & Apps, Browsers, Mesa, Deepin, AMDVLK

[Manjaro Linux: Philip Müller]

Hi community,

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

  * added some [more **L1TF** patches][1] to most of our kernel series
  * **texlive** and **gcc** got updated to the latest versions
  * KDE Plasma5 is now at [5.13.5][2]
  * KDE Apps got updated to [18.08.1][3]
  * **manjaro-tools** [v0.15.9][4] released
  * **mesa** got updated to [18.1.8][5]
  * added [AMDVLK][6]
  * updated our **deepin** and **xfce4-gtk3** packages
  * fixed crashes within **ghostscript**
  * updated most of our browsers
  * the usual upstream 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][7].

So please report back and give us feedback for given changes made to our repositories. Users of our 32-bit Distro should read [this][8].

kind regards

Philip Müller  
_Manjaro Project Lead_

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**Current supported Kernels**

  * linux316 3.16.57
  * linux318 3.18.121 [EOL]
  * linux44 4.4.154
  * linux49 4.9.125
  * linux414 4.14.68
  * linux417 4.17.19 [EOL]
  * linux418 4.18.6
  * linux419 4.19-rc2
  * linux414-rt 4.14.53_rt40
  * linux416-rt 4.16.18_rt11

**Package Updates** (Sun Sep 9 09:06:27 CEST 2018)

  * community x86_64: 876 new and 856 removed package(s)
  * core x86_64: 39 new and 37 removed package(s)
  * extra x86_64: 560 new and 654 removed package(s)
  * multilib x86_64: 18 new and 17 removed package(s)

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**Links**

  * [Talk about this update-pack in our forum][9]
  * [Download Manjaro 17.1.12][10]
  * [We are always happy for some support via a small donation][11]

   [1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.18.6-Stable-Out
   [2]: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.13.5.php
   [3]: https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-18.08.1.php
   [4]: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/tools/development-tools/manjaro-tools/tags/0.15.9
   [5]: https://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/18.1.8.html
   [6]: https://medium.com/@mdiluz/whats-the-deal-with-amdvlk-3ea21d5656ba
   [7]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/kernel-page-table-isolation-kpti-severe-intel-cpu-bug/37506
   [8]: https://manjaro.org/2017/11/15/introducing-manjaro-32-a-32bit-community-linux-distro/
   [9]: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/57683
   [10]: https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/
   [11]: https://manjaro.org/donate/

URL: https://manjaro.org/2018/09/09/stable-update-2018-09-09-kernels-kde-plasma-apps-browsers-mesa-deepin-amdvlk/