All Manjaro Linux 15.09 users are urged to update

Oct 5, 2015 04:50 GMT  ·  By

After announcing the release of the Manjaro Linux GNOME 15.09, Manjaro Linux LXDE 15.09, Manjaro Linux LXQt 15.09, and Manjaro Linux i3 15.09 distributions, the Manjaro team is happy to announce the availability of a new update for their stable Manjaro Linux 15.09 (Bellatrix) operating system.

As its version number suggests, and according to the announcement, the Manjaro Update 2015-10-04 package has been released on October 4, 2015, and it is targeted towards all Manjaro Linux 15.09 flavors. The biggest feature of this new Manjaro Linux update is the addition of support for the Python 3.5 programming language.

Yes, you've guessed it right! This means that most of the Python-based packages of Manjaro Linux have been repacked against Python 3.5, which seems to be the latest trend among GNU/Linux operating systems. As such, users are urged to report if a certain package does not yet have support for Python 3.5.

"I’m happy to announce another review of Manjaro 15.09 (Bellatrix)! It is always good to check for updated packages, even we don’t notify you about them. As usual people using our testing branch will help us to get snaps over to our stable branch almost smoothly," says Philip Müller on behalf of the Manjaro Development Team. "Please give us feedback and report any findings with this update."

Now powered by Linux kernel 4.2.3

The new Manjaro Linux 15.09 update also introduces support for the latest Linux kernels, including the recently released Linux kernel 4.2.3, Linux kernel 4.1.10 LTS, and Linux kernel 3.18.22 LTS. Additionally, the entire distribution has been synchronized with the upstream Arch Linux software repositories as of October 4, 2015.

Last but not least, Manjaro Update 2015-10-04 addresses various issues with the SquashFS compression method used in the manjaro-tools package for Linux kernel versions lower than 4.0. The Pamac package manager has been updated to version 2.4.2. All users of Manjaro Linux 15.09 are urged to update their systems as soon as possible.