May 8th, 2013Command Line Installer:
· Adopt kbctl
Graphical Installer:
· Port LinuxMint Debian Installer to Manjaro
· Adopt to kbctl
· Proper harddrive formatting
· User Avatar support for SDDM, AccountsService and KDE
· Resume-hook support added
· Bumblebee support added
Desktop:
· Manjaro Settings Manager got introduced
· SDDM replaces LXDM - we offer different themes (manjaro, maui, maldives, elarun, circles)
· Libreoffice Writer and Calc are default office applications in XFCE Edition
· Firefox is used as default browser in XFCE Edition
· Thunderbird is used as default mail-application in XFCE Edition
System / General:
· Update base-packages (all package-lists got optimized)
· KBctl introduced
· Xorg-Server 1.14.1
· Kernel 3.8.11 (3.4.43, 3.9.0 optional)
· SystemD-202
Notable Bug Fixes:
· Support for unetbootin
· Partitions can now be accessed without providing a password
· Hibernation function has been enabled
· Resume/Shutdown don't need a password
· Security issue due static "private" keys solved
· Boot issues found in 0.8.5.1 fixed
April 28th, 2013· Graphical installer updated and translated to followed locales: ca, el, en, es, it, pt_BR and ro
· Manjaro Settings Manager updated
· LXDM/Slim as display managers
· Linux 3.8.8 as our kernel
· Additional multimedia support, applications, and access to the AUR have been pre-installed
February 26th, 2013· New-look desktop environments
· Pamac replaces Kalu, Pacman-Gui and Package Browser
· User-friendly LXDM configuration application – developed by the Manjaro Team – provided to easily customise the login screen and to even login automatically
· Graphical boot screen introduced for installation media
· Default kernel has been upgraded to 3.7 from 3.4 (with improved flash support)
· Special PDF quick-guides have been provided for each official desktop environment
· Additional multimedia support, applications, and access to the AUR have been pre-installed
· Support for installation via USB sticks has been improved (via DD or ImageWriter)
· Partitions can now be accessed without providing a password
· Hibernation function has been enabled
December 25th, 2012· The Manjaro Greenbird theme has been improved
· The Manjaro Hardware Detection Tool has been upgraded with multi-extramodules support
· Patches and fixes have been developed for the latest software packages (e.g. Xorg-Server 1.13)
· A new user-friendly LibreOffice installer has been introduced
· All software package lists have been optimised
· The CLI installer has been improved further with enhanced EFI support and a more reliable installation method
· Gnome System Tools has been added
· Mesa has been updated to 9.0.1
· Readahead has been disabled
· GDM has been replaced with LXDM for the Cinnamon Release
· Pulse Audio – and its related un-mute bug – has been removed and replaced with ALSA in our XFCE Release
· The keyboard layout bug has been fixed
· The GRUB configuration bug has been fixed
· Nvida-Legacy has been added
· Catalyst-Legacy has been removed
November 10th, 2012Command Line Installer:
· Optional Testing Installer added to provide advanced features (i.e. support for btrfs, nilfs, luks, lvn, gpt, efi, and software-raid)
· Optional network configuration tool added
· Optional locale setup menu added
· Optional vconsole (keymap) setup menu added
· Automatic virtualbox detection and configuration finalised
· Hard-disk encryption enabled
· Turkish translation added
· Rank-Mirrors disabled (UK Server is now default)
Bootup:
· Plymouth - and its related bugs - removed
Desktop:
· Pacman Graphical User Interface (pacman-gui 0.1.9-1) added
· Package-Browser (pkgbrowser 0.10.1) added
· Kalu (1.3.0-1) upgrade notifier added
· Gnome Package Kit removed (previously used to add and remove software)
System / General:
· Kernel 3.4.18 adopted as standard (3.5 not longer supported due to known issues)
· .fonts.conf removed due to depreciation
· Bluetooth service enabled
· Installation Guide for Beginners added to live-CDs
· systemd-195, catalyst-legacy-12.6-stable, catalyst-12.10, and nouveau-1.0.3 drivers added
· SystemD with readahead enabled
Notable Bug Fixes:
· Resume/hibernate bugs on laptops (XFCE desktop) fixed
· Italian sysmenu entries for terminal and desktop boot fixed
· grub.cfg generation fixed
· Installer translation packages fixed
October 13th, 2012· Installer: add support for btrfs, nilfs, luks, lvn, gpt, efi, software-raid
· Installer: enable network configuration
· Installer: add syslinux bootloader and grub2-efi
· Installer: enable harddisk encryption
· Installer: autoscrolling added – now the next step get automatically chosen.
· Installer: fixed autoscrolling
· Installer: fixed bug in config files editing
· Livecd-Script: added depmod
· Packages: add more system setting applications
· Sysmenu: romanian translation added
· Preview-build for i686-Gnome/KDE/XFCE released as iso file
· Preview-build for x86_64-Gnome/KDE/XFCE released as iso file
September 21st, 2012· We updated to linux 3.5-series
· MHWD got better hybrid card support and Optimus works on more card combinations. Some bugs also have been fixed.
· Our CLI-Installer got improved.
· A patched LXDM replaces LightDM with a complete new Manjaro theme.
· Syslinux got a new layout and got translated to followed languages: Argentinian, Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.
· Followed languages we fully support now: American English, Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Deutsch, Espanol, Espanol (Argentina), Francais, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
· XFCE edition get’s shipped on a DVD with more apps and printer-support out of the box.
· We added some more support to start Manjaro easier from your USB-Stick
· Development packages for AUR got added including packer and yaourt
· All translation-packages get installed during startup and our installer
· A new drivers-overlay starts our LiveDVD faster
· Small package updates to fix reported bugs
· Lot’s of bugfixes since our 0.8.0 release
August 21st, 2012· We are proud to announce our default Manjaro Edition featuring XFCE 4.10, Kernel 3.4.9, Xorg 7.6 with Xorg-Server 1.12.3 and gcc 4.7.1. Other editions will follow shortly.
· Manjaro Linux targets beginners and advanced users at the same time. We provide UI-tools and scripts to make your life much more easier.
· Manjaro supports Nvidia’s Optimus Technology out of the box. You can choose between nouveau/intel or nvidia/intel drivers combination.Manjaro hardware detection tool will configure your graphic-cards automatically and with help of bumblebee/bbswitch it is possible to switch to your desired graphic mode.
July 15th, 2011Manjaro Linux:
· If a package update was applied, then manjaro's filesystem package was deinstalled
· Print an infobox with current passwords
· Fixed this error message on boot "/bin/chown: invalid group: root:utmp"
· Removed package samba
· Replace balsa with thunderbird
· Installed gnumeric
· If the architecture is x86_64, then add the multilib repo to pacman.conf
· Added 3G support
· Added conky
· Updated /etc/readahead.d/ config files
· Fixed some language problems
· Fixed Groups error
manjaro-installer:
· Installer crashed on Systems with extended partitions. Libparted error
· Added btrfs support
· Added Infobox about supported filesystems
· If installation was canceld, then the bash scripts were still running
· Spelling mistake. Cancle -> Cancel
· Installation on more partitions failed
· Fixed filesystem label problem
· Removed mountpoint, which where not possible
· Display minimal required empty space
· Print also Partitions in Grub Combobox
xoco:
· Print a warning, if some changes on configs are made
· If the architecture is i686 don't install lib32 packages
· Nvidia and Catalyst installation failed because of missing dependencies
· Fixed wrong outputs
· Fixed DPREFER variable error
· Fixed errors in configs
· Added missing dependencies
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