Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops
Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 12 August 2026 at 02:28 PM EDT. Add A Comment Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base. In being the first new tagged release since Manjaro 26.0 from January.
- ▪Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 12 August 2026 at 02:28 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base.
- ▪In being the first new tagged release since Manjaro 26.0 from January.
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| Original publisher | Phoronix |
| Canonical URL | https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-26.1 |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:28:03 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T18:36:37.280Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-12T18:36:37.280Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | MvwpoU7Jmbre · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 12 August 2026 at 02:28 PM EDT. Add A Comment Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base. In being the first new tagged release since Manjaro 26.0 from January. Manjaro 26.1 comes with many new packages. Manjaro 26.1 offers the GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.7 desktops as the most user-facing updates. There is also Xfce 4.20 available too for those preferring the lighter-weight desktop. Manjaro Linux 26.1 is being powered by the Linux 7.1 stable kernel while both Linux 6.18 LTS and Linux 6.12 LTS are available for those interested.
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