The following notable updates are included in this move of packages in Chakra's stable repositories:

linux 4.1.4
nvidia 352.30
xf86-video-intel 2.99.917 (including the fix for the bug related to Plasma 5)
qt5 5.5.0
libreoffice 5.0.0
wine 1.7.49

It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue, please ask or report it on the related forum section.

As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced (at least for the core, desktop and platform repositories) before performing this update, by running the mirror-check application.

KDE's third update of its 15.04 series of Applications is now available in Chakra. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.21 and kdelibs and kdepim to 4.14.10. Have in mind that the applications that have been ported to Frameworks 5 will not be updated in the stable repositories but remain at their previous versions. The new versions of these packages are available in the [kde-next] repository which provides Plasma 5.

If you want to test Plasma 5 under Chakra, you can follow the instructions on the forum. Feel free to let us know of your comments and feedback on the related thread.

In addition, the following notable updates are now available with this move:
-calligra 2.9.6
-firefox 39.0
-thunderbird 38.1.0
-wine 1.7.47
-pip 7.0.3

It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue, please ask or report it on the related forum section.

As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced (at least for the core, desktop and platform repositories) before performing this update, by running the mirror-check application.

This upgrade consists of several updates of the packages that ship in Chakra's core repository, with the more notable ones being the linux kernel update to 4.0.5 and the linux-lts (long term support) kernel to 3.14.44.
In addition, the latest nvidia and catalyst proprietary graphics drivers become available to all users, together with KDE's Frameworks 5.11 and the Calligra Suite 2.9.5.

Highlights of the updates

linux 4.0.5
linux-lts 3.14.44
nvidia 346.72
catalyst 15.5
frameworks 5.11
calligra 2.9.5
qt 4.8.7
qt5 5.4.2
cups 2.0.3
dbus 1.8.18
mariadb 5.5.44
php 5.6.10
sudo 1.8.13
openssl 1.0.1.o
digikam 4.11.0
wine 1.7.45

It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue, please ask or report it on the related forum section.

As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced (at least for the core, desktop and platform repositories) before performing this update, by running the mirror-check application.

KDE's second update of its 15.04 series of Applications is now available in Chakra. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.20 and kdelibs and kdepim to 4.14.9. Have in mind that the applications that have been ported to Frameworks 5 will not be updated in the stable repositories but remain at their previous versions. The new versions of these packages are available in the [kde-next] repository which provides Plasma 5.

If you want to test Plasma 5 under Chakra, you can follow the instructions on the forum. Feel free to let us know of your comments and feedback on the related thread.

In addition, the following notable updates are now available with this move:
-firefox 38.0.5
-git 2.4.1
-wine 1.7.44

It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue, please ask or report it on the related forum section.

As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced (at least for the core, desktop and platform repositories) before performing this update, by running the mirror-check application.

KDE's first update of its 15.04 series of Applications and Frameworks 5.10.0 are now available in Chakra. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.19 and kdelibs and kdepim to 4.14.8. Have in mind that the applications that have been ported to Frameworks 5 will not be updated in the stable repositories but remain at their previous versions. The new versions of these packages are pushed into the [kde-next] repository which provides Plasma 5.

If you want to test Plasma 5 under Chakra, you can follow the instructions on the forum. Feel free to let us know of your comments and feedback on the related thread.

In addition, the following notable updates are now available with this move:
-digikam 4.10.0
-php 5.6.9
-sqlite3 3.8.9
-wine 1.7.43
-nvidia-settings for the 340xx and 304xx series of drivers have been added to the extra repository.

Some users might come against an error "reading mtree package" when updating the filesystem package. To workaround this, please upgrade libarchive first with "sudo pacman -Sy libarchive" and then try a full upgrade again.

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On your next update pacman will be updated to version 4.2.1, which is the latest available by Arch Linux. You will notice that after this update is complete, on your following "sudo pacman -Syu" you will come across a warning:

error: failed to initialize alpm library
(database is incorrect version: /var/lib/pacman/)
error: try running pacman-db-upgrade

To fix this, please run as suggested:
sudo pacman-db-upgrade

After this pacman should continue working as usual.

Pacman 4.2 and above will no longer treat symbolic links to directories as directories. If a package contains a file that would install to a location on the filesystem which is a symlink, the installation will fail. Some common locations of these type are: /sbin, /bin, /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib64, /var/run. You can test whether a directory is a symlink with the "file" command.

We tried to catch all packages affected by this and fix them, but if you have an issue installing a package from the official repositories related to this update, please open a ticket on our bugtracker.
If you maintain one of the failing packages on CCR, please verify that your package is not installing something into a symlinked directory. Feel free to ask for assistance on IRC or on the Forum regarding related packaging issues.

As always, make sure your mirror is synced (at least for the core repository) before performing this update, by running the mirror-check application.

KDE's first release of its 15.04 series of Applications and Frameworks 5.9.0 are now available to all Chakra users. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.18 and kdelibs to 4.14.7. Have in mind that the applications that have been ported to Frameworks 5 will not be updated but remain at their previous versions, as they are being prepared to be included in the upcoming Plasma5 switch.

According to the official announcement, starting with this release KDE Telepathy and kdenlive will be shipped together with the rest of KDE Applications.

In addition, the following notable updates are now available:
- linux 3.19.4
- nvidia 346.59
- git 2.3.5
- vlc 2.2.1
- wine 1.7.41
- ruby 2.2.1
- digikam 4.9.0
- apache 2.4.12
- subversion 1.8.13
- bomi (a Qt5 GUI player based on mpv) 0.9.7
- otf-source-han-sans (CJK fonts) 1.002

It should be safe to answer yes to any replacement question by Pacman. If in doubt or if you face another issue - please ask or report it on the related forum section.

As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced (at least for the core, desktop and platform repositories) before performing this update by running the mirror-check application.

KDE's third update of its 14.12 series of Applications and Frameworks 5.8.0 are now available in Chakra's stable repositories. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.17 and kdelibs to 4.14.6.

According to the official announcement, the 14.12.3 release includes 19 recorded bugfixes and improvements to the anagram game Kanagram, Umbrello UML Modeller, the document viewer Okular and the geometry application Kig.

The applications that have been ported to Frameworks 5 will not be updated but remain at their 4.14.3 versions, as they are being prepared to be included in the upcoming Plasma5 switch.

In addition the following packages have been updated:

linux 3.19.1

kdepim group 4.14.6

calligra 2.9.1

mesa 10.5.0

nvidia 346.47

nvidia-340xx 340.76

qtwebkit 2.3.4

wine 1.7.39

system-config-printer has moved to the [extra] repository since it now depends on gtk3.

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The Chakra team is happy to announce the third release of the Chakra Euler series. This is a maintenance release to fix some installation issues and provide all the updated packages that landed in the stable repositories since the previous release. The main new feature is that our ISO now supports booting and installing on UEFI systems! Please follow the instructions carefully on how to achieve this.

We are aware that everybody is looking ahead into Plasma5 and we are working on the transition, but we believe it is too early for this to be shipped by default and decided to wait for a little bit longer until Plasma 5 has furthered matured and more KDE Applications have switched to Frameworks 5.

This ISO ships with the following notable packages and updates:

KDE Software:

Chakra provides the Applications 14.12.2, except for the applications that have been ported to frameworks 5, which will remain on their 4.14.3 versions.

kde-workspace 4.11.16 and kdelibs 4.14.5

Frameworks 5.7

Calligra 2.9.0

Core Packages:

kernel 3.18.3

xorg-server 1.16.4

systemd 218

qt5 group 5.4.1

Tribe:

Gained support for UEFI installations.

Drivers:

xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.1

xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

xf86-video-intel 2.99.916

mesa 10.3.5

nvidia 346.35 (also nvidia 340.65, 304.125)

catalyst 14.12

The extra repository, which is disabled by default, provides the must-have GTK-based applications and their dependencies. Kapudan, our desktop greeter which runs after the first boot, will allow you to enable it.

Please have in mind that our installer, Tribe, does not currently officially support RAID, LVM and GPT, although you might find some workarounds in our forums. There are also limitations in detecting hybrid cards, so on some systems you might experience a black screen when rebooting after the installation. To workaround this one can install using the free drivers and then switch manually to the proprietary ones.

To create reliable installation media, please follow the instructions on the wiki. Chakra ISO images do not support unetbootin and DVDs need to be burned at a speed no higher than 4×.

KDE's second update of its 14.12 series of Applications and Frameworks 5.7.0 are now available in Chakra's stable repositories. With this release kde-workspace has also been updated to version 4.11.16 and kdelibs to 4.14.5.

According to the official announcement, the 14.12 series offers many "new features and bug fixes to more than a hundred applications. Most of these applications are based on the KDE Development Platform 4; some have been converted to the new KDE Frameworks 5, a set of modularized libraries that are based on Qt5, the latest version of this popular cross-platform application framework."
The applications that have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 will not be updated in Chakra, as they are being prepared to be included on the upcoming Plasma5 ISO. These include kate and kwrite, konsole, gwenview, kalgebra, kanagram, khangman, kig, parley, kapptemplate and okteta, which will remain at their 4.14.3 versions.

In addition the following packages have been updated:

xorg 1.16.4

kdepim group 4.14.5

calligra 2.9.0

libreoffice 4.4.1

ffmpeg 2.5.4

pulseaudio 6.0

digikam 4.8

kdeconnect 0.8

qt5 group 5.4.1

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This move includes updates or rebuilds of the packages that are related to the linux kernel, the dbus system, the glib2 and multimedia packages, as well as various other packages that were updated in the meantime and are made available now. In total, more than 600 packages are moving to stable.

The following notable changes have been implemented:

pepperflashplugin is now split from the chromium package, as it is provided as an optional dependency of both the chromium and opera packages. It should be installed manually if needed by the user. The /etc/chromium/default file has been edited to support this change.

dbus-core has been merged with the dbus package, which has been updated to version 1.8.14. During the update you might notice some warnings related to userdel and groupdel, they can be safely ignored.

xbmc has been replaced by kodi. If you encounter issues during the replacement with xbmc files existing in the filesystem, please remove xbmc and then update. You can afterwards install kodi.

opengtl and libqtgtl have been removed from the repositories.

freshplayerplugin has been added in the extra repository. Firefox users that want to use pepperflashplugin can install this package. It should work with other browsers as well, like qupzilla or rekonq.

Highlights of updates:

- linux 3.18.3
- dbus 1.8.14
- glib2 2.42.1
- ffmpeg 2.5.3
- nvidia 346.35
- openjdk 8.u40
- phonon 4.8.3
- gstreamer 1.4.5
- phonon-backend-gstreamer 4.8.2 and phonon-backend-vlc 0.8.2
- networkmanager 1.0.0
- mplayer 37344
- qt5 5.4.0
- php 5.6.5
- bluedevil 2.1 and bluez 5.27
- binutils 2.25
- jack 0.124.1 and jack2 1.9.10
- libbluray 0.6.2
- samba 4.11.16
- udisks2 2.1.3
- upower 0.99.2

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What an amazing response this has been by the Chakra community!

Our Fundraising Campaign for 2015 has reached its goal in less that one month from launch! With your help, Chakra will stay live and active through 2015 without having to worry about server expenses. All further donations will be used to create a positive balance for 2016!

We have received so many supportive messages during the course of this campaign. We were surprised by the range of environments Chakra is being used in. According to what you shared with us, one can find Chakra on personal systems, computer labs of schools, offices and small businesses!

All Chakra contributors are excited by your commitment and greatly appreciate your support for this distribution! This is one more reason to work harder to reach our goals for 2015.

Thank you so much for your love!

This move includes updates or rebuilds of the packages that are related to the xorg server, the linux kernel and the graphics drivers, as well as various other packages.

Highlights:

xorg-server 1.16.3

linux 3.18.1

systemd 218

nvidia 343.36

catalyst 14.12

calligra 2.8.7

libreoffice 4.3.5

gnupg 2.1.0

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As always, make sure your mirror is fully synced before performing this update. To check, run mirror-check in Konsole, or use the mirror-check application found under the "Internet" category in the application launcher.

We would like to wish to all the Chakra community a happy and creative 2015!

It already looks like Chakra will have a wonderful start for 2015 since our first Fundraising Campaign is very close to being complete, less than 3 weeks after launch, thanks to your very generous donations and support!

This is a great opportunity to share with you some of Chakra's main goals for the next year:

Provide an ISO with the brand new Plasma 5 by KDE.

Introduce a new installer, Calamares, that will improve the installing experience and gradually offer further features.

Provide support for UEFI systems.

Introduce a testing version of our package manager, Akabei, which is developed to replace pacman. Through this we will be finally able to offer Muon Discover as a GUI to manage packages.

Continue work on improving the website, develop our internal tools for packaging and ISO building and keep the repositories at a desired state.

We can't make any guarantees, but we will sure try our best to deliver!

Keep on enjoying Chakra!

Chakra is a completely community-based distribution and all our contributors and developers are working in their free time to provide it.

The only expenses we have at the moment are for maintaining the main server, through which we provide you Chakra and all the surrounding services. Due to the generous sponsorship by Host1Plus, we get a significant discount for the server, with the final cost being around €84 ($100) per month, which sums up to €1000 ($1200) per year.

But we need your help! Our goal is for Chakra to be funded by the people that use it, so it can be sustained in the long term and not be dependant on a person or company. If 100 users donated €10, this campaign would be over and Chakra would ensure sustainability for all of 2015 based entirely on its own community!

If you want to support Chakra reach this goal, please take the time to donate to our Fundraising Campaign for 2015: