# \[Stable Update\] 2026-05-02 - Kernels, Plasma, GNOME, Mesa, Systemd,
**URL:** https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510
**Category:** Manjaro Stable Updates
**Created:** [May 3, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510 "2026-05-03T05:19:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/1 "2026-05-03T05:19:53Z")
Another Manjaro stable branch update ❤
> **[\[Stable Update\] 2026-05-02 - Kernels, Plasma, GNOME, Mesa, Systemd,...](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd-virtualbox-libreoffice/187285)**
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> Hello Manjaro user community, here we have another set of package updates. We are continuing our development of the upcoming release of ‘Bian-May’ which can be expected end of May, beginning of June. This is a preview-release and not yet the final...
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### Author:  [@M0nst3r](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/M0nst3r)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/2 "2026-05-03T15:01:36Z")
All good except some minor errors downloading from one repository/mirror. After several times trying, finally succeeded.
A little heads-up for those who still didn’t update and be prepared: the **webkit2gtk** package, in my case, compiled _everything_ from source (8000+ files) and took 5 hours or longer, I had to leave it running overnight.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@SauronsMouth](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/SauronsMouth)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/3 "2026-05-03T15:29:08Z")
I used add/remove programs to uninstall it from my computers before updating. It seems that it has zero dependencies and looks to have been deprecated.
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### Author:  [@muzqs](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/muzqs)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/4 "2026-05-03T18:35:50Z")
> [@M0nst3r](#):
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> **webkit2gtk**
I use `stremio` and it uses `webkit2gtk`.
Only for that I use the flatpak version of stremio to avoid hours of building time.
What is for you the package that uses the webkit2gtk as dependency.
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### Author:  [@SauronsMouth](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/SauronsMouth)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/5 "2026-05-03T20:15:29Z")
Not seeing that…
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### Author:  [@muzqs](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/muzqs)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/6 "2026-05-03T20:48:30Z")
> [@SauronsMouth](#):
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> Not seeing that…
Oh maybe I mistaken. Maybe stremio did use it in the past, installing from aur started to take long maybe 2 month or a bit longer ago.
I remember `webkit2gtk` in an application that tooook loonggg to build (hours)…
With stremio right now it is `qtwebengine` that takes long to download, but thats another thing.
```auto
Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading qtwebengine-5.15.19-lts.tgz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
100 3.60M 100 3.60M 0 0 3.98M 0 0
-> Downloading qtwebengine-chromium-87-based-20250423.tgz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
100 388.9M 0 388.9M 0 0 2.34M 0 02:45 4.02M^C
==> ERROR: TERM signal caught. Exiting...
```
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### Author:  [@rdtsc](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/rdtsc)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/7 "2026-05-04T13:04:06Z")
- Have one machine with BambuStudio on it, which depends on `webkit2gtk`, but dep failed build. Was able to remove it from the other two machines.
- Two of three machines are missing some system font. The old `<<` and `>>` left and right Mabox sidepanel menu icons (and volume icon) appear as unknown unicode glyphs like ``. On the third machine, everything displays correctly.
Edit: on one machine which did not render properly, it had `ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common` and `ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols`. Solution was as described below: `mb-reset tint2`. The top tint2 bar flashed as it was reloaded, then presto, problem solved.
The last PC was not as lucky. It also has the correct fonts, but `mb-reset tint2` did not fix that one. Investigating…
Edit 2: `fc-cache -f -v` did not help.
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/8 "2026-05-04T13:22:05Z")
- I’m not sure about the `webkit2gtk` package, but it’s possible that it used to be required for `yad`. (Currently, yad uses `webkit2gtk‑4.1`, which is in the repo.)
- As for Nerd Fonts in the menu and other places… everything should work without any user intervention. The icon‑fonts currently in use come from the package: `ttf‑nerd-fonts-symbols` or `ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono`.
Edit:
You can copy new tint2 panel configs to your home directory by:
```auto
mb-reset tint2
```
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### Author:  [@lobaluna](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/lobaluna)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/9 "2026-07-26T02:01:17Z")
Can I do it without GUI? (from TTY old-school terminals?) to leave it all night…
Yes, three times I had to stop it because I was not sure if everything was OK. There’s something wrong about the compilation. Takes as much as the kernel itself!
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2026, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/10 "2026-07-26T06:55:55Z")
@lobaluna
Which program requires `webkit2gtk`?
A better idea might be to recompile it so that it uses `webkit2gtk‑4.1`…
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### Author:  [@lobaluna](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/lobaluna)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/11 "2026-07-26T18:13:22Z")
In my case, it is brave-origin-bin.
I do not know exactly how to recompile with webkit2gtk-4.1. I saw the upstream maintainer recommended that way, but I’m not sure of such technicalities.
I compile it with leaving all resources to it, when in TTY only, all night long. It took +5 hours, as @M0nst3r said. This is just my little rant, but … what a waist of resources it is today! (at least, it is to me).
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### Author:  [@napcok](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/napcok)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/12 "2026-07-27T04:26:33Z")
> [@lobaluna](#):
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> In my case, it is brave-origin-bin.
Something’s not right here…
`webkit2gtk` as a dependency for Brave sounds very, very strange.
So strange that I decided to check it on a VM with a fresh Mabox install.
And the entire installation of `brave-origin-bin` (from AUR) took **1 minute 16 seconds**.
`webkit2gtk` is not needed for this at all.
🤔
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### Author:  [@M0nst3r](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/M0nst3r)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/13 "2026-07-27T15:39:00Z")
I was wondering the same and found no direct -only optional- dependencies. As such, will uninstall the package; this is what I got:
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### Author:  [@rdtsc](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/rdtsc)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/14 "2026-08-02T13:12:23Z")
Very weird. Just a side-note, if you have a multi-core CPU and lots of RAM, can set these in the `.bashrc`, logout/login, and it then will compile much faster:
```auto
export MAKEFLAGS='-j 16 -l 4'
export GNUMAKEFLAGS='-j 16 -l 4'
```
Where `16` is the number of parallel jobs maximum (depends on how many CPU cores you have; target 1.5 times the real number of cores.) And `-l 4` means `Max load: do not start more jobs if the CPU is loaded this much.` Can also research the `mold` linker for even more speed, but that is rather involved.
Be aware though, that this uses at least twice as much RAM, and could potentially fail on poorly-written code.
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### Author:  [@SauronsMouth](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/SauronsMouth)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/15 "2026-08-02T15:52:19Z")
You shouldn’t need to logout/login as .bashrc is processed each time a terminal is opened.
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### Author:  [@lobaluna](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/lobaluna)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/16 "2026-08-10T20:52:46Z")
Sounds fishy, I know.
I cannot tell why so it was my case. Some bizarre dependencies that I had for other packages I had previously installed? Maybe. I install/uninstall many software just to test it and play with it.
Finally, after 16 hours of compiling the _mentada biblioteca_ (I ended updating the machine). The package was (I didn’t checked today) in AUR repos…
Anyway, it is problem solved for me. The mystery remains ;D
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### Author:  [@lobaluna](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/lobaluna)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/17 "2026-08-10T20:54:09Z")
I will take that into account before the next `yay with AUR` command.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@rdtsc](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/rdtsc)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/18 "2026-08-20T12:32:50Z")
Welcome. Also see here about ccache specifically for AUR builds: [Boost AUR Compilation in Arch Linux with ccache | UmmIt Kin Personal website](https://ummit.dev/posts/Linux/distribution/Archlinux/speed-up-aur/)
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### Author:  [@lobaluna](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/u/lobaluna)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/stable-update-2026-05-02-kernels-plasma-gnome-mesa-systemd/2510/19 "2026-09-09T19:56:31Z")
Thanks for the tip!