{"id":239453,"date":"2026-05-05T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/manjaro-26-1-preview-released-with-gnome-50-kde-plasma-6-6-xfce-4-20-options\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:35:08","slug":"manjaro-26-1-preview-released-with-gnome-50-kde-plasma-6-6-xfce-4-20-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/manjaro-26-1-preview-released-with-gnome-50-kde-plasma-6-6-xfce-4-20-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 &#038; Xfce 4.20 Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Manjaro-26.1-Preview\">Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 &#038; Xfce 4.20 Options<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Manjaro-26.1-Preview\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Manjaro-26.1-Preview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 08:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing.<\/p>\n<p>Manjaro 26.1 Preview is now available for testing in preparations for their first new version since January. In the months since that prior release, GNOME 50 has been released with a multitude of improvements. As well, KDE Plasma 6.6 is now available too for delivering all those latest and greatest KDE innovations. If GNOME 50 or KDE Plasma 6.6 don&#8217;t suit your fancy, Xfce 4.20 is also available as their third official desktop choice.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2025&#038;image=manjaro\" alt=\"Manjaro 26\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Manjaro 26.1 Preview is being powered by the new Linux 7.0 stable kernel while Linux 6.18 LTS is also available and even Linux 6.12 LTS.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in trying out today&#8217;s Manjaro 26.1 Preview release can find download links and more information via the Manjaro Forums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Manjaro-26.1-Preview\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 &#038; Xfce 4.20 Options https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Manjaro-26.1-Preview&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2025&image=manjaro","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71,133],"class_list":["post-239453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux","tag-manjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239456,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239453\/revisions\/239456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}