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= Latest Stable Release =
= Latest Stable Releases =


'''The latest stable Manjaro release is 0.8.3''', released on the 24th December 2012. The Openbox flavour was released on the 14th January 2013. Both 32 and 64 bit '''official versions''' (i.e. maintained by the development team) of Manjaro 0.8.3 are available in the following flavours:
'''The latest stable Manjaro release is 0.8.4''', released on the 25th February 2013. Both 32 and 64 bit '''official versions''' (i.e. maintained by the development team) of Manjaro 0.8.3 are available in the following flavours:


* XFCE
* XFCE
* KDE
* Cinnamon
* Cinnamon
* Openbox
* Openbox
* NET-Edition (no desktop)
* NET-Edition (no desktop)


The latest '''Community Editions''' of Manjaro, released for both 32 and 64 bit systems, are also available in the following flavours:


Both 32 and 64 bit '''community versions''' (i.e. maintained by the community) of Manjaro 0.8.3 are also available in the following flavours:
* MATE (released 15th February 2013)
* LXDE (released 19th February 2013)
* E17  (released 25th December 2012)


* MATE
Community Editions differ from official releases insofar as they are not subject to the same release schedules, and will only be developed when the time and resources are available to do so.
* E17
* LXDE


 
More information about the release of Manjaro 0.8.4 can be found in our Blog article '''[http://manjaro.org/2013/02/25/manjaro-0-8-4-has-been-released/ Manjaro 0.8.4 has been released!]'''. IceWM, FluxBox, AwesomeWM, i3-WM, Gnome 3.6, and Razor-QT are also available for installation from the Official Manjaro repositories.  
More information about the release of Manjaro 0.8.3 can be found in our Blog article '''[http://blog.manjaro.org/2012/12/24/manjaro-0-8-3-has-been-unleashed-2/ Manjaro 0.8.3 has been unleashed!]''', in addition to a full '''[http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/release/0.8.3/manjaro-0.8.3-manual.pdf/download 66-page User Guide]'''. More Information about the release of the Openbox flavour can be found in our Blog article '''[http://manjaro.org/2013/01/14/manjaro-openbox-has-been-released/ Manjaro Openbox has been released!]'''. IceWM, FluxBox, AwesomeWM, i3-WM, Gnome 3.6, and Razor-QT are also available for installation from the Official Manjaro repositories.  




= Latest Testbuild =  
= Latest Testbuild =  


'''The latest Manjaro testbuild is 0.8.4-rc1''', first released on the 7th February 2013 in the form of the XFCE flavour. The Openbox flavour was subsequently released on the 9th February 2013. The most notable changes from the 0.8.3 release include:
There are currently no testbuilds released after Manjaro 0.8.4.
 
* The default kernel has been upgraded from 3.4 to 3.7
* The Resume kernel hook glitch fixed to enable hibernation
* Pamac has replaced the Pacman-Gui and Package Browser applications (Openbox Only)
 
 
The Official Manjaro Forum posts provide greater detail about the changes that can be found in the '''[http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=2044.0 Openbox]''' and '''[http://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=2012.0 XFCE]''' flavours.