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Post #83 429
📨 Mkinitcpio >=42 requires manual intervention for TPM2-based unlocking of LUKS devices
Starting with package version 42-1, the mkinitcpio systemd hook now includes systemd-pcrosseparator.service (as intended by systemd v261). This affects the measurements of PCR values 0-7, 9 and 12-14. If you configured the systemd hook and...
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Post #82 1.27K
📨 virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention
Previously, we installed its contents in a way that made pacman not aware of the files (using VBoxManage extpack install ... from an install script). To mitigate issues during upgrade, you can use one of the following methods: Uninstall...
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Post #81 2.01K
📨 Active AUR malicious packages incident
We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository. We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from...
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Post #80 2.08K
📨 Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results
Recently we held our leader elections and after a lively discussion period on the (internal) mailing lists and voting phase with two candidates Levente "anthraxx" Polyák was re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead. As per our election rules...
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Post #79 2.08K
📨 Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache. We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package. This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following...
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Post #78 2.41K
📨 kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention
The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services. Users upgrading from an existing kea...
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Post #77 2.21K
📨 iptables now defaults to the nft backend
The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy. When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy), check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and...
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Post #76 3.31K
📨 NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules
With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open, nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms, and nvidia-lts with nvidia-lts-open....
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Post #75 3.32K
📨 .NET packages may require manual intervention
The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0: aspnet-runtime aspnet-targeting-pack dotnet-runtime dotnet-sdk dotnet-source-built-artifacts dotnet-targeting-pack pacman may display the following...
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Post #74 3.34K
📨 waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention
The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done...
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Post #73 3.12K
📨 dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file. Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migrated,...
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Post #72 3.57K
📨 Recent service outages
We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository...
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Post #71 3.78K
📨 zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention
Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared zabbix user account (as originally intended by...
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Post #69 4.02K
📨 linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
With 20250613.12fe085f-5, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware. Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink...
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Post #68 3.79K
📨 Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11. With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install...
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Post #67 3.09K
📨 Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging. The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development,...
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Post #66 3.51K
📨 Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024. Arch Linux Package Maintainers...
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Post #65 3.9K
📨 Cleaning up old repositories
Around two years ago, we've merged the [community] repository into [extra] as part of the git migration. In order to not break user setups, we kept these repositories around in an unused and empty state. We're going to clean up these old...
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Post #64 3.78K
📨 Glibc 2.41 corrupting Discord installation
We plan to move glibc and its friends to stable later today, Feb 3. After installing the update, the Discord client will show a red warning that the installation is corrupt. This issue has been fixed in the Discord canary build. If you rely...
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