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Post #63 3.66K
📨 Critical rsync security release 3.4.0
We'd like to raise awareness about the rsync security release version 3.4.0-1 as described in our advisory ASA-202501-1. An attacker only requires anonymous read access to a vulnerable rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute...
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Post #62 3.96K
📨 Providing a license for package sources
Arch Linux hasn't had a license for any package sources (such as PKGBUILD files) in the past, which is potentially problematic. Providing a license will preempt that uncertainty. In RFC 40 we agreed to change all package sources to be...
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Post #61 5.71K
📨 Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
With the release of version 7.0.0 pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges. For users with local repos however this might imply that the download user does not have access to the files in...
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Post #59 4.98K
📨 Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results
Recently we held our leader election, and the previous Project Leader Levente "anthraxx" Polyák ran again while no other people were nominated for the role. As per our election rules he is re-elected for a new term. The role of of the...
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Post #58 4.62K
📨 Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
The vm.max_map_count paramater will be increased from the default 65530 value to 1048576. This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues for a number of memory intensive applications, particularly for (but not limited...
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Post #57 4.33K
📨 The xz package has been backdoored
TL;DR: Upgrade your systems and container images now! As many of you may have already read (one), the upstream release tarballs for xz in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 contain malicious code which adds a backdoor. This vulnerability is tracked in...
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Post #56 3.65K
📨 mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev. To ensure no breakage of...
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Post #55 3.15K
❗️Hello everyone, I'm sorry for being away for a while, but I've been very busy... I'm happy to announce that the bot is up and running again. I've rebuilt it from scratch to ensure its reliability. I hope you'll enjoy using it. Thank you for your patience.

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Post #53 5.48K
🔄 TeX Live package reorganization
Starting from version 2023.66594-9, TeX Live packages have been reorganized to mirror upstream collections. Even though the new texlive-basic replaces... Read more
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