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Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-12

On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed the base-devel package group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on the system:

pacman -Syu base-devel

PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

2023-01-13

The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model. php and php-legacy can be installed at the same time as the latter uses a -legacy suffix for its binaries and configuration files.

In addition to this, …

In memory of Jonathon Fernyhough

2023-01-12

Arch Linux mourns the sudden loss of Jonathon Fernyhough, known in our community as jonathon, who passed away on Saturday night.

Jonathon was an active participant and contributor to Arch Linux, several derived distributions, the AUR and through personal repositories. He was enthusiastic, helpful and eager to contribute towards improving the free and open source software community as a whole.

On behalf of the wider Arch Linux community, our condolences go out to his family and friends.

Removing python2 from the repositories

2022-09-23

Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then we have been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in our repositories, and we have finally been able to drop it from our distribution. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.

If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates. If you need a patched package please consult the AUR, or use an unofficial user repository.

Arch Linux mailing list changes

2022-09-16

As part of dropping Python 2 which is EOL, we have migrated our mailing lists from mailman2 to mailman3.

Rewriting of the "From" header and subject (to prepend the list name) have been disabled to keep the DKIM signature intact. This means "reply to mailing list" must be used when replying to the list and you may need to update your filters and rules matching the "From" header.

All existing subscriptions are migrated and you do not need to re-subscribe. For managing your subscriptions a new mailman3 account must be registered.

Older News

2022-08-30
Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities
2022-07-14
wxWidgets 3.2 update may need manual intervention
2022-05-12
Undone replacement of pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
2022-05-09
QEMU >= 7.0.0 changes split package setup
2022-03-25
Keycloak 17.0.1-2 update requires manual reconfiguration
2022-02-23
Arch Linux Leader Election Results
2022-02-02
Debug packages and debuginfod
2022-01-21
linux-firmware 20220119.0c6a7b3-2 requires kernel >=5.3 and package splitting
2021-12-27
libxml2>=2.9.12-6 update may require manual intervention
2021-06-08
Sorting out old password hashes

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tailscale 1.38.2-1 x86_64
pkgconf 1.8.1-1 x86_64
deno 1.32.1-1 x86_64
babel-cli 7.21.0-1 any
grep 3.10-1 x86_64
coreutils 9.2-2 x86_64
deja-dup 44.1-1 x86_64
qt5-base 5.15.8+kde+r185-1 x86_64
ttf-ubuntu-font-family 0.863-1 any
fish 3.6.1-1 x86_64
vlc 3.0.18-8 x86_64
vtk 9.2.6-4 x86_64
vigra 1.11.1.r67+g093d57d1-8 x86_64
sz 2.1.12.5-2 x86_64
slurm-llnl 22.05.7.1-2 x86_64