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...
https://archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-2024-leader-election-results/
The vm.max_map_count parameter 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...
https://archlinux.org/news/increasing-the-default-vmmax_map_count-value/
UPDATE: To our knowledge the malicious code which was distributed via the release tarball never made it into the Arch Linux provided binaries, as the build script was configured to only inject th...
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
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...
https://archlinux.org/news/mkinitcpio-hook-migration-and-early-microcode/
We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd. For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of db...
https://archlinux.org/news/making-dbus-broker-our-default-d-bus-daemon/
We are happy to announce that the migration of the bugtracker to GitLab is done! 🥳 Thanks to everyone who has helped during the migration! This means the issue tracker and merge requests ...
https://archlinux.org/news/bugtracker-migration-to-gitlab-completed/
We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21. To sum i...
https://archlinux.org/news/incoming-changes-in-jdk-jre-21-packages-may-require-manual-intervention/
With shadow >= 4.14.0, Arch Linux's default password hashing algorithm changed from SHA512 to YESCRYPT . Furthermore, the umask settings are now configured in /etc/login.defs instead of /etc/p...
https://archlinux.org/news/changes-to-default-password-hashing-algorithm-and-umask-settings/
As of ansible-core 2.15.3, upstream moved documentation and examples to a separate dedicated repository (see the related changelogs ). This means that, starting from version 2.15.3 the ansible-...
https://archlinux.org/news/ansible-core-2153-1-update-may-require-manual-intervention/
When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to 10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter. As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual interve...
https://archlinux.org/news/budgie-desktop-1072-6-update-requires-manual-intervention/