Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:
By popular demand, the next Bug Day will be on Saturday, July 3. People are
usually around all day, but you will certainly find us in the #archlinux-bugs
IRC channel in the afternoon and evening EST. Happy bug squashing!
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/504/
Dan McGee wrote:
The latest and greatest version of pacman is now available in [core]. As usual,
please report any issues or regressions to the [bug tracker][1] after searching
to see if your bug already exists. The changes in this release are detailed in
the [NEWS file][2]. Noteable changes in this release:
* New "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to installing only
packages from the given architecture
* Installing package with -U is now smart like -S — dependencies and conflicts
are now handled
* New --print and --print-format options to output in suitable format for
wrapper scripts
* Repository updates are faster as only new entries are extracted
* makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging
* makepkg now allows overrides of pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages
* ...and many more improvements.
Thanks again to all of the developers and contributors that have made this
release possible!
[1]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=3
[2]: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?id=v3.4.0
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/503/
Andreas Radke wrote:
This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After
upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored.
Documentation about this change can be found on:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx
and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend
using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now.
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/
Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:
The flashplugin has a critical vulnerability[1] in version 10.0.45.2 which is
fixed in 10.1.53.64. Unfortunately, Adobe released this version for i686 only
and the x86_64 port was discontinued[2] leaving the x86_64 package vulnerable.
Because of that, we cannot build an updated version for x86_64. While we
considered pulling the x86_64 package from our repositories, for now we will
leave it up to our users to remove it or keep it installed. We suggest using
alternative options for running flash-based on x86_64 systems or using the
flashblock extension for firefox and chromium. [1]
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html [2]
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/501/