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[arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default with version 30, which is currently on [testing]. If, for any reason, you are using a kernel version prior to 5.9, make sure to change mkinitcpio.conf COMPRESSION to use one of the compressors supported, like gzip, otherwise you **will not** be able to boot images generated by mkinitcpio. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mki…

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[arch-announce] Chromium losing Sync support in early March
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Evangelos Foutras 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Google has [announced](https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availabil… that they are going to block everything but Chrome from accessing certain Google features (like Chrome sync) starting on March 15. This decision by Google is going to affect Arch's `chromium` package a bit earlier, on March 2, when Chromium 89 gets released. We know for sure that **data syncing** will stop working (passwords, bookmarks, etc.). Other features such as **geolocation** or **enhanced spell check** might continue to function for a bit longer. Extensions integrating with **Google Drive** might misbehave and LibreOffice will lose access to documents stored there. Other distros such as openSUSE and Fedora have already removed the soon-to-be-limited API keys from their Chromium 88 packages. Fedora's [advisory](https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5) provides a great deal of perspective on this and I also found this Hackaday [post](https://hackaday.com/2021/01/26/whats-the-deal-with-chromium-on-linux… to be quite informative. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/chromium-losing-sync-support-in-early-march/

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