June 2025 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan Alexander Steffens 21 Jun '25

21 Jun '25

With `20250613.12fe085f-5`, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. `linux-firmware` is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware. Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from `20250508.788aadc8-2` or earlier, you will see the following errors: linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem To progress with the system upgrade, first remove `linux-firmware`, then reinstall it as part of the upgrade: # pacman -Rdd linux-firmware # pacman -Syu linux-firmware URL: https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requir…

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[arch-announce] Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Tomaz Canabrava 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11. With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma. ### tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11 URL: https://archlinux.org/news/plasma-640-will-need-manual-intervention-if-you-…

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[arch-announce] Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Peter Jung 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure [wow64](https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.0#wow64) build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging. The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain. Potential Issues: * OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly * Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application. URL: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-stagin…

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