The `base-devel` package group has recently been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
People that had the `base-devel` package group installed (meaning people that installed `base-devel` before February 2nd) have to explicitly re-install it to get the new `base-devel` package installed on their system:
```
pacman -Syu base-devel
```
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/switch-to-the-base-devel-meta-package-requires-m…
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.
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/in-memory-of-jonathon-fernyhough/
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.
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/removing-python2-from-the-repositories/
Recent changes in `grub` added a new command option and changed the way the
command is invoked. Depending on your system hardware and setup this could
cause an unbootable system due to incompatibilities between the installed
bootloader and configuration. After a `grub` package update it is advised to
run both, installation and regeneration of configuration:
grub-install ...
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
For more specific information on `grub-install`, please refer to the wiki:
[GRUB - ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Installation)
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloader-upgrade-and-configuration-incomp…
wxWidgets 3.2 provides a Qt frontend in addition to the GTK3 one, so packages have been renamed from wxgtk-* to wxwidgets-*.
The GTK2 frontend is no longer provided. If you have wxgtk2 installed, the upgrade will fail with
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing wxgtk-common breaks dependency 'wxgtk-common' required by wxgtk2
In such case, uninstall wxgtk2 first and then proceed with the upgrade.
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/wxwidgets-32-update-may-need-manual-intervention/
Two days ago the `wireplumber` package was made to replace `pipewire-media-session` as the latter session manager for PipeWire is considered dead upstream and will see no more releases. Unfortunately, this step was premature.
Our pipewire audio packages (`pipewire-alsa`, `pipewire-jack` and `pipewire-pulse`) ship configuration that prompt media-session to activate PipeWire's audio features. When these packages are not installed and the configuration is missing, PipeWire can be used for screen recording without interfering with ALSA or PulseAudio.
WirePlumber disregards this mechanism and always configures PipeWire to grab audio devices, meaning users of PulseAudio or bare ALSA experience broken audio.
The replacement has been reverted while we attempt to look for a better solution switching to WirePlumber. If you are currently not using PipeWire for audio and `wireplumber` got installed on your system, please reinstall `pipewire-media-session` and reboot to restore audio functionality.
pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-session-wit…
With the update to qemu 7.0.0 the package has been turned into a more
fine grained split package utilizing meta packages.
* The `qemu` package is now virtually provided by the meta packages
`qemu-base`, `qemu-desktop` and `qemu-full`.
* The functionality of `qemu` prior to 7.0.0 is replaced by
`qemu-desktop`
* The functionality of `qemu-headless` is replaced by
`qemu-base`
* The functionality of `qemu-arch-extra` and `qemu-headless-arch-extra`
is replaced by `qemu-emulators-full`
* The meta package `qemu-full` provides all QEMU related
packages (excluding `qemu-guest-agent`)
URL: https://archlinux.org/news/qemu-700-changes-split-package-setup/