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[arch-announce] Installation medium with installer
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

The installation medium now provides a guided [installer](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/archinstall/). This addition to the default method of installation (based on the [installation guide](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide)) is similar to the [other methods](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Installation_process). If you use this installer, do not forget to mention it when asking for support and also to provide the archinstall log, when asked. URL: https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installer/

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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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[arch-announce] PHP 8.0 and PHP 7 legacy packages are available
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

The php package has been updated to [version 8.0](https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php). Please refer to the upstream [migration guide](https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.php). As some applications are not compatible with PHP 8 yet we provide a [php7](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/php7/) package which can be installed alongside version 8. Packages that depend on PHP reflect this update and will require php7 if needed. You might need to update your configuration accordingly. PHP 7 binaries and configuration have the "7" suffix: * /usr/bin/php -> /usr/bin/php7 * /etc/php -> /etc/php7 * /usr/bin/php-fpm -> /usr/bin/php-fpm7 * /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm7.service * /run/php-fpm -> /run/php-fpm7 We also provide third party modules compiled for PHP 7: * [php7-apcu](https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/php7-apcu/) * [php7-geoip](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-geoip/) * [php7-grpc](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-grpc/) * [php7-igbinary](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-igbinar… * [php7-imagick](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-imagick/) * [php7-memcache](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-memcach… * [php7-memcached](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-memcac… * [php7-mongodb](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-mongodb/) * [php7-redis](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/php7-redis/) Note that support for php7 will be [limited](https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php) and likely be dropped in about a year depending on how soon the majority of applications will be compatible with version 8. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/php-80-and-php-7-legacy-packages-are-availab…

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[arch-announce] Manual pages indexing service
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Sven-Hendrik Haase 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

We are happy to announce our newest public service: A manual pages indexing site at [man.archlinux.org](https://man.archlinux.org) that publishes the man pages of all our packages and allows you to [search](https://man.archlinux.org/search) and [browse](https://man.archlinux.org/listing) them. Check out, for example, the [man page of tar](https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/tar/tar.1.en). You can also find this service linked to in the sidebar as well as on every package detail page. Thanks to Wiki Admin [lahwaacz](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Lahwaacz) for developing [archmanweb](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archmanweb) for this purpose. While there are other man page indexing sites out there, it is our hope that publishing man pages matching the versions of our released packages further improves Arch accessibility and documentation. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/manual-pages-indexing-service/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux mailing list id changes
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jelle van der Waa 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

Due to issues with our anti spam measures, we had to migrate those mailing lists, that were sent from @archlinux.org before to the @lists.archlinux.org domain. Submission to the mailing list is not affected and still works with @archlinux.org. Mails get redirected automagically. The only change that may need to be considered on your side are filters and rules matching the From or List-id header which changed accordingly. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-mailing-list-id-changes/

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[arch-announce] Accessible installation medium
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: David Runge 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

We are very happy to announce that accessibility features have been added to our installation medium with [archiso v49](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/tags/v49). >From release 2020.11.01 onward these are available via the 2nd boot loader menu item. A [specific installation guide](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessi… can be found on the wiki. Many thanks go to Alexander Epaneshnikov who integrated the features from the [TalkingArch](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TalkingArch) project into archiso's releng profile, which is used for creating the installation medium. Note: The boot loader timeouts have been set to 15s to allow blind users to select the menu item as the boot loaders themselves do not offer accessibility features. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/accessible-installation-medium/

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[arch-announce] libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Sébastien Luttringer 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem when updating, use pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 to perform the upgrade. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/libtraceevent59-1-update-requires-manual-int…

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[arch-announce] nvidia 455.28 is incompatible with linux >= 5.9
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Sven-Hendrik Haase 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

nvidia is currently partially incompatible with linux >= 5.9 [[1]](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-driver-not-yet-supported-f… [[2]](https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68312). While graphics should work fine, CUDA, OpenCL, and likely other features are broken. Users who've already upgraded and need those features are advised to switch to the linux-lts kernel for the time being until a fix for nvidia is available. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/nvidia-45528-is-incompatible-with-linux-59/

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[arch-announce] ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan Alexander Steffens 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

The ghostpcl and ghostxps packages prior to version 9.53.2-2 were missing a soname link each. This has been fixed in 9.53.2-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors ghostpcl: /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9 exists in filesystem ghostxps: /usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 exists in filesystem when updating, use pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9,/usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 to perform the upgrade. URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/ghostpcl9532-2-and-ghostxps9532-2-updates-re…

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