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systemd v261 pre-releases
by Christian Hesse 28 May '26

28 May '26

Hello everybody, the systemd development team has started pushing pre-release for the upcoming v261 release. Please see the NEWS [0] for details. As announced in the PKGBUILD [1] I have prepared packages and pushed them to my personal testing repository. Have a look at this if you are brave and want to have a first look. Please note: With an encrypted disk you need at least mkinitcpio 41-4, currently in core-testing. Happy testing! [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v261-rc2/NEWS [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/blob/ma… -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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News draft: varnish renamed to vinyl-cache, action required for users
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 23 May '26

23 May '26

Hey all, Recently, the upstream project Varnish was renamed to Vinyl Cache for legal reasons. There were some internal discussions on what to do here because this rename is very disruptive to users. This is not a drop-in replacement. Everything was renamed and Vinyl Cache doesn't have a compatibility layer with Varnish. It's a bit gnarly, honestly. Here's my draft. Lemme know what you think. --- # Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, renamed to `vinyl-cache` The Varnish project has [renamed itself to Vinyl Cache][0]. We followed this rename with a [new `vinyl-cache` package][1]. This upgrade results in [breaking changes][2] and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement. All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories. At minimum, users will have to: - rename `/etc/varnish` to `/etc/vinyl-cache` - rename `/var/lib/varnish` to `/var/lib/vinyl-cache` - fix up ownership of files inside `/var/lib/varnish` - user `varnish` becomes `vinyl` - group `varnish` becomes `vinyl` - user `varnishlog` becomes `vinyllog` - user `vcache` remains the same - disable the old `varnish.service` and `varnishncsa.service` systemd units - enable the new `vinyl-cache.service` and `vinylncsa.service` systemd units The former `varnish` package has been dropped from repos. We're not currently planning to maintain a new "varnish" package as it's a different upstream project. [0]: https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/on_vinyl_cache_and_varnish_cache.html#… [1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/vinyl-cache [2]: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.0/whats-new/upgrading-9.0.html

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archlinux.org status update
by Jelle van der Waa 17 May '26

17 May '26

Hi all, I've just rolled out a new updated archlinux.org, notable changes are: * Developer reports now contain a link to a list of pkgbases * bumpbuddy out of date data import support The bumpbuddy import has now been deployed and is running. See for example aws-vault being flagged by bumpbbuddy. Note that the automatic import doesn't send any email notification like the manual flagging out of date does. [1] In the future the flag out of date button will be disabled in favor of importing bumpbuddy out of date data. Note that we still lack nvchecker integration in packages in this To-Do. [2] [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/aws-vault/ [2] https://archlinux.org/todo/add-nvchecker-integration/

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