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[arch-dev-public] News draft: PHP 8.0 is available
by Pierre Schmitz 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Hi all, I'd like to move the PHP 8 rebuild to [extra] soon. Here is a little news draft to mainly inform users about the new php7 package for legacy software: --- The php package has been updated to version 8.0(1). Please refer to the upstream migration guide(2). As some applications are not compatible with PHP 8 yet we provide a 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" postfix: * /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 Note that support for php7 will be limited and likely be dropped in about a year(3) depending on how soon the majority of applications will be compatible with version 8. --- 1) https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php 2) https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.php 3) https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php Let me know if I should add or change anything. Greetings, Pierre

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[arch-dev-public] Goodbye
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Hi everyone, I'm stepping down as a developer. It's been mostly fantastic ride for the last 10 years but it's clear to me now that for better or worse it's far from the project I initially joined. Thank you and good luck with everything, Bart

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[arch-dev-public] State of PHP 8 update
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Jan '21

23 Jan '21

Hi all, as people start asking me when to expect PHP 8 packages in our repos, here is a quick update: * For those who seek adventure, I'll already have version 8 in my unofficial repo * A lot of the libraries I tested do not work with PHP 8 yet. E.g. Doctrine, Elastic-Search, ... * Software that was written for PHP 5 and was never properly ported to 7 will not work; e.g. FluxBB we use for our Forums * Updating software to work with PHP 8 is quite easy though and I expect way less issues than the back in the days when we transitioned from 5 to 7 * A lot of developers use Arch, therefor I would like to provide PHP 8 as soon as possible which in turn should speed up the migration or everybody * I will check if we could provide php7 packages alongside version 8 so people can start developing for 9 but still are able to run some apps with 7. PHP 7 will be supported by upstream for almost 2 years: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php I'll keep you updated. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1
by David Runge 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi! I have just upgraded postfix to 3.5.9. The package has been split to allow specific installations based on requirements while not pulling in all of the backends at once: postfix postfix-cdb postfix-ldap postfix-lmdb postfix-mysql postfix-pcre postfix-pgsql postfix-sqlite Please do test the integration of the split-out optional dependencies with postfix to see whether everything still works as expected. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-dev-public] Archinstall in [extra]
by Giancarlo Razzolini 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Fellow Archers, As you might have noticed, archinstall[0] has been added to the [extra] repository. Over the past months we have been discussing the potential addition of an installer to our installation medium internally with our staff. Dave mentioned archinstall in his archiso talk during Arch Conf[1], outlining why we think it might be a good fit for a non default TUI based installer for Arch. To make it easier for contributors to find and fix bugs when testing archinstall, before it is added to the installation medium as a package, we have added it to the repositories for ease of use. Please note, that only installations done using the official installation guide are supported[2]. Installations done using archinstall are *unsupported* by our support staff until further notice. Any issues with installations based on archinstall should be reported to upstream directly[3]. This might change in the future, and users will be informed accordingly. Happy testing! [0] https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall [1] https://youtu.be/prsVk9iaclM?t=1436 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide [3] https://github.com/Torxed/archinstall/issues

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Manual pages indexing service
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hey all, lahwaacz made a service for collecting and displaying manpages from our packages that we now operate at man.archlinux.org. I believe this is news-post worthy. --- Title: man.archlinux.org is live We are happy to announce our newest public service: A manual pages indexing site at [man.archlinux.org](https://man.archlinux.org) that publishes all 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 a link to this service in our sidebar. 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 that match the version of our released packages makes Arch more accessible and that it improves our documentation even further. --- Thoughts? Cheers, Sven

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[arch-dev-public] News draft: Archlinux mailing list id changes
by Frederik Schwan 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hey all, below is the news item I would like to post. We had to change some mailing list ids which used to be @archlinux.org to @lists.archlinux.org to mitigate anti spam issues. Sending to @archlinux.org still works as usual though. ``` 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. ``` If you have improvement suggestions, please let me know! Best regards, Frederik

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[arch-dev-public] Apollo decommission
by Giancarlo Razzolini 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Hi All, All the services that were hosted on apollo were moved to their own VPS'es or were removed. We plan to fully decommission the server on the 31th. If anyone knows any reason not to, please, let us know. We'll keep backups of it for a couple of months, after it's gone. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Patchwork migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Hi All, As part of the apollo deprecation effort that's ongoing, we are now migrating patchwork to its own machine. Eventually it *might* be entirely deprecated in favor of gitlab, but we should keep it running for now. The migration will happen tomorrow around 1PM UTC, if there aren't any issues. As part of this effort, patchwork has also been migrated to version 3.0.0. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-dev-public] Wiki migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Dec '20

21 Dec '20

Hi All, We are going to migrate the wiki to a new VPS as well. The migration will happen tomorrow, 21, around 6PM UTC. If there's any issue, the migration will be pushed to 22, same time. I expect the migration to take around 1 hour, but it can be faster than that. During that time, the wiki will be under maintenance. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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