Pacman 3.4.0 released The latest and greatest version of pacman is now available in [core]. As usual, please report any issues or regressions to the <a href="http://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=3">bug tracker</a> after searching to see if your bug already exists. The changes in this release are detailed in the NEWS file located in GIT, which can be accessed <a href="http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?id=v3.4.0">here</a>. Noteable changes in this release: <ul> <li>New "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to installing only packages from the given architecture</li> <li>Installing packages with -U can handle installing dependencies</li> <li>New --print and --print-format options to output in suitable format for wrapper scripts</li> <li>Repository updates are faster as only new entries are extracted</li> <li>makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging</li> <li>makepkg now allows overrides of pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages</li> <li>...and many more improvements.</li> </ul> Thanks again to all of the developers and contributors that have made this release possible!