## Git packaging sources We have improved a lot of pieces in `pkgctl` according to the feedback from the sandbox environment. Most notably it is possible to provide GitLab tokens via the `DEVTOOLS_GITLAB_TOKEN` environment variable, pass nocheck to the build command for bootstrap builds, handle subrelease pkgrels as well as several bugfixes. We are doing another round of testing and would like to proceed with the rollout afterwards. ## devtools A new version 20230307 has been released adding support for architecture-specific mount config. Furthermore `sogrep` now uses the first mirror that is configured for each repo in `pacman.conf` with a fallback to https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com. Additionally we added checks to not allow package releases of `PKGBUILD` sources with only weak cryptographic hashing algorithms. ## namcap A new version 3.4.0 has been released with a huge amount of cleanup and codebase improvements. Furthermore new checks have been added like optdepends and sodepends as well as improved pydepends. ## archiso Starting with `archlinux-2023.03.01-x86_64.iso`, the official ISO supports what is called *file system transposition* (**only on UEFI**). This means the ISO can be simply extracted (using an archiver or by mounting and copying) to the root of a FAT formatted partition and it will work™. Messing with boot loader configuration files is not required anymore. The documentation in [0] and [1] have been updated with the new simplified instructions. # mkinitcpio mkinitcpio version 35 followed by bugfix releases 35.1 and 35.2 are out! A major new feature is support for post-generation hooks a.k.a post hooks. These hooks get run after the initramfs generation and can be used to sign the generated images for Secure Boot. Examples are provided in [2] and [3]. Thanks to improvements in xz reproducibility, mkinitcpio can now use multi-threaded xz compression. [0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/blob/master/docs/README.tra... [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#UEFI_only [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secur... [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image#Signing_the_UKIs_for_S...