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[arch-announce] Bug Day: Saturday, July 3
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: By popular demand, the next Bug Day will be on Saturday, July 3. People are usually around all day, but you will certainly find us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC channel in the afternoon and evening EST. Happy bug squashing! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/504/

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[arch-announce] Pacman 3.4.0 released
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Dan McGee 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Dan McGee wrote: The latest and greatest version of pacman is now available in [core]. As usual, please report any issues or regressions to the [bug tracker][1] after searching to see if your bug already exists. The changes in this release are detailed in the [NEWS file][2]. Noteable changes in this release: * New "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to installing only packages from the given architecture * Installing package with -U is now smart like -S — dependencies and conflicts are now handled * New --print and --print-format options to output in suitable format for wrapper scripts * Repository updates are faster as only new entries are extracted * makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging * makepkg now allows overrides of pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages * ...and many more improvements. Thanks again to all of the developers and contributors that have made this release possible! [1]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=3 [2]: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?id=v3.4.0 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/503/

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[arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/

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[arch-announce] flashplugin x86_64 package dropped
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: The flashplugin has a critical vulnerability[1] in version 10.0.45.2 which is fixed in 10.1.53.64. Unfortunately, Adobe released this version for i686 only and the x86_64 port was discontinued[2] leaving the x86_64 package vulnerable. Because of that, we cannot build an updated version for x86_64. While we considered pulling the x86_64 package from our repositories, for now we will leave it up to our users to remove it or keep it installed. We suggest using alternative options for running flash-based on x86_64 systems or using the flashblock extension for firefox and chromium. [1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html [2] http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/501/

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