## Staff We would like to welcome [Vladimir LAVALLADE (Erus Iluvatar)][0] to their new role as ArchWiki Administrator. ## Infrastructure The DevOps team has recently provisioned a new EPYC 9454P build server for Arch Linux packaging. This high-performance server is meant to streamline the packaging process, ensuring more efficient building of resource hungry package builds. ## mkinitcpio mkinitcpio [v37.2][1] and [v37.3][2] have been released. These releases include numerous bug fixes, such as patches addressing inflated initramfs sizes and resolving issues with kernel images located in non-standard locations. ## RFC An [RFC has been proposed][3] to add ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` and ``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer`` to the default compilation flags to improve the effectiveness of profiling and debugging tools. Additionally, an [RFC has been proposed][4] to define new mirror administration routines and mirror requirements. This RFC outlines the requirements, definitions and guidelines surrounding not only becoming but also maintaining and decommissioning a mirror. ## Packaging ### Firefox The [firefox][5] and [firefox-developer-edition][6] packages have been updated to include regular debug packages. As part of this update, symbols are no longer submitted to Mozilla at the end of the build process. Instead, [Mozilla retrieves all symbols from our end][7]. This change enables local debugging of Firefox while still allowing the submission of useful crash reports to Mozilla and leveraging their profiling service. ### Statistics In this month, we've successfully rolled out 11068 package updates addressing various enhancements and rebuilds, including 2777 package upgrades. Additionally, we've received 204 new package issues, while resolving a total of 258 issues. [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:News#2024/01/07_-_New_administrato... [1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v37.... [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/releases/v37.... [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/26 [4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/29/diffs [5]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/firefox/-/commit/9... [6]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/firefox-developer-... [7]: https://github.com/mozilla/symbol-scrapers/pull/41