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The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
https://archlinux.org/news/the-sshd-service-needs-to-be-restarted-after-upgrading-to-openssh-98p1/
Published: July 1, 2024 16:40
After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections (see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openssh/-/issues/5). When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service…
Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results
https://archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-2024-leader-election-results/
Published: April 15, 2024 06:56
Recently we held our leader election, and the previous Project Leader Levente "anthraxx" Polyák ran again while no other people were nominated for the role. As per our election rules he is re-elected for a new term. The role of of the project lead within…
Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
https://archlinux.org/news/increasing-the-default-vmmax_map_count-value/
Published: April 7, 2024 18:12
The vm.max_map_count paramater will be increased from the default 65530 value to 1048576. This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues for a number of memory intensive applications, particularly for (but not limited to) some…
The xz package has been backdoored
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
Published: March 29, 2024 18:55
TL;DR: Upgrade your systems and container images now! As many of you may have already read (one), the upstream release tarballs for xz in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 contain malicious code which adds a backdoor. This vulnerability is tracked in the Arch Linux…
mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
https://archlinux.org/news/mkinitcpio-hook-migration-and-early-microcode/
Published: March 4, 2024 17:14
With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev. To ensure no breakage of users' setup occurs,…
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
https://archlinux.org/news/making-dbus-broker-our-default-d-bus-daemon/
Published: January 9, 2024 16:59
We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd. For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you…