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NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Published: December 20, 2025 18:53

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open, nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms, and nvidia-lts with nvidia-lts-open. Impact: Updating the…

.NET packages may require manual intervention

https://archlinux.org/news/net-packages-may-require-manual-intervention/

Published: December 11, 2025 07:01

The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0: aspnet-runtime aspnet-targeting-pack dotnet-runtime dotnet-sdk dotnet-source-built-artifacts dotnet-targeting-pack pacman may display the following error failed…

waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention

https://archlinux.org/news/waydroid-154-3-update-may-require-manual-intervention/

Published: November 6, 2025 00:35

The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done during the packaging…

dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention

https://archlinux.org/news/dovecot-24-requires-manual-intervention/

Published: October 31, 2025 21:20

The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file. Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migrated, requiring manual…

Recent service outages

https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

Published: August 21, 2025 22:01

We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the…

zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention

https://archlinux.org/news/zabbix-741-2-may-requires-manual-intervention/

Published: August 4, 2025 14:58

Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared zabbix user account (as originally intended by upstream and…

Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging

https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/

Published: June 16, 2025 16:22

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging. The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies…

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

https://archlinux.org/news/valkey-to-replace-redis-in-the-extra-repository/

Published: April 17, 2025 13:16

Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024. Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to…