Arch Linux: Recent news updates

Previously, we installed its contents in a way that made pacman not aware of the files (using VBoxManage extpack install ... from an install script).

We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.

Recently we held our leader elections and after a lively discussion period on the (internal) mailing lists and voting phase with two candidates Levente "anthraxx" Polyák was re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead.

The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache.

The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security.

The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older.

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 to…

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.

The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.