Starting with package version 42-1, the mkinitcpio systemd hook now includes systemd-pcrosseparator.service (as intended by systemd v261).
This affects the measurements of PCR values 0-7, 9 and 12-14. If you configured the systemd hook and unlock LUKS partitions, that depend on these values, you need to re-enroll the TPM2 in use.
For guidance, please refer to systemd-cryptenroll(1), or the ArchWiki article on systemd-cryptenroll, when using pinned values. Refer to systemd-pcrlock(8), when relying on custom policies and a disabled systemd-pcrlock-make-policy.service.
Previously, we installed its contents in a way that made pacman not aware of the files (using VBoxManage extpack install ... from an install script). To mitigate issues during upgrade, you can use one of the following methods:
- Uninstall
virtualbox-ext-vnc before upgrading the system, then installing it again.
- Run
VBoxManage extpack uninstall 'VNC' as root before upgrading the system.
- Instruct
pacman once to overwrite the existing files:
pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC/*'
We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
- Creating new accounts on the AUR
- Pushing package updates
- Adopting or creating new packages
We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially …
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.
As per our election rules he is re-elected with the term lasting two years.
The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a bunch of responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), community leadership, Code of Conduct enforcement, handling financial matters with SPI and overall project management tasks.
Congratulations to Levente, thank you for stepping up …
The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache. We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package. This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement. All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories.
At minimum, users will have to:
- rename
/etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache
- rename
/var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache
- fix up ownership of files inside
/var/lib/varnish
- user
varnish becomes vinyl
- group
varnish becomes vinyl
- user
varnishlog …
