[Testing Update] 2023-07-24 – Kernels, Pipewire, Thunderbird 115, Grub 2.12-rc1, LibreOffice 7.5.5, Mesa 23.1.4 – Testing Updates

[Unstable Update] 2023-05-21 – Repository changes – #199 by Zesko

Kernel 6.4.4, 6.4.5 and 6.1.39 LTS are affected:
The known issue and report:

[Testing Update] 2023-06-27 – Kernels, Linux-Firmware, Mesa, Wine, Nvidia, KDE-git – #4 by xvin

– Arch Linux – News: TeX Live package reorganization

Update your system and merge the pacman pacnew /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file.

sudo pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-11"

2023-06-14 – Felix Yan

The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn’t ship optimized LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, ATLAS, etc.

The default BLAS implementation will be used for most packages like NumPy or R. Please install blas-openblas and blas64-openblas to make OpenBLAS the default BLAS implementation, just like the old behavior.

Unfortunately you will get errors on updating if you currently have OpenBLAS installed as the default BLAS implementation:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by cblas
:: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by lapack

Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line to get around it. For example:

sudo pacman -Syu blas-openblas

or

sudo pacman -Syu blas

– Arch Linux – News: OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention

If you have a lot of pip/AUR packages to upgrade to Python 3.11, read this.

If you installed python311 from the AUR, you need to uninstall it before running this update.

There is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (more details here).

sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-kde

sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt

sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

sudo pacman -Rdd xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

• Fixed with at-spi2-core 2.48.2-1 (no action required)

[Unstable Update] 2023-02-17 – Plasma 5.27 LTS, GNOME, Python – #51 by philm

[Testing Update] 2023-03-25 – Kernels, Firefox, Deepin, GNOME, NVIDIA, Wine – #42 by philm

With kernel 6.2.3 when you simply plug in a usb external drive, mount it and umount it, then the journal has a kernel Oops. A bug report, that includes the journal output was submitted at. 217174 – Plugging in usb external drive, mount and umount causes kernel Oops Discussion can be found here: Re: Possible kernel fs block code regression in 6.2.3 umounting usb drives — Linux Stable Kernel Updates

Seems there is a regression introduced with 5.15.99 kernel update: [i915]drm:add_taint_for_CI [i915]] CI tainted:0x9 by intel_gt_init+0xae/0x2d0 [i915] (#8284) · Issues · drm / intel · GitLab. My thoughts here: [Testing Update] 2023-03-11 – Kernels, Mesa 22.3.7, Phosh, LibreOffice 7.4.6 – #31 by philm

– Arch Linux – News: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-01-13 – Pierre Schmitz

The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model. php and php-legacy can be installed at the same time as the latter uses a -legacy suffix for its binaries and configuration files.

In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The imap extension will no longer be provided as it relies on the c-client library which has been abandoned for many years.

– Arch Linux – News: PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch

Rename project (#183) · Issues · Applications / pacman-mirrors · GitLab

XFCE Classic project became obsolete with the 4.18 series and is no longer required. If you still have it installed, please replace it with the normal package:

sudo pacman -S libxfce4ui

Gnome 43 (X11) GTK4 windows failed to render · Issue #1541 · pop-os/shell · GitHub

Window actors call update_stage_views() without allocation after non-interactive resize on X11 (#6054) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

2022-09-23 – Jelle van der Waa

Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then we have been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in our repositories, and we have finally been able to drop it from our distribution. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.

If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates. If you need a patched package please consult the AUR, or use an unofficial user repository.*

– Arch Linux – News: Removing python2 from the repositories

* Note: Unofficial user repositories are not supported