Forum Update in Progress

Allan McRae wrote:

The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and may take a few more hours. In the meantime, enjoy this video of funny cats.

Update: The forums are back online

Bug Day: Saturday, July 3

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:

By popular demand, the next Bug Day will be on Saturday, July 3.

People are usually around all day, but you will certainly find us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC channel in the afternoon and evening EST.

Happy bug squashing!

Pacman 3.4.0 released

Dan McGee wrote:

The latest and greatest version of pacman is now available in [core]. As usual, please report any issues or regressions to the bug tracker after searching to see if your bug already exists. The changes in this release are detailed in the NEWS file.

Notable changes in this release:

• New "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to installing only packages from the given architecture
• Installing package with -U is now smart like -S — dependencies and conflicts are now handled
• New --print and --print-format options to output in suitable format for wrapper scripts
• Repository updates are faster as only new entries are extracted
• makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging
• makepkg now allows overrides of pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages
• ...and many more improvements.

Thanks again to all of the developers and contributors that have made this release possible!

Xorg 1.8 moves to extra

Andreas Radke wrote:

This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on the Xorg wiki article.

Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now.

flashplugin x86_64 package dropped

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:

The flashplugin has a critical vulnerability in version 10.0.45.2 which is fixed in 10.1.53.64. Unfortunately, Adobe released this version for i686 only and the x86_64 port was discontinued leaving the x86_64 package vulnerable. Because of that, we cannot build an updated version for x86_64. While we considered pulling the x86_64 package from our repositories, for now we will leave it up to our users to remove it or keep it installed.

We suggest using alternative options for running flash-based software on x86_64 systems or using the flashblock extension for firefox.