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Based on the Arch distribution, Parabola is a complete, user-friendly operating system, suitable for general "everyday" use, while retaining Arch's "power-user" charm. Parabola adheres to the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG); which requires source code for every part of the system to be freely available, modifyable, and re-distributable. All Parabola packages are built from source, in clean chroots, and with networking disabled, in order to replace any software and artworks in the standard Arch system which fall outside the GNU guidelines. LiveISOs, installers, and packages are provided for the armv7h, i686, and x86_64 CPU architectures.
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from arch:
After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections.
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service
using systemctl try-restart sshd right after upgrading.
We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.
NOTICE FOR EVERYONE:
You may see the following error message from pacman:
error: config file /etc/pacman.d/*.conf could not be read: No such file or directory
If you do, that is because you have modified your pacman.conf file in the past; but you forgot to reconcile the latest .pacnew replacement. Remember that it is upon each user to notice any new .pacnew replacement files for any configuration files that you have modified, each time pacman does an upgrade, and to merge the changes into your existing config files. Pacman will not do that automatically, to avoid clobbering ...
From: "Arch Linux: Recent news updates: David Runge" arch-announce@lists.archlinux.org
TL;DR: Upgrade your systems and container images now!
As many of you may have already read 1, the upstream release tarballs for xz in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 contain malicious code which adds a backdoor.
This vulnerability is tracked in the Arch Linux security tracker 2.
The xz packages prior to version 5.6.1-2 (specifically 5.6.0-1 and 5.6.1-1) contain this backdoor.
We strongly advise against using affected release artifacts and instead downloading what is currently available as latest version!
When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to 10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter. As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual intervention is required to complete the upgrade.
First remove mutter43, then immediately perform the upgrade. Do not relog or reboot between these steps.
pacman -Rdd mutter43
pacman -Syu
From Arch:
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 ...
| flatpak 1:1.15.9-1 | armv7h |
| vorbis-tools 1.4.2-5 | armv7h |
| pacman-bintrans 0.5.0-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| ostree 2024.7-1 | armv7h |
| parallel 20240722-1 | armv7h |
| dbus-glib 0.112-4 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| python-hypothesis 6.108.4-1 | armv7h |
| python-puremagic 1.26-1 | armv7h |
| buf 1.35.0-1 | armv7h |
| cargo-cyclonedx 0.5.4-1 | armv7h |
| xfmpc 0.3.1-2 | armv7h |
| blosc 1.21.6-1 | armv7h |
| vim 9.1.0611-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| docker-compose 2.29.1-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| linux-tools 6.10-1 | armv7h |
