# Arch Linux changelog > A lightweight, rolling-release distribution that ships changes as news. - Vendor: Arch Linux - Category: Operating Systems - Official site: https://archlinux.org - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux) - Harvested from: Blog (https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/) - Entries below: 10 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention - Date: 2026-07-21 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/virtualbox-ext-vnc-7212-2-requires-manual-intervention/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-07-21-news-virtualbox-ext-vnc-72 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… - **changed** — Installation method for virtualbox-ext-vnc changed from using VBoxManage extpack install in an install script to a method where pacman is aware of the files ### Active AUR malicious packages incident - Date: 2026-06-12 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-06-12-news-active-aur-malicious 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 p… - **security** — Address high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository ### Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results - Date: 2026-06-04 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-2026-leader-election-results/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-06-04-news-arch-linux-2026-leade 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 P… ### Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache` - Date: 2026-05-25 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/breaking-changes-for-all-users-of-varnish-which-is-renamed-to-vinyl-cache/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-05-25-news-breaking-changes-for 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 a… - **changed** — Varnish project renamed to Vinyl Cache with new vinyl-cache package, resulting in breaking changes - **removed** — varnish package replaced by vinyl-cache package ### kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention - Date: 2026-04-07 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/kea-1303-6-update-requires-manual-intervention/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-04-07-news-kea-1303-6-update-req The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root ) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services… - **security** — Move all kea services to run as a dedicated kea user instead of root for improved security - **changed** — Update permissions on runtime files created by kea services ### iptables now defaults to the nft backend - Date: 2026-04-05 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/iptables-now-defaults-to-the-nft-backend/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2026-04-05-news-iptables-now-defaults The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy. When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy), check for .p… - **changed** — iptables now defaults to the nft backend instead of the legacy backend - **changed** — iptables-nft package is renamed to iptables - **added** — iptables-legacy package provides the legacy backend for backwards compatibility ### NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules - Date: 2025-12-20 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2025-12-20-news-nvidia-590-driver-dro With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open , nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms , a… - **removed** — Support for Pascal (GTX 10xx) and older NVIDIA GPUs in driver version 590 - **changed** — Replace nvidia package with nvidia-open - **changed** — Replace nvidia-dkms package with nvidia-open-dkms ### .NET packages may require manual intervention - Date: 2025-12-11 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/net-packages-may-require-manual-intervention/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2025-12-11-news-net-packages-may-requ 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-targetin… - **changed** — aspnet-runtime, aspnet-targeting-pack, dotnet-runtime, dotnet-sdk, dotnet-source-built-artifacts, and dotnet-targeting-pack packages upgraded from version 9.0 to 10.0 may require manual intervention ### waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention - Date: 2025-11-06 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/waydroid-154-3-update-may-require-manual-intervention/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2025-11-06-news-waydroid-154-3-update 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. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3 , where by… - **fixed** — Remove untracked Python byte-code files (.pyc) that were created at runtime and not managed by pacman ### dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention - Date: 2025-10-31 - Original notes: https://archlinux.org/news/dovecot-24-requires-manual-intervention/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux/releases/feed-tag-archlinux.org-2025-10-31-news-dovecot-24-requires-m The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migra… - **changed** — dovecot 2.4 introduces breaking changes that require manual configuration file migration before the service can start