# Arch Linux waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention

- Product: Arch Linux (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/arch-linux)
- Vendor: Arch Linux
- 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/2025-11-06-waydroid-1.5.4-3-update-may-require-manual-interv

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.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

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