netcfg 2.8.2 has been moved to [core]. It has been six months since
netcfg had an update, so it accumulated quite some changes. Here is a
shortlist.
- Configuration has moved out of
rc.conf. Please move your
configuration to /etc/conf.d/netcfg.
- Connection types ending in
-old, -dbus and -iproute are
discontinued. Remove the suffix if you still have it: you didn't need
it.
- Systemd is now supported for single profile, multiple profile,
automatic wired and automatic wireless connections.
- For your basic wifi needs, you can now use the bundled
wifi-menu
tool. It is a dialog based connection aid inspired by wifi-select.
- Disconnecting an interface is no longer done through
-i. The new
parameter is -D. Reconnecting an interface is possible through -R.
- There is a new connection type: PPPoE.
The full changelog is at
http://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/tree/NEWS?id=2.8.2
The wiki does not reflect all these changes yet, please help updating it!
PHP has been updated to its latest major release 5.4. The upstream
changelog can be found at php.net/ChangeLog-5.php, a detailed
migration guide is at php.net/migration54. In addition to this the following packaging changes have been made:
- The Suhosin patch and extension have been removed. Learn more about
the reasoning behind this decision at
pierre-schmitz.com/php-5-4-1-in-suhosin-out/
If you had used the suhosin extension before remove the php-suhosin
package as it is no longer compatible with PHP 5.4
- Note that the extension API has been changed. If you are using any
third party extensions ...
If you follow Arch Planet, you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch Linux. There is also a brief article from The H Open Source as well as discussion on Reddit. With good fortune and a little luck, hopefully we'll be around to celebrate another 10 years!
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From the glibc-2.15-5 package, the minimum required kernel version will
be increased from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32. This reflects the oldest kernel
version still receiving updates upstream.
Recent releases of libpng and libtiff have required a rebuild of all
packages that depend on them; these have just been moved from [testing]
to the main repos. As usual, remember to fully update your system and
check your unofficial packages (especially the cairo-* packages from
AUR) for required rebuilds.
The update might output messages similar to:
g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so:
libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
These can be safely ignored if you use our official cairo package;
otherwise you may need to ...
