Arch Linux Arch Linux Home Packages Forums Wiki GitLab Security AUR Download A simple, lightweight distribution You've reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture. We complement our official package sets with a community-operated package repository that grows in size and quality each and every day. Our strong community is diverse and helpful, and we pride ourselves on the range of skillsets and uses for Arch that stem from it. Please check out our forums and mailing lists to get your feet wet. Also glance through our wiki if you want to learn more about Arch. Learn more... Latest News virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention 2026-07-21 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 of the following methods: Uninstall virtualbox-ext-vnc before upgrading the system, then installing it again. Run VBoxManage extpack uninstall 'VNC' as root before upgrading the system. Instruct pacman once to overwrite the existing files: pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC/*' Active AUR malicious packages incident 2026-06-12 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 prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following: Creating new accounts on the AUR Pushing package updates Adopting or creating new packages We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially … Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results 2026-06-04 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 Project Lead. As per our election rules he is re-elected with the term lasting two years. The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a bunch of responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), community leadership, Code of Conduct enforcement, handling financial matters with SPI and overall project management tasks. Congratulations to Levente, thank you for stepping up … Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache` 2026-05-25 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 and how it affects them before following the replacement. All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories. At minimum, users will have to: rename /etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache rename /var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache fix up ownership of files inside /var/lib/varnish user varnish becomes vinyl group varnish becomes vinyl user varnishlog … kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention 2026-04-07 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. Users upgrading from an existing kea installation should therefore run the following commands after the upgrade: chown kea: /var/lib/kea/* /var/log/kea/* /run/lock/kea/logger_lockfile systemctl try-restart kea-ctrl-agent.service kea-dhcp{4,6,-ddns}.service Accounts that need to interact with kea services files (e.g. lease files under /var/lib/kea, log files under /var/log/kea or configuration files under /etc/kea) should be added to the kea group. Older News 2026-04-05 iptables now defaults to the nft backend 2025-12-20 NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules 2025-12-11 .NET packages may require manual intervention 2025-11-06 waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention 2025-10-31 dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention 2025-08-21 Recent service outages 2025-08-04 zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention 2025-06-21 linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention 2025-06-20 Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11 2025-06-16 Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging Package Search: Recent Updates (more) libopenmpt 0.8.8-1 x86_64 python-progressbar 4.6.0-1 any pacoloco 1.9-1 x86_64 nvidia-container-toolkit 1.20.0-1 x86_64 libnvidia-container 1.20.0-1 x86_64 nano 9.2-1 x86_64 python-anywidget 0.11.0-1 any doxygen 1.18.0-1 x86_64 python-tifffile 2026.8.16-1 any satty 0.22.0-1 x86_64 python-xxhash 4.0.0-1 x86_64 nnn 5.3-1 x86_64 radicle-desktop 0.15.0-2 x86_64 rqbit 9.0.0-1 x86_64 openrazer 3.12.4-1 any Documentation Wiki Manual Pages Installation Guide Community Mailing Lists IRC Channels Planet Arch International Communities Support Donate T-shirts via Freewear T-shirts via HELLOTUX Tools Mirrorlist Updater Mirror List Mirror Status Development Getting involved Dev Blog Projects in Git Request for Comments Package Groups Todo Lists ISO Release List Visualizations Differences Reports People Developers Package Maintainers Support Staff Developer Fellows Package Maintainer Fellows Support Staff Fellows Signing Master Keys More Resources Press Coverage Logos & Artwork News Archives RSS Feeds Copyright © 2002-2026 Judd Vinet, Aaron Griffin and Levente Polyák. 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