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ARCHINSTALL KILLS DEAD DESKTOP, GLIB2 GRADUATES TO STABLE

By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux

Archinstall shipped a cleanup that removes a profile that's been breaking installations since day one, while core libraries move out of testing into production.

The Cutefish desktop profile is gone [1]. It was never in the official repos—only in the AUR—and the upstream project is dead. Selecting it in the installer would always fail with a pacman "target not found" error. This fix stops wasting user time on broken installs. Meanwhile, glib2 [2] and lib32-glib2 [3] both graduated from testing to stable, a standard promotion cycle that clears the way for dependent packages. The infrastructure team hardened matrix-to-IRC bridging [4] to handle bot join failures more gracefully, reducing silent gaps in cross-protocol chat synchronization. Minor package updates landed across extra and multilib—tt-rss [5], tex-gyre-fonts [6], and lib32-renderdoc [7]—all routine maintenance.

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  1. [1] Remove dead Cutefish desktop profile (#4514) archlinux/archinstall
  2. [2] move glib2 from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64 archlinux/state
  3. [3] move lib32-glib2 from multilib-testing-x86_64 to multilib-x86_64 archlinux/state
  4. [4] matrix: Try to make IRC joining more robust archlinux/infrastructure
  5. [5] update tt-rss to 2:r12842.f88091ccc-1 in extra-testing-any archlinux/state
  6. [6] update tex-gyre-fonts to 2.609-1 in extra-any archlinux/state
  7. [7] update lib32-renderdoc to 1.44-1 in multilib-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state

Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on May 3, 2026?
Archinstall shipped a cleanup that removes a profile that's been breaking installations since day one, while core libraries move out of testing into production. In total, 52 commits and 1 pull requests landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
Remove dead Cutefish desktop profile (#4514), move glib2 from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64, and move lib32-glib2 from multilib-testing-x86_64 to multilib-x86_64.

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