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MKINITCPIO HARDENS SYSTEMD HOOKS AS FIREFOX DEV EDITION HITS 151.0B8

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The init system just got safer — mkinitcpio merged fixes to prevent phantom hwdb.bin entries and nullglob pollution in your boot chain.

Two critical mkinitcpio patches landed overnight [1][2] that shore up systemd integration: the first checks for hwdb.bin existence before bundling it into images, while the second strips a dangerous global nullglob setting that was leaking into udev installs. Both are shipping immediately. Meanwhile, Firefox Developer Edition hit 151.0b8 [3][4], and the ecosystem moved forward with python-aiogram 3.28.0 [5], deepin-application-manager 1.2.52 [6], and lib32-at-spi2-core 2.60.3 [7] all syncing to repositories. Over on signstar, David Runge is quietly hardening documentation tooling [8][9]: markdown rendering now allows inline anchor and image elements [10][11], and the project shipped a custom favicon [12] to tighten branded consistency across the docs site.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge branch 'morten/fix-hwdb' ↗ archlinux/mkinitcpio
  2. [2] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/472' ↗ archlinux/mkinitcpio
  3. [3] update firefox-developer-edition-i18n to 151.0b8-1 in extra-any archlinux/state ↗
  4. [4] update firefox-developer-edition to 151.0b8-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  5. [5] update python-aiogram to 3.28.0-1 in extra-any archlinux/state ↗
  6. [6] update deepin-application-manager to 1.2.52-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  7. [7] update lib32-at-spi2-core to 2.60.3-1 in multilib-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  8. [8] docs: Add information on communicating with the community ↗ archlinux/signstar
  9. [9] docs: Add Signstar icon to entrypoint of project documentation ↗ archlinux/signstar
  10. [10] feat(mado): Allow `a` as inline HTML element in markdown files ↗ archlinux/signstar
  11. [11] feat(mado): Allow `img` as inline HTML element in markdown files ↗ archlinux/signstar
  12. [12] feat(mdbook): Add custom Signstar favicon ↗ archlinux/signstar

$ ls archlinux/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Kernel v7.2.4-arch1 ships with userns sysctl the month in review August's Arch: AUR hardening, kernel churn, and steady package flow
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Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on May 9, 2026?
The init system just got safer — mkinitcpio merged fixes to prevent phantom hwdb.bin entries and nullglob pollution in your boot chain. In total, 58 commits landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
Merge branch 'morten/fix-hwdb', Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/472', and update firefox-developer-edition-i18n to 151.0b8-1 in extra-any.
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$ log @archlinux --recent

Felix Yan promotes the xmonad stack to extra, moor lands at 2.19.2 50 shipped Synapse 1.161.0 lands in infrastructure, anki promoted to extra 70 shipped Arch ships a CLONE_NEWUSER kill switch in v7.2.6-arch2 59 shipped mise and asusctl land in extra, tracexec hits 1.0 50 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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