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XFSPROGS PROMOTED TO CORE, INFRASTRUCTURE WELCOMES TWO NEW MAINTAINERS

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Arch's filesystem tooling moved to stable after testing validation, while the infrastructure team expands with two new technical leads.

Xfsprogs graduated from core-testing to core [1], signaling confidence in the filesystem utilities across the stable pipeline. The promotion comes as the infrastructure team itself grows: tippfehlr has been promoted to Package Maintainer after two months of consistent ecosystem contribution [2], and Antiz stepped into a full DevOps role [3]. On the application side, MuseScore hit 4.7.1-1 [4], Stalwart mail server reached 0.16.6-1 [5], and Ginkgo-HPC updated to 1.11.0-4 [6]. Japanese translation for archinstall is now at 100% [7], closing out another i18n milestone.

Action items

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  1. [1] move xfsprogs from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  2. [2] Promote tippfehlr to Package Maintainer ↗ archlinux/infrastructure
  3. [3] Merge branch 'promote-antiz-full-devops' into 'main' ↗ archlinux/infrastructure
  4. [4] update musescore to 4.7.1-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  5. [5] update stalwart to 0.16.6-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  6. [6] update ginkgo-hpc to 1.11.0-4 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  7. [7] Update Japanese translation (#4550) ↗ archlinux/archinstall

$ 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 21, 2026?
Arch's filesystem tooling moved to stable after testing validation, while the infrastructure team expands with two new technical leads. In total, 54 commits and 1 pull requests landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
move xfsprogs from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64, Promote tippfehlr to Package Maintainer, and Merge branch 'promote-antiz-full-devops' into 'main'.
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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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