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CEF CLEARS TESTING, CHROMIUM PROMOTED, MKINITCPIO HARDENS ENCRYPTION

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Chromium Embedded Framework graduates to stable after vetting, while core boot infrastructure tightens cryptsetup integration and systemd dependency handling.

CEF 148.0.8-2 moved from testing to stable [1][2], clearing the way for downstream projects like OBS Studio, which also landed an update in testing [3]. Chromium itself was promoted to extra-x86_64 after validation [4]. Over in mkinitcpio, two critical merge requests landed: one adds dlopen'ed libcryptsetup support to the encrypt hook [6][8], hardening encrypted boot scenarios by properly bundling the crypto library, and another overhauls systemd unit handling to catch OnSuccess dependencies and search additional unit paths [7]. Signstar cut several releases addressing a breaking API change where YubiHsm2UserMapping::domain becomes ::domains to support multiple domain returns [9][10][11], plus an immediate fix yanking a broken aes crate version [12]. Modrinth App got bumped to 0.14.0 in testing [5].

Action items

References

  1. [1] update cef to 148.0.8-2 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  2. [2] move cef from extra-testing-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  3. [3] update obs-studio to 32.1.2-5 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  4. [4] move chromium from extra-testing-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  5. [5] update modrinth-app to 0.14.0-1 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  6. [6] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/474' ↗ archlinux/mkinitcpio
  7. [7] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/473' ↗ archlinux/mkinitcpio
  8. [8] install/encrypt: add dlopen'ed libcryptsetup ↗ archlinux/mkinitcpio
  9. [9] refactor!: Return optional `Domains` from `YubiHsm2UserMapping::domains` ↗ archlinux/signstar
  10. [10] feat: Rely on `Domains::bits` in `Domains::to_be_bytes` ↗ archlinux/signstar
  11. [11] feat: Add `Domains::bits` to return the underlying bits value ↗ archlinux/signstar
  12. [12] fix(deps): Upgrade `aes` crate to version 0.9.1 ↗ archlinux/signstar

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

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Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on May 28, 2026?
Chromium Embedded Framework graduates to stable after vetting, while core boot infrastructure tightens cryptsetup integration and systemd dependency handling. In total, 57 commits landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
update cef to 148.0.8-2 in extra-testing-x86_64, move cef from extra-testing-x86_64 to extra-x86_64, and update obs-studio to 32.1.2-5 in extra-testing-x86_64.
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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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