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BUILDBTW EXECUTOR SHIPS WITH NEW GITLAB RUNNER INFRASTRUCTURE

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Arch Linux shipped the buildbtw-executor as a production OCI artifact, deploying it inside a dedicated GitLab Runner that's now live across the packaging pipeline.

The buildbtw team merged the executor deployment [1] after months of work moving away from plain GitLab artifacts to OCI delivery, a superior mechanism for binary distribution [2]. Two runners are now active: a secure production instance scoped to archlinux/packaging that runs only protected branches, and a staging runner open to forks and non-protected pipelines. This infrastructure shift closes a long-standing gap in the build system [1]. Alongside the executor rollout, bumpbuddy picked up a new GitLab SSH host key environment variable for arch-pkg-repo-updater [3], and buildbtw itself tightened its release builds by denying compiler warnings and adding demo data to the UI [4][5]. The executor OCI artifact now carries a main tag for easier consumption [6]. Core packages moved steadily: bash landed 5.3.15-1 in testing [7], pacman-mirrorlist refreshed its mirror list [8], and xet-core bumped to 1.5.1-1 [9]. Repository maintenance continued with aurweb's cgit cache getting a tmpfiles.d override to ensure proper cleanup [10].

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge branch 'add-buildbtw-executor' into 'main' ↗ archlinux/infrastructure
  2. [2] Deploy buildbtw-executor inside a new GitLab Runner ↗ archlinux/infrastructure
  3. [3] bumpbuddy: Add new arch-pkg-repo-updater GitLab SSH Host Key environment variable ↗ archlinux/infrastructure
  4. [4] Merge branch 'add-demo-data-to-bbtw-show-in-release-builds' into 'main' ↗ archlinux/buildbtw
  5. [5] Deny warnings in release build ↗ archlinux/buildbtw
  6. [6] Merge branch 'main-tag-artifact' into 'main' ↗ archlinux/buildbtw
  7. [7] update bash to 5.3.15-1 in core-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  8. [8] update pacman-mirrorlist to 20260610-1 in core-testing-any archlinux/state ↗
  9. [9] update xet-core to 1.5.1-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  10. [10] aurweb: set tmpfiles.d override for cgit cache ↗ archlinux/infrastructure

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Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on June 10, 2026?
Arch Linux shipped the buildbtw-executor as a production OCI artifact, deploying it inside a dedicated GitLab Runner that's now live across the packaging pipeline. In total, 71 commits landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
Merge branch 'add-buildbtw-executor' into 'main', Deploy buildbtw-executor inside a new GitLab Runner, and bumpbuddy: Add new arch-pkg-repo-updater GitLab SSH Host Key environment variable.
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