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GIT CLEARS TESTING, CORE LIBS GRADUATE TO STABLE
By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux
Git shipped out of extra-testing after validation [ref:2], while core and multilib attribute packages follow the same promotion path, signaling a quiet but steady stream of validated updates across the distribution.
Three foundational packages graduated from testing to stable repositories overnight: git moves from extra-testing to extra [1], attr transitions from core-testing to core [2], and both lib32-attr and lib32-acl advance from multilib-testing to multilib [3][4], suggesting the testing cycle validation completed without incident. On the translation front, archinstall landed a complete Norwegian Bokmål localization covering all 375 installer strings [5][6], with Ukrainian translations receiving simultaneous improvements for Plymouth bootloader prompts [7]. The installer's dependency chain tightened with ruff bumping to v0.15.20 across both direct and pre-commit hook dependencies [8][9], a patch-level update with no breaking changes. Infrastructure hardened mailman against bot traffic by blocking user agents and AWS Singapore netspace [10], while simultaneously updating list configurations for newer mailman versions [11]. Nvidia's nsight-compute also updated to 2026.2.1.5-1 in extra [12], though this lands outside the critical path for most systems.
Action items
- → Pull git from extra into your systems - it cleared testing validation archlinux/svntogit-packages [plan]
- → Monitor mailman infrastructure changes if you run mailing lists archlinux/infrastructure [monitor]
- → Review archinstall Norwegian Bokmål translation for installer UX in nb locale archlinux/archinstall [monitor]
References
- [1] move git from extra-testing-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [2] move attr from core-testing-x86_64 to core-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [3] move lib32-attr from multilib-testing-x86_64 to multilib-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [4] move lib32-acl from multilib-testing-x86_64 to multilib-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [5] Add Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translation ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [6] Add Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translation (#4599) archlinux/archinstall
- [7] Improve Ukrainian translation (#4611) archlinux/archinstall
- [8] Update dependency ruff to v0.15.20 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [9] Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.15.20 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
- [10] mailman: block bot/crawlers with UA and AWS signapore /24 net archlinux/infrastructure
- [11] mailman: update lists config for newer mailman archlinux/infrastructure
- [12] update nsight-compute to 2026.2.1.5-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
FAQ
- What changed in Arch Linux on June 30, 2026?
- Git shipped out of extra-testing after validation , while core and multilib attribute packages follow the same promotion path, signaling a quiet but steady stream of validated updates across the distribution.
- What should Arch Linux teams do about it?
- Pull git from extra into your systems - it cleared testing validation • Monitor mailman infrastructure changes if you run mailing lists • Review archinstall Norwegian Bokmål translation for installer UX in nb locale
- Which Arch Linux repositories shipped on June 30, 2026?
- archlinux/state, archlinux/archinstall, archlinux/infrastructure