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ARCH KERNEL 7.1.3 LANDS WITH CRITICAL FIXES FOR AMD, INTEL, AND NAMESPACES
By RepoJournal · Filed · About Arch Linux
Arch's patched 7.1.3 kernel ships four key security and stability fixes that address GPU deadlocks, display pipeline issues, and unprivileged namespace creation.
The Arch Linux kernel v7.1.3-arch1 [1] is now available and applies directly on stable with targeted patches that matter. The most critical: a new sysctl to disable unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER, closing a longstanding attack surface for privilege escalation. GPU drivers get relief too. The AMD display subsystem gets a fix for the ISM dc_lock deadlock that could freeze suspend operations [1], while Intel's Meteor Lake platform now properly enables PPS before PLL to prevent initialization failures [1]. A companion udmabuf security fix prevents malformed scatterlists from crashing the kernel [1]. Meanwhile, upstream is already working the next wave: Andrew Morton's mm hotfixes tag [2] includes 20 patches with 12 marked stable, addressing post-7.1 regressions and old DAMON issues that will eventually flow downstream. In the userspace stack, Nix 2.34.8 [3], ocicl 2.17.0 [4], and NetHack 5.0.0 [5] are staging in testing repositories. The signstar team also bumped the aes-gcm cryptography crate to 0.11.0 [6] to keep encryption dependencies current.
Action items
- → Update to kernel 7.1.3-arch1 before next reboot - the namespace fix is important for multi-user systems archlinux/linux [plan]
- → If running AMD or Intel recent GPUs, prioritize this kernel - suspend and initialization failures are now fixed archlinux/linux [plan]
- → Monitor mm hotfixes tag for stable patches - expect more backports in 7.1.4 archlinux/linux [monitor]
References
- [1] Arch Linux kernel v7.1.3-arch1 ↗ archlinux/linux
- [2] Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-07-06-17-49' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm archlinux/linux
- [3] update nix to 2.34.8-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [4] update ocicl to 2.17.0-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [5] update nethack to 5.0.0-1 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state
- [6] fix(deps): Update Rust crate aes-gcm to 0.11.0 archlinux/signstar
FAQ
- What changed in Arch Linux on July 7, 2026?
- Arch's patched 7.1.3 kernel ships four key security and stability fixes that address GPU deadlocks, display pipeline issues, and unprivileged namespace creation.
- What should Arch Linux teams do about it?
- Update to kernel 7.1.3-arch1 before next reboot - the namespace fix is important for multi-user systems • If running AMD or Intel recent GPUs, prioritize this kernel - suspend and initialization failures are now fixed • Monitor mm hotfixes tag for stable patches - expect more backports in 7.1.4
- Which Arch Linux repositories shipped on July 7, 2026?
- archlinux/linux, archlinux/state, archlinux/signstar