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EXTRA REPO ROLLS OUT FIVE PACKAGE UPDATES OVERNIGHT

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Balló György Daniel Bermond
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Balló György @City-busz 4 cited Daniel Bermond @dbermond 1 cited

Arch Linux pushed routine maintenance across the extra repository, touching everything from virtualization tools to audio conversion.

The extra-any architecture saw updates to soundconverter 4.1.3-2 [1] and solaar 1.1.20-2 [2], both receiving point releases that suggest bug fixes rather than feature work. On the x86_64 side, onetbb jumped to 2023.1.0-1 [3], a major version bump that will matter for any package depending on Intel's threading library. Virt-manager picked up a rebuild to 5.1.0-4 [4], signaling potential dependency updates in the virtualization stack. Remmina landed at 1:1.4.43-3 [5], addressing what appears to be a packaging issue rather than upstream changes. None of these carry breaking change signals, but the onetbb major version is worth a rebuild pass if you maintain packages against it.

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  1. [1] update soundconverter to 4.1.3-2 in extra-any archlinux/state ↗
  2. [2] update solaar to 1.1.20-2 in extra-any archlinux/state ↗
  3. [3] update onetbb to 2023.1.0-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  4. [4] update virt-manager to 5.1.0-4 in extra-any archlinux/state ↗
  5. [5] update remmina to 1:1.4.43-3 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗

$ 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 July 19, 2026?
Arch Linux pushed routine maintenance across the extra repository, touching everything from virtualization tools to audio conversion. In total, 50 commits landed.
Who contributed to Arch Linux on July 19, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including Balló György and Daniel Bermond.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
update soundconverter to 4.1.3-2 in extra-any, update solaar to 1.1.20-2 in extra-any, and update onetbb to 2023.1.0-1 in extra-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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