Who contributed to Arch Linux on August 11, 2026?

7 developers shipped this update, including Felix Yan, Nathan Marley, codefiles, Martin, Rafael Epplée, heftig, and Linus Torvalds.

What were the notable Arch Linux updates?

Arch Linux kernel v7.1.8-arch1, Merge tag 'regmap-fix-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap, and Merge tag 'v7.2-p3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.

@archlinux

The Arch Linux org - the rolling distro and the developers who run it

github ↗

Pick a date

Topics: Infrastructure Full archive →

The Wire · Showcase

ARCH LINUX KERNEL 7.1.8-ARCH1 SHIPS WITH SECURITY FIXES

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on August 11, 2026 · About Arch Linux

7 people shipped this

Nathan Marley @nmarley 2 cited

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 2 cited

Martin @C0rn3j 1 cited

heftig @heftig 1 cited

Felix Yan @felixonmars

codefiles @codefiles

Rafael Epplée @raffomania

Arch Linux kernel v7.1.8-arch1 lands with three critical patches covering unprivileged namespace creation, memory corruption, and I/O scheduling.

The new kernel release [1] applies four commits directly on top of stable v7.1.8, including a sysctl to disable unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER, a udmabuf scatterlist malformation fix, and a bio_alloc_bioset memory allocation improvement. Meanwhile, upstream 7.2-rc7 continues merging regmap and crypto fixes [2] [3], with patches landing for rhashtable lockdep warnings, RFC4309 authsize defaults, and tegra GCM cryptlen calculation bugs. On the installer side, archinstall fixes a critical WiFi scan bug where networks with spaces in their SSIDs were silently dropped from the scan list [4]. The fix [5] reparses wpa_cli results with `split(None, 4)` to preserve SSID formatting and adds unit test coverage for spaced and hidden networks. Archinstall also stops hardcoding dependency versions [6], allowing pip to accept newer package releases without version conflicts.

Action items

→ Update to v7.1.8-arch1 kernel before next boot cycle archlinux/linux [plan]
→ Update archinstall to pick up WiFi scan fix if you manage wireless-heavy deployments archlinux/archinstall [plan]
→ Monitor archinstall dependency resolution in CI/CD pipelines after version lock removal archlinux/archinstall [monitor]

References

[1] Arch Linux kernel v7.1.8-arch1 ↗ archlinux/linux
[2] Merge tag 'regmap-fix-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap archlinux/linux
[3] Merge tag 'v7.2-p3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 archlinux/linux
[4] Fix WiFi SSIDs with spaces missing from scan list (#4634) archlinux/archinstall
[5] Fix WiFi SSIDs with spaces missing from scan list ↗ archlinux/archinstall
[6] fix: Stop hardcoding dependency versions (#4695) archlinux/archinstall

Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on August 11, 2026?: Arch Linux kernel v7.1.8-arch1 lands with three critical patches covering unprivileged namespace creation, memory corruption, and I/O scheduling. In total, 59 commits, 7 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Arch Linux on August 11, 2026?: 7 developers shipped this update, including Felix Yan, Nathan Marley, codefiles, Martin, Rafael Epplée, heftig, and Linus Torvalds.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?: Arch Linux kernel v7.1.8-arch1, Merge tag 'regmap-fix-v7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap, and Merge tag 'v7.2-p3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.

ARCHINSTALL REVERTS LUKS2 CIPHER FEATURE AFTER MERGE CHAOS

The custom LUKS2 encryption cipher selection feature landed, broke, and got yanked within hours, leaving the installer in flux.

infra 65 shipped

@archlinux Aug 10

AURWEB MIGRATION OVERHAUL SHIPS WITH DOWNGRADE TESTING

Arch Linux's package repository just locked down its database migrations with automated testing that catches divergent branches and verifies round-trip downgrades against MariaDB.

infra 54 shipped

@archlinux Aug 9

ARCH LINUX ROLLS FIVE PACKAGES FROM STAGING TO STABLE

Five packages cleared testing and moved to the extra repository overnight, with Felix Yan handling the bulk of the promotions.

infra 50 shipped

@archlinux Aug 8

METABASE SECURITY PATCH FORCES INFRASTRUCTURE MOVE

Arch infrastructure team patched a critical Metabase vulnerability overnight, signaling active security work across the fleet.

infra 54 shipped

Elsewhere on the wire

AI Agents Aug 12

LANGCHAIN SHIPS THREE CRITICAL RELEASES IN 12 HOURS, CLOSES SETUPTOOLS VULNERABILITY

LangChain pushed langchain-core 1.5.4, langchain 1.3.15, and langchain-anthropic 1.5.5 overnight while patching a setuptools supply-chain risk that gated the Hugging Face integration.

ai-agents 59 shipped

Local LLMs Aug 12

OLLAMA CUTS REPEAT PENALTY BLOAT, LLAMA.CPP SHIPS POCKET-TTS SUPPORT

Ollama kills a decade of default penalty cruft that was drowning every model, while llama.cpp gains multimodal audio chops and vLLM fixes ROCm speculative decoding corruption.