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ARCHINSTALL REVERTS LUKS2 CIPHER FEATURE AFTER MERGE CHAOS

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jelly Felix Yan codefiles Alperen42v Jan Steffens h8d13
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The custom LUKS2 encryption cipher selection feature landed, broke, and got yanked within hours, leaving the installer in flux.

Archinstall shipped a feature [1] that lets users pick custom ciphers like chacha20-poly1305 during disk encryption setup, but the implementation proved unstable enough to trigger an immediate revert [2]. The cipher selection code made it through to main [3] with multiple rounds of fixes and ruff adjustments before maintainers pulled the ripcord [4], rolling back to the previous stable state. Meanwhile, archweb continues its steady typing campaign across template views and tag handlers [5][6][7][8], improving type safety without drama. On the package side, Felix Yan is staging Haskell ecosystem bumps [9][10] and moving stack to stable [11], while Jan Steffens pushed directx-shader-compiler 1.10.2605.37-1 to extra [12]. Activity across all three repos: 59 commits and 6 PRs.

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References

  1. [1] feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  2. [2] Revert "feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption (#4581)" ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  3. [3] feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption (#4581) ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  4. [4] Revert "feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption (#4581)" (#4708) ↗ archlinux/archinstall
  5. [5] planet: Type views ↗ archlinux/archweb
  6. [6] todolists: Template templatetags ↗ archlinux/archweb
  7. [7] devel: Type templatetags ↗ archlinux/archweb
  8. [8] main: Type templatetags ↗ archlinux/archweb
  9. [9] update haskell-gtk-sni-tray to 0.1.8.1-460 in extra-staging-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  10. [10] update haskell-status-notifier-item to 0.3.2.2-1 in extra-staging-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  11. [11] move stack from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  12. [12] update directx-shader-compiler to 1.10.2605.37-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗

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Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on August 12, 2026?
The custom LUKS2 encryption cipher selection feature landed, broke, and got yanked within hours, leaving the installer in flux. In total, 59 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Arch Linux on August 12, 2026?
6 developers shipped this update, including Jan Steffens, Felix Yan, codefiles, Alperen42v, h8d13, and jelly.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption, Revert "feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption (#4581)", and feat(disk): add custom cipher selection for LUKS2 encryption (#4581).
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$ log @archlinux --recent

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$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

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