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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ARCHINSTALL REVERTS LUKS2 CIPHER FEATURE AFTER MERGE CHAOS

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on August 12, 2026 · About Arch Linux

6 people shipped this

jelly @jelly 4 cited

Felix Yan @felixonmars 3 cited

codefiles @codefiles 2 cited

Alperen42v @Alperen42v 2 cited

Jan Steffens @heftig 1 cited

h8d13 @h8d13

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.

Action items

→ Do not merge LUKS2 cipher customization until stability testing passes - the revert is current HEAD archlinux/archinstall [immediate]
→ Track archweb typing PRs for merge readiness - low friction, high improvement archlinux/archweb [plan]
→ Monitor Haskell staging bumps for testing completion before pushing to stable archlinux/state [monitor]

References

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

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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