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POSTGREST MOVES TO STABLE, MKINITCPIO FIXES EARLY BOOT SHUTDOWN

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Felix Yan nl6720
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Felix Yan @felixonmars 4 cited nl6720 @nl6720 2 cited

PostgREST 10.1.0 graduated from staging after dependency resolution, while mkinitcpio adds critical systemd shutdown tools to initramfs.

PostgREST and its Haskell dependency both cleared staging and moved to stable x86_64 [1][2], following an upstream version bump to 10.1.0-93 [3]. This resolves the dependency chain for users running database APIs in early boot environments. Separately, v2ray jumped to 5.50.0-1 in stable [4], a minor bump worth tracking if you're routing traffic through that proxy. On the mkinitcpio front, nl6720 landed a critical fix: Busybox's halt, reboot, poweroff, and shutdown commands don't work in systemd-based initramfs, so the project now provides symlinks to systemctl and the required target units [5]. A follow-up merge added systemd-pcrosseparator.service [6], completing the early-userspace shutdown story. Together these changes mean your initramfs can now cleanly execute power commands without dropping to a shell.

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  1. [1] move postgrest from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  2. [2] move haskell-hasql-notifications from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  3. [3] update postgrest to 10.1.0-93 in extra-staging-x86_64 archlinux/state
  4. [4] update v2ray to 5.50.0-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  5. [5] install/systemd: add halt, reboot, poweroff and shutdown symlinks and targets archlinux/mkinitcpio
  6. [6] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/merge-requests/475' archlinux/mkinitcpio

Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on August 15, 2026?
PostgREST 10.1.0 graduated from staging after dependency resolution, while mkinitcpio adds critical systemd shutdown tools to initramfs. In total, 52 commits landed.
Who contributed to Arch Linux on August 15, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including Felix Yan and nl6720.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
move postgrest from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-x86_64, move haskell-hasql-notifications from extra-staging-x86_64 to extra-x86_64, and update postgrest to 10.1.0-93 in extra-staging-x86_64.

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