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Xbox driver jumps to 5.9.0

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Balló György
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Balló György @City-busz 4 cited

Arch's extra repo gets a fresh gamepad driver bump with xpad 5.9.0.

Balló György pushed a slate of package updates across extra last night, headlined by xpad jumping to 5.9.0-1, the latest in the Xbox controller driver line [1]. Alongside it, iotas lands at 2026.7-1 and gpscorrelate at 2.3-1, both routine refreshes for photo geotagging and GPS tools [2][3]. The team also promoted ibus-chewing out of testing and into extra, meaning the Chinese input method is now officially stable for x86_64 users [4]. Finally, activity-log-manager gets a rebuild to 0.9.7-11, a minor dependency refresh rather than a feature drop [5]. The 50 commits this period are mostly churn, but the xpad update is the one worth grabbing if you game on Linux.

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  1. [1] update xpad to 5.9.0-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  2. [2] update iotas to 2026.7-1 in extra-any archlinux/state
  3. [3] update gpscorrelate to 2.3-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  4. [4] move ibus-chewing from extra-testing-x86_64 to extra-x86_64 archlinux/state
  5. [5] update activity-log-manager to 0.9.7-11 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state

Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on August 23, 2026?
Arch's extra repo gets a fresh gamepad driver bump with xpad 5.9.0. In total, 50 commits landed.
Who contributed to Arch Linux on August 23, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including Balló György.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
update xpad to 5.9.0-1 in extra-x86_64, update iotas to 2026.7-1 in extra-any, and update gpscorrelate to 2.3-1 in extra-x86_64.

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