$ ls archlinux/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Arch Linux in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Kernel v7.2.4-arch1 ships with userns sysctl
Arch's stable kernel adds a sysctl to disable unprivileged user namespaces, and aurweb now rejects maintainership-by-push to deleted pack...
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly
Arch kernel 7.2.3 ships with userns sysctl
Arch Linux's kernel v7.2.3-arch1 arrived September 4, alongside pkgconf moving to core and signstar recovering from a yanked crate.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Kernel hardens unprivileged namespaces, mkinitcpio stops clobbering files
Arch's week centered on kernel 7.3 merge-window churn and a hardening sysctl, while mkinitcpio quietly broke a long-standing footgun and ...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
August's Arch: AUR hardening, kernel churn, and steady package flow
August saw Arch's packaging ecosystem mature with tightened AUR adoption rules, a steady stream of kernel and package updates, and ongoin...