[Testing Update] 2025-02-19 - Kernels, Plasma 6.3.1, Firefox

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

This also marks the first update of the year of the Snake.

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Python 3.13 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.12.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.12/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12)

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

 checkrebuild

* It’s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

Info about AUR packages

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For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.290
  • linux510 5.10.234
  • linux515 5.15.178
  • linux61 6.1.127
  • linux66 6.6.78
  • linux612 6.12.15
  • linux613 6.13.3
  • linux614 6.14.0-rc3
  • linux66-rt 6.6.74_rt48
  • linux612-rt 6.12.8_rt8
  • linux613-rt 6.13_rt5

Package Changes (Wed Feb 19 05:47:18 CET 2025)

  • testing extra x86_64: 407 new and 401 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

Overlay Changes

  • testing core x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 44 new and 148 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Known issues and solutions

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Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

:arrow_right: 2025-02-19

2025-01-15

Critical rsync security release 3.4.0

2025-01-16 - Robin Candau

We’d like to raise awareness about the rsync security release version 3.4.0-1 as described in our advisory ASA-202501-1.

An attacker only requires anonymous read access to a vulnerable rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on. Additionally, attackers can take control of an affected server and read/write arbitrary files of any connected client. Sensitive data can be extracted, such as OpenPGP and SSH keys, and malicious code can be executed by overwriting files such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.popt.

We highly advise anyone who runs an rsync daemon or client prior to version 3.4.0-1 to upgrade and reboot their systems immediately. As Arch Linux mirrors are mostly synchronized using rsync, we highly advise any mirror administrator to act immediately, even though the hosted package files themselves are cryptographically signed.

All infrastructure servers and mirrors maintained by Arch Linux have already been updated.

Arch Linux - News: Critical rsync security release 3.4.0

2024-12-11

Kernel 6.11 and 4.19 has been marked End Of Life (EOL) on kernel.org

Previous testing threads:

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I just came back to the machine - it seemed fine after the update, but then I noticed quite a lot of laggy video when I was watching TV (plex-HTPC, using mpv backend) and video lagging giving terrible lipsync issues too.

From there, I noticed also animations were extremely jerky… so I logged out of X11 and into Wayland - very similar, and after a reboot it persisted.

Timeshift out of the 6.3 update and it’s back to normal.

This with a Ryzen 5600G, vega graphics built in.

So this from before the upgrade (Timeshifted back) - maybe I’ll try running the update again in TTY when I have some time.

So an update to this issue - Timeshift didn’t fix the issue, and my Test account ran at 60 fps.

I went back, checked my Display settings. They had strangely been changed to 25fps, so I just needed to reset that to 60fps.

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i’m a couple of weeks late on this as i was behind updating, but the glibc update broke fmod sound for several games.

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