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Recent News
dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
2025-10-31 - Thore Bödecker
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.
Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention.
For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the following upstream documentation: Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4
Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their replication feature, it was removed.
For users relying on the replication feature or who are unable to perform the 2.4 migration right now, we provide alternative packages available in [extra]:
- dovecot23
- pigeonhole23
- dovecot23-fts-elastic
- dovecot23-fts-xapian
The dovecot 2.3 release branch is going to receive critical security fixes from upstream until stated otherwise.
– Arch Linux - News: dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
Notable Package Changes
Known Issues
2025-06-01 - avahi-discover python script
avahi-discover fails when attempting to write the discovered services to a sqlite database in /usr/lib/avahi due to lack of permissions.
The issue can be reproduced using a pristine Arch LInux system - it appears from the issues at GitHub - avahi/avahi: Avahi - Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour the issue is known - but not fixed.
→ Use of dbm causes problems with Python 3.13 · Issue #670 · avahi/avahi · GitHub
→ Fix issue with dbm.sqlite3 on readonly directories by mickael9 · Pull Request #698 · avahi/avahi · GitHub
Even though the issue has been known to upstream since december 2024, the behaviour on unstable branch has changed fairly recently - perhaps 4 weeks.
Temporary workaround
The workaround it is not optimal - but if you rely on avahi discover service - it will work
Change the ownership of the folder /usr/lib/avahi including files
sudo chown root:avahi /usr/lib/avahi -R
Change permissions to allow avahi group to write into the folder including the existing db file
sudo chmod g+w /usr/lib/avahi -R
Finally add yourself to the avahi group
sudo gpasswd -a $USER avahi
Logoff and login to activate the new group.
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python-gobject 3.52 breaks multiple apps (libpeas related)
Python plugins for programs like Gedit and Rhythmbox currently will not be loaded in the current state.
For Gedit, use the Flatpak for now. See Some problems currently with Python and gedit plugins | Gedit Technology blog
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
2025-06-20 - Tomaz Canabrava
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
– Arch Linux - News: Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
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