We are very happy to announce that accessibility features have been added to our installation medium with archiso v49.
From release 2020.11.01 onward these are available via the 2nd boot loader
menu item. A specific installation guide can be found on the wiki.
Many thanks go to Alexander Epaneshnikov who integrated the features from the TalkingArch project into archiso's releng profile, which is used for creating the installation medium.
Note: The boot loader timeouts have been set to 15s to allow blind users to select the menu item as the boot loaders themselves do not offer accessibility features.
The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any
of these errors
libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1
to perform the upgrade.
nvidia is currently partially incompatible with linux >= 5.9 [1] [2].
While graphics should work fine, CUDA, OpenCL, and likely other features are broken. Users
who've already upgraded and need those features are advised to switch to
the linux-lts kernel for the time being until a fix for nvidia is available.
The ghostpcl and ghostxps packages prior to version 9.53.2-2 were missing
a soname link each. This has been fixed in 9.53.2-2, so the upgrade will
need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any
of these errors
ghostpcl: /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9 exists in filesystem
ghostxps: /usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9,/usr/lib/libgxps.so.9
to perform the upgrade.
On the 10th and 11th of October there is going to be an online edition of Arch
Conf. The conference is going to have presentations from the Arch team along
with community submitted presentations and lightning talks.
We are proud to announce the first revision of the schedule!
https://pretalx.com/arch-conf-online-2020/talk/
The conference timezone is CEST/UTC+2: https://everytimezone.com/s/40cc4784
Updates and additional information can be found on the conference page: https://conf.archlinux.org
See you there!
Cheers from the conference team.
