Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

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.

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.

a change was made this week to 'nonsystemd/base', in order to reduce dependency conflicts, when installing a nonsystemd system, and when migrating to or from nonsystemd<->systemd - this has exposed several dependency conflicts which were not obvious before, and made them explicit

manual intervention will be required, if pacman has a conflict such as:

your-initfreedom and systemd-_ANYTHING_ are in conflict

if you get that error, see this redmine issue for the solution:

https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2884

there is a separate, but related issue, where we are collecting examples of conflicts which were exposed by this change to ...

if you have a USB wifi device which uses the ath9k or ath9k_htc kernel module, you should postpone upgrading to any of the 5.7.6 kernels; or the device may not work when you next reboot - PCI devices do not seem to be affected by this bug

watch this bug report for further details

linux-libre and linux-libre-headers 5.7.6 have been pulled from the repos and replaced with 5.7.2; but other kernels remain at 5.7.6 - if you have already upgraded to one of the 5.7.6 kernels, and your wifi does not work ...

IceWeasel-75.0-1.parabola2 brings an important update to the default configuration. We are relaxing the WebRTC privacy settings to allow Jitsi to function, bringing fully free video conferencing to parabola GNU/Linux-libre. The flip side of this change is that under certain circumstances this may be exploited in a way that the browser may leak local addresses in VPN connections. The browser extension 'uBlock Origin' provides a setting to prevent this from happening, and we are investigating ways to harden IceWeasel against such attacks.

In the meantime, to retain the old behaviour, set 'media.peerconnection.enabled' to 'false' in about ...