{"id":1058,"date":"2024-08-18T00:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/archinstall-2-8-2-update-faster-mirror-loading-and-improved-download-speeds-for-arch-linux-installation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:19:15","slug":"archinstall-2-8-2-update-faster-mirror-loading-and-improved-download-speeds-for-arch-linux-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/archinstall-2-8-2-update-faster-mirror-loading-and-improved-download-speeds-for-arch-linux-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Archinstall 2.8.2 Update: Faster Mirror Loading and Improved Download Speeds for Arch Linux Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Archinstall 2.8.2 has been released today as the latest version of the official menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution bringing some performance improvements and bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Archinstall 2.8.2 is the second maintenance update in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-2-8-increase-esp-size-to-1-gib-fixes-more-bugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Archinstall 2.8<\/a><\/strong> series and it\u2019s here to optimize the mirror listing by using <code>\/mirrors\/status\/json\/<\/code> instead of <code>\/mirrorlist\/<\/code>, which speeds up the loading of mirrors and downloading during installation.<\/p>\n<p>This release also updates for new Limine 8.x config filename and syntax, introduces refactoring changes to the <code>parse_unspecified_argument_list<\/code> function in the <code>archinstall<\/code> module to refactor the Argument Parsing Logic, and updates the user permission check for the <code>--help<\/code> command.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Archinstall 2.8.2 losslessly optimizes existing images by running oxipng\/svgo against them to save 40KB and moves the call to <code>os.execve<\/code> below the debug log statement to enable debug logging before child process termination.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>&#8220;This change ensures that the debug message is logged before the child process is terminated by os.execve, since functions like &#8216;os.execve&#8217; never return,&#8221; explained developer Daniel E Rodriguez Rivera.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Archinstall 2.8.2 also fixes a couple of issues from previous releases, including an issue with the mount order and the order of <code>encrypt<\/code> and <code>sd-encrypt<\/code> in <code>mkinitcpio.conf<\/code>, and removes the call to a removed function in the DesktopProfile class.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Work on the new Curses menu, which saw an initial implementation in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/arch-linuxs-text-mode-installer-gets-experimental-lvm-support\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Archinstall 2.8.1<\/a><\/strong>, continues in this release with support for text input menu, scrolling functionality for previews, support for aligning menus right and center, and a few other changes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Check out the release notes on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/archlinux\/archinstall\/releases\/tag\/v2.8.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">project\u2019s GitHub page<\/a><\/em> for more details about the changes implemented in Archinstall 2.8.2, which is available for download from the same location. 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