{"id":590,"date":"2024-04-01T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/new-arch-linux-iso-release-features-linux-kernel-6-8-and-updated-installer\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:42:25","slug":"new-arch-linux-iso-release-features-linux-kernel-6-8-and-updated-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/new-arch-linux-iso-release-features-linux-kernel-6-8-and-updated-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Arch Linux ISO Release Features Linux Kernel 6.8 and Updated Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>For those of you who want to install Arch Linux, there\u2019s a new official ISO snapshot available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.8 and featuring an improved installation experience.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That\u2019s right, the Arch Linux devs were forced to release the ISO snapshot for April 2024 a bit early due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/red-hat-warns-fedora-linux-40-41-and-rawhide-users-about-critical-security-flaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XZ Utils package being backdoored<\/a>, which affected the Arch Linux 2024.03.01 ISO image (as well as the virtual machine images and container images) that was available for download on the distribution\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In Arch Linux, the backdoor was present in XZ package versions 5.6.0-1 and 5.6.1-1. The Arch Linux devs were quick to patch the issue and released XZ version 5.6.1-2, which is also included in the new ISO image, Arch Linux 2024.03.29. More details about that are available <a href=\"https:\/\/archlinux.org\/news\/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Apart from the patched XZ package, the Arch Linux 2024.03.29 ISO image is also the first to ship with the latest and greatest <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/linux-kernel-6-8-officially-released-heres-whats-new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux 6.8<\/a> kernel series, which, of course, brings better hardware support in case you want to deploy Arch Linux on some newer hardware. The ISO includes Linux kernel 6.8.2 by default.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In addition, Arch Linux\u2019s April 2024 ISO release includes an updated archinstall menu-based installer, versioned 2.7.2, which improves support for unified kernel images (UKI) by restricting UKI to supported options and fixing the UKI default value.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The archinstall 2.7.2 release also adds the <code>--skip-ntp<\/code> parameter to the documentation, replaces the <code>plasma-wayland-session<\/code> with <code>plasma-workspace<\/code> when installing Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, adds support for Lithuanian translation, and updates the Italian locale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Arch Linux 2024.03.29 is available for download from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archlinux.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website<\/a>. 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