Recent news

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Second official release for 2026. Related forum thread.

Main release notes:
- The default X server is again Xorg; XLibre is still packaged and available for installation.
- User services have been fully implemented for OpenRC and dinit. They can also be enabled for runit and s6 via userspawn, however, for the time being, this task is left on the end user.
- Full Wayland support only in Plasma. Our other DEs are in various stages of Wayland support, but not yet ready for daily use.

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We will be moving to upstream's new s6-frontend as the primary way to manage the s6 implementation on Artix.

Previously, in-house scripts and wrappers were used, but s6-frontend allows us to be more init agnostic and match upstream more closely. For users, the primary change is that command line interface for managing services changes slightly. Instead of enabling services by touching empty files to a directory, you will now use s6 set enable foo. For more details please check the s6 wiki page and upstream documentation.

Currently, the new s6 packages are in the gremlins repos and will eventually make their way to stable later this week. Please report any issues you may encounter at the forum announcement thread.

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After some reasonable time in development, we offer a repository for user-submitted init scripts, the AURIS.

Submitted scripts will automatically get packaged when approved by a moderator and moved into the [auris] repository. Please, read the instructions at the project's own page for details.

More information and feedback at the announcing forum topic.

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We are pleased to announce the first official release for 2026. Related forum thread.

Main release notes:
- The default X server now is XLibre; Xorg is still packaged and available for installation.
- The default audio system is no longer PulseAudio; we bundle PipeWire in the ISO images.
- Users who choose Plasma can readily use either Wayland or XLibre.
- Support for user services with OpenRC and dinit.

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The latest elogind-255.22-1 breaks user services in OpenRC and has been pulled off [system] until fixed. If you updated before it was pulled, downgrade to elogind-255.17-2 either from the package cache

# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/elogind-255.17-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-elogind-255.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

or from our package archive # pacman -U https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/e/elogind/elogind-255.17-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/l/lib32-elogind/lib32-elogind-255.17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst