On 7/30/26 6:22 PM, Robin Candau wrote: Hi everyone, Due to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR, package adoption is currently disabled while we are handling the situation. We will send a follow-up once we're able to. In the meantime, feel free to report suspicious adoption events or commits that haven't been dealt with yet, and stay vigilant! Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, Antiz on behalf of the Arch Linux DevOps team Hi everyone, We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
SaaS & Software·Aug 2, 2026
Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.
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- On 7/30/26 6:22 PM, Robin Candau wrote: Hi everyone, Due to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR, package adoption is currently disabled while we are handling the situation.
- In the meantime, feel free to report suspicious adoption events or commits that haven't been dealt with yet, and stay vigilant!
- Cheers, Antiz on behalf of the Arch Linux DevOps team Hi everyone, We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we handle the situation.
- Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz
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