every Arctic Linux image, newest first, and what changed in each
Older releases were pulled from this
list - they claimed a maturity the distro was not at. This is A1 TESTING:
the distro is being put together faster than it can be verified, and the
version label says so honestly instead of pretending otherwise.
A1 TESTINGlatest
x86_64 · 696 MiB · live image and installer · updated in place, same version
networking update: the real cause of "wifi works on the live ISO, not on a real install" - the installer tried to fetch the full linux-firmware package from the binary mirror, which is well over the mirror's free-tier size limit and 404s on every real install, silently, so the install reported success with zero wireless firmware on the target. The wireless driver still loaded and the interface still existed; the radio itself could never come up. Fixed by copying the live medium's own curated firmware set directly onto the target - confirmed 490 firmware files now land on a fresh install
a saved wifi-connect profile now reconnects automatically on every boot (a new rc.d/wifi service, the same wpa_supplicant + udhcpc pairing the live image uses) - nothing did this before
wifi is unblocked via the kernel's own rfkill interface before scanning, and "no networks found" now prints the actual rfkill/regulatory state instead of a single guess
wifi-connect no longer tells an already-installed system to go install itself
the installed system's Limine bootloader had a bright purple backdrop and a mismatched terminal palette - matched to the live image's own theme exactly
kernel-module loading during boot runs in batches of 8 instead of one at a time - busybox's modprobe has no cache between calls, so several dozen unique driver aliases on real hardware was most of what made that step slow
alpm ins, del and the other pre-rename verbs work as plain aliases again instead of stopping with an error