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The Parabola project is a community-driven, "labour-of-love" effort to maintain a 100% free
as in: freedom
) operating
system distribution that is lean, clean, and hackable.
Based on the Arch distribution, Parabola is a complete, user-friendly operating system,
suitable for general "everyday" use, while retaining Arch's "power-user" charm.
Parabola adheres to the
GNU Free
System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG)
; which requires source code for every part of
the system to be freely available, modifyable, and re-distributable. All Parabola packages
are built from source, in clean chroots, and with networking disabled, in order to replace
any software and artworks in the standard Arch system which fall outside the GNU guidelines.
LiveISOs, installers, and packages are provided for the armv7h, i686, and x86_64 CPU architectures.
Our community is friendly and helpful. Feel free to hop on the
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toward learning to install and use Parabola comfortably and confidently.
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Latest News
iptables-legacy
2026-04-06
From Arch:
The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the
legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.
When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy),
check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed:
/etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave
/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave
Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables
extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use
iptables-legacy if required.
dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
2025-11-01
From Arch:
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result
in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.
Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the
configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention.
For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the
following upstream documentation:
Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4
Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their
replication feature, it was removed.
For users relying on the replication feature or who are unable to
perform the 2.4 …
'zabbix' users: manual intervention may be required
2025-08-04
From Arch:
Starting with
7.4.1-2
, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used. Instead, all Zabbix components will now rely on a shared
zabbix
user account (as originally
intended by upstream
and done by other distributions):
zabbix-server
zabbix-proxy
zabbix-agent
(also used by the
zabbix-agent2
package)
zabbix-web-service
This shared
zabbix
user account is provided by the newly introduced
zabbix-common
split
package, which is now a dependency for all relevant
zabbix-*
packages.
The switch to the new user account is handled automatically for the corresponding main configuration files and
systemd
service …
Manual intervention required for OpenRC
2025-07-15
OpenRC now requires services
local
localmount
and
netmount
to be added to runlevel
default
This can be done with commands:
rc-update add local default
rc-update add localmount default
rc-update add netmount default
The update brings experimental
user services
support. Our
wiki page
has been updated to include information about it.
i686 users - manual intervention required
2024-11-28
i686 users will probably be unable to upgrade, due to a problem with the latest archlinux32-keyring 20241114-1
the solution is posted on the bug tracker
Older News
2024-10-24
manual intervention required for local pacman repositories
2024-07-01
restart sshd immediately after upgrade
2024-05-24
pacman.conf and makepkg.conf changes
2024-03-29
[arch-announce] The xz package has been backdoored
2023-08-11
[From Arch]: budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention
2023-06-19
OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention
2023-02-12
[From Arch] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2022-11-06
systemd encrypted boot may be broken by upgrade to openssl v3 (systemd-cryptsetup), and various libcrypto.so.1.1 errors - suggest to postpone upgrading
2022-09-25
[From Arch] Removing python2 from the repositories
2022-08-30
Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities
Recent Updates
more
upmpdcli 1.9.16-1
x86_64
python-aioesphomeapi 44.16.0-1
x86_64
prismlauncher 11.0.2-1
x86_64
filezilla 3.70.3-1
x86_64
esphome 2026.4.0-1
x86_64
rpp 7.2.2-1
x86_64
roctracer 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocthrust 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocsparse 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocr-debug-agent 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocprofiler-register 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocprofiler 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocprim 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocminfo 7.2.2-1
x86_64
rocm-opencl-runtime 7.2.2-1
x86_64
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