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1. Wednesday, 4 November 2026

   Stable templates for Apple Silicon merged into quattro

   A Mac on Apple Silicon could not switch to stable with only edge and rc pacman templates, and the stable pair merged into quattro and v4-5-0. Tests on an Arch host accept stable, and the run was not on a Mac.

2. Thursday, 29 October 2026

   Every pull request runs the full test suite in a virtual machine

   A change merged into quattro runs the full test suite on every pull request and on every push to quattro, in a virtual machine of the current stable image.

3. Friday, 23 October 2026

   Clock fallback lists ntp.omarchy.org

   Pull request 16247, merged into quattro, sets the clock's fallback to ntp.omarchy.org and then time.cloudflare.com. The Omarchy name is a CNAME to 2.arch.pool.ntp.org, the Arch pool the machines use now.

4. Wednesday, 21 October 2026

   aarch64 defaults to stable except Apple Silicon

   emirb wrote, in pull request 16065 merged into quattro, that every aarch64 platform except Apple Silicon now defaults to stable. emirb wrote that pkgs.omarchy.org/stable/aarch64 serves version 4.0.6 “until 4.5.0 ships”.

5. Wednesday, 21 October 2026

   Channel switch skips the old development-package downgrade

   Pull request 15903, merged into quattro, ignores the development packages on a refresh that switches from edge to stable or the release candidate. emirb wrote that a downgrade had left a machine on an August build whose bar is invisible.

6. Tuesday, 13 October 2026

   Tested userspace startup shortens in two boot changes

   David Heinemeier Hansson reports a median userspace startup of 0.737 s with both boot changes in pull request 15182, against 2.413 s unchanged, on a virtual machine. Hansson said hardware measurements remain follow-up validation before adoption. The merges are not in version 4.0.4.