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Firefox upgrade not yet on Artix repos.


 Hello! Saw Firefox received couple of upgrades lately but Artix repos offers only version 117.0.1 while current ff from 28 September it's on 118.0.1.

Is there any problem with ff like I've heard there is with librewolf or what's the problem?

 Tnx and 🕊



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Reply #1 –
Firefox maintenance is being handed off. Expect an update later today.

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Reply #2 –

 Ok tnx. So ff will have a new maintainer? Ow just saw now it's you :D cool ✅

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Reply #3 –
Looks like an update to rust broke the build process for firefox. Even the current build that's in world right now fails to build. I'm looking through the commits to find a solution but I may have to wait until the next release in order to get it working.

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 Yeah, the problem is that the latest version of ff patched two critical vulnerabilities so I guess a solution is to jump on main arch version of ff at least that's what I did for now.
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# pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2023/10/07/extra/os/x86_64/firefox-118.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Or choose Artix firefox esr 115.3.1 that already was upgraded with the latest fix.

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Reply #5 –
Dudemanguy gave me a tip and I was able to get 118.0.1 to build! Coming soon to a mirror near you.

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Reply #6 –

 Done. Reinstalled Artix version which was ~0.13 MB smaller in size vs arch version. GJ 👍🏻