Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available as the latest update to Arch Linux’s menu-based installer.
The Archinstall 2.8.1 text-mode installer for the popular Arch Linux distribution was released today as a hefty update introducing initial LVM support and many other improvements.
Archinstall 2.8.1 is the first release of Arch Linux’s installer to offer LVM (Logical Volume Manager) support, which will be available when choosing a default partitioning layout. While you can now install Arch Linux with an LVM partition layout, the devs note that LVM support is considered experimental at this stage.
Apart from LVM support, the new Arch Linux installer also introduces a Finnish translation, adds a few more applications to the Hyprland desktop profile, renames the “Kde” profile to “KDE Plasma” / “Plasma”, changes the default root partition size from 20GB up to 50GB maximum, sets root partition type as GUID, and uses VCS as pyparted version lock.
Other noteworthy changes in this release include using the current keyboard layout instead of the US layout by default, updating the mkinitcpio.conf hooks for upstream consistency, skipping devices that raise a DiskException and log the exception message, and adding better mypy coverage.
