Change: When the installer detects multiple 'efi,root,home,swap,xbootldr' partitions on selected installation drive, apart from accepting said partitions as valid installation destinations, the user can now use 'Smart Partitioning', 'Partitioning Presets' or 'Manual Partitioning' to manage said drive.
Change: A few prompts have been edited/added for better aesthetics.
Change: User input at the 'Multiboot Status' stage now defaults to lowercase.
Change: Minor code changes for simplification.
Now, when in 'Auto-Navigation', a few repetitive stages are omitted, to provide a more streamlined user experience.
Add: A few prompts have been edited/added for enhanced aesthetics.
Change: 'Disk Management' stage/'Partition Manager' stage: Edit prompts for better aesthetics
Add: Greatly re-worked the 'GPT Partitioner' stage.
Now this stage comes with an extra submenu of options for user convenience and enhanced info/aesthetics
Change: Edit prompts for aesthetic reasons
Change: Asking to set 'username' now defaults to lowercase, so issuing a warning will not be needed
Change: Asking to set 'Wireless Regulatory Domain Country Code' now defaults to uppercase, so issuing a warning will not be needed
Add: Verification has been added when setting the LUKS encryption password
Change: Encrypted /Root Partition name now defaults to lowercase, so issuing a warning will not be needed
Change: Encrypted /Home Partition name now defaults to lowercase, so issuing a warning will not be needed
Change: Asking to enable Arch's 'Multilib' repo now defaults to 'No'
Remove: Saving LUKS encryption password to '.log' file has been removed
Add: User's LUKS password will be exported to user's /home directory
Change: Setting the LUKS password takes place earlier in the installation (is not interactive -on-the-fly- anymore) and the stage is much less verbose.
Also, User's LUKS encryption password will be appended to the 'Amelia.log' file at the end of the installation process.
Change: The 'rescue' systemd-boot entry '.conf' file has been renamed.
Change: When 'btrfs' is used, the 'fsck' mkinitcpio.conf hook will not be included
Change: Variable renaming
Change: Sed syntax change to avoid repetition
Change: 'first_check' function has been splitted into 2 new ones: 'mode-check' & 'set_font'
Change: 'Internet connection check' stage is using 'www.archlinux.org' again
Change: Many options offered by the installer, are now defaulting to 'No'
Change: 'System Configuration' > 'Desktop Setup' > 'Browser Selection':
The installer now widens the web browser selection offered,
omitting the not-so-used browsers and including big names from the AUR
(Brave Browser,Microsoft Edge,Zen Browser,Opera,Google Chrome).
Only *-bin browsers (no compiling needed) are -of course- included
1. No AUR-helper will be installed
2. This AUR package will be handled exclusively by makepkg & pacman itself, so everything will be completely under user control
Change: 'System Configuration' > 'Desktop Setup' > 'Printer & Scanner Support': The package 'bluez-cups' has been added
Add: The packages 'bluez, bluez-utils, bluez-mesh, bluez-obex' have been moved to the main package array
Add: If the user keeps skipping the automated-partitioning stages offered, the 'Manual Partitioning' stage will be offered, in a loop
Add: The 'first_check()' function now issues an extra warning when the installer runs in 'DEMO' mode.
Change: 'connection_check()' function: The installer now pings 'google.com' instead of 'archlinux.org' to verify internet connection.
Change: 'slct_kbd()' function: Now, when selecting keyboard layout, if the installer cannot detect a 'tty' (linux console) session, the layout defaults to 'us'.
Add: Created 2 variables to minimize repetition ( ${void},${log} )
Bash-Zsh-Fish.
Change: 'Pacstrap System' function : There are changes about the packages included in the available Desktop setups.
Now, the Xfce-Cinnamon-Deepin-Budgie-Lxqt-Mate-Cosmic Desktops, instead of being completely barebones, include many additional packages for a more complete experience.
Add: Main Menu > System Configuration > Desktop Setup > Optimizations : Now, if 'Optimizations' have been selected, a configuration file will dictate the 'Udisks2' mount options for 'Ntfs' & 'Exfat' volumes.
A few 'if' statements have been redefined
A few packages have been removed, as they no longer exist in the Arch repos or are direct dependencies of other existing packages
A few prompts have been edited for aesthetic reasons
The installer has been updated accordingly and verified to be working with the current Arch Linux version (August 2025)
where it contains all the optimizations offered by the installer, so other stages are less cluttered
and user experience is better.
Change: A few prompts have been edited for better aesthetics.
Jane Doe