by George Whittaker Arch Linux has shipped its November 2025 ISO snapshot (2025.11.01), and while Arch remains a rolling distribution, these monthly images are a big deal, especially for new installs, labs, and homelab deployments. This time, the ISO lands alongside two important pieces: Archinstall 3.0.12 – a more polished, smarter TUI installer Pacman 7.1 – a package manager update with stricter security and better tooling If you’ve been thinking about spinning up a fresh Arch box, or you’re curious what changed under the hood, this release is a very nice jumping-on point. Why Arch Still Ships Monthly ISOs in a Rolling World Arch is famous for its “install once, update forever” model. Technically, you could install from a two-year-old image and just run: sudo pacman -Syu …but in practice, that’s painful: Huge initial update downloads Possible breakage jumping across many months of changes Outdated installer tooling That’s why the project publishes a monthly snapshot ISO: it rolls all