nihalxkumar/arch-mcp

🚀 Major Release: System Monitoring & Proactive Safety

This release adds comprehensive system monitoring, news integration, and proactive safety features for safer Arch Linux management.

✨ New Features

📰 News Integration

• RSS feed parser for archlinux.org announcements
• Critical news detection (manual intervention required)
• News filtering since last system update
• Breaking change and action item detection

📜 Transaction History

• Parse pacman log for complete transaction history
• Package installation timeline and upgrade tracking
• Failed operation detection and diagnostics
• Database synchronization event monitoring

🪞 Mirror Management

• Active mirror listing and health checks
• Mirror speed testing with latency measurements
• Fastest mirror suggestions by geographic location
• Comprehensive mirror configuration validation

⚙️ Configuration Analysis

• Parse and analyze pacman.conf settings
• Parse and analyze makepkg.conf build configuration
• Ignored package detection with critical warnings
• Parallel downloads configuration management

🔍 Database Monitoring

• Package database freshness checking
• Staleness warnings and sync recommendations
• Multi-repository database age tracking

🛡️ Safe System Update Workflow

• New safe_system_update prompt orchestrates:
  • Critical news checking
  • Disk space verification
  • Available updates listing
  • Failed services detection
  • Database freshness validation
  • Comprehensive safety recommendations

📊 Statistics

• New Modules: 4 (news, logs, mirrors, config)
• New Tools: 17
• New Resources: 11
• New Prompts: 1 (safe_system_update)
• Test Coverage: Comprehensive test suite for all new features

🔧 Tools Added

get_latest_news, check_critical_news, get_news_since_last_update
get_transaction_history, find_when_installed, find_failed_transactions, get_database_sync_history
list_active_mirrors, test_mirror_speed, suggest_fastest_mirrors, check_mirrorlist_health
analyze_pacman_conf, analyze_makepkg_conf, check_ignored_packages, get_parallel_downloads_setting
check_database_freshness

🔗 Resources Added

archnews://latest, archnews://critical, archnews://since-update
pacman://log/recent, pacman://log/failed, pacman://database/freshness
mirrors://active, mirrors://health
config://pacman, config://makepkg

📦 Installation

uvx [email protected]

Or via Docker:

docker pull ghcr.io/nihalxkumar/arch-mcp:3.0.0

🔄 Upgrade Notes

No breaking changes. All existing functionality remains compatible.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nihalxkumar/arch-mcp/compare/v2.0.1...v3.0.0