- officially deprecate non-devtmpfs kernels, will be gone in next udev/initscripts release - allow ro root (if specified in fstab) - read hostname from /etc/hostname - add manpages for rc.conf, locale.conf, vconsole.conf, hostname - restructure rc.conf, no functional change - allow arch-tmpfiles --create to be called at install time - change default of DAEMON_LOCALE to 'yes'