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NEWS: add something for the DB format change
I'm not sure if any users affected by this will read this, but it can't hurt I guess.
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This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :)
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### 2023-11-05 - Package installation issues for very old/outdated installations
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If you haven't updated pacman in 2.5 years or longer, but are installing
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new packages, you will see errors like this, due to a format change in the
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package database:
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```
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error: mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-shared-mime-info: missing required signature
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error: mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gtk3: missing required signature
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error: failed to commit transaction (package missing required signature)
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Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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```
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This can be fixed by [updating your installation](./docs/updating.md).
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### 2023-08-06 - Python: Changed behavior when loading DLL dependencies of extension modules
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Starting with CPython 3.8, upstream CPython changed their DLL lookup behavior to

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