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As others have written, this is unfortunately the last OSS version of Rambox.
OSS alternatives:

• Hamsket (fork of Rambox): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hamsket-bin
• Ferdium (fork of Franz/Ferdi): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ferdium-bin

Ferdium has very active development. It's based on Franz which is was stable fork of the open source version of Franz.
Hamsket is based on an older version of Rambox OSS.

AUR package of the new closed source pro version of Rambox: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rambox-pro-bin

As others have written, this is unfortunately the last OSS version of Rambox.
OSS alternatives:

• Hamsket (fork of Rambox): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hamsket-bin
• Ferdium (fork of Franz/Ferdi): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ferdium-bin

Ferdium has very active development. It's based on Franz which is was stable fork of the open source version of Franz.
Hamsket is based on an older version of Rambox OSS.

AUR package of the new closed source pro version of Rambox: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rambox-pro-bin

@kungfu thank you so much! :-)

Just in case this is helpful for anybody... Since Rambox moved to a "freemium" model, or has discontinued the OSS... you can switch to hamsket here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hamsket-bin

It is a fork of the OSS Rambox.

This is the last update, they stopped the OSS version, sadly.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index cfeaf8c..26d165a 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 pkgname=rambox-bin
 _pkgname=Rambox
-pkgver=0.7.9
+pkgver=0.8.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.'
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ license=('GPL3')
 source_i686=("https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition/releases/download/$pkgver/${_pkgname}-$pkgver-linux-i386.deb")
 source_x86_64=("https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition/releases/download/$pkgver/${_pkgname}-$pkgver-linux-amd64.deb")

-sha256sums_i686=('d8a820b32152dfb8404522cdaeec44da40f0879b3945a7db7bbf6ca35b9a21b0')
-sha256sums_x86_64=('04b9aaae7ced1e1ba71800bea861a45e57fed73a53923d263e7cb173a04c779f')
+sha256sums_i686=('3529e194add9d1994c9cec09208609405d161e49e9a783e2eec9ad50ae54047f')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('87fecf3985fed9b3cbc09aa544c738cbaae2cfab9bd49bdc5c613bace404055f')

 package() {
     # extract package data

Indeed, and this is the community edition repository: https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition - as it indicates, it's currently on 0.7.9 , released on August last year.

@bittin please read the latest comment right after yours...

This package is for the so called "community edition" of Rambox which is open source. I asked the rambox devs if community edition is discontinued/dead. If it is, it might make sense to switch this package to follow the new closed source edition (2.0).

Till then, this package is not "out of date", the closed source version is available here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rambox-pro-bin/

2.0 released

@trustin This PKGBUILD is packaging the prebuilt binaries of the open source community edition which is still on v0.7.9. As long as the community edition is not discontinued, I think it makes sense to keep it like this.

There already is an AUR package "rambox-pro-bin" for the "Pro"/closed source version of Rambox. It's already on v2.0.0

For anyone looking for a more active open source alternative to Rambox: Have a look at "Ferdi" (aur: ferdi-bin / ferdi)

Here's the diff for Rambox Pro 2.0.0:

diff --git PKGBUILD PKGBUILD
index 5e2df97..10bbd6d 100644
--- PKGBUILD
+++ PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Contributor: Pascal Mathis <mail@pascalmathis.com>
 pkgname=rambox-pro-bin
 _pkgname=ramboxpro
-pkgver=1.5.3
+pkgver=2.0.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Workspace browser to manage many web applications in one place'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ options=('!emptydirs')
 conflicts=('rambox-pro-bin-beta')
 # EULA file: 'html2text --body-width=80 https://rambox.pro/includes/eula.html'
 source=("${_pkgname}-EULA"
-        "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://github.com/ramboxapp/download/releases/download/v${pkgver}/RamboxPro-${pkgver}-linux-x64.deb")
+        "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://github.com/ramboxapp/download/releases/download/v${pkgver}/Rambox-${pkgver}-linux-x64.deb")
 sha256sums=('49caf20d36575fc2f8a4011049682885493428770f8cf2ae9297203ba50f7407'
-            'b390263e0f88264439e779d511bdec06b3acf787a0807e30f00d95dde38d29d7')
+            '14da96b4a703394695803e97063d1fd733377c247334a0abf478cd9517e105c2')

 build() {
     rm -rf "${srcdir}/root"
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ package() {
         "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons" \
         "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"

-    cp -rp "${srcdir}/root/opt/RamboxPro/." "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/."
+    cp -rp "${srcdir}/root/opt/Rambox/." "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/."
     cp -rp "${srcdir}/root/usr/share/icons/." "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/."

     install -m 0644 "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-EULA" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/EULA"
-    install -m 0644 "${srcdir}/root/usr/share/applications/ramboxpro.desktop" \
+    install -m 0644 "${srcdir}/root/usr/share/applications/rambox.desktop" \
         "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"

-    ln -s "/opt/${_pkgname}/ramboxpro" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
-    sed -i "s~/opt/RamboxPro/~/opt/${_pkgname}/~g" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
+    ln -s "/opt/${_pkgname}/rambox" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
+    sed -i "s~/opt/Rambox/~/opt/${_pkgname}/~g" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
 }

@Kudlaty: Could you please try again? I changed the PKGBUILD as suggested.

I'm wondering why this is an issue on your machine though, because $_pkgname equals to "Rambox" which doesn't contain spaces - so the resulting argument for "ln" should always be a string which is safe to pass without quotes.

What shell are you using?