diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2499b59..ae2a57e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,3 +45,10 @@
 The `dub` executable then just needs to be accessible from `PATH` and can be invoked from the root folder of any DUB enabled project to build and run it.
 
 If you want to build for yourself, you need to install [vibe.d](http://vibed.org/download) and run `vibe build` from DUB's main folder and rename the resulting "app" file to "dub".
+
+### Arch Linux
+
+Moritz Maxeiner has created a PKGBUILD file for Arch:
+
+<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dub/>
+
diff --git a/source/dub/generators/visuald.d b/source/dub/generators/visuald.d
index bd516e3..7f578ae 100644
--- a/source/dub/generators/visuald.d
+++ b/source/dub/generators/visuald.d
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 			logTrace("About to write to .sln file with %s bytes", to!string(ret.data().length));
 			auto sln = openFile(solutionFileName(), FileMode.CreateTrunc);
 			scope(exit) sln.close();
-			sln.write(ret.data());
+			sln.put(ret.data());
 			sln.flush();
 		}
 
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 			logTrace("About to write to '%s.visualdproj' file %s bytes", pack.name, ret.data().length);
 			auto proj = openFile(projFileName(pack), FileMode.CreateTrunc);
 			scope(exit) proj.close();
-			proj.write(ret.data());
+			proj.put(ret.data());
 			proj.flush();
 		}
 		
diff --git a/source/dub/packagemanager.d b/source/dub/packagemanager.d
index 182f96c..22b88c9 100644
--- a/source/dub/packagemanager.d
+++ b/source/dub/packagemanager.d
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
 					mkdirRecurse(dst_path.parentPath.toNativeString());
 				auto dstFile = openFile(dst_path, FileMode.CreateTrunc);
 				scope(exit) dstFile.close();
-				dstFile.write(archive.expand(a));
+				dstFile.put(archive.expand(a));
 				journal.add(Journal.Entry(Journal.Type.RegularFile, cleanedPath));
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/source/dub/registry.d b/source/dub/registry.d
index 4e34e6a..5d9c0fc 100644
--- a/source/dub/registry.d
+++ b/source/dub/registry.d
Binary files differ
diff --git a/source/vibe/core/file.d b/source/vibe/core/file.d
index dc7db3b..d0f6464 100644
--- a/source/vibe/core/file.d
+++ b/source/vibe/core/file.d
@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@
 	File file;
 	alias file this;
 
-	void put(in char[] str) { file.write(str); }
-	void put(char ch) { file.write(cast(ubyte)ch); }
+	void put(in ubyte[] bytes) { file.rawWrite(bytes); }
+	void put(in char[] str) { put(cast(ubyte[])str); }
+	void put(char ch) { put((&ch)[0 .. 1]); }
 	void put(dchar ch) { char[4] chars; put(chars[0 .. encode(chars, ch)]); }
 	
 	ubyte[] readAll()
diff --git a/source/vibe/inet/urltransfer.d b/source/vibe/inet/urltransfer.d
index eddad5d..fa03e27 100644
--- a/source/vibe/inet/urltransfer.d
+++ b/source/vibe/inet/urltransfer.d
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 */
 void download(string url, string filename)
 {
-	std.net.curl.download(url, filename);
+	auto conn = HTTP();
+	conn.verifyPeer = false;
+	std.net.curl.download(url, filename, conn);
 }
 
 /// ditto