Regarding the latest update, is there anything that requires manual intervention?

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You likely had or have a pacnew that you could choose to integrate according to your needs.

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HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap sd-vconsole block filesystems fsck)

This appears to be identical to the default.
It is dependent upon your local system configuration whether that is sufficient or optimal.

For more in depth information on this specific pacnew (as it occurred some weeks ago) you may see this thread;

Mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew

Due to the nature of mkinitcpio, your local config, and the proposed changes.. you were probably right to ask. So I will try to go over these each ; I do not know the exact importance of the inclusion of this module but as it refers to crypto and you seem to be using encryption (more on that coming up) I am inclined to think you should keep it. There are differences in these examples here. All the lines are commented out so its not really important .. but might as well bring in the new sta…

In another example this is used on one machine that does not use encryption or bootsplash;

HOOKS=(autodetect systemd microcode modconf kms block keyboard filesystems fsck)