[en] Upgrading project of the synchrotron light source PF-AR was carried out in 2001, and vacuum system was entirely renewed to realize longer beam lifetime and higher stored current. Vacuum control system was unified to the EPICS, which had been already adopted in the KEKB and the injector linear-accelerator control systems. In this system, all of the vacuum devices of the PF-AR except for rough pumps can be controlled and monitored remotely on graphical operation panels. Commissioning of the upgraded PF-AR started successfully in January 2002, and the beam lifetime has been getting longer as the vacuum ducts cleaning process with synchrotron radiation has progressed. In November 2002, the lifetime of a 6.5 GeV-50 mA single-bunched beam is 900 minutes, which is 6 times as long as the value of the old PF-AR. (author)