Here are some updates to provide a little holiday cheer. The kernels are
rebuilt (yeah, we'll probably have new ones tomorrow but whatever) to build in
HWMON making NVMe temperature monitoring available, and there's also a massive
cleanup of polkit/dbus related packages to move most of the config files out
of /etc and not install them as .new. Local config files that override the
shipped ones may be placed in the directories in /etc to override the ones that
we ship. Thanks to Robby Workman for this!
None of the packages included in Slackware place any files in
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ or /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ any more, but there may be
third-party packages that still do. However, since Slackware's packages
originally installed these as .new files, the leftover configs will remain.
You'll probably want to take a look in those directories to clean out any
config files that you haven't modified yourself or that belong to packages that
aren't part of Slackware itself.
Hope everyone has a great day. :-)
a/dbus-1.12.20-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Added local config override directory /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ since no other
package provides it now.
a/kernel-generic-5.10.2-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.2-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.2-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
a/udisks-1.0.5-x86_64-6.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
a/udisks2-2.9.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Include 20-plugdev-group-mount-override.rules, installed in the system
location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
ap/cups-2.3.3-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
ap/hplip-3.20.6-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Use --enable-qt5.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location.
Drop HAL support (LOL!)
Thanks to Robby Workman.
ap/mpg123-1.26.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/gnucobol-3.1.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.2-x86-2.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.2-noarch-2.txz: Upgraded.
HWMON m -> y
+NVME_HWMON y
+POWER_SUPPLY_HWMON y
+THERMAL_HWMON y
Thanks to Daedra.
kde/sddm-0.19.0-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't include the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ directory.
l/GConf-3.2.6-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
l/accountsservice-0.6.55-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
l/cryptopp-8.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/harfbuzz-2.7.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/polkit-0.118-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Remove D-Bus rules for udisks2 and NetworkManager (moved to those packages).
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
l/pulseaudio-14.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
l/system-config-printer-1.5.12-x86_64-6.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/ModemManager-1.14.8-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added elogind support.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/NetworkManager-1.28.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Include 10-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules, installed in the system
location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/bluez-5.55-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/netatalk-3.1.12-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix failure to build from source with gcc10.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/wpa_supplicant-2.9-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
x/mesa-20.3.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
[PATCH] vulkan/device_select: Store Vulkan vendorID and deviceID as uint32_t.
Thanks to sasha69 for the link to the upstream discussion/commit.
xap/blueman-2.1.4-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Move D-Bus configs from /etc to the system location. Thanks to Robby Workman.
xap/xgames-0.3-x86_64-6.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed spider failing to build from source with gcc10.
Removed the ancient version of xsnow.
xap/xscreensaver-5.45-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Make the description of the xscreensaver settings be clearly for xscreensaver
as opposed to a generic "screensaver" settings. Thanks to Robby Workman.
xap/xsnow-3.1.9-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays! :-)
xfce/mousepad-0.5.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xfce/xfce4-screensaver-0.1.11-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Make the description of the xfce4-screensaver settings be clearly for
xfce4-screensaver as opposed to a generic "screensaver" settings.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
xfce/xfce4-session-4.14.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use xfce4-screensaver by default and don't ship the xscreensaver.desktop
autostart file. Thanks to Robby Workman.
extra/pure-alsa-system/*: Removed.
This served a purpose during the pure ALSA to PulseAudio transition, but
it's time for it to go away. If the latency is an issue for your use case,
a look around should turn up documentation on how to reduce it, or how to
send output directly to ALSA without having to uninstall PulseAudio or
recompile anything that's linked to it. As an example, see this one (which
was mentioned here before):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_minimal_unintrusive_dumb_pipe_to_ALSA
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
a/sdparm-1.10-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against sg3_utils-1.45.
a/udisks-1.0.5-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against sg3_utils-1.45.
d/cmake-3.16.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libgpod-0.8.3-x86_64-6.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against sg3_utils-1.45.
n/curl-7.69.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Added SQL support via MariaDB. Thanks to niksoggia.
n/ntp-4.2.8p14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ppp-2.4.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
By sending an unsolicited EAP packet to a vulnerable ppp client or server,
an unauthenticated remote attacker could cause memory corruption in the
pppd process, which may allow for arbitrary code execution.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8597
(* Security fix *)
testing/packages/PAM/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-x86_64-3_pam.txz: Rebuilt.
Added SQL support via MariaDB. Thanks to niksoggia.
testing/packages/PAM/ppp-2.4.8-x86_64-1_pam.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
By sending an unsolicited EAP packet to a vulnerable ppp client or server,
an unauthenticated remote attacker could cause memory corruption in the
pppd process, which may allow for arbitrary code execution.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8597
(* Security fix *)
d/llvm-9.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Shared library .so-version bump.
Thanks to orbea for getting this working and cleaning up the build script.
d/vala-0.46.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-6.9.10_67-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed --disable-opencl configure option. Thanks to Markus Wiesner for the
bug report and to upstream for the quick fix.
n/NetworkManager-1.20.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnutls-3.6.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/freeglut-3.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libglvnd-1.1.1-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
Reverted to this version since I'm seeing some errors linking with Mesa
libraries with the newer one. Thanks to nobodino for the bug report.
x/mesa-19.2.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-9.0.0 and libglvnd-1.1.1.
x/xf86-video-vmware-13.3.0-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-9.0.0.
a/eudev-3.2.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/glibc-solibs-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
a/grub-2.02-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix compatibility with recent xfsprogs. Thanks to Markus Wiesner.
a/kernel-generic-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/opus-tools-0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/sqlite-3.25.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/icecream-20180905_cdc6ff8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.71-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/llvm-7.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Shared library .so-version bump.
k/kernel-source-4.14.71-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/ffmpeg-3.4.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't try to link with Samba since the latest version is not compatible.
l/glibc-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
All packages have been patched where needed for glibc-2.28 and compile
tested here. Thanks to nobodino for the help.
l/glibc-i18n-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
l/glibc-profile-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-base-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-good-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gst-plugins-libav-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gstreamer-1.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-6.9.10_11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libopusenc-0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
l/librsvg-2.44.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/opus-1.3_rc2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/opusfile-0.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/soprano-2.9.4-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to drop virtuoso dependency.
l/virtuoso-ose-6.1.8-x86_64-9.txz: Removed.
Even KDE4 has migrated away from actually using this for anything. The last
thing in Slackware that was dependent on it was Soprano, which has been
recompiled to no longer use it.
n/postfix-3.3.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled so that it quits whining about OpenSSL. Thanks to shastah.
x/mesa-18.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Compiled against llvm-7.0.0.
x/xf86-video-vmware-13.3.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against llvm-7.0.0.
x/xterm-336-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
extra/pure-alsa-system/ffmpeg-3.4.4-x86_64-2_alsa.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't try to link with Samba since the latest version is not compatible.
extra/pure-alsa-system/gst-plugins-good-1.14.3-x86_64-1_alsa.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-13.txz: Rebuilt.
installpkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
removepkg: added --terse mode.
upgradepkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns.
upgradepkg: accept -option in addition to --option.
ap/vim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.0.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
e/emacs-26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/kopete-4.14.3-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against libidn-1.35.
n/conntrack-tools-1.4.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libnftnl-1.1.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/links-2.16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Rebuilt to enable X driver for -g mode.
n/lynx-2.8.9dev.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/nftables-0.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/p11-kit-0.23.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/whois-5.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/network-manager-applet-1.8.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thu Jun 30 20:26:57 UTC 2016
Slackware 14.2 x86_64 stable is released!
The long development cycle (the Linux community has lately been living in
"interesting times", as they say) is finally behind us, and we're proud to
announce the release of Slackware 14.2. The new release brings many updates
and modern tools, has switched from udev to eudev (no systemd), and adds
well over a hundred new packages to the system. Thanks to the team, the
upstream developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else
who pitched in to help make this release a reality.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Have fun! :-)
Mon Nov 4 17:08:47 UTC 2013
Slackware 14.1 x86_64 stable is released!
It's been another interesting release cycle here at Slackware bringing
new features like support for UEFI machines, updated compilers and
development tools, the switch from MySQL to MariaDB, and many more
improvements throughout the system. Thanks to the team, the upstream
developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone else who
pitched in to help make this release a reality.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Have fun! :-)
Wed Sep 26 01:10:42 UTC 2012
Slackware 14.0 x86_64 stable is released!
We're perfectionists here at Slackware, so this release has been a long
time a-brewing. But we think you'll agree that it was worth the wait.
Slackware 14.0 combines modern components, ease of use, and flexible
configuration... our "KISS" philosophy demands it.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. The Slackware team, the
upstream developers, and (of course) the awesome Slackware user
community.
Have fun! :-)
