Slackware 14.2 Beta 2 Announced
Good news for everyone. Slackware 14.2 is getting close to release as Pat now announced Slackware 14.2 Beta 2 on the latest changelog. This update also brings some security changes for all supported Slackware releases back to Slackware 13.0!!!
Here are the highlights for older Slackware releases:
Here are the highlights for older Slackware releases:
- Updated glibc-zoneinfo for latest timezone update
- Updated MPlayer identical to MPlayer 1.2.1 stable releases
- Updated openssl to 1.0.1r
- Updated PHP to 5.6 since PHP 5.4 is no longer supported. Last PHP 5.4.x packages can still be found in pasture just in case you are not ready for 5.6.
- New kernel 4.4.1
- Coreutils upgraded to 8.25
- lvm2 upgraded to 2.02.141
- cups-filter upgraded to 1.8.1
- Latest update on development tool (binutils, cmake, mercurial, oprofile, python-setuptools)
- Latest update on libraries (gst-plugins-*, gstreamer, gtk+3, harfbuzz, librsvg, pulseaudio)
- Latest update on networking tools (proftpd and traceroute)
- Xterm upgraded to 322
- Added two new packages: GParted and HexChat (Replacing XChat)
- Firefox upgraded to 44.0 (re-built with -O2 again)
- Pidgin upgraded to 2.10.12
- xine-lib Rebuilt against new ffmpeg 2.8.5