Security Update and Big Updates in Current

Three security updates have been released in the latest batch of updates:

  • irssi: Upgraded to 0.8.21 for all supported Slackware releases
  • gnutls: Upgraded to 3.3.26 for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1, and 3.5.8 for Slackware 14.2 and current
  • bind: Upgraded to 9.9.9_P5 for Slackware 13.0 up to 14.1, 9.10.4_P5 for Slackware 14.2, and 9.11.0_P2 for Current
In stable there has been a rebuilt of Python 2.7.13 to fix some regressions during last built.

Meanwhile BIG UPDATES are happening in -current and since there are a lot of changes in latest batch of updates, here's some recap but for complete changes, please refer to the ChangeLog:
  • perl: Upgraded to 5.24.0
  • boost: Upgraded to 1.63  (upgrade shared library)
  • hunspell: Upgraded to 1.6.0 (upgrade shared library)
  • ImageMagick: Upgraded to 6.9.7_3 (upgrade shared library)
  • Poppler: Upgraded to 0.50.0 (upgrade shared library)
  • XOrg: Upgraded to 1.19.1
  • grub: Upgraded to 2.0.2~beta3
  • procps-ng: Upgraded to 3.3.12
  • sed: Upgraded to 4.3
  • tcsh: Upgraded to 6.20.00
  • util-linux: Upgraded to 2.29
  • xfsprogs: Upgraded to 4.8.0
  • xz: Upgraded to 5.2.3
  • alsa-utils: Upgraded to 1.1.3
  • sqlite: Upgraded to 3.16.1
  • clisp: Upgraded to 2.49.20161111
  • cmake: Upgraded to 3.7.1
  • flex: Upgraded to 2.6.3
  • m4: Upgraded to 1.4.18
  • make: Upgrade to 4.2.1
  • ruby: Upgrade to 2.4.0
  • subversion: Upgraded to 1.9.5
  • kdelibs: Upgraded to 4.14.27
  • zlib: Upgraded to 1.2.10
  • bluez; Upgraded to 5.43
  • mutt: Upgraded to 1.7.2
  • trn: Removed
  • hexchat: Upgraded to 2.12.4
  • gparted: Upgraded to 0.27.0