Continuous Updates

Slackware-Current keeps rolling new updates to the public and there has been almost three dozens of package updates (including a rebuilt) plus 2 security updates.

Major highlights are:
  • ruby: Upgraded to 2.4.1
  • cmake: Upgraded to 3.7.2
  • samba: Upgraded to 4.6.1
  • dbus: Upgraded to 1.10.16
  • file: Upgraded to 5.30
  • pciutils: Upgraded to 3.5.4
  • gstreamer and gst-plugins-*: Upgraded to 1.10.4
  • libpng: Upgraded to 1.6.29
  • libusb: Upgraded to 1.0.21
  • zlib: Upgraded to 1.2.11
  • dejavu-fonts: Upgraded to 2.37
  • Thunar: Upgraded to 1.6.11
  • e2fsprogs: Upgraded to 1.43.4
  • mkinitrd: Upgraded to 1.4.9
  • udisks2: Upgraded to 2.1.8
  • gnutls: Upgraded to 3.5.10
  • mesa: Upgraded to 17.0.2
  • xf86-video-ati: Upgraded to 7.9.0
Samba 4.6 is a major upgrade so please read the release announcement for more information.

New mkinitrd now support FSTRIM on LUKS devices unlocked at boot, but there's a change in the expected device name. Please see the revised README.