Slackware ditch Sendmail for Postfix

After a long two weeks without any changes, finally a new update happening in -Current tree where all the excitement comes reality and this batch is no exception. We have some plenty new interesting changes, including:
  • Kernel upgraded to latest LTS release: 4.14.x
  • Sendmail is now moved to extra, replaced by Postfix as the default MTA
  • Several utility were split into different packages and removed from util-linux
  • Latest GTK2/3 stack
  • New mozilla-nss 3.34
  • NetworkManager 1.10
  • Dovecot will be the new default IMAP daemon replacing imapd
  • libmilter is now added along with hostname package
  • Networking script will utilise ip instead of ifconfig and route
  • Mozilla Firefox 57 (Quantum) is here
  • mesa 17.2.5 + libdrm 2.4.88
This will make the next Slackware release a big change from previous release and as always, it's going to be rock solid!!