December Report

It has been some time since i posted about Slackware updates and around 2.5 years since my wishlist i created in 2017. Only one item left that are still not yet approved by Patrick, but i have a hunch that it's coming soon to -Current tree. So i guess it's time to wrap some updates up to early December 2019:

• Linux LTS Kernel 5.4.x
• PHP 7.4.x
• GCC 9.2.x
• GLIBC 2.30
• Python 3.7.x
• Perl 5.30.x
• GTK+3 3.24.x
• NetworkManager 1.20.x
• vte 0.58.x
• XOrg 1.20.x
• tcl/tk 8.16.x
• Mesa 19.2.x
• Bind 9.14.x
• Rust 1.39.x
• SDL2.0.x
• Firefox 68.0-ESR
• Thunderbird 60.8.x
• MariaDB 10.4.x
• Postfix 3.4.x
• Samba 4.11.x
• OpenSSH 8.1p1

Basically, most of the list above are bleeding edge packages, so when you read a news telling that Slackware is outdated, please ask them to read the -current Changelog. You can see all the added/removed packages since Slackware 14.2 here: http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

My (updated) wishlist are:

• Add Qt5 and Plasma 5
• Python 3.8

My two projects: MATE SlackBuilds and Cinnamon SlackBuilds are working nicely with the latest Slackware-Current. Binary packages are hosted in Tadgy's repository: http://slackware.uk/.

Eric's Plasma 5 and LiveSlack projects are also keeping up to date with Slackware development. Please follow the news on his blog: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/