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Published on 2021-11-18 at 07:05:15 by Georgi Sotirov
Yesterday, RC2 for Slackware 15.0 was announced in the ChangeLog, which
promises a much harder freeze
. We're still patiently waiting for the next
stable release in more than 5 years...
Published on 2021-08-16 at 20:39:39 by Georgi Sotirov
For all of us that are still waiting for the next major Slackware release the waiting continues as this morning Slackware 15.0 Release Candidate 1 was announced on the ChangeLog. In the new release GCC was bumped to 11.2.0, but GLibC would remain at 2.33, because of a "risky change of moving all functions into the main library" and an "inconvenient change of renaming the library files. From now on "most things" should be considered "frozen" and only some "remaining blocker bugs" would be focused on.
So, keep waiting for Slackware 15.0 "to reach the standard of excellence demanded from a Slackware release" ;-)
Published on 2021-04-13 at 21:16:40 by Georgi Sotirov
After just one alpha release two months ago the beta of Slackware 15.0 was announced in the ChangeLog yesterday. This release comes on April 12, which is the International Day of Human Space Flight and this year it's also a round anniversary - 60 years since then. I'm slacker and I'm also interested in astronomy and space exploration, so it doubled the fun for me :-)
There were no build regressions with the upgraded to 10.3 GCC compiler, but there is no fix "for the illegal instruction issue with 32-bit mariadb" yet, which seems like the only blocking problem before the stable release unless of course other issues arise.
Hopefully the new major and stable release is coming, but when it would arrive knows only one man and you know who ;-)
Stay tuned until then and of course test the new beta!
Published on 2021-02-16 at 22:15:01 by Georgi Sotirov
Yesterday, something interesting appeared in the ChangeLog - the first alpha of Slackware 15.0 was announced. Apparently we'll have a new major release this year. GLibC was upgraded to 2.33, which triggered a mass rebuild (of about 1550 packages). The alpha release includes updated Rust compiler, but it is not yet used by Firefox and Thunderbird, which would hopefully happen in future.
Stay tuned for more "scheduled upgrades" that would move the new release closer to beta.
Cheers!