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Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 5 has been released. This is supposed to be the “last one, scouts honor”. Apparently there was an issue in the system setup when putting together swap partitions. This has been fixed in RC5 along with a number of fixes to other packages. Not many package upgrades in this one, mostly fixes to current packages. Here’s the changelog entry:

Mon Sep 18 05:33:24 CDT 2006
Slackware 11.0 release candidate 5. This is the last one, scout’s honor.
a/aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-9.tgz: Stripped /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.3, added
/lib/libdm.so.0.0.4.
a/bzip2-1.0.3-i486-3.tgz: Stripped /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.3.
ap/espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to espgs-8.15.3svn185.
OK, I don’t like using repo versions at all, much less inserting them at the
last second. But, it seems like par for the course for ghostscript and its
offshoots where there wasn’t much choice about shipping 8.15rc4 in Slackware
10.2. In this case, building from svn fixes two critical problems: missing
support for CJK, and not correctly printing Umlauts with certain fonts.
Thanks to Shin-ichi Abe and Matthias Bachert.
If this version of espgs creates new problems that are worse than these,
please let me know as soon as possible. It’s tested here and seems stable.
ap/vim-7.0.109-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim-7.0.109.
d/subversion-1.4.0-i486-1.tgz: After a couple convincing assurances that this
was a safe and ABI/API compatible upgrade, I decided to allow this upgrade.
Thanks to Malcolm Rowe and Janusz Dziemidowicz.
l/desktop-file-utils-0.11-i486-1.tgz: Added desktop-file-utils-0.11.
The next XFce will need this freedesktop.org package.
Thanks to Robby Workman for the information.
l/libexif-0.6.13-i486-2.tgz: Fixed libexif.pc includedir.
Thanks to Charles Shannon Hendrix for pointing this out.
l/libtheora-1.0alpha7-i486-1.tgz: Added libtheora-1.0alpha7. This links with
(as far as I know) optional plugins only and is a safe last-second addition.
Furthermore, the Theora team has promised that files encoded with this
version of the codec will always be playable. The format is stable and ready
for production use, so keeping it out of 11.0 due to the “alpha” would be
plain silly. Suggested by Edo Hikmahtiar, and Diogo R.
l/libungif-4.1.4-i486-3.tgz: Added the utilities in /usr/bin, some of which
are used to detect that annoying image spam that’s on the rise…
Thanks to Joran Kvalvaag.
l/neon-0.25.5-i486-1.tgz: Added neon package, split from subversion-deps-1.4.0.
x/dejavu-ttf-2.10-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to dejavu-ttf-2.10.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.109-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim-7.0.109.
Once again, this is just an add-on for the VIM package in ap.
xap/xine-lib-1.1.2-i686-2.tgz: Recompiled against libtheora to include the
Theora codec plugin. Theora testsuite passed.
xap/xine-ui-0.99.4-i686-3.tgz: Patched an issue where xine-ui could block
input to Konsole. Thanks to Nuts Mueller.
extra/linux-smp-2.6.17.13/kernel-headers-smp-2.6.17.13-i386-1.tgz:
Fixed slack-desc typo. No actual rebuild, so no -$BUILD bump.
Thanks to David Somero.
isolinux/initrd.img: Fixed swap setup in the “Cancel” or unselecting all swap
partitions case. Thanks to Marcus Moeller.
rootdisks/install.1: Rebuilt.
rootdisks/install.2: Fixed swap setup.
rootdisks/install.zip: Fixed swap setup.

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Patrick has made another small round of updates in slackware-current. He added rdesktop, even though we’re in RC:

Yes, we’re in release candidates, but if this doesn’t work at least it is small. I’ve had many, many requests, and it is needed by krdc, so that’s my rationale.

Here’s the full ChangeLog for today, including the rdesktop addition:

Tue Sep 12 06:29:32 CDT 2006
a/sysvinit-2.84-i486-67.tgz: Sleep 3 seconds before mounting non-root
partitions. This was a sleep that I’d removed earlier in the devel cycle to
see what it would break (if anything), and the answer is some external hard
drives that take a couple seconds to hotplug. Thanks to Fabio Busatto.
In rc.M, restart udevd when returning from single user mode.
Thanks to James Michael Fultz.
Patched initscript.5 man page to show proper /sbin/initscript path.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
Found another assumption that the kernel has hotplug support in the rc.udev
stop function. Thanks again to Gary Hawco for the original bug report.
a/udev-097-i486-9.tgz: Uncommented dmsetup rule for LVM2 — it doesn’t seem
to hurt anything. Thanks to Dex Filmore.
ap/diffutils-2.8.1-i486-3.tgz: Fixed sdiff.1 man page.
Thanks to James Michael Fultz.
kde/amarok-1.4.3-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against new libmtp.
l/libmtp-0.0.18-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libmtp-0.0.18.
l/libwpd-0.8.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libwpd-0.8.6.
Thanks to Eugene C. for the CXXFLAGS advice.
n/imapd-4.64-i486-3.tgz: Added missing md5.txt mentioned in the imapd man
page, plus a note about additional (large) documentation in the sources.
The docs directory was also moved to /usr/doc/imapd4.64.
Thanks to Mark Flacy for reminding me about this one.
n/rdesktop-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz: Added rdesktop-1.4.1. Yes, we’re in release
candidates, but if this doesn’t work at least it is small. I’ve had
many, many requests, and it is needed by krdc, so that’s my rationale.
Oh — and thanks to everyone for positive feedback on libgpod. I also fixed
the typo in my request for feedback below. I hope that doesn’t break too
many ChangeLog parsing scripts…
n/stunnel-4.17-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to stunnel-4.17.
Thanks to Cal Peake for the notice.

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Well, Release Candidate 3 of Slackware 11.0.0 is here. Patrick says this will most likely be the last RC but not to rule out an RC4. One important thing in this release, Kernel 2.6 has been moved out of /testing and placed into /extra. Here’s the ChangeLog entry:

Fri Aug 25 04:35:22 CDT 2006
Here is Slackware 11.0 release candidate 3. I think most of the irresistible
upgrades are in here now, and the bug reports have been mostly handled.
There may still be a few changes, and possibly another release candidate,
but this is pretty close to final with the exception of updating
documentation and building ZipSlack. Thanks very much to everyone who is
helping to test these release candidates — I think this is going to be a
very up to date and stable release.
a/glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Patched an issue with kernel version parsing
in ld-2.3.6.so that was leading glibc to treat 2.4 kernels with 4 version
parts (such as 2.4.33.2) as if they supported NPTL, leading to a crash
at boot.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-5.tgz: Updated timezone information from
tzdata2006j.
a/kernel-ide-2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to 2.4.33.2 sata.i kernel.
Enabled support for OOM killer and HIGHMEM4G.
a/kernel-modules-2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 modules.
a/udev-097-i486-6.tgz: Restore ttyUSB access to members of the tty group.
Thanks to Eugene Crosser.
In rc.udev, ignore lines that start with ‘#’.
Thanks to Ian Bates.
Removed hostap and hostap_cs dupes from blacklist.
Thanks to giovanni quadriglio.
Patched rc.optical-symlinks to avoid error messages with real SCSI devices
and the SCSI generic driver.
Thanks to Lorenzo Buzzi.
ap/lm_sensors-2.10.0-i486-1.tgz: Added lm_sensors-2.10.0, which contains the
libsensors library that KDE can use for hardware status monitoring.
ap/vim-7.0.066-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vim 7.0.066.
Added reasonable default vimrc if none exists. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.066-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gvim 7.0.066 (requires vim).
d/kernel-headers-2.4.33.2-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 headers.
d/perl-5.8.8-i486-2.tgz: Upgraded to DBD-mysql-3.0006 and DBI-1.52.
Eugene Crosser reported that DBD compiled against an older version of
libmysqlclient no longer worked without a recompile. Just to be on the
safe side, everything linked with libmysqlclient is getting recompiled.
d/pkgconfig-0.21-i486-2.tgz: Export PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
k/kernel-source-2.4.33.2-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 source.
Enabled support for OOM killer and HIGHMEM4G in default .config.
kde/amarok-1.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to amarok-1.4.2.
kde/kdebase-3.5.4-i486-6.tgz: Recompiled to use libsensors with ksysguardd.
Fixed location of kdeglobals, removed font defaults but kept the
anti-aliasing fixes.
kde/koffice-1.5.2-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient and libruby.
kde/qt-3.3.6-i486-3.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient, added symlink
in /usr/lib/pkgconfig to qt-mt.pc.
l/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz: Recompiled for Linux 2.4.33.2.
l/glibc-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Patched an issue with kernel version parsing in
ld-2.3.6.so that was leading glibc to treat 2.4 kernels with 4 version parts
(such as 2.4.33.2) as if they supported NPTL, leading to a crash at boot.
Added sa_IN and ru_RU.CP1251 locale support.
Updated timezone information from tzdata2006j.
Updated timezone utilities from tzcode2006j.
l/glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-5.tgz: Rebuilt.
Added sa_IN and ru_RU.CP1251 locale support.
l/glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-5.tgz: Recompiled.
l/libmusicbrainz-2.1.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libmusicbrainz-2.1.4.
l/libvisual-0.4.0-i486-1.tgz: Added libvisual-0.4.0. Just the library for
now (no plugins), but this should make it much easier to compile and use
audio visualization plugins without having to recompile amaroK.
n/bitchx-1.1-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient.
n/openldap-client-2.3.27-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to openldap-client-2.3.27.
n/php-4.4.4-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against libmysqlclient.
t/tetex-3.0-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled against new LessTif to stop warnings
from xdvi.
t/tetex-doc-3.0-i486-4.tgz: Rebuilt. Moved info pages to /usr/info.
Thanks to Kris Karas for pointing out the misplaced info pages.
xap/gimp-2.2.13-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gimp-2.2.13.
extra/3dfx-glide/*: Removed, as it most likely doesn’t work.
extra/k3b/k3b-0.12.17-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to k3b-0.12.17.
extra/k3b/k3b-i18n-0.12.17-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to k3b-i18n-0.12.17.
extra/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre25_2.4.33.2-i486-1.tgz:
Recompiled for Linux 2.4.33.2.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.08-noarch-3.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.08-noarch-3.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
bootdisks/*: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 kernels.
isolinux/initrd.img: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
isolinux/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
isolinux/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.1: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.2: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/install.zip: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
rootdisks/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia network modules to Linux 2.4.33.2.
kernels/*: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33.2 kernels, except the huge.s kernel.

After much thought and consultation with developers, it has been decided to
move 2.6.17.x out of /testing and into /extra. It runs stable by all reports,
has better wireless support, and is not going to be stale as soon. In
addition, HIGHMEM4G has been enabled. This caused no problems with my old
486 with 24MB (the one I use for compiling KDE ;-), and Tomas Matejicek has
enabled this in SLAX for a long time with no reports of problems, so I
believe it is a safe option (and is needed by many modern machines).
Thanks again to Andrea for building these kernels and packages.

kernels/huge26.s/*: Upgraded huge26.s kernel to 2.6.17.11.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-generic-2.6.17.11-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 generic kernel.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-headers-2.6.17.11-i386-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel headers.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-modules-2.6.17.11-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel modules.
Load PC speaker support in rc.modules. Thanks to NetrixTardis.
extra/linux-2.6.17.11/kernel-source-2.6.17.11-noarch-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.11 kernel source.

testing/packages/cairo-1.2.4-i486-1.tgz: Added cairo-1.2.4.
testing/packages/fontconfig-2.3.95-i486-1.tgz: Added fontconfig-2.3.95.
testing/packages/php-5.1.5/php-5.1.5-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against
libmysqlclient.

Again, Pat said this is pretty much the “final” Slackware 11.0 build, except for updating the documentation and ZipSlack.

Also, I emailed Patrick the other day about getting a neat feature built into MySQL 5.x, the MySQL FEDERATED storage engine. If you’ve never heard of it, head over to my personal blog, I made a post the other day about the FEDERATED storage engine in MySQL. Very cool stuff. Anyway, it’s obviously too late to build FEDERATED support into MySQL for Slackware 11.0, but Pat said it’d be a definite possibility after Slackware 11.0 is out the door. Yay!

Oh, one more note: we’re on Linux Today again, thanks Brian you rock!!

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For the first time ever this blog had a “hot post” here at wordpress.com.

A little while after I made that post a bunch of hits started rolling in from stumbleapon. Yay! This blog also got linked from Linux Today, which has generated a nice amount of traffic.

Hopefully, with the impending release of Slackware 11, this blog will only continue to grow in popularity.

The title pretty much says it all. Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 2 is officially here. Pat says it’s mostly frozen from here on out, so this will most likely be the last release candidate before we see Slackware 11.0 final. Here’s the new changelog entry:

Sat Aug 19 23:58:27 CDT 2006
This is mostly frozen now unless bugs (or irresistible upgrades) come up, so
I’ll call this update Slackware 11.0 release candidate 2.
a/kernel-ide-2.4.33-i486-2.tgz:
Switched to the sata.i kernel which supports both parallel and serial ATA.
a/kernel-modules-2.4.33-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel modules.
d/pkgconfig-0.21-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to pkg-config-0.21.
Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to search in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and
/opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig, too. Thanks, Seb!
d/kernel-headers-2.4.33-i386-2.tgz: Rebuilt.
k/kernel-source-2.4.33-noarch-2.tgz:
Updated the default .config to include SATA support.
Oh, and yes I did see 2.4.33.1. Thanks for letting me know ;-), but that
kernel does not seem to be booting here so I’ll stick with 2.4.33 for now.
l/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled.
Upgraded to alsa-driver-1.0.11 compiled for Linux 2.4.33.
bootdisks/sata.i: Rebuilt.
bootdisks/speakup.s: Added SATA support.
kernels/huge24.s/*: Recompiled.
kernels/sata.i/*: Recompiled.
kernels/speakup.s/*: Added SATA support.
kernels/test26.s/*: Upgraded test26.s kernel to 2.6.17.9.
To be consistent, bumped the build number on all of the 2.6.16.27 packages to -5.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Recompiled.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-generic-2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Recompiled.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-headers-2.6.16.27-i386-5.tgz:
Rebuilt.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-modules-2.6.16.27-i486-5.tgz:
Enabled CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK option so that
Piotr Wierzchowski’s Thinkpad will run cooler and use less power.
extra/linux-2.6.16.27/kernel-source-2.6.16.27-noarch-5.tgz:
Rebuilt with CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK=y in .config.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.08-noarch-2.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.08-noarch-2.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-generic-2.6.17.9-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 generic kernel.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-headers-2.6.17.9-i386-1.tgz:
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel headers.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-modules-2.6.17.9-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel modules.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.17.9/kernel-source-2.6.17.9-noarch-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.17.9 kernel source.
Thanks to Andrea for building the 2.6.17.9 kernels.
rootdisks/install.1: Updated. Thanks to Cal Peake for the idea about how to
improve the setup of swap partitions.
Updated most of the binaries on the installer, but not busybox. It seems
to be working fine, and the idea of messing with it now scares me.
rootdisks/install.2: Updated.
rootdisks/install.zip: Updated.
rootdisks/network.dsk: Fixed to probe for tg3 cards.
Thanks to Eric Hameleers and Bruce Hill, Jr.
Fixed module probing to work with 2.6 modules. Thanks to Piter Punk.

Lorelle has a pretty lengthy post about the 1 year birthday of wordpress.com. It’s really quite a touching tribute.

No matter how much we want “pretty” in a WordPress Theme, no matter how much we wish the sidebar were on the left instead of the right, or want to add Flickr galleries to our sidebars or posts, insert video or music files into our posts, tag posts, change header art, or wrap text around pictures, it’s all about the stories we share, the memories we recall, pictures we show off, opinions we rattle off, our screams and shouts, our whines and moans, tears openly shed, questions asked, answers challenged, and words we write.

It’s called blogging. And few do it better than the WordPress.com blogging service.

After using wordpress.com for 6 months or so, I can say that I really enjoy it’s ease of use and the wide variety of different communities. There’s a huge range of different blog subjects, pretty much anything you can think of. There’s something that fits everyone as far as content goes, and there’s a constantly changing list of “fastest growing” and “top” blogs, except for Scobleizer, who’s pretty much always #1.

Anyway, it’s nice here.

If anyone is interested in helping out with this blog, please leave a comment to this post. There’s a lot of stuff I’d like to cover here but simply don’t have the time for. The guy that was helping me out hasn’t been around in a few months. So, would anyone else be interested in contributing to this blog?

If interested, make a comment or email me at tlongren[_at_]gmail[_dot_]com.

Well, slackware-current is now officially Slackware 11.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Patrick made an update to the -current ChangeLog earlier today. This means it’s time for me to burn a copy and install it on my development machine. New slackware releases are always very exciting. Congrats on coming upon another fine Slackware release Patrick! It’s gonna be great.

Mon Aug 14 02:23:30 CDT 2006
There are still a few changes yet to happen, but let’s call this
Slackware 11.0 release candidate 1.
a/glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled.
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-4.tgz: Updated to tzcode2006i and tzdata2006g.
a/kernel-ide-2.4.33-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 bare.i kernel.
a/kernel-modules-2.4.33-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel modules.
a/udev-097-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to udev-097.
Updated the rc.optical-symlinks script.
Added locking to cdrom-symlinks.sh and nethelper.sh scripts to avoid race
conditions at boot time. Thanks to Piter Punk.
Fixed bugs in rc.udev where the script attempts to mount devpts and usbfs
even if they are already mounted. Thanks to Gunnar Florus Johansen.
d/kernel-headers-2.4.33-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel headers.
k/kernel-source-2.4.33-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernel source.
l/alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to alsa-driver compiled
for Linux 2.4.33.
l/glibc-2.3.6-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled against Linux 2.4.33 and 2.6.16.27
kernel headers.
l/glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-4.tgz: Rebuilt.
l/glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-4.tgz: Recompiled.
l/jre-1_5_0_08-i586-1.tgz: Upgraded to Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition
Runtime Environment Version 5.0, Release 8.
n/tcpip-0.17-i486-38.tgz: Upgraded to ethtool-4.
Upgraded to tftp-0.42.
Relinked /bin/ftp with correct libreadline. Thanks to Udo A. Steinberg.
extra/jdk-1.5.0_08/jdk-1_5_0_08-i586-1.tgz: Upgraded to Java(TM) 2
Platform Standard Edition Development Kit Version 5.0, Release 8.
bootdisks/*: Upgraded to Linux 2.4.33 kernels.
isolinux/initrd.img: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.
isolinux/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.
isolinux/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia modules to Linux 2.4.33.
kernels/*: Upgraded 2.4.x kernels to Linux 2.4.33 kernels.
rootdisks/install.1: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.
rootdisks/install.2: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.
rootdisks/install.zip: Upgraded USB/IEEE1394 modules to Linux 2.4.33.
rootdisks/network.dsk: Upgraded network modules to Linux 2.4.33.
rootdisks/pcmcia.dsk: Upgraded pcmcia modules to Linux 2.4.33.

You can obtain the unofficial CD iso images or the DVD images here.

Well, we’re continuing down the road towards a Slackware 11 beta. Personally, I expected to see a beta out by now, but what do I know? This round of changes includes quite a few upgrades to packages and some fixes to current packages. The entire changelog for August 7th is below:

/pcmciautils-014-i486-1.tgz: Added pcmciautils-014, needed to configure PC
cards on systems running 2.6.x kernels.
a/sysfsutils-2.0.0-i486-2.tgz: Added missing libsysfs.so symlink.
a/sysvinit-2.84-i486-61.tgz: Merged Piter Punk’s changes for the new udev.
Please make sure to move all the .new files in /etc/rc.d/ into place for
this to work correctly!
a/udev-096-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to udev-096.
Thanks to Piter Punk for his great work to get this just exactly perfect.
a/grep-2.5-i486-3.tgz: Improved build script and rebuilt. I considered using
grep-2.5.1a, but found some problem reports concerning it and decided such
an upgrade would be best left for the next -current. There have been no
bug reports here concerning grep-2.5, so I see no reason to fix that which
does not appear to be broken. It’s more important to have a known to be
stable grep than it is to have the latest version, IMHO.
a/pciutils-2.2.3-i486-2.tgz: Fixed missing pci/types.h header file.
Thanks to Konrad Rzepecki.
ap/man-pages-2.39-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to man-pages-2.39.
n/lftp-3.5.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to lftp-3.5.3.
n/ncftp-3.2.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to ncftp-3.2.0.
n/popa3d-1.0.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to popa3d-1.0.2.
n/vsftpd-2.0.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vsftpd-2.0.5.
xap/imagemagick-6.2.8_8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to ImageMagick-6.2.8-8.
xap/sane-1.0.18-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to sane-backends-1.0.18.
extra/grub/grub-0.97-i486-2.tgz: Upgraded to grubconfig-1.28.

There have been changes made on August 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th. KDE was upgraded to 3.5.4 on August 3rd.

Lots of entries in the slackware-current changelog for July 30th. The 2.4.32 kernel got patched to fix X11 direct rendering with X.Org 6.9.0 and newer. MySQL was reverted from 5.0.23 back to 5.0.22. Why you ask? MySQL 5.0.23 was never officially released due to bugs. Somehow the 5.0.23 release made it to a few mirror sites.

Sun Jul 30 19:16:38 CDT 2006
n/samba-3.0.23a-i486-2.tgz: Fixed bad symlink to “using_samba” in the docs.
Thanks to Valentin Avram and William Hunt for reporting this.
ap/jed-0.99_18-i486-2.tgz: Reverted to isearch.sl from jed-0.99_16.
The version shipped in 0.99_18 seems to have problems unless jed is linked
with slang-2, which we’re putting off for a little while due to the major
version bump and to let code that uses slang have a little time to catch up.
Thanks to Luigi Genoni for the bug report and fix.
Thanks as well to Petri Kaukasoina who also reported the problem.
ap/mysql-5.0.22-i486-2.tgz: Reverted to MySQL-5.0.22. Evidently MySQL-5.0.23
was never officially released due to bugs, but made it to the mirror sites
anyway. Beat Vontobel’s web site has some additional information about this:
http://www.futhark.ch/mysql/148.html
Thanks very much to Jakub Jankowski telling me the deal about 5.0.23.
ap/vim-7.0.042-i486-2.tgz: Upgraded to ctags-5.6.
Thanks to Michael Iatrou for pointing out the new ctags.
Fixed a bug in the build script’s patchlevel determination if $CWD contains
a dot. Thanks to Christophe Legras for the bug report and fix.
xap/vim-gvim-7.0.042-i486-2.tgz: Rebuilt. Fixed a bug in the build script’s
patchlevel determination. Thanks to Christophe Legras.
Fixed an undefined variable in the vim-gvim build script.
Thanks to Bryan Germann.

There’s lots more changes, so go checkout the changelog for the full list.