Weekly Updates Tracker - 1/30/2021

Weekly update statistics are here for January 30, 2021! This is where Official updates in the Slackware changelog are retrieved, summarized, and presented for YOUR viewing pleasure.

Enjoy and be sure to visit the Official Slackware Changelog for full details!

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/

Activity this week has revolved around upgrading existing packages to their newer versions. This week also saw the removal of several noteworthy packages:

• l/gst-plugins-base0-0.10.36-x86_64-4.txz
• l/gst-plugins-good0-0.10.31-x86_64-4.txz
• l/gstreamer0-0.10.36-x86_64-3.txz
• n/openssl10-1.0.2u-x86_64-2.txz

These were obsolete versions of gstreamer and openssl that are unlikely to be used in any currently maintained applications. Note that these packages are still available in stable releases (14.0, 14.1, 14.2).

January 2021 saw a mass rebuild for the entire slackware package tree. More than 3000 packages were recompiled against the new toolchain. This recompile only applies to -current and is the biggest update in Slackware history, beating the previous record set in 2018 when 2460 packages were recompiled.

In addition to changes made across all versions, the latest stable release (14.2) saw a trickle of updates to keep up with upstream. 14 security updates were released for 14.2.

That's it for the week of January 30, 2021. The plan is to continue this every Saturday, with minor tweaks to improve the usefulness of the data.

Also want to give a big shout out to Patrick Volkerding and the rest of The Slackware Team. Slackware 15 looks like it's going to be awesome.

Thanks for keeping the project going all these years!