Slackware-14.2 ChangeLog (2016-06-20)

Mon Jun 20 21:39:07 UTC 2016

  • a/aaa_elflibs-14.2-i586-21.txz
  • a/mkinitrd-1.4.8-i586-8.txz
    In mkinitrd_command_generator.sh, include a few more modules that might be
    needed to unlock a LUKS partition using a USB keyboard.
    Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
  • l/cairo-1.14.6-i586-2.txz
    Patched an issue that was causing GTK3 applets to crash.
    See: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/369
    Thanks to Willy Sudiarto Raharjo.
  • l/libarchive-3.2.1-i586-1.txz
    This release fixes several critical bugs, including some with security
    implications.
    (* Security fix *)
  • l/pcre-8.39-i586-1.txz
    This release fixes bugs (including a couple of DoS security issues), and
    retrofits to PCRE1 some appropriate JIT improvements from PCRE2.
    For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1283
    (* Security fix *)
  • news/2016/06/20/slackware-14.2-changelog.txt
  • Last modified: 7 months ago
  • by Giuseppe Di Terlizzi