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Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0

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On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:47:35 +1000, noel wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:31:01 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>> Basically, stable versions of Slackware don't receive any feature
>> updates, only security updates and most importantly, those updates are
> 
> Not always the case, as most obvious example is, and I've lost count at
> how many times, curl has had updates

Yes, curl in Slackware 15.0 has been updated from version 7.81.0 to 
8.16.0, but did any of those versions break any backwards compatibility?

Another odd example is samba which have rather short life cycles. In 
Slackware 15.0 samba 4.15.13 was put into /pasture when non backwards 
compatible 4.18.5 got into /patches.

These are a few examples of backwards compatibility breaking applications 
that we are aware of. However, there are also backwards compatibility 
breaking security updates that are not so obvious. For example, in 
Slackware 14.2 the last security update of firefox was version 68.12.0 in 
august 2020. Newer versions of firefox no longer compiled on Slackware 
14.2. A user Ruari Oedegaard did provide a third party script which 
downloaded a binary distribution of firefox and repackaged that into a 
Slackware package. We can easily see security updates that come as 
patches, but it is not so easy to be aware of security holes which do not 
receive andy security updates.

When a Slackware version reaches End Of Life there is a note about that 
in ChangeLog.txt and we get aware that it will not receive any more 
security updated. However, long before that, a number of applications 
usually already has stopped receiving security updates and we are not so 
aware of that.

regards Henrik

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php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 Tom Crane <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> - 2025-12-29 20:27 +0000
  Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-12-30 10:46 +1000
    Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2025-12-30 06:31 +0000
      Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-01-01 22:47 +1000
        Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-01-02 06:34 +0000
          Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-01-02 17:31 +1000
            Re: php-7.4.33-x86_64-3_slack15.0 Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-01-04 12:16 +0000

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