Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Slackware64-current ChangeLog (2016-01-13) ====== ====== Wed Jan 13 00:01:23 UTC 2016 ====== > Hey folks, happy new year! \\ After upgrading to BlueZ 5 recently, everything seemed to be working great, \\ but then it was pointed out that Bluetooth audio was no longer working. \\ The reason was that the newer BlueZ branch had dropped ALSA support and now \\ required PulseAudio. So with some trepidation, we began investigating adding \\ PulseAudio to Slackware. Going back to BlueZ 4 wasn't an option with various \\ dependent projects either having dropped support for it, or considering doing \\ so. After several iterations here refining the foundation packages and \\ recompiling and tweaking other packages to use PulseAudio, it's working well \\ and you'll likely not notice much of a change. But if you're using Bluetooth \\ audio, or needing to direct audio through HDMI, you'll probably find it a lot \\ easier to accomplish that. \\ Best of all, we're finally a modern, relevant Linux distro! ;-) \\ Thanks to Mario Preksavec, Heinz Wiesinger, and Robby Workman for a lot of \\ help and testing. Bug reports, complaints, and threats can go to me. \\ Also, enjoy a shiny new LTS 4.4.0 kernel and consider this 14.2 beta 1. ===== Packages ===== ==== Removed ==== * <del>[[slackware64.current>a/apmd-3.2.2-x86_64-3.txz]]</del> \\ APM is no longer used in the shipped kernels, xapm was broken, and \\ it no longer compiles. It's time to remove it. * <del>[[slackware64.current>x/xf86-video-modesetting-0.9.0-x86_64-5.txz]]</del> \\ This driver has been incorporated into the xorg-server package. \\ Thanks to ReaperX. * <del>[[slackware64.current>xfce/xfce4-mixer-4.10.0-x86_64-2.txz]]</del> \\ Replaced by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. * <del>[[slackware64.current>xfce/xfce4-volumed-0.1.13-x86_64-3.txz]]</del> \\ Replaced by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. ==== Rebuilt ==== * [[slackware64.current>a/etc-14.2-x86_64-5.txz]] \\ Added user (pulse) and group (pulse) for PulseAudio. \\ Added pulse user to the audio group. * [[slackware64.current>a/eudev-3.1.5-x86_64-8.txz]] \\ Blacklisted new watchdog modules (bcm7038_wdt, max63xx_wdt). * [[slackware64.current>a/sysvinit-scripts-2.0-noarch-26.txz]] \\ rc.M: Don't try to start apmd. * [[slackware64.current>ap/alsa-utils-1.1.0-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Change perms on /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa to 644. * [[slackware64.current>ap/ghostscript-9.18-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Applied upstream patch to fix missing gerrors.h. * [[slackware64.current>ap/mpg123-1.22.4-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Add support for PulseAudio and use it for output by default. * [[slackware64.current>ap/sox-14.4.2-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>d/perl-5.22.0-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Added TermReadKey for MariaDB's mytop. Thanks to Larry Hajali. \\ Removed dangling s2p symlinks. Thanks to DarkVision. * [[slackware64.current>kde/kde-runtime-4.14.3-x86_64-3.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>kde/kmix-4.14.3-x86_64-3.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/alsa-lib-1.1.0-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Added a default /etc/asound.conf redirecting ALSA output to PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>l/gst-plugins-good-1.6.2-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/gst-plugins-good0-0.10.31-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/libao-1.2.0-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/libcanberra-0.30-x86_64-4.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/phonon-4.8.3-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/qt-4.8.7-x86_64-3.txz]] \\ Make sure that .pc and .la files use $LIBDIRSUFFIX in the X11 library path. \\ Thanks to Dhaby Xiloj. * [[slackware64.current>l/sdl-1.2.15-x86_64-3.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/seamonkey-solibs-2.39-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>n/NetworkManager-1.0.10-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Added patches from the upstream stable git branch. \\ Added back the pm-utils hook. \\ Thanks to Robby Workman. * [[slackware64.current>n/dirmngr-1.1.1-x86_64-3.txz]] \\ Patched to fix problems when using libgcrypt-1.6.x. Thanks to xflow7. * [[slackware64.current>n/inetd-1.79s-x86_64-9.txz]] \\ Patched segfault of daytime. Thanks to tfonz. * [[slackware64.current>x/xorg-cf-files-1.0.6-x86_64-2.txz]] \\ Don't use noarch. Thanks to DarkVision. * [[slackware64.current>xap/MPlayer-20150721-x86_64-4.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/seamonkey-2.39-x86_64-2.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/xine-lib-1.2.6-x86_64-6.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xfce/Thunar-1.6.10-x86_64-3.txz]] \\ Fix some crashes that occur with file moves. \\ Thanks to Jean-Philippe Guillemin. * [[slackware64.current>xfce/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4-x86_64-3.txz]] \\ Don't include NetworkManager; let pm-utils handle it. \\ Thanks to Robby Workman. * [[slackware64.current>extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-2.1-noarch-4.txz]] \\ Corrected information in slack-desc. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk. * [[slackware64.current>isolinux/initrd.img]] * [[slackware64.current>usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img]] ==== Upgraded ==== * [[slackware64.current>a/kernel-generic-4.4-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>a/kernel-huge-4.4-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>a/kernel-modules-4.4-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>d/kernel-headers-4.4-x86-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>k/kernel-source-4.4-noarch-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/keybinder-0.3.1-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ Add support for GTK+3, which is needed by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to grab \\ multimedia keys. * [[slackware64.current>l/xapian-core-1.2.22-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>n/bluez-5.37-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>n/dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. \\ For more information, see: \\ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8605 \\ (* Security fix *) * [[slackware64.current>x/libdrm-2.4.66-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>x/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/audacious-3.7.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/audacious-plugins-3.7.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/mozilla-firefox-43.0.4-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.5.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>kernels/*]] \\ pasture/apmd-3.2.2-x86_64-3.txz: Moved to /pasture. ==== Added ==== * [[slackware64.current>ap/pamixer-1.3.1-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ A command-line mixer for PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>l/alsa-plugins-1.1.0-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This provides a plugin to redirect ALSA output to PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>l/atkmm-2.24.2-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/cairomm-1.12.0-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/glibmm-2.46.3-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/gtkmm3-3.18.0-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/json-c-0.12-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This is needed by PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>l/libasyncns-0.8-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This is needed by PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>l/libsigc++-2.6.2-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/pangomm-2.38.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/pulseaudio-7.1-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>l/speexdsp-1.2rc3-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This is needed by PulseAudio. * [[slackware64.current>x/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.0.0-x86_64-1.txz]] * [[slackware64.current>xap/pavucontrol-3.0-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ A mixer for PulseAudio. Requires the GTKmm stack. * [[slackware64.current>xfce/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-x86_64-1.txz]] \\ This replaces xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed. {{tag>slackware changelog slackware64-current 2016/01}} news/2016/01/13/slackware64-current-changelog.txt Last modified: 8 years agoby Giuseppe Di Terlizzi Log In