Seems this thread has almost, but not quite, turned into a PV bashing. All I would say, is were I he, I would punish you all by making you wait another 12 months.
Lets just lighten up, and give him some personal time. I'm sure when he is good and ready he will start releasing updates. Meanwhile Pat (if you happen to see this), no rush on my account. I'd rather you took your sweet time than pander to the paranoia here.

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Anyone know where the list of "pending updates" can be found? I think it would be a great idea for people to see what's in the queue. It might allow for better interaction between testers and the folks doing the actual development.

As for the lack of updates, if Patrick needs some time off then by all means, he deserves it. A couple months doesn't concern me. What does is that the progress of current has not been met with the same vigor as it has previously. Compare the current changelog with the first 9 months of the 13.37 changelog. Even when Patrick was very ill back in 2005 he kept everyone up to date as to what was going on by posting notes in the changelog. The slow progress of current coupled with Patrick not posting any news as to what may be happening is grounds for concern. Until I hear it from the Man himself, I'm going to remain speculative. I started using Slackware when you had to install it using floppy disks, 3.3 I think. I love Slackware and I greatly appreciate what Patrick has done. I just hope that he and his family are in good health.

Only spotted one post in the entire thread that was getting overly personal. For a discussion on such an emotive/frustrating situation I think people have been rather well behaved.

That is exactly what I want to hear from any intended Slackware admin/user "We are mature enough to support our systems without any kicks of higher force(PV, Slackware team and co)". This is direct consequence of famous "If you know Slackware, you know Linux.", so I really do not understand why those who calling themselves "Slackers" crying "where are our next version?", "where are our packages updates?", "where are our security fixes?" etc.
I am relatively young Slacker(around 1-2 years of liquid experience on pure Slackware), begun Slackware with one of its numerous heirs(DeepStyle, even not listed on Distrowatch. It offered essential for me as newbie think - localization out of box: mans, docs, even Installer/pkgtool), and 7-8 years ago had "a few days sessions" with some other distros(RH-basted in most cases), so I don't understand those crybabies.

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Hi,

Look at #46.

Oh boy, why the buzz ? ...

Why thinking in jumping off the ship just because there are no updates in the site? i see no reason to do that, of course everyone is free to leave the ship ...

Slackware is solid and stable like a rock, i think anyone can search for the updates using google and compile them...

Greeting

That is the post to which I was referring to. AlienBob mentions a few packages that he knows are pending but I got the impression that there is a queue that lists pending updates for current that anyone can see. I have not been able to find it.

EDIT: I'm not referring to the current changelog.

just a guess

http://slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=arm

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ponce you are amazing.

lolz, have I won something?

ponce, yeah, I have also noticed Armedslack have quite impressive changelog.

I was following that because here I'm playing (together with some friends) with a distributed sensor architecture arduino's based, but we're planning a move on arm (beagleboard or raspberrypi).
guess what developing platform I'm proposing

(it will be hard, my mates here are hardcore debian evangelists )

...

but, thinking well, that's the fake reason: the truth is that I want slackware on my smartphone!

Wow, if you have that working I want one, too.

Count me in, too!!!

I don't have smartphone, but really would like to try one of those delicious Raspberry "pies" with Slackware.