We don't know. The only way we'll find out is if it is either put in the changelog, or Pat tells us directly before it happens.

According to Pat, he's not a fan of MIT Kerberos. Although, there were some possible alternatives provided in that thread that Pat may look into. But even if we will see NFS4 support, it is likely too late in this development cycle to get it in and get enough testing done before the next stable release. Maybe for Slackware 14.3 or 15.0.

If you really need NFS4 support, check out some of the options provided by ivandi. He has several implementations of pam that work well with Slackware and will provide you with what you need.

If you're going to start sneaking New Order titles into your posts, you might at least rename yourself BassSynthRock

Ahh I was not aware of this....Slackware-current is really that much into development already huh. dang, oh well. I don't really need NFSv4 tehre is just a slight issue since my arch linux client mounts by default NFSv4 when using Automount and that makes things like media playback hang for a good few seconds the first time it gets opened.

I think you're thinking of "Everything's Gone Green"

The next Slackware version has been in development for over 2 years (ever since the release of 14.1), which is the longest stretch between Slackware releases ever. Recently (on Saturday) Pat released an update saying that we're almost at beta. Now, beta is drastically different depending on who you're talking to, but with Slackware, that means pretty much all additions have been done and he's just looking to find those last few pesky bugs before he opens it up to release candidates. If we base the timeline from Slackware 14.1, he announced an almost beta on 6 Aug 2013, the actual beta on 18 Sep, RC1 14 Oct, RC2 21 Oct, RC3 28 Oct, with the stable being released on 4 Nov.

Just for fun, if we take these timeframes and apply them to -current, we can expect [1]:

• 14.2 Beta on 27 Dec, 2015 (43 days from almost to beta)
• 14.2 RC1 on 22 Jan, 2016 (26 days from beta to RC1)
• 14.2 RC2 on 29 Jan, 2016 (7 days from RC1 to RC2)
• 14.2 RC3 on 5 Feb, 2016 (7 days from RC2 to RC3)
• 14.2 stable 12 Feb, 2016 (7 days from RC3 to stable)

Now he can have some much needed time to himself and his wife for Valentine's Day

[1] Don't actually expect these timeframes. Pat will release it when it's ready. It may only take a month or it could take another year. Be patient and report bugs as you find them.

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hplip update (3.15.11)

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

FWIW, Python 2 and Python 3 are still significantly different beasts. There are still a lot of modules which work under Python 2, but have not yet been ported to Python 3, and most ports are not compatible with their Python 2 counterparts.

Twisted (Python's dominant framework for asynchronous processing) is a good example of these issues:
https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/...o/python3.html

The bottom line in the context of Slackware (or any other Linux distribution): it's not a question of "Python 2 or Python 3", but rather "just Python 2, or Python 2 and Python 3".

On an unrelated note, I just saw this morning that eudev was added to -current's testing/, and I'm STOKED :-D thank you, Pat + team!

I was aware of this. I left python3 and qt just because they were on distrowatch's list.

Another gtk+3 update (gtk+-3.18.5.tar.xz)

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sourc...-3.18.5.tar.xz

exo bug fix version (0.10.7)

http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo...0.10.7.tar.bz2

What are the possibilities of replacing a package in Slackware? I was thinking this does not happen often unless for a good reason. I was sort often thinking sendmail should be replaced with OpenSMTPD or added into the repository, same with Unbound. Huh, so apparently there are Slackbuild available already, I guess that is perfectly fine then, this way we get the both worlds I guess.

Yes. there is a well established tradition that people request a replacement for sendmail. There is also a well established tradition not to fulfill that request.

But who knows? It seems that Pat likes traditions, but also likes to break traditions

The new Linux kernel 4.4-rc1 is now available.

https://www.kernel.org/

and the comments in the release section mention that 4.4 will be released "early 2016".

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Then hopefully Pat will provide a config file in /testing for it.

ignore this please, nothing to see here...

Dear Pat and other Slackware Devs,

This is not an update request but an addition request. Do you think it would be possible to include rhe linux-libre kernel in Slackware? If this is a very ardous job I apologize for not understanding the man work thay goes in. I just like the FOSS philosophy a lot and Slackware is my favorite distro.

I understand I can always compile and run it myself but I would prefer for it to be iwotn the repos as I am not familiar with compiling.