I'm on the Slackware Security mailing list and I check the Slackware Security Advisory page daily because the mailing list, for me at least, is unreliable.

After Firefox nagged me about a security update, I went to one of the FTP mirrors to check for an update and the Firefox update was there, but it still hasn't shown up on the official Slackware Security update page. It's been a few weeks now.

What's going on?

Maestro

It is listed in the changelog:

What changelog? It's not on the the website: http://slackware.com/security/list.p...ecurity&y=2010

The changelog is at this site:


http://www.slackware.com/changelog/

Why wasn't it posted as a security update?

Because it wasn't a security update.

As rfernandez points out, 3.6.10 was an update, it just wasn't a security update. There is a difference between the two. (I think everyone who's come to Slackware has made that error in thinking...goodness knows I did until the "Aha!" factor kicked one Saturday afternoon long, long ago.) Sometimes the obvious is only obvious once it's been pointed out. Otherwise you see a version bump of something on one of the mirrors...look only at the security alert page and see nothing posted there and wonder "Huh?" until you peek at the changelog. Then it's, "Oh, okay, all right..."

If you want the latest FF, just compile it yourself ... if your computer is powerful enough to do it in good time, of course.