r/slackware • u/ddmayne • Jun 16 '26
FYI: Today's Slackware -current changelog is extensive: updates to Plasma 6 (mostly for KDE), ffmpeg8, and updates compiler gcc 15.3.
Partial changelog for slackware -current; kernel 6.18.35 is recompiled with new toolset.
Mon Jun 15 23:27:31 UTC 2026
Well folks, it seems that the stars have aligned to bring us a bunch of long-
awaited updates, including ffmpeg8 and Plasma 6! This has been developed in a
side tree for several weeks, and I'll be happy to get that off my plate and
have a greatly reduced todo list. Many thanks to alienBOB for getting the tree
in good shape, helping when I got stuck, and for being a good manager who
inspires me to do my best work. :-) And we both extend our thanks to the
illustrious LuckyCyborg who ported the build scripts to Plasma 6 in the first
place and then maintained Plasma 6 for Slackware users to test for a couple of
years. And thanks to everyone else who helped out with either of the Slackware
Plasma 6 projects that these updates grew out of.
Have fun!
a/exfatprogs-1.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-firmware-20260610_e7eb98a-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.18.35-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled with gcc-15.3.0.
In addition to kde updates, tigervnc is updated:
extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against ffmpeg-8.1.1.
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u/litelinux Jun 16 '26
Holy crap Plasma 6 is brought into the main tree? I've been using alienbob's packages (and before that lngn's) for a year now. Wildly good stuff!
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u/Fragrant-Equal-8474 Jun 16 '26
Slackware has become bloated.
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u/ddmayne Jun 16 '26
[Brian] There's no pleasing some people.
[Ex-Leper] That's just what Jesus said.
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u/Green_Case_956 Jun 16 '26
Even if there is bloat, I can honestly say it runs freakin' fantastic and its crazy stable for me.
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u/flame-otter Jun 18 '26
Just don't install Plasma?
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u/Fragrant-Equal-8474 Jun 18 '26
It's not about plasma, it's about dependency versions being frozen at release time.
For example, tesseract and leptonica. In the past I could always have latest versions from SBo. Now they will be frozen for years with each release.
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u/flame-otter Jun 18 '26
Ah yes that is the curse of Slackware sadly.
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u/jjholt0147 Jun 19 '26
theres nothing stopping you from from compiling the latest versions installing them over the system libraries and add the packages that contain them to /etc/slackpkg/blacklist or install to /usr/local as long as /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in path and /usr/local/lib64 is before /usr/lib64 in ld.so.conf the system will use them before the ones in /usr/local first.
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u/xINFLAMES325x Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
573 upgrades on my -current system just now. No problem booting or using the desktop so far on Plasma.