The first beta version of Slackware Linux 14.2 is now available
Hey folks, happy new year!Slackware Linux 14.2 Beta 1 released
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.
a/apmd-3.2.2-i486-3.txz: Removed.
APM is no longer used in the shipped kernels, xapm was broken, and
it no longer compiles. It's time to remove it.
a/etc-14.2-i586-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Added user (pulse) and group (pulse) for PulseAudio.
Added pulse user to the audio group.
a/eudev-3.1.5-i586-8.txz: Rebuilt.
Blacklisted new watchdog modules (bcm7038_wdt, max63xx_wdt).
a/kernel-generic-4.4-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-smp-4.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.4-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-smp-4.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.4-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-smp-4.4_smp-i686-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.0-noarch-26.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.M: Don't try to start apmd.
ap/alsa-utils-1.1.0-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Change perms on /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa to 644.
ap/ghostscript-9.18-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Applied upstream patch to fix missing gerrors.h.
ap/mpg123-1.22.4-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Add support for PulseAudio and use it for output by default.
ap/pamixer-1.3.1-i586-1.txz: Added.
A command-line mixer for PulseAudio.
ap/sox-14.4.2-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
d/kernel-headers-4.4_smp-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/perl-5.22.0-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added TermReadKey for MariaDB's mytop. Thanks to Larry Hajali.
Removed dangling s2p symlinks. Thanks to DarkVision.
k/kernel-source-4.4_smp-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/kde-runtime-4.14.3-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
kde/kmix-4.14.3-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
l/alsa-lib-1.1.0-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added a default /etc/asound.conf redirecting ALSA output to PulseAudio.
l/alsa-plugins-1.1.0-i586-1.txz: Added.
This provides a plugin to redirect ALSA output to PulseAudio.
l/atkmm-2.24.2-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/cairomm-1.12.0-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/glibmm-2.46.3-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/gst-plugins-good-1.6.2-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/gst-plugins-good0-0.10.31-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/gtkmm3-3.18.0-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/json-c-0.12-i586-1.txz: Added.
This is needed by PulseAudio.
l/keybinder-0.3.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
Add support for GTK+3, which is needed by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to grab
multimedia keys.
l/libao-1.2.0-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/libasyncns-0.8-i586-1.txz: Added.
This is needed by PulseAudio.
l/libcanberra-0.30-i586-4.txz: Rebuilt.
l/libsigc++-2.6.2-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/pangomm-2.38.1-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/phonon-4.8.3-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/pulseaudio-7.1-i586-1.txz: Added.
l/qt-4.8.7-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Make sure that .pc and .la files use $LIBDIRSUFFIX in the X11 library path.
Thanks to Dhaby Xiloj.
l/sdl-1.2.15-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
l/seamonkey-solibs-2.39-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/speexdsp-1.2rc3-i586-1.txz: Added.
This is needed by PulseAudio.
l/xapian-core-1.2.22-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/NetworkManager-1.0.10-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added patches from the upstream stable git branch.
Added back the pm-utils hook.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
n/bluez-5.37-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
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 *)
n/dirmngr-1.1.1-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix problems when using libgcrypt-1.6.x. Thanks to xflow7.
n/inetd-1.79s-i586-9.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched segfault of daytime. Thanks to tfonz.
x/libdrm-2.4.66-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.0.0-i586-1.txz: Added.
x/xf86-video-modesetting-0.9.0-i586-5.txz: Removed.
This driver has been incorporated into the xorg-server package.
Thanks to ReaperX.
x/xorg-cf-files-1.0.6-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't use noarch. Thanks to DarkVision.
xap/MPlayer-20150721-i586-4.txz: Rebuilt.
xap/audacious-3.7.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/audacious-plugins-3.7.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-firefox-43.0.4-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.5.1-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/pavucontrol-3.0-i586-1.txz: Added.
A mixer for PulseAudio. Requires the GTKmm stack.
xap/seamonkey-2.39-i586-2.txz: Rebuilt.
xap/xine-lib-1.2.6-i586-6.txz: Rebuilt.
xfce/Thunar-1.6.10-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fix some crashes that occur with file moves.
Thanks to Jean-Philippe Guillemin.
xfce/xfce4-mixer-4.10.0-i586-2.txz: Removed.
Replaced by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin.
xfce/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4-i586-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't include NetworkManager; let pm-utils handle it.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
xfce/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-i586-1.txz: Added.
This replaces xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed.
xfce/xfce4-volumed-0.1.13-i586-3.txz: Removed.
Replaced by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin.
extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-2.1-noarch-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Corrected information in slack-desc. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk.
extra/linux-4.4-nosmp-sdk/*: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
pasture/apmd-3.2.2-i486-3.txz: Moved to /pasture.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
