Patrick Folkerding (Patrick Volkerding) announced About the beginning of the testing of the second candidate on the distribution release SLACKWARE 15.0 . The proposed release of Patrick proposes to consider both on a deeper stage of freezing and delivered from errors when trying to rebuild from the source code. To download Prepared Installation image, 3.3 GB (x86_64), as well as abbreviated Build to run in Live mode.
Compared to the past test release to fix the SAMBA assembly, Python-Markdown-3.3.4-x86_64-3.txz package. As Patrick explains, the newer versions of the MarkDown require MPORTLIB_METADATA and Zipp, and adding them also corrects the assembly, but oddly enough, the installed PKG-Info shows version 0.0.0, and suspicion is told that the breakdown takes place rather with the setupTools. After trying to rebuild all the other Python modules to attempt to find out if somehow a more general error, only two Python modules were revealed, which demonstrate this problem, and other similar issues about the problem (but without corrections) were detected. Markdown-3.3.4 seems to the win-win option.
In addition, Python-DocumentTils-0.17.1-x86_64-3.txz is reassended and updated QPDF-10.4.0-x86_64-1.txz packets and BIND-9.16.23-x86_64-1.txz. Libdrm refunds to version 2.4.107, since version 2.4.108, it seems not fully compatible with Xorg-Server-1.20.13 and, in addition, it corrects the impossibility of assembling XF86-Video-VMware from the source code. In general, the Slackware 15 branch is notable for updating the versions of programs, including the transition to the Linux kernel 5.13, the GCC 11.2 compilers set and the GLIBC 2.33 system library. Desktop components are updated to KDE Plasma 5.23 and KDE Gear 21.08.2.