Current release: 8.0 – February 25th 2017
Changelog Entries:
February 25th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Release of BLFS-8.0.
February 22nd, 2017
February 21st, 2017
February 19th, 2017
February 18th, 2017
February 17th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to x265_2.3. Fixes #8890.
February 16th, 2017
February 15th, 2017
[renodr] - Archive Setuptools and force pip to be built with Python 2 and 3.
February 14th, 2017
[ken] - Update to QupZilla-2.1.1. Fixes #8879.
[bdubbs] - Update to plasma5-5.9.2. Fixes #8565.
[renodr] - Update to sqlite-3.17.0. Fixes #8878.
[pierre] - Update to ImageMagick-7.0.4-8. Keep #7859 open, since releases occur very often.
[pierre] - Update to ImageMagick-6.9.7-8. Keep #7859 open, since releases occur very often.
[pierre] - Update to x264-20170212-2245. Keep #7555 open, since there are daily releases.
[renodr] - Update to Guile-2.0.14. Fixes #8876.
[renodr] - Update to Thunar-1.6.11. Fixes #8874.
[renodr] - Update to GTK+-3.22.8. Partially fixes #8873.
[renodr] - Update to libgudev-231. Partially fixes #8873.
[renodr] - Update to gdk-pixbuf-2.36.5. Partially fixes #8873.
[renodr] - Update to glib-2.50.3. Partially fixes #8873.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-calculator-3.22.3. Partially fixes #8873.
February 13th, 2017
February 12th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-4.9.1. Fixes #8590.
[bdubbs] - Update to kde-apps-16.12.2. Fixes #8650.
[renodr] - Update Hexchat for the repacked tarball. Fixes #8868.
[bdubbs] - Update to phonon-4.9.1. Fixes #8798.
[bdubbs] - Update to kf5-5.31. Fixes #8640.
[renodr] - Add patch to GPM for fixing build failures. Thanks to Hazel Russman for reporting.
[renodr] - Update to wget-1.19.1. Fixes #8869.
February 11th, 2017
[ken] - Correct missing perl module dependencies for Params::Validation::Compiler and Text::BibTeX (both are on the dependency chain for biber-2.6).
[bdubbs] - Update to ffmpeg-3.2.4. Fixes #8867.
February 10th, 2017
February 9th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to gnome-video-effects-0.4.3. Fixes #8863.
February 8th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to bind9-9.11.0-P3. Fixes #8861.
[renodr] - Update to thunderbird-45.7.1. Fixes #8859.
[renodr] - Update to nss-3.29. Fixes #8860.
[bdubbs] - Update to libepoxy-1.4.0. Fixes #8855.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-terminal-0.8.4. Fixes #8856.
[bdubbs] - Update to ffmpeg-3.2.3. Fixes #8857.
[bdubbs] - Update to List-AllUtils-0.14 (Perl Module). Fixes #8858.
February 7th, 2017
February 6th, 2017
[ken] - Use a versioned download of biber-2.6 from github. This partially addresses #8853.
February 5th, 2017
February 4th, 2017
[ken] - Fix cups so that it can start. Fixes #8849.
[dj] - Update to Samba-4.5.5. Fixes #8775.
[renodr] - Update to epiphany-3.22.6. Fixes #8848.
[renodr] - Update to wget-1.19. Fixes #8847.
[pierre] - Update to gimp-2.8.20. Fixes #8836.
[pierre] - Update to xkeyboard-config-2.20. Fixes #8835.
[pierre] - Update to babl-0.1.24. Fixes #8833.
[pierre] - Update to tripwire-2.4.3.2. Fixes #8832.
[dj] - Update to Thunderbird-45.7.0. Fixes #8806.
February 3rd, 2017
[ken] - Add test dependencies for libwww-perl >= 6.16 and upgrade it to 6.18. Fixes #8846.
[ken] - Update to asymptote-2.39. Fixes #8807.
[renodr] - Update to geoclue-2.4.5. Fixes #8817.
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.6.1. Fixes #8844.
[bdubbs] - Update to git-2.11.1. Fixes #8843.
[bdubbs] - Update to ristretto-0.8.2. Fixes #8840.
[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-13.0.4. Fixes #8839.
[bdubbs] - Update to mercurial-4.1. Fixes #8838.
February 2nd, 2017
Febuary 1st, 2017
January 31st, 2017
January 30th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to libdiscid-0.6.2. Fixes #8826.
[bdubbs] - Update to xauth-1.0.10. Fixes #8825.
[bdubbs] - Update to util-macros-1.19.1. Fixes #8824.
[bdubbs] - Update to exempi-2.4.2. Fixes #8823.
[bdubbs] - Update to v4l-utils-1.12.2. Fixes #8792.
[pierre] - Update to libdrm-2.4.75. Fixes #8818.
[pierre] - Update to swig-3.0.12. Fixes #8816.
[pierre] - Update to libreoffice-5.2.5.1. Fixes #8811.
[pierre] - Update to NetworkManagager-1.6.0 and network-manager-applet-1.4.4. Fixes #8803.
January 29th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to check-0.11.0. Fixes #8801.
[bdubbs] - Update to OpenSSL-1.0.2k. Fixes #8813.
[bdubbs] - Update to stunnel-5.40. Fixes #8822.
[bdubbs] - Update to bluefish-2.2.10. Fixes #8815.
[bdubbs] - Update to iptables-1.6.1. Fixes #8814.
[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.19.0. Fixes #8805.
[bdubbs] - Update to Text-CSV-1.91 (Perl Module). Fixes #8821.
[bdubbs] - Update to libevent-2.1.8. Fixes #8804.
[bdubbs] - Update to xapian-core-1.4.3. Fixes #8809.
January 28th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to exempi-2.4.1. Fixes #8789.
January 27th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to cups-2.2.2. Fixes #8765.
[ken] - Move oxygen fonts and noto fonts into the TTF and OTF fonts page. Fixes #8802.
[ken] - Update to firefox-51.0.1. Fixes #8810.
[bdubbs] - Update to libwww-perl-6.16. Fixes #8769.
[bdubbs] - Update to presentproto-1.1 (xorg protocol header). Fixes #8808.
[bdubbs] - Update to audacious and audacious-plugins-3.8.2. Fixes #8784.
[bdubbs] - Fix typo in nfs-server bootscript.
[bdubbs] - Update to gnupg-2.1.18. Fixes #8793.
[bdubbs] - Update to feh-2.18.1. Fixes #8791.
January 26th, 2017
January 25th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to qt-5.8.0. Fixes #8795.
[bdubbs] - Update to qtwebkit-5.8.0.
[bdubbs] - Add several font files to the Xorg legacy font section to avoid warnings during testing.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxpanel-0.9.3. Fixes #8783.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxtask-0.1.8. Fixes #8799.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxappearance-0.6.3. Fixes #8800.
[pierre] - Update to openjdk-1.8.0.121. Fixes #8781.
[ken] - Rework coverage of TTF and OTF fonts, add details about tuning fontconfig. Fixes #8796.
January 24th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.6.0. Fixes #8778.
[bdubbs] - Update to libXi-1.7.9. Fixes #8790.
[bdubbs] - Update to nfs-utils-2.1.1. Fixes #8754.
[bdubbs] - Update to harfbuzz-1.4.2. Fixes #8794.
[ken] - Update to firefox-51.0 which fixes several security vulnerabilities rated as critical. Fixes #8797.
[renodr] - Revert to screen-4.4.0 because of a security vulnerability. Downgrade is suggested.
[renodr] - Update to screen-4.5.0. Fixes #8767.
[renodr] - Update to hdparm-9.51. Fixes #8777.
[renodr] - Update to libgcrypt-1.7.6. Fixes #8768.
January 22nd, 2017
January 20th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to iso-codes-3.74. Fixes #8763.
[renodr] - Update to epiphany-3.22.5. Partially fixes #8757.
[renodr] - Update to MariaDB-10.1.21. All users urged to update immediately. Fixes #8770.
[renodr] - Update to gtk+-3.22.7. Partially fixes #8757.
[renodr] - Update to gdk-pixbuf-2.36.4. Partially fixes #8757.
[renodr] - Update to dconf-editor-3.22.3. Partially fixes #8757.
[renodr] - Update to libgtop-2.34.2. Partially fixes #8757.
[renodr] - Make pyatspi2 available for sysv.
[renodr] - Update to pyatspi2-2.20.3. Partially fixes #8757.
January 19th, 2017
[dj] - Build wget with OpenSSL by default.
[dj] - Update to make-ca.sh-20170119.
January 18th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to WebKitGTK+-2.14.3. Fixes #8766.
January 17th, 2017
January 16th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to proftpd-1.3.5d. Fixes #8758 (again).
[dj] - Add -archdatadir flag to /usr installation of QT-5.
January 15th, 2017
January 14th, 2017
January 13th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to libvpx-1.6.1. Fixes #8751.
January 12th, 2017
January 11th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to ImageMagick-6.9.7-3. Fixes #8739.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxqt-qtplugin-0.11.1. Fixes #8744.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxqt-common-0.11.1. Fixes #8743.
[bdubbs] - Update to LMDB_0.9.20. Fixes #8742.
[bdubbs] - Update to pcre-8.40. Fixes #8738.
[bdubbs] - Update to ruby-2.4.0. Fixes #8741.
[bdubbs] - Update to fdk-aac-0.1.5. Fixes #8745.
[bdubbs] - Update to Text-BibTeX-0.78. Fixes #8737.
January 10th, 2017
January 9th, 2017
January 8th, 2017
[ken] - Modify ImageMagick-6 so that only the libs can be installed, without overwriting pkgconfig files and manpages, and add ImageMagick-7 for general use. Move to 6.9.6-8 and 7.0.3-10. Use -6 for inkscape and emacs and make it recommended for inkscape, also change sed in xine-lib. Fixes #8528.
[renodr] - Update to balsa-2.5.3. Fixes #8634.
[renodr] - Update to libgsf-1.14.41. Fixes #8601.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-system-monitor-3.22.2. Fully fixes #8425.
[renodr] - Update to gucharmap-9.0.2. Partially fixes #8425.
[bdubbs] - Update to exempi-2.4.0. Fixes #8730.
[dj] - Update to chromium-55.0.2883.87. Fixes #8643.
January 7th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to sqlite-autoconf-3160200. Fixes #8716.
January 6th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to file-roller-3.22.2. Partially fixes #8425.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-calculator-3.22.2. Partially fixes #8425.
[bdubbs] - Update to alsa-lib alsa-tools alsa-utils 1.1.3. Fixes #8672.
[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.18.1. Fixes #8728.
[bdubbs] - Update to harfbuzz-1.4.1. Fixes #8726.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfsprogs-4.9.0. Fixes #8725.
[bdubbs] - Update to libpng-1.6.28. Fixes #8727.
[renodr] - Update to evince-3.22.1. Partially fixes #8425.
January 5th, 2017
[renodr] - Update to EOG-3.20.5. Partially fixes #8425.
[renodr] - Update to epiphany-3.22.4. Partially fixes #8425.
[bdubbs] - Update to gtk+-3.22.6. Fixes #8723.
[bdubbs] - Update to gdk-pixbuf-2.36.3. Fixes #8722.
[bdubbs] - Update to mercurial-4.0.2. Fixes #8721.
[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-13.0.3. Fixes #8724.
[bdubbs] - Update to libevdev-1.5.6. Fixes #8718.
[renodr] - Update to baobab-3.22.1. Partially fixes #8425.
January 4th, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to postfix-3.1.4. Fixes #8712.
[bdubbs] - Update to flac-1.3.2. Fixes #8719.
[bdubbs] - Update to libass-0.13.6. Fixes #8720.
[bdubbs] - Update to iso-codes-3.73. Fixes #8717.
[bdubbs] - Update to sqlite-autoconf-3160100. Fixes #8716.
[bdubbs] - Update to stunnel-5.39. Fixes #8711.
January 3rd, 2017
January 2nd, 2017
[ken] - Update to libpng-1.6.27. Fixes #8715.
[renodr] - Update to gvfs-1.30.3. Partially fixes #8426.
[renodr] - Update to nautilus-3.22.2. Partially fixes #8426.
[pierre] - Update to mupdf-1.10a. Fixes #8714.
[pierre] - Update to apache-ant-1.10.0. Fixes #8708.
[pierre] - Update to doxygen-1.8.13. Fixes #8699.
[pierre] - Update to swig-3.0.11. Fixes #8691.
[pierre] - Update to boost-1.63.0. Fixes #8689.
[pierre] - Update to exim-4.88. Fixes #8684.
[pierre] - Update to libreoffice-5.2.4.2. Fixes #8674.
January 1st, 2017
[bdubbs] - Update to lxpanel-0.9.2. Fixes #8709.
[bdubbs] - Update to libnl-3.2.29. Fixes #8707.
[bdubbs] - Update to jasper-2.0.10. Fixes #8705.
[bdubbs] - Update to freetype-2.7.1. Fixes #8704.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-terminal-0.8.2. Fixes #8703.
[bdubbs] - Update to QScintilla_gpl-2.9.4. Fixes #8701.
December 30th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to qterminal-0.7.1 and qtermwidget-0.7.1. Fixes #8671.
[bdubbs] - Update to pavucontrol-qt-0.2.0. Fixes #8683.
[bdubbs] - Update to lximage-qt-0.5.1. Partially fixes #8683.
[bdubbs] - Update to pcmanfm-qt-0.11.2. Partially fixes #8683.
[bdubbs] - Update to libfm-qt-0.11.2. Fixes #8687.
[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.18.0. Fixes #8692.
[bdubbs] - Update to whois-5.2.14. Fixes #8700.
[bdubbs] - Update to Net::DNS-1.07. Fixes #8698.
[bdubbs] - Update to xapian-core-1.4.2. Fixes #8685.
[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.6.0. Fixes #8680.
[bdubbs] - Update to opencv-3.2.0. Fixes #8679.
[renodr] - Update to Samba-4.5.3. Fixes #8481.
[renodr] - Update to NSS-3.28. Fixes #8677.
December 29th, 2016
December 28th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to zsh-5.3.1. Fixes #8668.
[bdubbs] - Update to ldns-1.7.0. Fixes #8666.
[bdubbs] - Update to nmap-7.40. Fixes #8665.
[bdubbs] - Update to thunderbird-45.6.0. Fixes #8673.
[bdubbs] - Update to openssh-7.4p1. Fixes #8660.
[bdubbs] - Update to apache-2.4.25. Fixes #8658.
[pierre] - Update to gcc-6.3.0, gcc-java-6.3.0 and gcc-ada-6.3.0. Fixes #8667.
[pierre] - Update to qemu-2.8.0. Fixes #8663. Rework the “Using” part to correspond to recent versions.
[pierre] - Update to lxterminal-0.3.0. Fixes #8659.
[pierre] - Update to sudo-1.8.19p1. Fixes #8657.
[pierre] - Update to llvm-3.9.1. Fixes #8651.
December 27th, 2016
[dj] - Remove unneeded '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR' commands from Freeglut.
[renodr] - Update to dconf-editor-3.22.1. Partially fixes #8426.
December 26th, 2016
December 24th, 2016
December 23rd, 2016
December 22nd, 2016
December 21st, 2016
[renodr] - Update to gdk-pixbuf-2.36.2. Fixes #8661.
December 20th, 2016
[ken] - Texlive - move ldconfig to correct place.
December 19th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to NetworkManager-1.4.4. Fixes #8652.
[bdubbs] - Update to ModemManager-1.6.4. Fixes #8537.
[bdubbs] - Update to mariadb-10.1.20. Fixes #8647.
[bdubbs] - Add instructions to graphviz and cmake that avoid installing files in /usr/lib64.
[bdubbs] - Update to poppler-0.50.0. Fixes #8646.
[bdubbs] - Update to libqmi-1.16.2. Fixes #8514.
[pierre] - Update to python2-2.7.13. Fixes #8654.
December 18th, 2016
December 17th, 2016
[dj] - Merge changes from nosym branch. Adjust gcc installation for new library directories. Remove all sed commands for ltmain.sh. Explicitly define libdir for freeglut, libdbusmenuqt, libical, oxygen-fonts, and qca.
December 15th, 2016
December 14th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to audacious{,-plugins}-3.8.1. Fixes #8617.
[bdubbs] - Promote ModemManager to recommended in network-manager-applet. Fixes #8569.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxsession-0.5.3. Fixes #8637.
[bdubbs] - Update to pcmanfm-1.2.5. Fixes #8633.
[bdubbs] - Update to libfm and libfn-extra-1.25. Fixes #8632.
[bdubbs] - Add lxqt-build-tools-0.3.0 needed for libsysstat-0.3.3.
[bdubbs] - Update to libsysstat-0.3.3. Fixes #8636.
[pierre] - Update to firefox-50.1.0. Fixes #8641.
[pierre] - Update to ffmpeg-3.2.2. Fixes #8614.
December 12th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to hexchat-2.12.4. Fixes #8635.
[bdubbs] - Update to zsh-5.3. Fixes #8639.
[bdubbs] - Update to jasper-2.0.6. Fixes #8630.
[bdubbs] - Update to gsl-2.3. Fixes #8627.
[bdubbs] - Update to gnutls-3.5.7. Fixes #8625.
[ken] - Reduce the old Xorg fonts to just Type1 and ttf, with (only) the adobe 100dpi bitmap fonts plus old libXfont and bdftopcf moved to new 'x7legacy' page. Fixes #8621.
[renodr] - Update to xf86-input-wacom-0.34.0. Fixes #8612.
[renodr] - Update to dbus-1.10.14. Fixes #8580.
[renodr] - Update to cairo-1.14.8. Fixes #8620.
[renodr] - Update to libgcrypt-1.7.4. Fixes #8629.
December 11th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to libevdev-1.5.5. Fixes #8593.
[bdubbs] - Update to icu4c-58.2. Fixes #8623.
[bdubbs] - Update to iso-codes-3.72. Fixes #8622.
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.5.3. Fixes #8616.
[bdubbs] - Update to sysstat-11.5.3. Fixes #8615.
[bdubbs] - Update to Business-ISSN-1.002 (Perl module). Fixes #8611.
[bdubbs] - Update to Business-ISMN-1.131 (perl module). Fixes #8610.
[bdubbs] - Update to shared-mime-info-1.8. Fixes #8609.
[bdubbs] - Add Linux-PAM configureation to Plasma. Fixes #8597.
December 10th, 2016
[dj] - Fix PKI directory creation in make-ca.sh-20161210 and add message about --force switch when updating with same version of certdata.txt.
December 9th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to harfbuzz-1.3.4. Fixes #8608.
December 8th, 2016
[dj] - Update to chromium-55.0.2883.75. Fixes #8618.
December 7th, 2016
[ken] - Remove mpost from texlive shell_escape_commands. Fixes #8619.
December 5th, 2016
[ken] - Update to mutt-1.7.2. Fixes #8607.
[bdubbs] - Update to php-7.1.0. Fixes #8596.
[bdubbs] - Update to nss-3.27.2. Fixes #8599.
[bdubbs] - Update to libunistring-0.9.7. Fixes #8598.
[renodr] - Update to vala-0.34.4. Fixes #8605.
[renodr] - Update to MIT Kerberos V5-1.15. Fixes #8600.
[renodr] - Update to glib-2.50.2. Partially fixes #8426.
December 4th, 2016
December 3rd, 2016
[pierre] - Update to gstreamer-1.10.2, gst-libav-1.10.2, gst-plugins-bad-1.10.2, gst-plugins-base-1.10.2, gst-plugins-good-1.10.2, gst-plugins-ugly-1.10.2, and gstreamer-vaapi-1.10.2. Fixes #8588.
[pierre] - Update to git-2.11.0. Fixes #8587.
[pierre] - Update to libdrm-2.4.74. Fixes #8585.
[pierre] - Update to mesa-13.0.2. Fixes #8583.
[pierre] - Update to sqlite-3.15.2. Fixes #8582.
[pierre] - Update to subversion-1.9.5. Fixes #8581.
December 2nd, 2016
[ken] - Update to firefox-50.0.2. Fixes #8584.
November 28th, 2016
November 27th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.17.0. Fixes #8575.
[bdubbs] - Update to links-2.14. Fixes #8574.
[bdubbs] - Update to tunnel-5.38. Fixes #8573.
[bdubbs] - Update to ffmpeg-3.2.1. Fixes #8572.
[bdubbs] - Update to udisks-2.1.8. Fixes #8571.
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-v4.8.4. Fixes #8570.
[bdubbs] - Update to libdrm-2.4.73. Fixes #8532.
[bdubbs] - Update to LVM2.2.02.167. Fixes #7940.
[pierre] - Update to mupdf-1.10, and add a patch for generating shared libraries (courtesy of Armin K). Fixes #8562.
[pierre] - Update to lxpanel-0.9.1. Fixes #8561.
[pierre] - Update to lxde-common-0.99.2. Fixes #8560.
[dj] - Update to dbus-1.10.12. Fixes #8424.
November 26th, 2016
[dj] - Curl uses OpenSSL by default, use --with-ca-path instead of --with-ca-bundle, and remove mk-ca-bundle.pl.
[dj] - Use versioned make-ca.sh script and update to make-ca.sh-20161126.
November 25th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.5.2. Fixes #8568.
[bdubbs] - Update to tcsh-6.20.00. Fixes #8567.
[bdubbs] - Update to gtksourceview-3.22.1. Fixes #8512.
[bdubbs] - Update to gtk+-3.22.4. Fixes #8466.
[bdubbs] - Update to vala-0.34.3. Fixes #8464.
[bdubbs] - Update to gparted-0.27.0. Fixes #8453.
[bdubbs] - Update to webkitgtk-2.14.2. Fixes #8429.
November 24th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to nghttp2-1.16.1. Fixes #8566.
[dj] - Updated make-ca.sh to 20161124.
November 23rd, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to libpaper_1.1.24+nmu5. Fixes #8535.
[bdubbs] - Update to ntp-4.2.8p9. Fixes #8559.
[bdubbs] - Update to ruby-2.3.3. Fixes #8558.
[bdubbs] - Update to gnupg-2.1.16. Fixes #8552.
[bdubbs] - Update to gpgme-1.8.0. Fixes #8542.
[bdubbs] - Update to npth-1.3. Fixes #8563.
[bdubbs] - Update to pinentry-1.0.0. Fixes #8564.
November 22nd, 2016
November 21st, 2016
[ken] - Disable static library in rarian.
[bdubbs] - Update to lxpanel-0.9.0. Fixes #8555.
[bdubbs] - Update to slang-2.3.1. Fixes #8551.
[bdubbs] - Update to ruby-2.3.2. Fixes #8544.
[bdubbs] - Update to mlt-6.4.1. Fixes #8545.
[bdubbs] - Update to jasper-1.900.29. Fixes #8543.
[bdubbs] - Update to tiff-4.0.7. Fixes #8554.
[bdubbs] - Update to cairomm-1.12.2. Fixes #8539.
November 20th, 2016
November 19th, 2016
November 18th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to gegl-0.3.10. Fixes #8509.
[bdubbs] - Update to babl-0.1.20. Fixes #8508.
[bdubbs] - Add SDL2-2.0.5. Fixes #8490.
[pierre] - Update to iso-codes-3.71. Fixes #8536.
[pierre] - Revert to ICU-58.1, with a patch to fix a regression preventing the Mozilla applications to run. Fixes #8527.
[pierre] - Update to PHP-7.0.13. Fixes #8519.
[pierre] - Update to mercurial-4.0. Fixes #8501.
[dj] - Update to ninja-1.7.2. Fixes #8515.
[dj] - Introduce complete PKI setup for CA Certificates page. Fixes #8507.
November 17th, 2016
November 16th, 2016
November 15th, 2016
[ken] - Update to firefox-50.0. Fixes #8533.
[bdubbs] - Update to mlt-6.4.0. Fixes #8526.
[bdubbs] - Update to libusb-1.0.21. Fixes #8525.
[bdubbs] - Update to graphite2-1.3.9. Fixes #8523.
[bdubbs] - Update to libxkbcommon-0.7.0. Fixes #8522.
[bdubbs] - Update to stunnel-5.37. Fixes #8510.
[bdubbs] - Update to sysstat-11.5.2. Fixes #8505.
[bdubbs] - Update to gnutls-3.5.6. Fixes #8504.
[bdubbs] - Update to scons-2.5.1. Fixes #8502.
[bdubbs] - Update to feh-2.18. Fixes #8495.
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-v4.8.3. Fixes #8521.
[bdubbs] - Update to menu-cache-1.0.2. Fixes #8513.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-terminal-0.8.1. Fixes #8492.
[bdubbs] - Update to bluez-5.43. Fixes #8485.
[bdubbs] - Update to fltk-1.3.4. Fixes #8445.
November 14th, 2016
November 13th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-13.0.0. Fixes #8452.
[bdubbs] - Update to jasper-1.900.28. Fixes #8499.
[bdubbs] - Update to sqlite-3.15.1. Fixes #8506.
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.0.069. Fixes #8511.
[bdubbs] - Update to mariadb-10.1.19. Fixes #8513.
[ken] - Fix Net-tools build breakage with 4.8 kernel headers, originally reported by John Burrell.
[dj] - Add polkit configuration for Network Manager.
November 11th, 2016
[pierre] - Update to libreoffice-5.2.3. Add a patch to build with ICU-58.1. Recommend to build the Java backends, to allow using lobase with the HSQLDB dirver. Fixes #8503.
November 9th, 2016
November 8th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-v4.8.2. Fixes #8478.
November 6th, 2016
November 4th, 2016
[renodr] - Added MIT Kerberos V5 to the optional dependencies for libsoup.
November 2nd, 2016
October 31st, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to valgrind-3.12.0. Fixes #8480.
[bdubbs] - Update to taglib-1.11.1. Fixes #8482.
[bdubbs] - Update to harfbuzz-1.3.3. Fixes #8479.
[bdubbs] - Update to postgresql-9.6.1. Fixes #8484.
[bdubbs] - Update to whois-5.2.13. Fixes #8489.
[ken] - Firefox-49.0.2 (CVE-2016-528{7,8}). Fixes #8457.
[bdubbs] - Update llvm dependencies. Thansk to Samuel for the patch. Fixes #8465.
October 30th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to qupzilla-2.0.2. Fixes #8477.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfconf-4.12.1. Fixes #8476.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-panel-4.12.1. Fixes #8475.
[bdubbs] - Update to libXi-1.7.8. Fixes #8473.
[bdubbs] - Update to libpcap-1.8.1. Fixes #8471.
[bdubbs] - Update to jasper-1.900.16. Fixes #8469.
[bdubbs] - Update to xapian-1.4.1. Fixes #8468.
[bdubbs] - Update to libarchive-3.2.2. Fixes #8467.
[bdubbs] - Update to ffmpeg-3.2. Fixes #8458.
October 29th, 2016
[dj] - Update to chromium-54.0.2840.71. Fixes #8433.
[dj] - Updated CA Certificates generation method using the mk-ca-bundle.pl script included with curl.
[dj] - Fix build error in UDisks1 with newer GLibc.
October 23rd, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to libcdio-0.94. Fixes #8463.
[bdubbs] - Update to hexchat-2.12.3. Fixes #8462.
[bdubbs] - Update to libpng-1.6.26. Fixes #8461.
[bdubbs] - Update to nmap-7.31. Fixes #8454.
[bdubbs] - Update to nspr-4.13.1. Fixes #8454.
[bdubbs] - Update to ICU-58.1. Fixes #8451.
[bdubbs] - Update to gpgme-1.7.1. Fixes #8449.
[bdubbs] - Update to hdparm-9.50. Fixes #8450.
October 22nd,2016
[pierre] - Update to lximage-qt-0.5.0, obconf-qt-0.11.0, qterminal-0.7.0, qtermwidget-0.7.0, and add pavucontrol-qt-0.1.0. Fixes #8349.
[ken] - Texlive : when I changed the source patch to -2 I forgot to change the command where it is applied.
October 20th, 2016
[ken] - Firefox : remove Note about gtk3 scrollbars not working properly in BLFS-7.10. It is a theme issue, e.g. with at least one xfce theme. Details in the User Notes. Addresses #8330.
[ken] - Update to List::AllUtils-0.12 (perl module). Fixes #8446.
[ken] - Update to Text::BibTeX-0.77 (perl module). Fixes #8335.
[ken] - Update to biblatex-biber-2.6 with biblatex-3.5 and various changes to required perl modules. Fixes #8290.
[pierre] - Update to OpenJDK-18.0.112. Fixes #8448.
October 19th, 2016
October 18th, 2016
[pierre] - Add libfm-qt-0.11.1, lxqt-admin-0.11.0, lxqt-kidletime-5.25.0, and lxqt-l10n-0.11.0, as part of #8349.
[pierre] - Update to liblxqt-0.11.0, lxqt-about-0.11.0, lxqt-common-0.11.0, lxqt-config-0.11.0, lxqt-globalkeys-0.11.0, lxqt-notificationd-0.11.0, lxqt-panel-0.11.0, lxqt-policykit-0.11.0, lxqt-powermanagement-0.11.0, lxqt-qtplugin-0.11.0, lxqt-runner-0.11.0, lxqt-session-0.11.0, and pcmanfm-qt-0.11.1. Partially fixes #8349.
[pierre] - Update to libqtxdg-2.0.0. Fixes #8310.
[pierre] - Update to libsysstat-0.3.2. Fixes #8309.
October 17th, 2016
October 16th, 2016
October 14th, 2016
[ken] - perl modules: remove Encode variants from the listed deps for MIME::Charset (dep for Unicode::LineBreak), they are optional and only allow M::C to process some non UTF-8 encodings previously used for Chinese and Japanese. Fixes #8381.
[bdubbs] - Update to libnotify-0.7.7. Fixes #8438.
[bdubbs] - Update to xscreensaver-5.36. Fixes #8430.
[bdubbs] - Update to ristretto-0.8.1. Fixes #8411.
[bdubbs] - Update to sudo-1.8.18p1. Fixes #8428.
[bdubbs] - Clarified the location of the discussion about removing unneeded noto fonts. Fixes #8419.
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-v4.8.1. Fixes #8434.
October 11th, 2016
October 10th, 2016
[ken] Because sorting out the dependencies for biblatex-biber-2.6 is taking so long, change the download from /current/, which now gets 2.6, to /2.5/
[renodr] - Update to wpa_supplicant-2.6. Fixes #8391.
[renodr] - Update to vala-0.34.1. Fixes #8421.
[renodr] - Update to network-manager-applet-1.4.2. Partially fixes #8382.
[renodr] - Update to NetworkManager-1.4.2. Partially fixes #8382.
[renodr] - Update to dhcpcd-6.11.5. Fixes #8422.
[renodr] - Update to dhcp-4.3.5. Fixes #8404.
[renodr] - Update to thunderbird-45.4.0. Fixes #8379.
[renodr] - Update to firefox-49.0.1.This seems to fix the scrollbar issues as well, at least with GTK+-3.22.1. Fixes #8330.
October 9th, 2016
October 9th, 2016
[pierre] - Add Xdg-user-dirs-0.15. Fixes #8415.
October 8th, 2016
October 7th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to gnome-themes-standard-3.22.2. Fixes #8392.
[renodr] - Update to gtk+-3.22.1. Fixes #8389.
[renodr] - Update to Chromium-53.0.2785.143. Fixes #8400.
[ken] - Second version of the 2016 texlive source upstream fixes patch. The change from the first version only affects anybody who wishes to use htxetex or htxelatex.
October 5th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to bind-9.11.0. Fixes #8403.
[bdubbs] - Update to libdrm-2.4.71. Fixes #8397.
[bdubbs] - Update to git-2.10.1. Fixes #8396.
[bdubbs] - Update to wireshark-2.2.1. Fixes #8405.
[bdubbs] - Update to nss-3.27.1. Fixes #8407.
[bdubbs] - Update to libass-0.13.4. Fixes #8406.
[bdubbs] - Update to pciutils-3.5.2. Fixes #8395.
October 4th, 2016
[ken] - Update xorg libraries to libX11-1.6.4, libXfixes-5.0.3, libXi-1.7.7, libXrandr-1.5.1, libXrender-0.9.10, libXtst-1.2.3, libXv-1.0.11, libXvMC-1.0.10 to fix today's announcement of vulnerabilitites. Fixes #8402.
October 3rd, 2016
October 2nd, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to mariadb-10.1.18. Fixes #8383.
[bdubbs] - Update to postgresql-9.6.0. Fixes #8377.
[bdubbs] - Update to nettle-3.3. Fixes #8385.
[bdubbs] - Update to nmap-7.30. Fixes #8376.
[bdubbs] - Update to boost-1.62.0. Fixes #8371.
[bdubbs] - Update to mpg123-1.23.8. Fixes #8380.
[bdubbs] - Update to openjpeg-2.1.2. Fixes #8372.
[bdubbs] - Update to xkeyboard-config-2.19. Fixes #8375.
[bdubbs] - Update to xf86-input-evdev-2.10.4. Fixes #8388.
September 29th, 2016
September 28th, 2016
September 27th, 2016
September 26th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to gucharmap-9.0.1 Finishes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-system-monitor-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-screenshot-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to at-spi2-core-2.22.0. Partially fixes #8355.
[renodr] - Update to at-spi2-atk-2.22.0. Partially fixes #8355.
[renodr] - Update to openssl-1.0.2j. Fixes #8359.
[renodr] - Update to gtksourceview-3.22.0. Fixes #8314.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-calculator-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to gedit-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to file-roller-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[dj] - Update to nghttp2-1.15.0. Fixes #8351.
[bdubbs] - Update to sysstat-11.5.1. Fixes #8358.
[bdubbs] - Update to xterm-326. Fixes #8357.
[bdubbs] - Revert libsamplerate to 0.1.8. Fixes #8354.
[bdubbs] - Updated mesa dependencies. Fixes #8341.
[renodr] - Update to yelp-3.22.0. Fixes #8316.
[renodr] - Update to evince-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to epiphany-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to baobab-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-terminal-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
September 25th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to Cheese-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8315.
[ken] - Perl Modules - move XML::SAX to top level.
[ken] - Perl Modules - fix Capture::Tiny to correct the description and to again list the download URL now that it has been moved to a top-level module in the page structure. Similarly move XML-LibXML to top-level and add its dependency of libxml2.
[bdubbs] - Update to mpg123-1.23.7. Fixes #8353.
[bdubbs] - Update to libass-0.13.3. Fixes #8352.
[bdubbs] - Update to dash-0.5.9.1. Fixes #8350.
[ken] - Commented perl modules Unicode::Collate and Unicode::Normalize, the versions in core perl are good enough for biber.
[bdubbs] - Removed startx change in xinit for systemd builds. No ticket.
September 24th, 2016
September 23rd, 2016
[renodr] - Update to libpeas-1.20.0. Partially fixes #8316.
[renodr] - Update to clutter-gtk-1.8.2. Fixes #8313.
[bdubbs] - Update to audacious-3.8. Fixes #8340.
[bdubbs] - Update to stunnel-5.36. Fixes #8345.
[bdubbs] - Update to xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.13. Fixes #8346.
[bdubbs] - Update to xproto-7.0.31. Fixes #8342.
[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.0.2i. Fixes #8343.
[bdubbs] - Update to btrfs-progs-v4.7.3. Fixes #8339.
[bdubbs] - Update to gpgme-1.7.0. Fixes #8338.
[renodr] - Update to vte-0.46.0. Partially fixes #8316.
[ken] - Perl Modules - remove Math::BigInt dependency from Data::Uniqid, it is a core module.
[ken] - Perl Modules - where a module is used by more than one other module, but not by other packages in the book, move its entry to the top level, but keep it as a second-class citizen without a specific version.
[renodr] - Update to gnome-desktop-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8316.
September 22nd, 2016
September 21st, 2016
[renodr] - Update to wayland-1.12.0. Fixes #8337.
[renodr] - Update to gjs-1.46.0. Partially fixes #8316.
[renodr] - Update to libsigc++-2.10.0. Partially fixes #8328.
[renodr] - Update to gtkmm-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8328.
[renodr] - Update to glibmm-2.50.0. Partially fixes #8328.
[renodr] - Update to gtk+-3.22.0. Fixes #8324.
[renodr] - Update to gdk-pixbuf-2.36.0. Fixes #8322.
[renodr] - Update to ATK-2.22.0. Fixes #8318.
[renodr] - Update to adwaita-icon-theme-3.22.0. Fixes #8336.
[bdubbs] - Update to libjpeg-turbo-1.5.1. Fixes #8333.
[bdubbs] - Update to sudo-1.8.18. Fixes #8332.
[bdubbs] - Update to Business-ISBN-3.003. Fixes #8326.
September 20th, 2016
[ken] - Update to firefox-49.0. Fixes #8325.
[renodr] - Update to glib-networking-2.50.0. Partially fixes #8321.
[renodr] - Update to libsoup-2.56.0. Partially fixes #8321.
[renodr] - Update to glib-2.50.0. Fixes #8320.
[renodr] - Update to gobject-introspection-1.50.0. Fixes #8327.
[renodr] - Update to gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.22.0. Partially fixes #8316.
[renodr] - Update to pygobject-3.22.0. Fixes #8319.
[renodr] - Update to vala-0.34.0. Fixes #8323.
September 19th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to qemu-2.7.0. Fixes #8090.
[renodr] - Update to ModemManager-1.6.2. Fixes #8307.
[renodr] - Removed an unneeded sed from WebkitGTK+-2.12.5. Fixes #8312.
[bdubbs] - Update to libsamplerate-0.1.9. Fixes #8317.
[renodr] - Add PCRE2. Fixes #8269.
[renodr] - Update to Samba-4.5.0. Fixes #8276.
September 18th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to xf86-video-ati-7.7.1. Fixes #8304.
September 17th, 2016
September 16th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to PHP-7.0.11. Fixes #8302.
[renodr] - Update to krb5-1.14.4. Fixes #8298.
[renodr] - Update to gtk+-2.24.31. Fixes #8285.
[renodr] - Update to cups-filters-1.11.3. Fixes #8306.
[renodr] - Update to cups-2.2.0. Fixes #8294.
[renodr] - Update to Mesa-12.0.3. Fixes #8303.
[renodr] - Update to Pango-1.40.3. Fixes #8293.
[bdubbs] - Update to xfce4-settings-4.12.1. Fixes #8305.
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.5.0. Fixes #8299.
[bdubbs] - Update to acpid-2.0.28. Fixes #8301.
September 15th, 2016
[ken] - Reword text on terminus fonts in console-fonts because a few versions such as the XOS4_2 versions (vNNx) do remap quite a lot of codepoints to other similar glyphs. Fixes #8289.
September 14th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to cifs-utils-6.6. Fixes #8260.
[bdubbs] - Update to tigervnc-1.7.0. Fixes #8296.
[pierre] - Update to libreoffice-5.2.1.2. Fixes #8279.
[bdubbs] - Update to sqlite-3.14.2. Fixes #8295.
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.0. Fixes #8292.
[renodr] - Update to curl-7.50.3. Fixes #8297.
[renodr] - Update to gnutls-3.5.4. Fixes #8281.
September 11th, 2016
September 10th, 2016
September 9th, 2016
[bdubbs] - Update to libinput-1.4.2. Fixes #8241.
[bdubbs] - Update to shared-mime-info-1.7. Fixes #8265.
[bdubbs] - Update to iso-codes-3.70. Fixes #8238.
[bdubbs] - Update to libXfont-1.5.2. Fixes #8247.
[bdubbs] - Update to libva and libva-intel-driver-1.7.2. Fixes #8262.
[bdubbs] - Update to mesa-12.0.2. Fixes #8267.
[renodr] - Update to git-2.10.0. Fixes #8256.
[renodr] - Update to cmake-3.6.2. Fixes #8275.
[renodr] - Update to mercurial-3.9.1. Fixes #8252.
September 8th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to serf-1.3.9. Fixes #8253.
[renodr] - Update to pango-1.40.2. Fixes #8245.
[renodr] - Update to harfbuzz-1.3.1. Fixes #8274.
[renodr] - Update to gsl-2.2.1. Fixes #8237.
[renodr] - Update to cups-filters-1.11.2. Fixes #8233.
[renodr] - Update to gtkmm2-2.24.5. Fixes #8242.
[renodr] - Update to geoclue-2.4.4. Fixes #8271.
[renodr] - Update to clutter-gst-3.0.20. Fixes #8280.
[renodr] - Update to LLVM-3.9.0. Fixes #8257.
[renodr] - Update to WebkitGTK+-2.12.5. Fixes #8268.
September 7th, 2016
[renodr] - Update to curl-7.50.2. Fixes #8272.
[bdubbs] - Release of BLFS-7.10.
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