Mon Jun 7 18:53:49 UTC 202120210607185349

Hey folks! Sorry about the delay in getting this batch out but I had other
distractions going on here last week that prevented getting this one wrapped
up. Anyway, probably the highlight of this update set is that we've decided
to abandon the 5.10 LTS kernel in favor of following the latest one. We've
never really had a policy that required LTS in a stable release although that
is how it has been done for years, but based on comments from the Slackware
community it seems like 5.10 LTS isn't getting a lot of love and lacks
hardware support that people need now. Conversely, the reports on 5.12 have
been almost entirely positive, so we're going to provide what we think is the
best available kernel. It's unlikely that we'll see another LTS prior to
release, so the plan for maintenance is to keep following the latest kernels
as needed for security purposes. If that means we have to jump to a new branch
while supporting the stable release, we'll start the kernel out in testing
first until we've had some feedback that it's safe to move it to the patches
directory. Sooner or later we will end up on an LTS kernel again, and at that
point we'll just roll with that one. Feel free to comment (or complain) about
this plan on LQ... I'll be curious to see what people think. Anyway, enjoy!
a/hwdata-0.348-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.12.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.12.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.12.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
ap/ispell-3.4.04-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
ap/mpg123-1.28.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
ap/slackpkg-15.0.5-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  Add "--" option to "command cd" in bash completion file. (akinomyoga)
  shell-completions/slackpkg.bash: add "show-changelog".
  Import bash-completion file from upstream project.
  Added the new-config actions for specific files. (Piter PUNK)
  Harden slackpkg with respect to obtaining GPG key. (CRTS)
d/clisp-2.50_20191103_c26de7873-x86_64-5.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Upgraded to libffcall-2.3.
d/git-2.32.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.12.9-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/poke-1.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/vala-0.52.4-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.12.9-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
kde/calligra-3.2.1-x86_64-9.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/cantor-21.04.1-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/digikam-7.2.0-x86_64-3.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against imagemagick-7.0.11_14.
kde/kfilemetadata-5.82.0-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/kile-2.9.93-x86_64-9.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/kitinerary-21.04.1-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/krita-4.4.3-x86_64-5.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
kde/okular-21.04.1-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
l/alsa-lib-1.2.5-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Account for unexpected packing of the conf file tarballs. We'll see if this
  is enough to make things work well again.
l/at-spi2-core-2.40.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/dvdauthor-0.7.2-x86_64-5.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against imagemagick-7.0.11_14.
l/libogg-1.3.5-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/librsvg-2.50.7-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.29-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/polkit-0.119-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update includes a mitigation for local privilege escalation using
  polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync().
  For more information, see:
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3560
  (* Security fix *)
l/poppler-21.06.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  Shared library .so-version bump.
l/pycairo-1.20.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/qca-2.3.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/vte-0.64.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/epic5-2.1.5-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/httpd-2.4.48-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This release contains security fixes and improvements.
  mod_http2: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference.
  Unexpected <Location> section matching with 'MergeSlashes OFF'.
  mod_auth_digest: possible stack overflow by one nul byte while validating
  the Digest nonce.
  mod_session: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which
  could be used to cause a Denial of Service with a malicious backend
  server and SessionHeader.
  mod_session: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which
  could be used to cause a Denial of Service.
  mod_proxy_http: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which
  could be used to cause a Denial of Service.
  mod_proxy_wstunnel, mod_proxy_http: Handle Upgradable protocols end-to-end
  negotiation.
  For more information, see:
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-31618
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-30641
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-35452
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-26691
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-26690
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13950
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17567
  (* Security fix *)
n/libmbim-1.24.8-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/libqmi-1.28.6-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/nettle-3.7.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/openldap-2.4.59-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/p11-kit-0.24.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/php-7.4.20-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/vsftpd-3.0.4-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
n/whois-5.5.10-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
x/libX11-1.7.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This is a bug fix release, correcting a regression introduced by and
  improving the checks from the fix for CVE-2021-31535.
x/libinput-1.18.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
x/mesa-21.1.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/blueman-2.2.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/gnuplot-5.4.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-78.11.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This release contains security fixes and improvements.
  For more information, see:
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/78.11.0/releasenotes/
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-26/
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29964
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29967
  (* Security fix *)
xap/pidgin-2.14.5-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
xap/xine-lib-1.2.11-x86_64-6.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Recompiled against poppler-21.06.1.
extra/bash-completion/bash-completion-2.11-noarch-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Removed the slackpkg completion file.
extra/php8/php8-8.0.7-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
kernels/*:  Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd
index d5b62d283..6bbe2b038 100644
--- a/README.initrd
+++ b/README.initrd
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 Slackware initrd mini HOWTO
 by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com
-Fri May 28 19:12:36 UTC 2021
+Mon Jun  7 05:03:59 UTC 2021
 
 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be 
 required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd".
@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it.
 
 The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included 
 in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of 
-upgrading to the generic 5.10.41 Linux kernel using the packages
+upgrading to the generic 5.12.9 Linux kernel using the packages
 found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory.
 
 First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are 
 installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so 
 this is just an example):
 
-  installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.41-x86_64-1.txz
-  installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.41-x86_64-1.txz
+  installpkg kernel-generic-5.12.9-x86_64-1.txz
+  installpkg kernel-modules-5.12.9-x86_64-1.txz
   installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-24.txz
 
 Change into the /boot directory:
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem,
 and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module
 will be the only one I need to load:
 
-  mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.41 -m ext4
+  mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.9 -m ext4
 
 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory
 /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and
 then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's
 optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that.
 
-Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.41
+Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.12.9
 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3:
 
-  mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.41 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
+  mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.9 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
 
 
 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it?