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+Fri Jul 27 21:01:22 UTC 2018
+Hey folks, my first order of business here needs to be a huge thank you to
+everyone who has donated at https://paypal.me/volkerdi to help keep this
+project going. As most of you are already aware by now, the financal situation
+here at Slackware HQ has not been great for many years, including not getting
+any pay for the last two years and forcing me (and my family) to live very
+frugally while I continued to work on the project hoping I'd figure out a way
+to actually monitize it by the time that Slackware 15.0 is ready for release.
+I'm not trying to cast any blame regarding the situation. Really, I can only
+blame myself for not trying to build my own ship years ago when things began
+to not really work out. I'm still looking into sustainable funding options
+such as Patreon or Liberapay (or perhaps both), and I'm open to other ideas.
+I'm no longer in immediate danger of going broke, and I'm no longer
+entertaining the notion of joining my friends at the local potato chip factory
+in order to pay my bills. :) My family is grateful and humbled by the support
+we've received. Hope we'll be able to keep this project going for a long time.
+Also, I realize that the website lacks updates and needs attention and I will
+need to find some time to devote to that. I've never been much of a website
+designer, and the slackware.com site is basically left over from work done by
+former Walnut Creek / BSDi employees. I've never seen able to make much sense
+of the SQL backend. The interface to edit and post articles is clunky (and
+I'm not sure the PHP for that even works any more). When I've posted articles
+in recent years, I've done so by editing the main page already processed from
+PHP into HTML, which is pretty darn messy as I'm sure you can imagine. I tend
+to prioritize the distribution itself over other demands on my time - that's
+clearly a lot to do with how things ended up the way they did.
+So, I guess that's the report for now. Lots more work to do and not enough
+time to do it in... that part I don't see changing moving forward. :)
+Thanks very much again. I'll do my best to keep you all posted.
+  - Pat
+a/file-5.34-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+a/kernel-firmware-20180727_b01151b-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+a/kernel-generic-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+a/kernel-huge-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+a/kernel-modules-4.14.58-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-brig-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-g++-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-gfortran-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-gnat-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-go-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/gcc-objc-8.2.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/kernel-headers-4.14.58-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+d/libtool-2.4.6-x86_64-9.txz:  Rebuilt.
+  Recompiled to update embedded GCC version number.
+k/kernel-source-4.14.58-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+   CRASH_DUMP n -> y
+   KEXEC n -> y
+  +KEXEC_JUMP y
+  +PROC_VMCORE y
+l/babl-0.1.54-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+l/gegl-0.4.6-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+l/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-x86_64-2.txz:  Removed.
+  This actually hasn't been needed by any Slackware package since koffice in
+  KDE3, and this particular version won't work with the Trinity Desktop
+  Environment, which is essentially a fork of KDE 3.5 updated to compile and
+  run with modern libraries and development tools. I can't see much point in
+  keeping it around. Thanks to _gin.
+n/NetworkManager-1.12.2-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+n/dhcpcd-7.0.7-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+x/libinput-1.11.3-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.9.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
+isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
+kernels/*:  Upgraded.
+usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.
++--------------------------+
 Wed Jul 25 03:50:17 UTC 2018
 a/kernel-generic-4.14.57-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
 a/kernel-huge-4.14.57-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.