Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009
    Hello folks! This batch of updates includes the newly released KDE 4.2.3,
    but more noticeably it marks the first departure from the use of gzip for
    compressing Slackware packages. Instead, we will be using xz, based on
    the LZMA compression algorithm. xz offers better compression than even
    bzip2, but still offers good extraction performance (about 3 times better
    than bzip2 and not much slower than gzip in our testing). Since support
    for bzip2 has long been requested, support for bzip2 and the original lzma
    format has also been added (why not?), but this is purely in the interest
    of completeness -- we think most people will probably want to use either
    the original .tgz or the new .txz compression wrappers. The actual
    Slackware package format (which consists of the layout within the package
    envelope) has not changed, but this is the first support within Slackware's
    package tools for using alternate compression algorithms.
    Some people have asked why we don't pick a single extension, such as
    .slk. While there's certainly a case to be made for that idea, the tools
    would still need to support .tgz to handle older packages. Sticking with
    ".tgz" for everything makes no sense. Using extensions that reflect the
    compression format used by the package envelope seems to be the most
    transparent approach, and the one that best follows tradition.
    As an example of the compression improvement with .txz, have a look
    at the kernel-source package:
    Before: kernel-source-2.6.29.2_smp-noarch-1.tgz (73808508 bytes)
    After: kernel-source-2.6.29.2_smp-noarch-1.txz (49150104 bytes)
    The size of the main package tree in /slackware has been reduced from
    1.9GB to 1.4GB by converting most packages to .txz.
    Most of the packages have been converted from .tgz to .txz, but we
    will continue to make the gzip, pkgtools, slackpkg, tar, and xz packages
    in .tgz format for the foreseeable future.
    Enjoy! And thanks to Lasse Collin for the great work on xz. :-)
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a/coreutils-7.4-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to coreutils-7.4.
a/tar-1.22-i486-2.tgz: Added support for .txz. Thanks to Robby Workman.
ap/sqlite-3.6.13-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to sqlite-3.6.13.
d/gcc-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Recompiled. Moved some files into the gcc-gfortran
    and gcc-java packages. Thanks to Frédéric L. W. Meunier.
d/gcc-g++-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Recompiled.
d/gcc-gfortran-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Recompiled.
d/gcc-gnat-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Recompiled.
d/gcc-java-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Added ecj-4.3.jar and fixed the build script
    to compile and install gcj. Thanks to Michael James.
d/gcc-objc-4.3.3-i486-3.txz: Recompiled.
kde/guidance-power-manager-4.2.3-i486-1.txz:
    Upgraded to guidance-power-manager-4.2.3.
kde/kaudiocreator-r964620-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kaudiocreator-r964620.
kde/kdeaccessibility-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeaccessibility-4.2.3.
kde/kdeadmin-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeadmin-4.2.3.
kde/kdeartwork-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeartwork-4.2.3.
kde/kdebase-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdebase-4.2.3.
kde/kdebase-runtime-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdebase-runtime-4.2.3.
kde/kdebase-workspace-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdebase-workspace-4.2.3.
kde/kdebindings-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdebindings-4.2.3.
kde/kdeedu-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeedu-4.2.3.
kde/kdegames-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdegames-4.2.3.
kde/kdegraphics-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdegraphics-4.2.3.
kde/kdelibs-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdelibs-4.2.3.
kde/kdemultimedia-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdemultimedia-4.2.3.
kde/kdenetwork-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdenetwork-4.2.3.
kde/kdepim-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdepim-4.2.3.
kde/kdepimlibs-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdepimlibs-4.2.3.
kde/kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeplasma-addons-4.2.3.
kde/kdesdk-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdesdk-4.2.3.
kde/kdetoys-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdetoys-4.2.3.
kde/kdeutils-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdeutils-4.2.3.
kde/kdewebdev-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to kdewebdev-4.2.3.
kde/koffice-1.9.99.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to koffice-1.9.99.0.
kde/konq-plugins-4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to konq-plugins-4.2.3.
kde/skanlite-0.3_kde4.2.3-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to skanlite-0.3-kde4.2.3.
kdei/kde-l10n-*-4.2.3-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded to KDE 4.2.3 l10n packages.
kdei/koffice-l10n-*-1.9.99.0-noarch-1.txz:
    Upgraded to KOffice 1.9.99.0 l10n packages.
l/dbus-qt3-0.70-i486-2.tgz: Removed.
l/qt-r964497-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to qt-copy-r964497.
n/gnutls-2.6.6-i486-1.txz: Upgraded to gnutls-2.6.6.
    - Corrected double free on signature verification failure.
    Reported by Miroslav Kratochvil .
    - Noticed when investigating the previous GNUTLS-SA-2009-1 problem.
    All DSA keys generated using GnuTLS 2.6.x are corrupt.
    For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1415
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1416
    (* Security fix *)
xap/pidgin-2.5.5-i486-2.txz: Recompiled against gnutls-2.6.6.