From: deletethis@invalid.lan   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:31:01 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:46:49 +1000, noel wrote:   
   >> as for eol 3 years ago, yes, it was eol when Pat released 15.0   
   >   
   > Not exactly, version 7.4.33 of PHP was released slightly more than 3   
   > years ago, at the third of November 2022, the same day support for PHP 7   
   > was discontinued.   
   >   
      
   I stand corrected.   
      
   > When Slackware 15.0 was released at second of February 2022, it included   
      
   > Since then, all these 3 versions of php has received a number of   
   > security updates, but PHP 7.4 obviously no longer receives any updates.   
      
   8.0 EOL'd December 2023   
   8.1 EOL'd December 2025   
   8.2 ended active support 31 Dec 2024, sec updates end & total EOL Dec 2026   
   8.3 active support ended Dec 2025, sec updates remain until Dec 2027   
   8.4 active support ends Dec 2026 , sec updates till Dec 2028   
   8.5 active support ends Dec 2027, sec  Dec 2029   
      
      
      
   > On the other hand, PHP 8.2 has also been added in /extra. As those   
   > version 8 of PHP are part of /extra those updates does not come in the   
   > /patches directory but in the /extra directory. That is so no one by   
   > mistake would install a version of PHP which breaks their existing   
   > applications.   
   >   
   > Basically, stable versions of Slackware don't receive any feature   
   > updates, only security updates and most importantly, those updates are   
      
   Not always the case, as most obvious example is, and I've lost count at   
   how many times, curl has had updates   
      
      
   >   
   > Would things be better if Slackware released stable versions every year?   
   > No, not really,   
      
   some people live in hte dark, some people rely of propriatry software   
   that, rightly or wrongly. is built using "modern" libraries... have we   
   not had this discussion before...   
      
   /   
   Wed Feb  2 22:22:22 UTC 2022   
   Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!   
      
   Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than   
   we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish.   
   Hopefully we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that   
   we'll be able to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter   
   development cycle. Certainly the development infrastructure has been   
   streamlined here and things should be easier moving forward.   
      
   /   
      
   I guess thats long gone by the wayside :)   
      
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