From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.slackware
On Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:31:58 +1000, noel wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:34:35 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
For example, in Slackware 14.2 the last security update of firefox was
version 68.12.0 in august 2020.
14.2 was made EOL by the Pat and his slackware team in January 2024,
Yes, that was more than 3 years of a provided EOL web browser in
Slackware 14.2 without any particular note about that.
That can be compared with the number of security fixes for mozilla-
firefox in Slackware 15.0 which all did fix a number of CVEs, such
patches were provided during 2025:
Tue Dec 9 22:13:59 UTC 2025
Tue Nov 11 23:09:47 UTC 2025
Tue Oct 14 23:11:49 UTC 2025
Tue Sep 23 20:31:08 UTC 2025 (bugfixes only)
Wed Sep 17 22:13:56 UTC 2025
Tue Aug 19 20:38:59 UTC 2025
Tue Jul 22 21:24:21 UTC 2025
Tue Jun 24 19:42:23 UTC 2025
Tue May 27 18:18:14 UTC 2025
Mon May 19 04:19:58 UTC 2025
Tue Apr 29 21:28:00 UTC 2025
Wed Apr 2 02:25:57 UTC 2025
Tue Mar 4 19:37:20 UTC 2025
Tue Feb 4 19:19:28 UTC 2025
Wed Jan 8 23:26:27 UTC 2025
regards Henrik
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