Re: 13.37 jre & openssl security fixes
Gil Andre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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| Organization | Barbarians, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:50:05 +0100 Frédéric Galusik <[email protected]> wrote: > I just want to know if there are some reasons to not upgrade them. > > jre-6u25 in 13.37: > ChangeLog for 6u26: > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u26releasenotes-401875.html This is as far as I understand it, your guess is as good as mine... Oracle has rescinded Sun's community licensing, which means Oracle JRE cannot be included in Slackware (or any other Linux for that matter). As I understand it, efforts are underway to port OpenJDK to replace Oracle's JRE. See this, for instance: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/libreoffice-3-4-5-released-openjdk-package-update/ > Openssl-0.9.8r in 13.37 > ChangeLog for next: > http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt Good question - I don't know about this one. Maybe Robby Workman or some other Slackware hacker (they are reading this list) can tell us more about it? Hope this helps! -- Gil ANDRE gil [at] panix [dot] com andre [dot] g [at] wanadoo [dot] fr ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Il faut beaucoup philosopher, il faut beaucoup penser. Celui qui pense peu se trompe beaucoup". Leonard de Vinci.