Linux 5.4.2 packages are now available in the main tree for all supported systems. That was the easiest and smoothest major upgrade in about fifteen years! Hats off to the Linux developer community.

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A sneak peak in to what the Slackware ARM build machines are currently up to:

Slackware branch	Status
slackwarearm-current	Enqueued activities
slackwarearm-14.2	IN SYNC with public repository

[ Build host: Linux mojo.arm.slackware.com 5.4.3-armv7 #2 SMP Fri Dec 13 10:33:00 GMT 2019 armv7l Allwinner sun8i Family GNU/Linux ] OS installation date..: 03-Dec-19 Slackware distribution: slackwarearm-current Machine designation...: current vice lead - desktop tests, Orange Pi Plus 2E (H3) v1.1, 2GB RAM Present date..........: Fri Dec 13 23:26:01 GMT 2019 Uptime................: 7 hours, 48 minutes Load average..........: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 r2b build status......: No state log.

[ Build host: Linux zaden-142 4.4.203-armv5 #2 Mon Nov 25 22:04:18 GMT 2019 armv5tel Marvell Kirkwood (Flattened Device Tree) GNU/Linux ] OS installation date..: 08-Feb-18 Slackware distribution: slackwarearm-14.2 Machine designation...: 14.2 stable builder, SheevaPlug, 512MB RAM Present date..........: Fri Dec 13 23:26:01 GMT 2019 Uptime................: 2 weeks, 2 days, 14 hours, 57 minutes Load average..........: 0.24, 0.19, 0.11 r2b build status......: No state log.

[ Build host: Linux zippy.arm.slackware.com 5.4.2-armv7 #2 SMP Fri Dec 6 09:59:45 GMT 2019 armv7l Allwinner sun8i Family GNU/Linux ] OS installation date..: 03-Dec-19 Slackware distribution: slackwarearm-current Machine designation...: current lead, Orange Pi Plus 2E (H3) v1.1, 2GB RAM Present date..........: Fri Dec 13 23:26:01 GMT 2019 Uptime................: 1 week, 8 hours, 21 minutes Load average..........: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 r2b build status......: Batch completed successfully First build began on..................: Fri Dec 13 20:05:09 GMT 2019 Most recent package began building on : Fri Dec 13 20:13:08 GMT 2019 Build pass......: 3 of 3 Activities......:- Building package xap/vim-gvim [ 1 of 2 ] Total elapsed time....................: 14 minutes / 0 hours / 0 days *** Complete.

The Slackware ARM world rebuild for -current is complete. Updates resume!

The Slackware ARM world rebuild is happening in -current presently, so there won't be any updates for a while. First build began on..................: Mon Apr 23 15:39:32 BST 2018 Time spent building since first build : 5248 minutes / 87 hours / 3 days Most recent package began building on : Fri Apr 27 07:08:24 BST 2018 Failed count....: 11 (1%) [ recently: l/qtscriptgenerator , l/libtheora , l/libmsn , l/gegl , d/perl ] Success count...: 692 (90%) [ recently: a/bzip2 , a/btrfs-progs , a/bin , a/bash , a/attr ] Build pass......: 1 of 3 Current activity:- Building package a/acpid [ 704 of 765 ]