Slackware 14.x bind EOL
by Nobby6 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5RX10)
14.x users should be aware bind 9.11.x an ESV, is EOL December 31 2021 - yep next month.
It may receive critical security updates through only Q1, 2022, but non security related bugs, no matter how nasty, will no longer be fixed.
ISC is happy however to declare 9.16 as ESV
This likely means a lot of manual source-built updates to slackware older than 14.2 to meet deps to build 9.16
for slackware 14.2 you only need libuv, but will need to use ./configure --without-python unless you want to pl;ay dep hell in upgrading that, but its not needed so why bother.
also of note 9.18.0 is planned at this stage for release in January 2022
It may receive critical security updates through only Q1, 2022, but non security related bugs, no matter how nasty, will no longer be fixed.
ISC is happy however to declare 9.16 as ESV
This likely means a lot of manual source-built updates to slackware older than 14.2 to meet deps to build 9.16
for slackware 14.2 you only need libuv, but will need to use ./configure --without-python unless you want to pl;ay dep hell in upgrading that, but its not needed so why bother.
also of note 9.18.0 is planned at this stage for release in January 2022