Releases
| version | date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | July 17, 1993 |
| 1.1.0 | November 5, 1993 |
| 1.1.2 | February 5, 1994 |
| 2.0 | July 2, 1994 |
| 2.1 | October 31, 1994 |
| 2.2 | March 30, 1995 |
| 2.3 | May 24, 1995 |
| 3.0 | November 30, 1995 |
| 3.1 | June 3, 1996 |
| 3.2 | February 17, 1997 |
| 3.3 | June 11, 1997 |
| 3.4 | October 14, 1997 |
| 3.5 | June 9, 1998 |
| 3.6 | October 28, 1998 |
| 3.9 | May 10, 1999 |
| 4.0 | May 17, 1999 |
| 7.0 | October 25, 1999 |
| 7.1 | June 22, 2000 |
| 8.0 | July 1, 2001 |
| 8.1 | June 18, 2002 |
| 9.0 | March 19, 2003 |
| 9.1 | September 26, 2003 |
| 10.0 | June 23, 2004 |
| 10.1 | February 2, 2005 |
| 10.2 | September 14, 2005 |
| 11.0 | October 2, 2006 |
| 12.0 | July 1, 2007 |
| 12.1 | May 2, 2008 |
| 12.2 | December 10, 2008 |
| 13.0 | August 26, 2009 |
| 13.1 | May 24, 2010 |
| 13.37 | April 27, 2011 |
| 14.0 | September 28, 2012 |
Slackware's release policy can be said to follow a feature and stability based release cycle in contrast to the time-bound (e.g., Ubuntu) or rolling release (e.g., Gentoo Linux) schemes of other Linux distributions.
As stated by Patrick Volkerding, "it's usually our policy not to speculate on release dates, since that's what it is — pure speculation. It's not always possible to know how long it will take to make the upgrades needed and tie up all the related loose ends. As things are built for the upcoming release, they'll be uploaded into the -current tree."
Despite this conservative development paradigm the Slackware team aims to deliver up-to-date software, on at least an annual basis. Thus, new versions are released continuously and within a reasonably foreseeable time frame. Since inception, Slackware has had at least one release per year. Release activity peaked in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1999, when there were three releases per year. Starting with version 7.1 (June 22, 2000) the release progression became more stable. There were two releases per year in only 2003, 2005 and 2008.
Slackware's latest stable i386 and x86_64 releases are at version 14.0 (as of September 28, 2012), which include support for Linux 3.2.29, GCC 4.7.1, GNU C Library 2.15, Perl 5.16.1, Apache 2.4.3, KDE 4.8.5, Xfce 4.10.0, Firefox 15.0.1, Gimp 2.8.2.
There is also a testing/developmental version of Slackware called "-current" that can be used for a more bleeding edge configuration.
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