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Day: March 14, 2026

Multiple Chromium updates in rapid succession

March 14, 2026 / / 17 Comments

You may have noticed that after my release of the Slackware package for Chromium (and its Un-Googled sibling) version 146.0.7680.71 there was a really short interval until I released an update in the form of the 146.0.7680.75 version.

Chromium 146.0.7680.71 is the latest major version upgrade and it addressed a crazy amount of CVE’s. I am not even going to lookup and configure the URLs, here’s the list:

CVE-2026-3913 CVE-2026-3914 CVE-2026-3915 CVE-2026-3916 CVE-2026-3917 CVE-2026-3918 CVE-2026-3919 CVE-2026-3920 CVE-2026-3921 CVE-2026-3922 CVE-2026-3923 CVE-2026-3924 CVE-2026-3925 CVE-2026-3926 CVE-2026-3927 CVE-2026-3928 CVE-2026-3929 CVE-2026-3930 CVE-2026-3931 CVE-2026-3932 CVE-2026-3934 CVE-2026-3935 CVE-2026-3936 CVE-2026-3937 CVE-2026-3938 CVE-2026-3939 CVE-2026-3940 CVE-2026-3941 CVE-2026-3942

And then the next update to 146.0.7680.75 only two days later included 2 zero-day security fixes that the developers missed somehow: both for CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910 an exploit exists in the wild.

And then already the next day, a new update emerged which I am currently compiling: Chromium 146.0.7680.80 sources were released to address yet another zero-day exploit, this time CVE-2026-3909.

Those new packages (chromium and chromium-ungoogled 64bit binaries) will become available tomorrow, Sunday if the compilation does not fail. The 32bit package for chromium-ungoogled will follow a day later. The last two attempts to build a 32bit package had to be aborted when I discovered that there was a new release. I have only one computer that is capable of compiling Chromium, and building packages in parallel is not an option.

Enjoy the weekend and be careful accessing shady web sites šŸ™‚

Eric

KDE 6_26.03 for Slackware-current

March 14, 2026 / / 35 Comments

Yesterday evening, KDE released their Frameworks 6.24.0 and taking advantage of the moment and even before morning coffee, I uploaded the Slackware packages for these new Frameworks.

Alongside with these Frameworks, I built a package for the third Beta of Krita 6.0.0 – the KDE drawing tool will finally be available as a Qt6 based application with proper Wayland support. Krita 5.2.15 is still Qt5 based and super stable, but I am replacing it with thisĀ  6.0.0.beta3 version becauseĀ  it’s time to start testing the new software. The stable version 6.0.0 of Krita will hopefully become available in April.

Also I took the opportunity to put a new stamp on my ‘ktown’Ā  KDE Plasma6 package repository: KDE-6_26.03.

You will find all these packages at the origin location: https://slackware.nl/alien-kde/current/testing/ together with an expansive README which will help you remove KDE Plasma5 from your Slackware-current computer and install the ‘ktown‘ version of KDE Plasma6 instead.

The version of KDE Gear (Applications and PIM) which will be released in April will carry the version 26.04 number and will mark the moment that all official KDE Applications have been ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. I will use that moment to switch my ‘ktown’ repository from ‘testing’ to ‘latest’ to highlight the fact that Plasma6 Desktop Environment is ready for production use.

If you want to peek at the source code management, I track everything in a git repository. You will find the 6_26.03 branch at: https://git.slackware.nl/ktown/

Please try these new Plasma6 packages. Not per se to find application bugs; rather I want to fix all bugs related to my packaging. More rigorous testing means that Pat has to do less heavy lifting when he finally adopts ‘ktown’ into Slackware.
And as usual –Ā  leave your feedback in the comments section below.

Cheers, Eric

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