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 ===== Security Update Mailing List ===== ===== Security Update Mailing List =====
  
-While the Slackware team does release updated bugfix-only packages (i.e. not security fixes) occasionally, you're probably most interested in security fixes for vulnerabilities discovered after the -stable release. The Slackware Project maintains a mailing list that will notify you of any updated packages for such serious issues. In order to subscribe to the mailing list, send an e-mail to <[[majordomo@slackware.com]]> with the words 'subscribe slackware-security' in the body of the message. The majordomo will be happy to add your name to the list, and when new packages are released, it will mail an advisory to you. +While the Slackware team does release updated bugfix-only packages (i.e.  
 +not security fixes) occasionally, you're probably most interested in  
 +security fixes for vulnerabilities discovered after the -stable release. 
 +The Slackware Project maintains a mailing list that will notify you of any  
 +updated packages for such serious issues.  In order to subscribe to the 
 +mailing list, send an e-mail to <majordomo@slackware.com>  
 +with the words **subscribe slackware-security** in the body of the message.  
 +The majordomo will be happy to add your name to the list, and when new  
 +packages are released, it will mail an advisory to you.
 ===== Upgrading Slackware Versions ===== ===== Upgrading Slackware Versions =====
  

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