One of the major changes upon slackware current is the availability of the - official - 64bit edition. The other is that Slackware has now a new package format.
Well, the truth is it is not a new packages format only the compression algorithm changed from tgz (GNU zip), to txz (XZ: http://tukaani.org/xz/, based on LZMA compression algorithm). The reason was to change the compression algorithm is to make smaller packages - to have more packages on a single DVD. As a side effect, the handling of these new packages may be slower than before.
The slackware package tools will work also with tgz format in the future too.
Official announcement:
ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt
Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009
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