Hello! Libevent 2.1.8 was recently released and the 2.1 branch is now considered stable.
Icecat is the only dependent package that failed to build against 2.1. Marius Bakke (1): gnu: libevent: Update to 2.1.8. gnu/local.mk | 1 + gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm | 2 +- gnu/packages/libevent.scm | 25 +++++++++++++++++----- gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.1-dns-tests.patch | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.1-dns-tests.patch -- 2.11.0