Zenwalk 8.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) received approximately the same software update and security patches that have been made available upstream, in the Slackware repos, such as Linux kernel 4.4.7, Samba 4.4.2, Subversion 1.9.3, Chromium 49.0.2623.112, LibreOffice 5.1.2, FFmpeg 3.0.1, as well as MPlayer 1.3.