Index: gnome.ent
===================================================================
--- gnome.ent	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ gnome.ent	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@
 <!ENTITY rest-version                      "0.8.1">
 <!ENTITY totem-pl-parser-version           "3.26.6">
-<!ENTITY vte-version                       "0.64.2">
+<!ENTITY vte-version                       "0.66.0">
 <!ENTITY yelp-xsl-version                  "40.2">
 <!ENTITY GConf-version                     "3.2.6">
Index: gnome/platform/vte.xml
===================================================================
--- gnome/platform/vte.xml	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ gnome/platform/vte.xml	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
   %general-entities;
 
-  <!ENTITY vte-download-http "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/archive/&vte-version;/vte-&vte-version;.tar.gz">
+  <!ENTITY vte-download-http "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/archive/&vte-version;/vte-&vte-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY vte-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY vte-md5sum        "692a2656eaf84165e2c8ffe9d84137d9">
-  <!ENTITY vte-size          "604 KB">
-  <!ENTITY vte-buildsize     "10 MB (with tests)">
+  <!ENTITY vte-md5sum        "2aca6831c1af291bc7bf11ceca603aeb">
+  <!ENTITY vte-size          "491 KB">
+  <!ENTITY vte-buildsize     "13 MB (with tests)">
   <!ENTITY vte-time          "0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests)">
   <!-- Consolidating Tests/No Tests in GNOME sections for consistency. -->
@@ -93,10 +93,9 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
-      <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
-      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>, and
-      <xref linkend="gtk4"/>
-      <!-- Does not currently work unless you pass -Dgtk4=true to meson. However,
-           it's not looking for gtk-4, it's looking for gtk+-4, so it will still
-           fail to build for now.-->
+      <xref linkend="fribidi"/> and
+      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
+<!--      <xref linkend="gtk4"/>
+           The  -Dgtk4=true option just returns
+           'not supported on this branch; use git master' -->
     </para>
 
@@ -154,6 +153,6 @@
 
     <para>
-      <parameter>-Dfribidi=false</parameter>: Omit this switch if want to enable
-      bidirectional capabilities.
+      <parameter>-Dfribidi=false</parameter>: Omit this switch if you want
+      to enable bidirectional capabilities.
     </para>
 
@@ -173,5 +172,6 @@
     </para>
 
-    <!-- Uncomment once vte knows how to look for the proper gtk4
+    <!-- Uncomment once vte supports it (only git branch "master" supports it
+         as of vte-0.66.0)
     <para>
       <option>-Dgtk4=true</option>: Add this switch to build the GTK4 widget.
@@ -204,5 +204,5 @@
         <seg>
           /usr/include/vte-2.&vte-nano; and
-          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte-2.&vte-nano;
+          (optional) /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte-2.&vte-nano;
         </seg>
       </seglistitem>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -43,6 +43,22 @@
     -->
     <listitem>
-      <para>September 24rd, 2021</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
+      <para>September 24th, 2021</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to vte-0.66.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15608">#15608</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to curl-7.79.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15600">#15600</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to pidgin-2.14.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15564">#15564</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Update to thunderbird-91.1.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;15554">#15554</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[thomas] - Update to mousepad-0.5.7. Fixes
Index: networking/netlibs/curl.xml
===================================================================
--- networking/netlibs/curl.xml	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ networking/netlibs/curl.xml	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY curl-download-http "https://curl.se/download/curl-&curl-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY curl-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "24408ce0068de0ae7871039451ad6f97">
+  <!ENTITY curl-md5sum        "74d3c4ca8aaa6c0619806d6e246e65fb">
   <!ENTITY curl-size          "2.4 MB">
-  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "96 MB (add 20 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.3 SBU (add 18 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-buildsize     "102 MB (add 19 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY curl-time          "0.3 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 15 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
@@ -174,6 +174,6 @@
     <para>
        To run the test suite, issue: <command>make test</command>.
-       Four tests, 1139, 1140, 1173, and 1177, are known to fail due to
-       missing executables from the optional dependencies.
+<!--       Four tests, 1139, 1140, 1173, and 1177, are known to fail due to
+       missing executables from the optional dependencies.-->
     </para>
 <!-- Two (of 857) tests
@@ -325,4 +325,11 @@
 
 Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed but without impacket.
+
+======
+Added by plabs for curl-7.79.1:
+TESTDONE: 1434 tests were considered during 1652 seconds.
+TESTDONE: 1171 tests out of 1171 reported OK: 100%
+
+Tests have all BLFS dependencies installed except stunnel but without impacket.
 -->
 
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ packages.ent	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -626,5 +626,5 @@
 <!-- Chapter 17 -->
 <!ENTITY c-ares-version               "1.17.2">
-<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.79.0">
+<!ENTITY curl-version                 "7.79.1">
 <!ENTITY geoclue2-version             "2.5.7">
 <!ENTITY glib-networking-version      "2.70.0">
@@ -954,8 +954,8 @@
 <!ENTITY pan-version                  "0.133">
 <!ENTITY pavucontrol-version          "5.0">
-<!ENTITY pidgin-version               "2.14.6">
+<!ENTITY pidgin-version               "2.14.7">
 <!ENTITY rox-filer-version            "2.11">
 <!ENTITY rxvt-unicode-version         "9.26">
-<!ENTITY thunderbird-version          "91.1.0">
+<!ENTITY thunderbird-version          "91.1.1">
 <!ENTITY tigervnc-version             "1.11.0">
 <!ENTITY transmission-version         "3.00">
Index: xsoft/other/pidgin.xml
===================================================================
--- xsoft/other/pidgin.xml	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ xsoft/other/pidgin.xml	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY pidgin-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/pidgin/pidgin-&pidgin-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY pidgin-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum        "bba0fd38ee1d8b9b725c4dbdc33e58e7">
+  <!ENTITY pidgin-md5sum        "476d808a268c693adcc8fc5c952dadd4">
   <!ENTITY pidgin-size          "8.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize     "297 MB (with tests and docs)">
+  <!ENTITY pidgin-buildsize     "302 MB (with tests and docs)">
   <!ENTITY pidgin-time          "0.6 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests and docs)">
 ]>
@@ -70,4 +70,15 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Required patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/pidgin-&pidgin-version;-fix_time_conv-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Pidgin Dependencies</bridgehead>
@@ -141,18 +152,17 @@
 
     <para>
-      If you wish to run the test suite, make sure that <xref
-      linkend="libidn"/> is installed and remove the switch
-      <quote>--disable-idn</quote>. Compile <application>Pidgin</application>
-      by running the following commands:
-    </para>
-
-<!-- - -with-gstreamer=1.0 is removed and gstreamer support is disabled
-     because of a build problem when both this and - -disable-vv are present.
-     See https://hastebin.com/utiwijizad.rb for more details, and check again
-     at the next version (2.14.1 or 3.0 - whichever is next). -->
+      First, apply a patch that fixes time to string conversions:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../pidgin-&pidgin-version;-fix_time_conv-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      Compile <application>Pidgin</application> by running the following
+      commands:
+    </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr        \
             --sysconfdir=/etc    \
-            --disable-gstreamer  \
+            --with-gstreamer=1.0 \
             --disable-avahi      \
             --disable-gtkspell   \
@@ -172,6 +182,5 @@
 
     <para>
-      Remember the remarks before <command>configure</command>. To test the
-      results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
+      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
     </para>
 
@@ -191,5 +200,5 @@
 <screen role="root"
         remap="doc"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api &amp;&amp;
-cp -v doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
+cp -rv doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-&pidgin-version;/api</userinput></screen>
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
@@ -201,19 +210,8 @@
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
-<!--
-    <para>
-      <parameter>- -with-gstreamer=1.0</parameter>: Remove this switch
-      and add <option>- -disable-gstreamer</option>
+    <para>
+      <parameter>--with-gstreamer=1.0</parameter>: Remove this switch
+      and add <option>--disable-gstreamer</option>
       if you've not installed <xref linkend="gstreamer10"/>.
-    </para>
--->
-    <para>
-      <parameter>--disable-gstreamer</parameter>: This switch disables gstreamer
-      support because there are problems with the build when Voice/Video support
-      is disabled, and gstreamer is enabled.
-      <!-- The problems exist within gst_device_monitor. See
-           https://hastebin.com/utiwijizad.rb for more details.
-           FIXME: Check this at the next release of pidgin, or if we ever add
-           Farstream. -->
     </para>
 
@@ -253,10 +251,5 @@
       flag.
     </para>
-<!--
-    <para>
-      <parameter>- -disable-tcl</parameter>: Remove this switch if you've
-      installed <xref linkend="tcl"/>.
-    </para>
-i-->
+
     <para>
       <option>--enable-cyrus-sasl</option>: Use this switch if you've installed
@@ -318,22 +311,14 @@
       <seglistitem>
         <seg>
-          <!--finch,--> pidgin, purple-client-example,
+          pidgin, purple-client-example,
           purple-remote, purple-send, purple-send-async, and
           purple-url-handler
         </seg>
         <seg>
-          <!--libgnt.so,--> libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so
+          libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so
         </seg>
         <seg>
-        <!--
-          /usr/include/finch,
-          /usr/include/gnt,
-        -->
           /usr/include/libpurple,
           /usr/include/pidgin,
-        <!--
-          /usr/lib/finch,
-          /usr/lib/gnt,
-        -->
           /usr/lib/pidgin,
           /usr/lib/purple-2,
@@ -351,17 +336,4 @@
       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
 
- <!-- Seems to be removed with 2.14.0
-      <varlistentry id="finch">
-        <term><command>finch</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            is a text-based instant messaging client.
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="pidgin finch">
-            <primary sortas="b-finch">finch</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
--->
       <varlistentry id="pidgin-prog">
         <term><command>pidgin</command></term>
Index: xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
===================================================================
--- xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml	(revision 60530f75af6c3a9a76329ea5e4fc205a3c36431c)
+++ xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml	(revision fb255739450efaee817102f473e9b3b5c6ee38f8)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum        "4954fa2b4c55e475e4d3533ac03f6f1f">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-size          "385 MB">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum        "69225a7fafca53680bd6a9f1e0eb0ae1">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-size          "383 MB">
   <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize     "6.9 GB (202 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time          "30 SBU (on a 4-core machine)">
+  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time          "27 SBU (on a 4-core machine)">
   <!-- Removed the -j1 time because python and rust do not obey it, although
        the C/C++ code appears to obey it -->
