Puppy 5.3 uses Puppy Woof code, programs and scripts, combined with high compatibility for Slackware developers.

Min recommended spec P3 600 with 256 RAM (will work slower on less)

Slickpet development of LucidPuppyQuickpet Quickpet - easily adds major programs such as Gimp, Wine, Pidgin and accelerated graphic drivers

Seamonkey major default browser ready installed (others easily available from Slickpet eg. Tor Browser)

jwm Joes Window Manager updated

Xchat IRC chat installed

Transmission bit torrent

Geany programming IDE and editor

Leafpad simple text editor

Audio improvements, eg. audio and recording in mhwaveedit mhwavedit working

Puppy Phone (Slickpet add on)

Optional Slickpet Cloud feature eg. Twitter, Facebook and Gmail icons

Most secure Puppy ever

Security Fido Non root initiative

Growl Security hardening

LibreOffice Easy GUI installation

Pns-tool Wi-fi support

Many software support modules (SFS) and Puppy prepared programs (pets)

Simple English Docs

Gettext being used in all GUI scripts for internationalization

Run as Fido, Spot or root as a choice

Enhanced snapshot by radky

Flash optional, offered as download if needed

More than 6 SFS available as modules at any one time

GUI setup tool for the personal storage file

PuppyUniversalInstaller Puppy Universal Installer bug fixes

Messages colour scheme

Previous versions of Puppy are Wary, a conservative design for older hardware, Lucid puppy526 Puppy 528 and Racy.

Quirky is used to test new ideas from Barry Kauler, the original creator of Puppy.

Dpup (Puppy + Debian) is designated as Puppy 6, currently being developed by Dejan555 and Iguleder

puppy6 Saluki Puppy rewrite is likely to move up to Puppy 7

Puppy 8 is likely to offer x86, PARM ARM and 64 bit versions and have support for tablet, phone, touch, cloud and Android features