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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2006Q3 b/doc/pkgsrc-2006Q3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4a97c424c9c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2006Q3 @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +The pkgsrc-2006Q3 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q3 +branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. +As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of +pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler +support, and also for enhanced security. + +At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch are: + ++ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take +advantage of fixes and improved functionality. This includes + + + gnome-2.16 + + kde-3.5.4 + + opera-9.02 + + postgresql-8.1.4 + + seamonkey-1.0.5 and firefox-1.5.0.7 + + thunderbird-1.5.0.7 + + zope-3.2.0 + + ruby-1.8.5 + + wireshark-0.99.3 + ++ other changes include + + we have deprecated mozilla in favour of seamonkey + + the SuSE 9.x packages for Linux emulation have been + superceded by SuSE 10 ones + + we also say goodbye to some other old favourites like + the separate XFree86 packages, and teTeX 2 + + the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such + as postgresql81-postgis, mping, libgpod, httping, cogito, + scmgit, xmms-osx, amaroc, lush, mp3cut, powerdns, zphoto, + imapsync, kismet and xenkernel30 + + a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD + operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms, + with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger + +The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is: AIX, BSD/OS, +Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, +NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris). We would also like to add +support for more platforms - please get in touch if you, too, are +interested. + ++ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging +system, Joerg Sonnenberger has continued to make a lot of changes, +which include a number of modifications for packages which use POSIX +threading libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above + ++ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been +much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team for all the +hard work they do in sanity checking pullup requests, and managing +the stable branches in pkgsrc. + ++ constant bulk building on a number of platforms has improved our +ability to identify potential areas of concern, and to correct them +sooner. It has also improved our ability to make binary packages +available, and we are working on ways to improve this further. For +more information, please refer to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list, +archives available at + + http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/ + ++ the number of packages has been increased to 6229; the number of +supported platforms continues to be 12, although we'd like to add +support for HP/UX soon. NetBSD, on all its supported architectures, +is considered to be one pkgsrc platform. + +As always, we'd like to encourage users of the packages collection to +install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day - +this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to +exploit. The pkgsrc-security team do a marvellous job in tracking +notifications of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this +information, and our sincere thanks go to them for this essential work. + +We'd also really appreciate it if people would install the +pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script +for us. This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that +machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating +system. The results will be kept confidential, but the output will +help us analyse the packages that are most used. + +The source tar files for the new branch can be found at: + + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q3" tag to check it out yourself from +anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors. + +Alistair Crooks +On behalf of the Packages Team +The NetBSD Foundation |