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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q2 b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ca0b7cd9d79 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q2 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +The pkgsrc-2007Q2 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 +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. + +At the same time, the pkgsrc-2007Q1 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch are: + ++ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take +advantage of fixes and improved functionality. The following versions +of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch: + + + apache-2.2.4 + + firefox-2.0.0.4 + + gnome-2.18.1 + + kde-3.5.7 + + mysql-5.0.41 + + openoffice-2.2.1 + + opera-9.21 + + postgresql-8.2.4 + + ruby-1.8.6 + + samba-3.0.24 + + seamonkey-1.1.2 + + thunderbird-2.0.0.4 + + wireshark-0.99.5 + + zope-3.3.1 + +In addition, the default versions of firefox and thunderbird have been +set to the 2.0.0.x versions, replacing the previous 1.5.0.x versions +(which have been kept in www/firefox15, mail/thunderbird15, but are no +longer the default). + ++ other changes include + + more modular X11 packages have been added, including the modular + X server modules, and many X clients. With the pkgsrc-2007Q2 + branch, the "xorg" X11_TYPE will become obsolete. + + we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category + + the adoption of a new bulk building system, pbulk, by Joerg + Sonnenberger + + the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such + as opengrok, roundcube, more modular x11 clients, coda, tea, + t-prot, u9fs, teamspeak-server, fuse-gphotofs, alpine, goffice, + mecab, qtplay, fuse-obexfs, fuse-wdfs, tesseract, sparse, htop, + ragel, xhtmldiff, mimetex, antiright, psvn, planner, ipbt, + dvdisaster, deskmenu and freepops + +To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin +(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD, +OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome HP/UX, +thanks to Tobias Nygren, and we will extend the list of supported +platforms still further in the next few months. + ++ the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch introduces support for case-insensitive +filesystems, which makes bootstrapping pkgsrc much simpler on the +average Mac. We encourage our Darwin and OS X users to try it out and +report any problems. + +Our plans are for this to become the recommended Darwin configuration +for the pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch, and to get rid of darwindiskimage and +the related information in the documents. + ++ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc continues, +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 7181; the number of +supported platforms has risen to 13. 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/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q2" 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 |