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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q3 b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1add399bdb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q3 @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +The pkgsrc-2007Q3 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q3 +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-2007Q2 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch. + +This branch celebrates the tenth anniversary of pkgsrc, and we would +like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have made +pkgsrc the most portable packaging system in the world - to all of the +users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you" from all of +us. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q3 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-2007Q3 branch: + + + apache-2.2.6 + + firefox-2.0.0.7 + + gnome-2.18.1 + + kde-3.5.7 + + mysql-5.0.45 + + openoffice-2.3.0 + + opera-9.23 + + postgresql-8.2.5 + + ruby-1.8.6.111 + + samba-3.0.24 + + seamonkey-1.1.4 + + thunderbird-2.0.0.6 + + wireshark-0.99.6 + + zope-3.3.1 + ++ other changes include + + audit-packages has been rewritten in C to make it perform + better; it has also been merged with pkg_install-20070714 + and later versions. pkgsrc now comes with package + auditing built in + + pkg_install has been modified by Joerg Sonnenberger to + bring in some of the pkg_install work he did for the + Google Summer of Code last year + + the addition of a framework for managing binary-only + packages that require and support binary emulation, by + Johnny Lam + + we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category + + the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such + as vym, fuse-afpfs-ng, wpi-firmware2, quilt, freealut, + flightgear, simgear, espeak, glade3, orca, inspircd, + pidgin, finch, nfdump, claws-mail, xdm, policyd, vbetool, + fuse-wikipediafs, courier, atf, bugzilla3, nipper, youtube-dl, + pound, fpdns, adplug, pcc, and qhull + +To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin +(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux, +NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome +QNX, thanks to Sean Boudreaux. + ++ 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 7330; the number of +supported platforms has risen to 14. 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 +audit-packages at least every day - this will provide notification of +any packages which are vulnerable to exploit. As mentioned earlier, +this is part of the new pkg_install tools, and is now much quicker. +We shall be removing the old package in the next pkgsrc release. +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-2007Q3/pkgsrc-2007Q3.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q3/pkgsrc-2007Q3.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q3" 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 |