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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q4 b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d12b5eda22b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2007Q4 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +The pkgsrc-2007Q4 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q4 +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-2007Q3 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q4 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-2007Q4 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-2007Q4 branch: + + + apache-2.2.6 + + firefox-2.0.0.11 + + gnome-2.20.2 + + kde-3.5.8 + + mysql-5.0.51 + + openoffice-2.3.1 + + opera-9.25 + + postgresql-8.2.5 + + ruby-1.8.6.111 + + samba-3.0.26a + + seamonkey-1.1.7 + + thunderbird-2.0.0.9 + + wireshark-0.99.7 + + zope 2.9.8, 2.10.5 and 3.3.1 + ++ other changes include + + a number of packages have been updated to include "DESTDIR" + installation, whereby staging areas are used to install the + package, and a binary package suitable for onward installation + can be made. The DESTDIR installation method is completely + optional. Standard installation is still fully supported, + and is still the default. Work continues in this area. + For more information on DESTDIR installation, please refer + to the pkgsrc guide + + 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 ldapvi, mcast-tools, ssmping, aria2, open-vm-tools, + jdom, xf86-video-radeonhd, ap2-wsgi, gsnmp, snow, openwbem, + alephone, oak, thaixfonts, netbiff, awesome, herrie, pixman, + cstore, sqlgrey, cone, netbsd-iscsi-initiator, whois3, + psftools, qt4-tiff, rtunes, djview4, fuse-chironfs, climm, + ilmbase, camlp5, qt4-qdbus, nginx, isc-dhcp, fuse-svnfs, + and plone3. + +The list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin (Mac +OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD, +OSF1, OpenBSD, QNX and SunOS (Solaris). We are aware that support for +some platforms is at a more mature stage than others, and would like +to encourage feedback from users and developers on our more esoteric +platforms. To illustrate this point, a number of developers have +worked hard to improve support for Mac OS X Leopard - Matthias Scheler +and a number of others have improved support to the point where a +number of key packages like perl and apache are now supported. + ++ continuing engineering on the "stable" branch 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 branch +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 7472; the number of +supported platforms is currently 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 an outstanding 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-2007Q4/pkgsrc-2007Q4.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q4/pkgsrc-2007Q4.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q4" 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 |