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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2008Q2 b/doc/pkgsrc-2008Q2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a516b52e77b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2008Q2 @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +The pkgsrc-2008Q2 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q2 +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-2008Q1 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q2 branch. + +With more than ten years of pkgsrc development behind us, 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-2008Q2 branch are: + ++ a new ruby gems framework, from Stoned Elipot and Johnny Lam ++ many more packages have been moved to install into a staging directory - +the DESTDIR work that Joerg Sonnenberger has done almost singlehandedly ++ 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-2008Q2 branch: + + + apache-2.2.9 + + firefox-2.0.0.16 and firefox-3.0.1 + + gnome-2.20.2 + + kde-3.5.9 + + mysql-5.0.51 + + openoffice-2.4.1 + + opera-9.27 + + postgresql-8.3.3 + + python-2.5.2 + + ruby-1.8.7.22 + + samba-3.0.30 + + seamonkey-1.1.11 + + wireshark-1.0.2 + + zope-3.3.1 + ++ other changes include + + Jared Mcneill has re-worked the compiz window manager + packages + + the new ruby gems framework is easy to use, scalable, and + very effective + + Eric Gillespie has updated the subversion package to 1.5.0, + and reworked part of the additional language support + + thanks to Jared Mcneill, David Holland and Reinoud Zandijk, + wine-1.0 works well on NetBSD + + the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny + packages such as acroread8, bind95, blame, boxbackup (client + and server), compiz-fusion, drupal6, firefox3, fltk2, + freeradius2, ftmenu, gambc, gvfs, java-subversion, + mediatomb, mono-tools, mowgli, msel, mtftpd, odt2text, + pkg_leaves, qrencode, ruby-snmp, smbldap-tools, stegtunnel, + torrentzip, unbound, and xsel. + +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. + ++ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been +revitalised, and our release engineering team has done a marvellous +job in pulling up changes to the stable branch. Our thanks go to them +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 7721; 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. Audit-packages is now +part of the new pkg_install tools, and is now much quicker. We have +removed the old audit-packages package in this pkgsrc release. +Recently Tonnerre Lombard has joined the pkgsrc-security team, and has +made a lot of additions to the list of vulnerable packages - a very +useful and thorough job - we are grateful to him. 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-2008Q2/pkgsrc-2008Q2.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q2/pkgsrc-2008Q2.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q2" 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 |