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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q1 b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..11dc6a904c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q1 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +The pkgsrc-2009Q1 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q1 +branch, which has support for even 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-2008Q4 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch. + +The pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch celebrates 5 years of quarterly branching +within pkgsrc, and we would like to thank all of our users and +developers for using the world's most portable packaging system - to +all of the users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you" +from all of us. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch are: + ++ Jared McNeill has updated the gnome packages to be 2.26 ++ Joerg Sonnenberger's pkg_install-renovation branch has been merged ++ 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-2009Q1 branch: + + + apache-2.2.11nb3 + + firefox-2.0.0.19 and firefox-3.0.10 + + gnome-2.26.0 + + kde-3.5.10nb2 + + mysql-5.0.67nb1 + + openoffice-2.4.2nb7 and openoffice-3.0.1nb2 + + perl-5.10.0 + + postgresql-8.2.13 and postgresql-8.3.7 + + python-2.5.2nb4 + + ruby-1.8.7.72nb3 + + samba-3.0.34 + + seamonkey-1.1.16 + + wireshark-1.0.8 + + zope-3.3.1 + ++ other notable changes include + + we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites, + such as the 0.8 gst-plugins, python 2.1, bind8, xenconsole, + squid26, gpgme03, aap, libopendaap, buildtool, nsca and + netsaint, amongst others + + the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny + packages such as ap2-auth-mellon, ap22-vhost-ldap, some + akode plugins, apache-roller, apache-tomcat6, bash3, bind96, + brasero, calibre, coccinelle, daemond, desktop-gnome, dhcpcd + and dbus and gtk variants, evas, some gnome packages, + fuppes, help2man, ioquake3, jdbc-mysql31, jdbc-mysql5, + mdoclint, mdocml, mediainfo, miniupnpd, nestopia, openct, + openjdk7-bin, openldap-cloak, openldap-nops, + openldap-smbk5pwd, openoffice3-bin, lots of perl5 packages, + packagekit, some python packages, a TeX distribution, tmux, + and unworkable. + +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 continues +to work well, and our release engineering team has done a marvellous +job in pulling up changes to the stable branch. Our thanks go to +Geert Hendrickx, Matthias Scheler, Tyler Retzlaff, and S.P.Zeidler 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 8430; the number of +supported platforms is currently 14, with another one on the horizon. +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. + +OBATA Akio has been a member of the pkgsrc-security team for some time +now, adding to Adrian Portelli and Tonnerre Lombard, and has made a +lot of additions to the list of vulnerable packages - a very useful +and thorough job - we are grateful to them all. 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-2009Q1/pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q1/pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q1" 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 |