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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q2 b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5d6721e81ec --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q2 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +The pkgsrc-2009Q2 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q2 +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-2009Q1 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch are: + ++ license checking has been extended to open source licensed packages ++ iMil's pkgin binary package manager has been added ++ 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-2009Q2 branch: + + + apache-2.2.11nb6 + + firefox-2.0.0.20 and firefox-3.0.11 + + gnome-2.26.2 + + kde-3.5.10nb3 + + mysql-5.0.67nb3 + + openoffice-2.4.2nb7 and openoffice-3.1.0 + + perl-5.10.0nb6 + + postgresql-8.2.13 and postgresql-8.3.7 + + python-2.5.4 and python-2.6.2nb1 + + ruby-1.8.7.174 + + samba-3.0.34 + + seamonkey-1.1.17 + + subversion-1.6.1 + + wireshark-1.2.1 + + zope-3.3.1 + ++ other notable changes include + + we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites, + such as firefox-gtk1, and sqlitemanager + + the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny + packages such as asterisk16, gammu, eina, matio, xsd, a + whole new TeX distribution, ninvaders, circos, gimmage, + python26, gtk-vnc, pkgin, netpgp, agedu, libnxml, xml2, + etm, opengoo, squid31, typolight27, wmd, wordpress, libxcb + and related packages, and qt4-mysql + +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 8852; 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. + +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-2009Q2/pkgsrc-2009Q2.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q2/pkgsrc-2009Q2.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q2" 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 |