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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q3 b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c5314305072 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pkgsrc-2009Q3 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +The pkgsrc-2009Q3 Branch +======================== + +The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q3 +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-2009Q2 branch has been deprecated, and +continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch. + +Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch are: + ++ the pkg_install infrastructure has been updated again ++ kde4 is available in pkgsrc for the very first time ++ Matthias Scheler has provided initial support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard ++ 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-2009Q3 branch: + + + apache-2.2.13nb3 + + firefox-3.5.3 + + git-1.6.4 + + gnome-2.26.2nb1 + + kde-3.5.10nb4 and 4.3.1 + + mercurial-1.3.1 + + mysql-5.0.67nb3 + + openoffice-3.1.1 + + perl-5.10.0nb6 + + postgresql-8.3.8 and postgresql-8.4.1 + + python-2.5.4nb3 and python-2.6.2nb1 + + ruby-1.8.7.174nb2 + + samba-3.0.37 + + seamonkey-1.1.18 + + subversion-1.6.5 + + wireshark-1.2.2 + + zope-3.3.1 + ++ other notable changes include + + we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites, + such as postgresql-8.1, sendmail-8.1.3, python-2.3, and openpbs + + the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny + packages such as wbd, libmtag, picard, pigz, lzip, mono-nat, + fuse-mp3fs, bubblemon, py-openid, luajit, dash, ario, mkcue, + flactag, unac, postgres-8.4, filezilla, udns, xulrunner, sigil, + libev, ssss, ical2rem, ocp, gupnp-igd, farsight2, hugin, + asymptote, libasyncns, milkytracker, pkgsrc-todo, gbemol, + re-alpine, devkitd, gcc44, and kde4 + ++ the "Package of the Month" award has been resurrected, thanks to + Antti Kantee, and is awarded to pkgsrc/misc/py-anita - anita uses + qemu to download a NetBSD/i386 distribution and install it, and + boots the installed system to a "login:" prompt. + +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, Lubomir Sedlacik, 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 8969 from 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 part +of the pkg_install tools. + +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-2009Q3/pkgsrc-2009Q3.tar.gz + or + ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q3/pkgsrc-2009Q3.tar.bz2 + +You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q3" 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 |