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The pkgsrc-2006Q1 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q1
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, and also for enhanced security.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2005Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch are:
 
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes
 
	+ firefox-1.5.0.1
	+ gnome-2.12.2
	+ kde-3.5.1
	+ opera-8.52
	+ perl-5.8.7
	+ postgresql 8.1.3
	+ thunderbird-1.5
	+ X.org 6.9
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as apache-tomcat-5.5.14, cdrtools, nagios, qt4, strace,
	  sunbird, and suse 10 packages better to support Linux
	  emulation. 
	+ a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD
	  operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms,
	  with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
 
The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,
Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD,
OSF1, OpenBSD, SunOS (Solaris), and UnixWare.  We would like to add
support for more - please get in touch if you, too, are interested.
 
+ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging
system, Joerg Sonnenberger has made a lot of changes, which include a
number of modifications for packages which use POSIX threading
libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above
 
+ a number of changes in pkgsrc's infrastructure have been introduced,
including improvements in the PLIST handling, the ongoing work to
validate PLISTs automatically, especially during bulk builds, and the
improvements in the pkginstall framework, most noticably
font-handling.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team 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 5943; the number of
supported platforms continues to be 13.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable
to exploit.
 
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/2006Q1/pkgsrc-2006Q1.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q1/pkgsrc-2006Q1.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q1" 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

The pkgsrc-2006Q2 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q2
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, and also for enhanced security.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch are:
 
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes
 
	+ gnome-2.14
	+ kde-3.5.3
	+ opera-9.0
	+ perl-5.8.8
	+ postgresql-8.1.4
	+ thunderbird-1.5.0.4
	+ split the openldap package into constituent parts
	+ reorganised the webmin packages and plugins
	+ revamped most of the pkgsrc infrastructure to make it much
	  more efficient and maintainable
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as seamonkey, pgadmin3, ggrab, jack, mpeg4ip, jamvm, uucp,
	  cherokee, sgb, javacc, spl, slony1, dtach
	+ a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD
	  operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms,
	  with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
 
The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,
Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris).  NetBSD-1.6 has been
declared end-of-life, and pkgsrc will now be de-emphasising support
for it, too.  We would also like to add support for more platforms -
please get in touch if you, too, are interested.
 
+ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging
system, Joerg Sonnenberger has continued to make a lot of changes,
which include a number of modifications for packages which use POSIX
threading libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above
 
+ as mentioned before, the infrastructure for pkgsrc has been
rewritten, to make it much more modular and efficient.  In addition, a
number of new features have been introduced which will benefit pkgsrc
users on platforms other than NetBSD, and stricter checking of the
packing list files.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team 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 6110; the number of
supported platforms continues to be 12.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
exploit.  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/2006Q2/pkgsrc-2006Q2.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q2/pkgsrc-2006Q2.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q2" 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

The pkgsrc-2006Q3 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q3
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, and also for enhanced security.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q2 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch are:
 
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes
 
	+ gnome-2.16
	+ kde-3.5.4
	+ opera-9.02
	+ postgresql-8.1.4
	+ seamonkey-1.0.5 and firefox-1.5.0.7
	+ thunderbird-1.5.0.7
	+ zope-3.2.0
	+ ruby-1.8.5
	+ wireshark-0.99.3
 
+ other changes include
	+ we have deprecated mozilla in favour of seamonkey
	+ the SuSE 9.x packages for Linux emulation have been
	  superceded by SuSE 10 ones
	+ we also say goodbye to some other old favourites like
	  the separate XFree86 packages, and teTeX 2
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as postgresql81-postgis, mping, libgpod, httping, cogito,
	  scmgit, xmms-osx, amaroc, lush, mp3cut, powerdns, zphoto,
	  imapsync, kismet and xenkernel30
	+ a considerable number of fixes for much better DragonFly BSD
	  operation, which will also benefit a lot of pkgsrc platforms,
	  with thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
 
The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,
Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris).  We would also like to add
support for more platforms - please get in touch if you, too, are
interested.
 
+ following DragonFly BSD's adoption of pkgsrc as their packaging
system, Joerg Sonnenberger has continued to make a lot of changes,
which include a number of modifications for packages which use POSIX
threading libraries, and also enhanced support for gcc 3.4 and above
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team 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 6229; the number of
supported platforms continues to be 12, although we'd like to add
support for HP/UX soon.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
exploit.  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/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q3/pkgsrc-2006Q3.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q3" 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

The pkgsrc-2006Q4 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2006Q4
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, and also for enhanced security.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q3 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2006Q4 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2006Q4 branch are:
 
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes
 
	+ gnome-2.16.1
	+ kde-3.5.5
	+ opera-9.10
	+ postgresql-8.2.0
	+ seamonkey-1.0.7 and firefox-2.0.0.1
	+ thunderbird-1.5.0.9
	+ zope-3.3.0
	+ ruby-1.8.5.20061205
	+ wireshark-0.99.4
	+ apache-2.2.3
 
+ other changes include
	+ modular X11 packages have been added, although they should
	  be considered "work in progress"
	+ the ghostscript packages have been reworked to bring them up
	  to date
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as arena, squirm, swatch, fann, checkperms, pam-radius, rails,
	  kenigma, ncursesw, etrace, xentools30-hvm, wpa_gui, memtestplus,
	  firefox2, xmorph, ap-modsecurity2, opencv, fwbuilder21, pciids,
	  gnupg2, g95, epdfview, i810switch, gnash, kaffeine, and
	  DarwinStreamingServer.
 
The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,
Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris).  We would also like to add
support for more platforms - please get in touch if you, too, are
interested.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team 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 6408; the number of
supported platforms continues to be 12.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
exploit.  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-2006Q4/pkgsrc-2006Q4.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2006Q4/pkgsrc-2006Q4.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2006Q4" 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

The pkgsrc-2007Q1 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q1
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, and also for enhanced security.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q1 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q1 branch are:
 
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes
 
	+ apache-2.2.4
	+ firefox-2.0.0.3
	+ gnome-2.16.1
	+ kde-3.5.6
	+ mysql-5.0.37
	+ openoffice-2.2.0
	+ opera-9.10
	+ postgresql-8.2.3
	+ ruby-1.8.6
	+ samba-3.0.24
	+ seamonkey-1.1.1
	+ thunderbird-1.5.0.10
	+ wireshark-0.99.5
	+ zope-3.3.0
 
+ other changes include
	+ more modular X11 packages have been added, including the modular
	  X server modules, and many X clients. We have started the work
	  to make the "xorg" X11_TYPE obsolete.
	+ a new "filesystems" category, and a lot of FUSE-based file
	  systems, including fuse-lzofs, fuse-curlftpfs and fuse-ntfs-3g
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as ktorrent, gdl, gnome-build, pam-af, emacs-wiki,
	  jdbc-postgresql82, bsign, qmqtool, serf, mppenc, csup,
	  librlog, sun-jre6, sun-jdk6, jflex, xmlrpc-c, diffsplit,
	  wide-dhcpv6, taskjuggler, spamdyke, and compiz
 
The full list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is:  AIX, BSD/OS,
Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris).  We would also like to add
support for more platforms - please get in touch if you, too, are
interested.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc has been
much improved, and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team 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 6588; the number of
supported platforms continues to be 12.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
exploit.  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-2007Q1/pkgsrc-2007Q1.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q1/pkgsrc-2007Q1.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q1" 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

The pkgsrc-2007Q2 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q2
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-2007Q1 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 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-2007Q2 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.4
	+ firefox-2.0.0.4
	+ gnome-2.18.1
	+ kde-3.5.7
	+ mysql-5.0.41
	+ openoffice-2.2.1
	+ opera-9.21
	+ postgresql-8.2.4
	+ ruby-1.8.6
	+ samba-3.0.24
	+ seamonkey-1.1.2
	+ thunderbird-2.0.0.4
	+ wireshark-0.99.5
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
In addition, the default versions of firefox and thunderbird have been
set to the 2.0.0.x versions, replacing the previous 1.5.0.x versions
(which have been kept in www/firefox15, mail/thunderbird15, but are no
longer the default).
 
+ other changes include
	+ more modular X11 packages have been added, including the modular
	  X server modules, and many X clients. With the pkgsrc-2007Q2
	  branch, the "xorg" X11_TYPE will become obsolete.
	+ we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category
	+ the adoption of a new bulk building system, pbulk, by Joerg
	  Sonnenberger
	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such
	  as opengrok, roundcube, more modular x11 clients, coda, tea,
	  t-prot, u9fs, teamspeak-server, fuse-gphotofs, alpine, goffice,
	  mecab, qtplay, fuse-obexfs, fuse-wdfs, tesseract, sparse, htop,
	  ragel, xhtmldiff, mimetex, antiright, psvn, planner, ipbt,
	  dvdisaster, deskmenu and freepops
 
To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin
(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD,
OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome HP/UX,
thanks to Tobias Nygren, and we will extend the list of supported
platforms still further in the next few months.
 
+ the pkgsrc-2007Q2 branch introduces support for case-insensitive
filesystems, which makes bootstrapping pkgsrc much simpler on the
average Mac. We encourage our Darwin and OS X users to try it out and
report any problems.
 
Our plans are for this to become the recommended Darwin configuration
for the pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch, and to get rid of darwindiskimage and
the related information in the documents.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches 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 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 7181; the number of
supported platforms has risen to 13.  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
install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -
this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to
exploit.  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-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q2" 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

The pkgsrc-2007Q3 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q3
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-2007Q2 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q3 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-2007Q3 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-2007Q3 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.6
	+ firefox-2.0.0.7
	+ gnome-2.18.1
	+ kde-3.5.7
	+ mysql-5.0.45
	+ openoffice-2.3.0
	+ opera-9.23
	+ postgresql-8.2.5
	+ ruby-1.8.6.111
	+ samba-3.0.24
	+ seamonkey-1.1.4
	+ thunderbird-2.0.0.6
	+ wireshark-0.99.6
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
+ other changes include
	+ audit-packages has been rewritten in C to make it perform
	  better; it has also been merged with pkg_install-20070714
	  and later versions. pkgsrc now comes with package
	  auditing built in
	+ pkg_install has been modified by Joerg Sonnenberger to
	  bring in some of the pkg_install work he did for the
	  Google Summer of Code last year
	+ 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 vym, fuse-afpfs-ng, wpi-firmware2, quilt, freealut,
	  flightgear, simgear, espeak, glade3, orca, inspircd, 
	  pidgin, finch, nfdump, claws-mail, xdm, policyd, vbetool,
	  fuse-wikipediafs, courier, atf, bugzilla3, nipper, youtube-dl,
	  pound, fpdns, adplug, pcc, and qhull 
 
To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin
(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
NetBSD, OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome
QNX, thanks to Sean Boudreaux.
 
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" branches 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 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 7330; the number of
supported platforms has risen to 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 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-2007Q3/pkgsrc-2007Q3.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q3/pkgsrc-2007Q3.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q3" 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

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

The pkgsrc-2008Q1 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1
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-2007Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q1 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-2008Q1 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-2008Q1 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.8
	+ firefox-2.0.0.13
	+ gnome-2.20.2
	+ kde-3.5.9
	+ mysql-5.0.51
	+ openoffice-2.3.1nb5
	+ opera-9.26
	+ postgresql-8.3.0
	+ ruby-1.8.6.114
	+ samba-3.0.28a
	+ seamonkey-1.1.9
	+ wireshark-1.0.0
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
+ other changes include
	+ we have revamped our mono package, and added a number of
	  other useful mono-based packages
	+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
	  packages such as 3proxy, bash-completion, bsdav, ccid,
	  chrpath, clawsker, clive, cmconvert, CoolKey, cut, cvsclone,
	  dansguardian, dmsdos, dvtm, dynamips, ejabberd, ewipe,
	  gnome-platform, gnome-sharp, gtksourceview2, highlight, im,
	  isc-dhcp4, libarena, libdatrie, libdmenu, libfetch, libixp,
	  libmp3splt, libotf, libspf2, libssh2, libthai, metauml,
	  migemo, mono-addins, monodevelop, monodoc, mopac, msynctool,
	  ossp-js, pcc-current, pdcurses, portmap, postgresql-8.3,
	  puppet, rtf2latex2e, ruby-activeresource, SDL_Pango,
	  sigscheme, slock, smirk, unfs3, wbxml2, xbacklight, xinput,
	  xmltoman, and yabause
 
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" branches of pkgsrc has been
revitalised, and we have recruited 3 times the number of engineers to
work on this than we previously had.  Our thanks go to the pkgsrc
releng team 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 7578; 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 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-2008Q1/pkgsrc-2008Q1.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q1/pkgsrc-2008Q1.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q1" 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

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

The pkgsrc-2008Q3 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q3
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-2008Q2 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q3 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-2008Q3 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-2008Q3 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.9
	+ firefox-2.0.0.17 and firefox-3.0.3
	+ gnome-2.22.3
	+ kde-3.5.10
	+ mysql-5.0.67
	+ openoffice-2.4.1nb3
	+ opera-9.52
	+ postgresql-8.3.3
	+ python-2.5.2nb4
	+ ruby-1.8.7.22
	+ samba-3.0.32
	+ seamonkey-1.1.12
	+ wireshark-1.0.3
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
+ other notable changes include
	+ Steve Bellovin has updated the claws email suite
	+ Stoned Elipot and Havard Eidnes have made it their personal
	  goal to incorporate all the CPAN packages into pkgsrc
	+ thanks to Matthias Drochner for keeping on top of all the
	  gnome packages, and to Mark Davies for our kde packages
	+ video support has been vastly enhanced-- NetBSD-current now
	  has support for some video devices, and Jared Mcneill has
	  added and extended quite a few packages for that (libv4l,
	  unicap, cheese, ucview, opal, ekiga, tvtime; extended
	  mplayer, gst-plugins0.10-good).
	+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
	  packages such as ampache, bzrtools, cheese, cvsutils,
	  dbeacon, ddrescue, diskscrub, docker, drill, emutos, enma,
	  fs-utils, gtkimageview, hunspell packages, iwn-firmware,
	  jdbc-postgresql83, ldns, libmtp, libslang2, libv4l,
	  loggerhead, lzmalib, mico, mnemosyne, nipper, openaxiom,
	  otf2bdf, p5-Catalyst packages, p5-Perl6-Junction, py-babel,
	  py-pygments, rrdtool12, sqlsharpgtk, squid3, sshfp, tdl,
	  tvtime, typolight and typo3, xapian, xentools33, and xlt
 
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 7995; 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. 
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-2008Q3/pkgsrc-2008Q3.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q3/pkgsrc-2008Q3.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q3" 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

The pkgsrc-2008Q4 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q4
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-2008Q3 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q4 branch.
 
The pkgsrc-2008Q4 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-2008Q4 branch are:
 
+ Jared McNeill has introduced pulseaudio to pkgsrc, which is a huge
boost, giving pkgsrc the benefits of one of the best audio systems
+ our GNOME packages have been updated by Thomas Klausner, and much
work has been done on the HAL layer within GNOME by Jared McNeill.  We
also now have improved zeroconf support through the avahi package -
our thanks to Adam Hoka for that.
+ more packages have been moved to install into a staging directory,
thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
+ improved support for AIX, again, from Joerg Sonnenberger
+ 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-2008Q4 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.11
	+ firefox-2.0.0.19 and firefox-3.0.5nb2
	+ gnome-2.24.2
	+ kde-3.5.10
	+ mysql-5.0.67
	+ openoffice-2.4.2nb3 and openoffice-3.0.0nb7
	+ perl-5.10.0
	+ postgresql-8.2.11 and postgresql-8.3.5
	+ python-2.5.2nb4
	+ ruby-1.8.7.22
	+ samba-3.0.32nb2
	+ seamonkey-1.1.13
	+ wireshark-1.0.4nb1
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
+ other notable changes include
	+ Kouichirou Hiratsuka has added Openoffice 3 to pkgsrc
	+ Stoned Elipot and Havard Eidnes have made it their personal
	  goal to incorporate all the CPAN packages into pkgsrc. They
	  have recently been joined in their quest by Ulrich Habel.
	+ the vlc package continues to be updated, again by Jared
	  McNeill - it is now at version 0.9.8a 
	+ we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
	  such as python 1.5, nail, bidwatcher, jssi, jsdk20, grail,
	  and zope-2.5
	+ the perl package has been upgraded to version 5.10 - a
	  side effect of this is that binary packages of perl modules
	  made with perl-5.8 and earlier versions are incompatible
	  with perl-5.10
	+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
	  packages such as parpd, openoffice3, twitux, consolekit,
	  policykit, hal, sslproxy, diffuse, gstfs, openresolv,
	  and pulseaudio and related packages. 
 
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, and Tyler Retzlaff 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 8121; 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-2008Q4/pkgsrc-2008Q4.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2008Q4/pkgsrc-2008Q4.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2008Q4" 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

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

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

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

The pkgsrc-2009Q4 Branch
========================

The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q4
branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
branches. Some major packages have also been updated in this release.

At the same time, the pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch.

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch are:

+ a new version of libtool (2.2.6b) is being used
+ many more packages have been modified to handle DESTDIR installation
+ gnome has been updated to version 2.28.1, kde to 4.3.4
+ 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-2009Q4 branch:

        + apache-2.2.14
        + bzr-2.0.1
        + firefox-3.5.6
        + git-1.6.6 (the package is known as scmgit in pkgsrc)
        + gnome-2.28.1
        + kde-3.5.10nb4 and 4.3.4
        + mercurial-1.4.1
        + mysql-5.0.88
        + openoffice-3.1.1
        + perl-5.10.1
        + postgresql-8.3.9 and postgresql-8.4.2
        + python-2.5.4nb5 and python-2.6.4nb4
        + ruby-1.8.7.174nb2
        + samba-3.0.37
        + seamonkey-2.0.1
        + subversion-1.6.5
        + wireshark-1.2.6
        + zope-3.3.1

+ other notable changes include
        + we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
          such as firefox3-bin, lyx-qt and lyx-xforms (replaced by lyx),
          zip1 (replaced by zip), ghostscript6, xfce3 (replaced by xfce4)
          and dovecot-sieve (replaced by the sieve option to dovecot)
        + the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
          packages such as fossil, bzr-explorer, openjdk7, echinus,
          pfe, kegs, rcfunge, clang, libmicro, ktorrent3, datadraw,
          topless, typolight28, neb-wipe, openmpi, and tint2
        + notable updates to packages such as autoconf, boehm-gc,
          boost, bzr, clamav, compiz, curl, ecl, exim, fontforge,
          freeradius2, getmail, glib2, gnuplot, gnutls, gpsd, ikiwiki,
          kde, libtorrent and rtorrent, memtestplus, nagios, netpgp,
          nsd, ntp4, nullmailer, octave, openldap, openresolv,
          openvpn, parrot, pcre, pear, perl5, pngcrush, puppet,
          py-anita, qbzr, qemu, qt4, roundcube, rox, rump, sigil,
          squid, thunderbird, tmux, tor, vte, wget, wireshark,
          xentools33, xlockmore, and xulrunner

+ the "Package of the Quarter" award is hereby awarded jointly to
clang, the compiler and lowlevel virtual machine infrastructure
nominated by Matthias Drochner, and to compiz, the compositing window
manager, nominated by iMil.  An honorable mention, too, to openmpi,
nominated by Aleksej Saushev, and with thanks to Kevin Buckley for his
work on it.

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 marvelous
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 grown from 8969 to 9100; 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.

+ Julio M. Merino Vidal has added some new auto-update functionality
for NetBSD-current's periodic checks.

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 marvelous 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-2009Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz
                or
        ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2009Q4/pkgsrc.tar.bz2

You can also use the "pkgsrc-2009Q4" 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

The pkgsrc-2010Q1 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2010Q1
branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
branches. Some major packages have also been updated in this release.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2010Q1 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2010Q1 branch are:
 
+ we have almost finished the transition to DESTDIR installation, where
  a staging directory is used to make a binary package, which is then
  managed by the pkg_install tools
+ gnome has been updated to version 2.28.1, kde to 4.3.5
+ we have started changing packages to default to KDE4 instead of KDE3.
  For now, the old packages are still available as *-kde3 e.g. amarok
  is the KDE4 package, and amarok-kde3 is the KDE3 one
+ the default python package is now python26
+ squid 3.1.1 is now in pkgsrc, with some support for IPv6
+ php 5.3.x has been added
+ The conversion from the last teTeX distribution to texlive
  (currently 2009) is still in progress.
+ 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-2010Q1 branch:
 
	+ apache-2.2.15
	+ bzr-2.0.3
	+ firefox-3.6.3
	+ git-1.6.6.2 (the package is known as scmgit in pkgsrc)
	+ gnome-2.28.1
	+ kde-4.3.5
	+ mercurial-1.5.1
	+ mysql-5.1.44nb2
	+ openoffice-3.1.1 and openoffice-bin-3.2.0
	+ perl-5.10.1
	+ postgresql-8.3.9nb2 and postgresql-8.4.2
	+ python-2.5.4nb5 and python-2.6.4nb4
	+ ruby-1.8.7.174nb4
	+ samba-3.3.12
	+ seamonkey-2.0.4
	+ subversion-1.6.9nb1
	+ wireshark-1.2.7
	+ zope-3.3.1
 
+ other notable changes include
	+ we bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
	  such as php4 and related packages, the old vmware modules
	  packages, sun's jdk and jre versions 1.4 and 1.5, the ISC
	  dhcp 3.x packages, galeon, swing, typolight-2.6 and tcl-8.3
	+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
	  packages such as tn3270 (:-) - brought over from NetBSD's
	  src archive), mingw, colordiff, easygit, monotone-el, swt,
	  fuse-bindfs, php-5.3, samba-3.3, xymon, musca, and qt4-mng
	+ notable updates to packages such as bsd and gnu tar, amarok,
	  lame, mpg123, mysql, openldap, postgresql, sqlite, boehm-gc, 
	  boost, doxygen, fossil, glib, libev, libffi, memcached, nspr,
	  nss, pango, pcre, rt3, readline, swig, xulrunner, vim, qemu,
	  chicken, mono, parrot, openjdk7, python, php5, squeak, clamav,
	  dovecot, fetchmail, getmail, gmime, linmilter, mew, sendmail,
	  spamassassin, squirrelmail, thunderbird, octave, pari,
	  calibre, dhcpcd, gupnp, nmap, rdist6, rsync, rtorrent, tnftpd,
	  tor, transmission, unbound, aide, netpgp, openssl, bash, osh,
	  tcsh, bacula, cdrtools, memtester, grub, pstree, rasqal, 
	  openbox, firefox, ikiwiki, lighttpd, mediawiki, nginx, squid,
	  seamonkey, typolight, gtk2, xsnow
 
+ the "Package of the Quarter" award is hereby awarded to qemu,
nominated by Joerg Sonnenberger, and samba33, nominated by Matthias Scheler.
 
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).  Haiku support is almost ready
to be added to pkgsrc.  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 marvelous
job in pulling up changes to the stable branch.  Our thanks go to
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 grown from 9100 to 9315; 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 for security problems at least every day using "pkg_admin audit"
- this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable
to exploit.  pkg_admin is part of the pkg_install tools.
 
The pkgsrc-security team do a marvelous 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-2010Q1/pkgsrc.tar.gz
		or
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2010Q1/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2010Q1" tag to check it out yourself from
anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers

The pkgsrc-2011Q1 Branch
========================
 
The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2011Q1
branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
branches. Some major packages have also been updated in this release.
 
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2010Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2011Q1 branch.
 
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2011Q1 branch are:
 
+ MirBSD support was added to pkgsrc; see
  http://www.mirbsd.org/pkgsrc.htm for details
+ We're aiming to make this the last branch to support non-DESTDIR packages.
  We have almost finished the transition to DESTDIR installation, where
  a staging directory is used to make a binary package, which is then
  managed by the pkg_install tools.
+ GNOME has been mostly updated to version 2.32.0, KDE4 to 4.5.5.
+ The conversion from the last teTeX distribution to texlive
  (currently 2010) is still in progress.
+ png was updated to the newest stable 1.5 branch.
+ Some packages still using GTK 1 were removed; we're in the process
  of fading out support for it.
+ Modern ada packages were added, like gnat-aux
+ Other notable changes include
	+ We bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
	  mostly gtk1 users.
	+ The addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
	  packages such as window (:-) - brought over from NetBSD's
	  src archive), many tex packages, most gmpc plugins.
	+ Notable updates to packages such as roundcube, tmux,
	  shotwell, jpeg, png, gbrainy, ikiwiki, scmgit, opera, xchm,
	  nmap, sqlite3, finch/pidgin, dovecot2, mercurial, unrar,
	  clamav, ntop, xz, many many ruby packages, lots of Linux
	  emulation support packages, quvi, kid3, jabberd2, gnucash,
	  pkgin, exiv2, vlc, mkvtoolnix, kdbg, monotone, libzip,
	  boost, wesnoth, gnumeric, unison, postfix, mldonkey, gcc44,
	  wordpress, ncurses, samba, firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird,
	  curl, bluefish, vala, bash, p7zip, php53, exim, sudo, atf,
	  and filezilla.
 
+ The "Package of the Quarter" award is hereby awarded to dovecot2,
nominated by Matthias Scheler.
 
The list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin (Mac
OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Haiku, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
MirBSD, NetBSD, OpenIndiana, 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 marvelous
job in pulling up changes to the stable branch.  Our thanks go to
Matthias Scheler, Steven Drake, S.P.Zeidler, and Eric Schnoebelen
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 grown to 10973; the number of
supported platforms is currently 17.  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 for security problems at least every day using "pkg_admin audit"
- this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable
to exploit.  pkg_admin is part of the pkg_install tools.
 
The pkgsrc-security team do a marvelous 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:
 
    	http://downloads.pkgsrc.org/
		or
	http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q1/pkgsrc.tar.gz
		or
	http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q1/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
 
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2011Q1" tag to check it out yourself from
anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.
 
Thomas Klausner
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers

pkgsrc-2012Q2
=============
 
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2012Q2 branch.  There are many new packages, and some bug
fixes.  Much work has gone into making packages build with clang (as
well as different versions of gcc), and pkgsrc actively maintains
packages, removing unused or abandoned packages, while still adding
new ones. For pkgsrc-2012Q2, more than 100 X11 packages have been
updated.
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
 
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
12400 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64
12072 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-current/amd64
11211 binary packages (built with clang) for NetBSD-current/amd64
10814 pkgsrc entries
 
96 packages have been added this quarter
16 packages have been removed this quarter
Around 1350 packages have been updated this quarter
(Including more than 100 X11 packages updated by Thomas Klausner.)
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Compiler Support
================
 
As well as using gcc to compile packages, Joerg Sonnenberger has put
much effort into building packages with clang. At the present time,
11211 packages can be built using clang.
 
Package Additions
=================
apache24, chimera, clojure, cloog, clusterssh, colorit, conky,
croscorefonts, dnscheck, dojo, dos2unix, edt, emacs-jabber, emacs24,
emacs24-nox11, fscd, gcc47, gitso, glm, gnome-keyring-sharp,
google-authenticator, gwt, hplip, lhasa, libcdr, libmusicbrainz5,
libreoffice, libskk, libusb-compat, libusb1, libusbx, mad-flute,
man-pages, medit, ocaml-cryptokit, ocaml-react, ocaml-sqlite3,
ocaml-text, ocaml-tyxml, p5-Algorithm-Permute, p5-AnyEvent-XMPP,
p5-AuthCAS, p5-BSD-arc4random, p5-Math-Permute-List,
p5-Test-Command-Simple, p5-Test-DistManifest, p5-Unicode-LineBreak,
p5-XML-SAX-ExpatXS, php54, php54-extensions, picoc, ppl, protobuf,
py-anki, py-beautifulsoup4, py-last, py-libanki, py-munkres,
py-trueskill, py-Unidecode, python32, qemu0, R-DBI, R-geoRglm,
R-RColorBrewer, R-RPostgreSQL, R-spacetime, R-xts, R-zoo,
ruby-daemon_controller, ruby-mysql2, ruby-parseconfig, sencha-sns,
sfslite, sks, tex-bbold, tex-bbold-doc, tex-bbold-type1,
tex-bbold-type1-doc, tex-clrscode, tex-clrscode-doc, tex-extsizes,
tex-extsizes-doc, tex-svninfo, tex-svninfo-doc, tolua++, transset,
typo3_47, validns, viewres, xkbevd, xkbprint, xkbutils, xnp2,
xorg-docs, xorg-sgml-doctools
 
Package Removals
================
contao210, contao210-example, contao210-translations, ispman, mscgen,
p5-ispman, php-dbase, php-fileinfo, php-mhash, php5, php5-extensions,
py-ctypes, python24, transset-df, ultima4-data, xine-arts
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package libtasn1-2.11 has a local-system-compromise vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1569
Package gnutls-2.12.14nb1 has a local-system-compromise vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1573
%
 
Package of the Quarter
======================
Michael Hitch nominated handbrake, used to convert video files to
something which can be played on an iPod.  An anonymous developer
nominated both corkscrew and privoxy for "getting around corporate
``security'' that is well-intentioned but counter-productive"
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
While more information can be found in
	http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
	http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2012Q2/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
	cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2012Q2 -P pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download source, and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform)
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance.  (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001).
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 19 platforms
 
	AIX
	BSDOS
	Darwin/Mac OS X
	DragonFly
	FreeBSD
	FreeMiNT
	HPUX
	Haiku
	IRIX
	Interix/SFU/SUA
	Linux
	Minix3
	MirBSD
	NetBSD
	OSF1
	OpenBSD
	QNX
	SunOS/Solaris/SmartOS
	UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Sun Jul  1 13:44:49 PDT 2012

pkgsrc-2012Q3
=============
 
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2012Q3 branch.  There are many new packages, and some bug
fixes.  More work has gone into making packages build with clang (as
well as different versions of gcc), and pkgsrc actively maintains
packages, removing unused or abandoned packages, while still adding
new ones.
 
www.pkgsrc.org was converted to a wiki. We hope the contents will be a
bit less static now and keep you better informed about changes in
pkgsrc.
 
Lots of works was done this quarter on DragonFly and SmartOS (Illumos).
DragonFly at last count now boasts 11538 binary packages, while the
latest public bulk build by Joyent reported 9584 binary packages.
Impressive numbers -- congratulations!
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
 
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
12014 total packages
11618 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-current/amd64
11374 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
10875 pkgsrc entries
 
135 packages have been added this quarter
95 packages have been removed this quarter
Around 1280 packages have been updated this quarter
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Compiler Support
================
 
As well as using gcc to compile packages, Joerg Sonnenberger has put
much effort into building packages with clang. At the present time,
11374 packages can be built using clang.
 
Package Additions
=================
 
Symbola-ttf, TextFonts-ttf, abcl, apollo, atf-libs, choqok, coilmq,
dc-tools, delta, dhbitty, eliom, eog3, fdm, filebench, foo2zjs,
freeDiameter, gcc-aux, gcc47-libs, gedit3, gedit3-spell,
gnome-desktop3, grub2, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtksourceview3,
holtz, iana-etc, irssi-xmpp, js_of_ocaml, konoha, kyua-atf-compat,
libktorrent, libopus, libpeas, mcollective, mksandbox,
modular-xorg-protos, mosh, ocaml-bz2, ocaml-curl,
ocaml-deriving-ocsigen, openafs, openxenmanager, opus-tools, about 45
perl modules, plink, 11 python modules, qoauth, 6 ruby modules, shtk,
since, sourcesans-fonts, sysbuild, sysbuild-user, sysupgrade,
tcl-tDOM, 9 texlive modular packages, virt-manager, virtinst, vte029,
wargames, wgetpaste, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms,
xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm, xcb-util036, xdvipdfmx, zsync
 
Package Removals
================
 
ArX, asterisk-sounds-extra, asterisk16, centericq, gcc3-java,
jitterbug, the merb package, obconf, ruby-psych, ruby19, scim-bridge,
simian, simian-docs, sope, the suse113 emulation packages, tcl-tclX,
thy, tk-expect, tk-tclX
 
For the next branch, we plan removing samba30; samba33 is scheduled
for removal for 2013Q2.
 
This is also the last branch to contain python25 (it was EOL'd about a
year ago).
 
Other packages scheduled for removal are:
databases/sqlsharpgtk
devel/stlport
textproc/p5-PDF-API2-Simple
misc/p5-Locale-Maketext
lang/pnet*
lang/gcc3-ada
lang/gcc34-ada
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package openjpeg-1.5.0nb1 has a arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability, see
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3535
%
 
Package of the Quarter
======================
Jorg Sonnenberger suggested clang, for making development fun again.
Alistair Crooks suggested ikiwiki, in honor of the new pkgsrc.org website.
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
While more information can be found in
        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
        http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2012Q3/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
        cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2012Q3 -P pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download source, and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform)
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance.  (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001).
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 19 platforms
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        HPUX
        Haiku
        IRIX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OSF1
        OpenBSD
        QNX
	Solaris/Illumos
        UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Thomas Klausner
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Mon Oct  1 09:58:15 CEST 2012

pkgsrc-2012Q4
=============
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce that pkgsrc-2012Q4 is available. 
This release marks the 15th birthday of pkgsrc (the first entries were
added in October 1997), and this release includes many new packages
and updates.
 
pkgsrc is a framework allowing third-party software to be built,
installed, and managed in a consistent, logical and easy manner.  The
resulting binary packages can be manipulated using binary package
managers like pkgin and nih.  The framework is portable across
operating systems, making it easy to support diverse systems from
Windows to BSD, and including Linux and Mac OS X - see below for a
complete list of platforms.
 
pkgsrc releases take place at the end of every quarter.  The
pkgsrc-2012Q4 release is the 49th release of pkgsrc.
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
The latest figures we have for different platforms, include:
 
11942 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64
11229 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-current/amd64
11336 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
10265 binary packages for Linux-3.2.7/x86_64
9519 binary packages for SunOS-5.11/x86_64
11105 binary packages for Dragonfly-3.3/i386
10985 pkgsrc entries
 
178 packages have been added this quarter
30 packages have been removed this quarter
1259 packages have been updated this quarter
2 packages have been renamed this quarter
 
It is interesting to note that, according to pkgsrc-bulk figures on
NetBSD-current/amd64 bulk builds, more packages now build with clang
than with gcc - thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger.
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.  A large amount of work has been done this quarter to
building packages on different platforms with newer compilers.  The
total number of packages has actually gone down since the summer,
mainly due to the removal of support for two older versions of python.
 
New packages include contao30, deforaos, ffmpeg-1.0.1, freeswitch
sounds, json-c, KeePass, moneyguru, motif-2.3.4, otptool, podcastdl,
polysh, postgres92, python-3.3, sun-jdk7, sun-jre7, swig2
 
Notable updates include asterisk, automake, bacula, bind, boost,
cairo, cdrtools, cflow, coccinelle, cscope, curl, django, dovecot,
drupal7, fetchmail, firefox, gcc47, git (as scmgit), glusterfs,
gnome3, gnuplot, gnustep, gv, heimdal, hydrogen, ikiwiki, jenkins,
kde, knot, libevent, libreoffice, mercurial, modular-xorg-server,
mono, ng, openjpeg, openldap, openmpi, opensc, pidgin, pkgin, png,
postfix, postgres91, postgresql92, qrencode, R, roundcube, samba,
seamonkey, sqlite3, thunderbird, Transmission, typo3, valgrind, viewvc
webmin, wireshark, xlockmore, xterm, xulrunner
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package libtasn1-2.11 has a local-system-compromise vulnerability, see 
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1569
Package gnutls-2.12.14nb1 has a local-system-compromise vulnerability, see 
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1573
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
While more information can be found in
        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
        http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2012Q4/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
        cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r 
pkgsrc-2012Q4 -P pkgsrc
 
 
Package of the Quarter
======================
Thomas Klausner nominated pkgsrc/print/lilypond, a music typesetter,
Jared Mcneill nominated samba (used with pam-mkhomedir to integrate
with Active Directory), and Jeff Rizzo nominated pkgin, rsync and zsh
as being ubiquitous on machines he used.
 
About pkgsrc
============
The strengths of building packages from source are that:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform)
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance.  (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated
 
+ local or site options which span packages can be set in a standard way
 
+ pkgsrc includes a framework for linking only with pre-requisite
packages which are explicitly named; no "build system package"
leakage can take place
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 19 platforms:
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        HPUX
        Haiku
        IRIX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OSF1
        OpenBSD
        QNX
        SunOS/Solaris/SmartOS
        UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Thu Jan  3 09:51:17 UTC 2013

pkgsrc-2013Q1
=============
 
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce that pkgsrc-2013Q1 is available.
As usual, this release includes many new packages and updates.
 
pkgsrc releases take place at the end of every quarter. The
pkgsrc-2013Q1 release is the 50th release of pkgsrc.
 
To honor this release, we've finally decided on a logo for pkgsrc.
It follows the design by Chris Wareham and Lubomir Sedlacik,
implemented by Dieter Baron. Thank you!
 
Take a look at it on the pkgsrc wiki: http://www.pkgsrc.org
 
This version adds support for Cygwin. More work to be done, but you
should be able to build some packages already.
 
This will be the last release supporting ruby-1.8. Please migrate to
ruby-1.9.
 
About pkgsrc
============
 
pkgsrc is a framework allowing third-party software to be built,
installed, and managed in a consistent, logical and easy manner. The
framework is portable across operating systems, making it easy to
support diverse systems from Windows to BSD, and including Linux and
Mac OS X - see below for a complete list of platforms.
 
pkgsrc allows end users or system administrators to build their own
binary packages from source, or to use pre-built binary packages that
were themselves built from source using the pkgsrc framework. The
resulting binary packages can be downloaded if necessary, installed,
and manipulated using simple tools provided with pkgsrc, or using more
sophisticated binary package managers such as pkgin and nih.
 
The pkgsrc project distributes the framework that can be used to build
packages on all the supported platforms. The project also distributes
binary packages for a few of the supported platforms. Third parties
may distribute binary packages for some platforms.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 20 platforms:
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Cygwin
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        Haiku
        HPUX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        IRIX
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OpenBSD
        OSF1
        QNX
        SunOS/Solaris/SmartOS
        UnixWare
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
 
The total number of packages provided by pkgsrc-2013Q1 is:
 
12111 total pkgsrc entries
181 packages have been added this quarter
60 packages have been removed this quarter
1270 packages have been updated this quarter
1 package has been renamed this quarter
1 package has been moved this quarter
 
The latest figures we have for available binary packages are:
 
11141 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-5.1/i386
11660 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
11105 binary packages for Dragonfly-3.3/i386
10595 binary packages for Linux-3.2.7/x86_64
 9888 binary packages for SunOS-5.11/i386
 9840 binary packages for SunOS-5.11/x86_64
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Changes this quarter
====================
 
A large amount of work has been done this quarter to building packages
on different platforms with newer compilers.
 
The default version of the PHP language was raised to 5.4.
 
The default version for MySQL was also raised, to 5.5.
 
ghostscript was split into two packages: ghostscript-gpl (the older
version, available under the GPL) and ghostscript-agpl (the current
version, available under the AGPL) since the AGPL is not in the
default-allowed licenses for pkgsrc.
 
transmission-gui was split in two packages, transmission-gtk and
transmission-qt.
 
New packages include R-intervals, ansible, autoconf-archive, bwping,
cantarell-fonts, compat packages for NetBSD 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0
consolamono-ttf, courier-prime, cvsps3, a few deforaos packages, dhex,
di, docx2txt, eigen3, electrix, euca2ools, firefox17,
gimp-high-pass-filter, google-glog, gxmessage, gyp, i3, ibniz,
ibus-mozc, icinga-base, ipv6-toolkit, isl, java-rxtx, jsMath-fonts,
kyua-testers, labelnation, libexecinfo, libint, libnetpgpverify,
libsodium, libuv, log2timeline, lua-lpeg, lxsession, menu-cache, mimp,
minimalist, mozc-elisp, mozc-server, mozc-tool, mpqc, mysql-5.6
packages, nagios-plugin-dumpdates, nagios-plugin-raidctl,
netpgpverify, nginx-devel, nss-pgsql, open-vcdiff, openvpn-nagios,
around 17 perl packages, pam-pgsql, pear-Math_BigInteger, perltidy,
php-pdo_odbc, php-piwigo, php-sugarcrm, php-tt-rss,
php-zendoptimizerplus, py-beets, py-flask, py-tornado, about 26 more
Python packages, qcomicbook, qpdf, qpdfview, rabbiter, reposurgeon,
around 34 ruby packages, se, squid3, stud, subversion16, tex-textcase,
tex-textcase-doc, tktable, toppler, transmission-gtk, transmission-qt,
tweak, uncrustify, uqm, user_cygwin, xdot, zoneminder.
 
Package of the Quarter
======================
 
Aleksej Saushev recommends MPI-3 support via MPICH 3 and MPQC for
those interested in quantum chemistry.
 
OBATA Akio nominates Mozc, a modern Japanese Input Method Editor.
 
Advantages of pkgsrc
====================
 
Advantages of using pkgsrc rather than either building from source
without using pkgsrc, or installing pre-built binary software without
using pkgsrc, include:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches which
are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which are
known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily on
the same platform)
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed.
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had support for signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ pkgsrc provides a mechanism to install a package for the relevant
operating system or architecture if such a package hasn't been created
by the software vendor or third party or is difficult to find.
 
+ With pkgsrc, complete dependency and pre-requisite package
information is held and used by the package management software - if
packages rely on other packages to function properly, that
pre-requisite will be built or downloaded if necessary, installed, and
managed as part of the package installation process.
 
+ local or site options which span packages can be set in a standard
way
 
+ pkgsrc includes a framework for linking only with pre-requisite
packages which are explicitly named; no "build system package" leakage
can take place
 
Thomas Klausner
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Mon Apr  1 16:45:00 CEST 2013

The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2013Q2 branch.  There are many new packages, and some bug
fixes.  A start has been made on full cross-compilation across NetBSD
architectures, and, while not yet ready for prime-time, it is usable
in a fairly large number of packages.
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
12389 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64
11912 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-6.1/amd64
11906 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
10254 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
 
318 packages have been added this quarter
41 packages have been renamed this quarter
32 packages have been removed this quarter
1564 packages have been updated this quarter
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
Package Additions
=================
Our aspell and ispell dictionaries were overhauled to bring us up to
date, and we gained 50+ KDE4 localisations.  Also notable were
the additions of node.js, a number of kde4 games and multimedia
applications were split out into their own releases, and gcc-4.8,
opencobol, and our X11 and Mesa packages were also brought up to date.
 
Package Removals
================
Amongst others, we said goodbye to:  postgresql-8.3, xulrunner,
clutter08, ruby-clutter.  Python-3.1 has been replaced by python-3.3,
and bind-9.7 has also transferred all its zones into the sunset.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package bash-4.2nb1 has a buffer-overflow vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3410
%
 
Package of the Quarter
======================
John Nemeth nominated xenkernel42 and xentools42, as a simple way of
getting modern support for Xen. My own vote goes to jq as a marvellous
way of interpreting and displaying JSON.
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
While more information can be found in
	http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
	http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2013Q2/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
	cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2013Q2 -P pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download source, and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform.)
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance.  (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 20 platforms:
 
	AIX
	BSDOS
	Cygwin
	Darwin/Mac OS X
	DragonFly
	FreeBSD
	FreeMiNT
	HPUX
	Haiku
	IRIX
	Interix/SFU/SUA
	Linux
	Minix3
	MirBSD
	NetBSD
	OSF1
	OpenBSD
	QNX
	Solaris/illumos
	UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Mon Jul  1 17:04:44 PDT 2013

pkgsrc-2013Q3
=============
 
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch. There are many new packages, and some bug fixes.
Lots of perl packages were updated and added for this branch. We would
also like to emphasize the new lang/go package and the newly added
support for GNU/kFreeBSD.
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
13184 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64
12681 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
11026 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
10971 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/amd64
 
180 packages have been added this quarter
4 packages have been renamed this quarter
15 packages have been removed this quarter
1366 packages have been updated this quarter
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
Package Additions
=================
Many perl packages were added. We also added packages for the new
major 2.0 branches of ffmpeg and SDL.
 
Package Removals
================
mysql5-{server,client} has been removed, please migrate to a newer
(supported) version.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package bash-4.2nb1 has a buffer-overflow vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3410
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
More information can be found in
	http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
	http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2013Q3/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
	cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2013Q3 -P pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform).
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture.
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 21 platforms:
 
	AIX
	BSDOS
	Cygwin
	Darwin/Mac OS X
	DragonFly
	FreeBSD
	FreeMiNT
	GNU/kFreeBSD
	HPUX
	Haiku
	IRIX
	Interix/SFU/SUA
	Linux
	Minix3
	MirBSD
	NetBSD
	OSF1
	OpenBSD
	QNX
	Solaris/illumos
	UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Thomas Klausner
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Mon Sep 30 11:18:35 CEST 2013

pkgsrc-2013Q4
=============
 
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2013Q4 branch. There are many new packages, and some bug fixes.
 
Numbers of Packages
===================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64
13049 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/amd64
11298 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
11249 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/amd64
10111 binary packages built with gcc for Darwin 10.8.0/i386 (OS X)
9324 binary packages built with gcc for FreeBSD 9.1/amd64
 
279 packages have been added this quarter
3 packages have been renamed this quarter
45 packages have been removed this quarter
1380 packages have been updated this quarter
 
These numbers may not compare exactly to other (binary) packaging
systems; some packaging systems split large packages like boost up
into multiple packages, while others keep unused and unbuildable
packages.
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
Package Additions
=================
We would like to emphasize the new libreoffice4, qt5, and
SUSE-13.1-based Linux emulation support packages.
 
Package of the Month
====================
 
Hubert Feyrer nominated Ansible, for automating system setup and
configuration tasks with interfaces to many subsystems that can be
combined, e.g. software installation (pkgin!), user and database
management, Amazon's AWS cloud services. The package was recently
updated to match the latest Ansible release 1.4.1.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous, and Tim
Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from audit-packages is
shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package bash-4.2nb1 has a buffer-overflow vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3410
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
More information can be found in
	http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
	http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2013Q4/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
	cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2013Q4 -P pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform).
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture.
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 21 platforms:
 
	AIX
	BSDOS
	Cygwin
	Darwin/Mac OS X
	DragonFly
	FreeBSD
	FreeMiNT
	GNU/kFreeBSD
	HPUX
	Haiku
	IRIX
	Interix/SFU/SUA
	Linux
	Minix3
	MirBSD
	NetBSD
	OSF1
	OpenBSD
	QNX
	Solaris/illumos
	UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Thomas Klausner
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Tue Dec 31 11:26:48 CET 2013

pkgsrc-2014Q1
=============
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2014Q1 branch.  We would like to emphasize the newly added
support for OpenServer, as well as python-3.3 being a first-class
citizen.
 
Number of Packages
==================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64
13841 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/x86_64
12093 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
12046 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/x86_64
11445 binary packages built with gcc for FreeBSD 9/x86_64
11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64
 
222 packages have been added this quarter
33 packages removed
1 packages downgraded
1681 packages updated
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
This will be the 42nd quarterly release of pkgsrc.
 
Package Additions
=================
git-svn was added to pkgsrc, along with many python and perl modules,
some new converters, and ruby 2.1.1.
 
Package Removals
================
We actively manage the packages in pkgsrc, and delete ones that are
not necessary.  We said goodbye to cvsup, SmartEiffel, ezm3, snobol,
and some mbone packages.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security%pkgsrc.org@localhost maintains lists of
vulnerable packages, along with reference URLs relating to the
exposure.  We thank OBATA Akio, Daniel Horecki, Guillaume Lasmayous,
and Tim Zingelman for their hard work.  Sample output from
audit-packages is shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package sudo-1.7.10p7 has a local-security-bypass vulnerability, see http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/env_add.html
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
More information can be found in
        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
        http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2014Q1/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
        cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r pkgsrc-2014Q1 -P pkgsrc
 
or by pulling from the git mirrors at:
	https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc
	https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform).
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture.
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 22 platforms:
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Cygwin
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        GNU/kFreeBSD
        HPUX
        Haiku
        IRIX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OSF1
        OpenBSD
        QNX
        SCO OpenServer
        Solaris/illumos
        UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Thu Apr  3 21:50:17 PDT 2014

pkgsrc-2014Q2
=============
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2014Q2 branch.  We welcome python-3.4, as well as many new and
updated packages, a new default postgreSQL version, 9.3, and Lua
multi-version support.
 
Number of Packages
==================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
14895 possible pkgsrc packages in pkgsrc-2014Q2
12116 pkgsrc entries as reported by lintpkgsrc (unique package Makefiles)
14254 binary packages built with gcc for NetBSD-current/x86_64
14895 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/x86_64
12037 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
12635 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/x86_64
13118 binary packages built with gcc for Linux-2.6.32/x86_64
10868 binary packages built with gcc for Darwin 10.8.0/i386
12316 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10.0/x86_64
 
In addition, this quarter:
244 packages have been added
2 packages have been renamed
18 packages removed, 1 with a successor
1085 packages updated
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
This is the 43rd quarterly release of pkgsrc.
 
Changes to pkgsrc
=================
Ryosuke Moro has greatly improved on our haskell package support. 
Many pkgsrc developers and contributors have all all helped with PR
submissions, fixes and bug reports.
 
By default, pkgsrc now installs fonts into share/fonts/X11 (instead of
lib/X11/fonts, which was for historical reasons). There should be no
visible change to most users, except if the fontpath has been changed.
 
In addition, PostgreSQL 9.3 has now been made the default version, and
Lua multi-version support has been added.
 
Package Additions
=================
python-3.4 and elasticsearch were added to pkgsrc, as well as python,
perl and ruby wrappers for many libraries.
 
Package Removals
================
We actively manage the packages in pkgsrc, and delete ones that are
not necessary.  We said goodbye to Berkeley db-4.6, Xen 2.0 and Apache
versions 1.3 and 2.0.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank the whole pkgsrc-security team for their hard work.  Sample
output from audit-packages is shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package python27-2.7.7nb1 has a directory-traversal vulnerability, see http://bugs.python.org/issue21766
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
More information can be found in
        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
        http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2014Q2/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
        cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r 
pkgsrc-2014Q2 -P pkgsrc
 
or by pulling from the git mirrors at:
        https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc
        https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ package builders can choose to customise their own installations by
means of the option framework.  pre-built packages from other builders
may not have specified the same options.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform).
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture.
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 22 platforms:
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Cygwin
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        GNU/kFreeBSD
        HPUX
        Haiku
        IRIX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OSF1
        OpenBSD
        QNX
        SCO OpenServer
        Solaris/illumos
        UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Tue Jul  1 08:29:47 PDT 2014

pkgsrc-2014Q3
=============
The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the
pkgsrc-2014Q3 branch.  We welcome gcc-4.9 packages, say hello to
snobol again, note that some R packages have moved within pkgsrc to
better reflect their functionality, and X11 on netbsd-5 now defaults
to modular.
 
Number of Packages
==================
In pkgsrc, there are:
 
15186 possible pkgsrc packages in pkgsrc-2014Q3
12335 pkgsrc entries as reported by lintpkgsrc (unique package Makefiles)
14741 binary packages built with clang for NetBSD-current/x86_64
13120 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386
13026 binary packages built with gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/x86_64
13484 binary packages built with gcc for Linux-2.6.32/x86_64
11478 binary packages built with gcc for Darwin 10.8.0/i386
12363 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10.0/x86_64
(also 13016 binary packages built with dash as shell and gcc for Joyent's SmartOS/i386)
 
In addition, this quarter:
210 packages have been added
3 packages have been renamed
15 packages removed, 12 with a successor
1123 packages updated
 
Pkgsrc Release Schedule
=======================
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.  We
believe that this is a sweet spot between too many updates, and
keeping abreast of issues like security vulnerabilities.  Pkgsrc is
not tied to any one operating system or architecture, which gives us
the ability to decouple the releases from any operating system
releases, and to concentrate on the packages themselves.
 
This is the 44th quarterly release of pkgsrc.
 
Changes to pkgsrc
=================
Ryosuke Moro continues to improve our haskell package support. 
Many pkgsrc developers and contributors have all all helped with PR
submissions, fixes and bug reports.
 
Package Additions
=================
gcc-4.9 and tinyxml2 were added to pkgsrc, as well as python, perl and
ruby wrappers for many libraries.  It's also worth noting that the
bash patch from pkgsrc to disable function definitions in the
environment, made by Christos Zoulas, has been adopted by many in
mitigating the shellshock bug.
 
Package Removals
================
We actively manage the packages in pkgsrc, and delete ones that are
not necessary.  We said goodbye to subversion-1.6 and eric3 for this
branch.
 
Other Changes
=============
Greg Troxel made the default X11 version for NetBSD-5 to be the
modular X11 as found in pkgsrc.  The march of the haskell pkgsrc
entries continues, thanks to Ryosuke Moro.  We welcome reports for
building pkgtools/cwrapper on exotic platforms.  It will soon become a
central part of the pkgsrc infrastructure.  All feedback to Joerg
Sonnenberger (joerg@pkgsrc.org) or tech-pkg@pkgsrc.org, please.
 
Pkgsrc-security
===============
One neat feature of pkgsrc is its ability to sort package versions
based on the version numbers.  It's used in audit-packages, to report
on any installed packages which may have security vulnerabilities in
them.  pkgsrc-security@pkgsrc.org maintains lists of vulnerable
packages, along with reference URLs relating to the exposure.  We
thank the whole pkgsrc-security team for their hard work.  Sample
output from audit-packages is shown below:
 
% audit-packages
Package bash-4.3 has a arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271
Package bash-4.3 has a arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability, see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7169
%
 
Getting pkgsrc
==============
More information can be found in
        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
 
tar files for pkgsrc, along with checksums, can be found at
        http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2014Q3/
 
and anonymous cvs can be used:
        cvs -z3 -q -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -r 
pkgsrc-2014Q3 -P pkgsrc
 
or by pulling from the git mirrors at:
        https://github.com/jsonn/pkgsrc
        https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc
or the mercurial mirror at:
	https://bitbucket.org/agc/pkgsrc.hg
 
About pkgsrc
============
pkgsrc is a cross-platform packaging system.  It allows people to
download sources and to build and install binary packages on one or
more platforms.
 
Building packages from source is useful for a number of reasons:
 
+ not only is the provenance of source code checked (by using multiple
checksums), with pkgsrc, the version of source code you are working
with is the same that other developers and users have.
 
+ package builders can choose to customise their own installations by
means of the option framework.  pre-built packages from other builders
may not have specified the same options.
 
+ patches are maintained in a central repository, and, again, are
checked at patch application time by using digests. The patches
which are applied to the sources being built are the same ones which
are known to be used and proved by other pkgsrc users (not necessarily
on the same platform).
 
+ by building from source, all doubts about compilers, build practices,
source code cleanliness, and packaging differences are removed. 
Digital signatures of binary packages, while useful in themselves,
only prove certain aspects of binary package provenance. (pkgsrc has
had signed packages since 2001.)
 
+ it may be difficult or impossible to find a pre-built package for
the operating system or architecture.
 
+ a pre-built package may have further or conflicting pre-requisites,
which are themselves difficult to find or build. By building everything,
including pre-requisites, a from-source packaging system can ensure
that pre-requisites are present and integrated.
 
At the present time, pkgsrc supports 22 platforms:
 
        AIX
        BSDOS
        Cygwin
        Darwin/Mac OS X
        DragonFly
        FreeBSD
        FreeMiNT
        GNU/kFreeBSD
        HPUX
        Haiku
        IRIX
        Interix/SFU/SUA
        Linux
        Minix3
        MirBSD
        NetBSD
        OSF1
        OpenBSD
        QNX
        SCO OpenServer
        Solaris/illumos
        UnixWare
 
Complete dependency and pre-requisite package information is held and
used by the package management software - if packages rely on other
packages to function properly, that pre-requisite will be built,
installed and managed as part of the package installation process. 
Binary packages can be managed using pkgin.
 
Alistair Crooks
On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
Wed Oct  1 01:20:50 UTC 2014

The pkgsrc-2010Q4 branch was created in pkgsrc at 2011-01-11 04:20 UTC.

There are 10483 packages in this branch.

Headline versions of packages:
apache-2.2.17			www/apache-22
bzr-2.1.1			devel/bzr
firefox-3.6.13			www/firefox
git-1.7.3.4			devel/scmgit
gnome-2.32.1 (mostly)		meta-pkgs/gnome-platform
kde-4.5.4			meta-pkgs/kde4
mercurial-1.7.2			devel/mercurial
mysql-client-5.1.1		databases/mysql51-client
mysql-server-5.1.1		databases/mysql51-server
openoffice-3.1.1nb9		misc/openoffice3
openoffice-bin-3.2.1nb1		misc/openoffice3-bin
perl-5.12.2nb1			lang/perl5
php-5.3.5			lang/php53
postgresql83-8.3.13		databases/postgresql83
postgresql84-8.4.6		databases/postgresql84
postgresql90-9.0.2		databases/postgresql90
python-2.5.5nb1			lang/python25
python-2.6.6nb5			lang/python26
ruby18-1.8.7.330		lang/ruby
ruby19-1.9.2pl136		lang/ruby19
samba-3.3.14nb1			net/samba33
samba-3.5.6			net/samba35
seamonkey-2.0.11		www/seamonkey
subversion-1.6.15		devel/subversion
wireshark-1.4.3			net/wireshark
zope3-3.3.1nb1			www/zope3

Removed packages:
gqview-gtk1, ibus-table-array30, ibus-table-extraphrase, hcidump,
postgresql82 (EOL), tex-apilike, and tex-apilike-doc

New packages (selection):
libAppleWM, monodevelop-database, kdenlive, opendkim, flashrom, dcc,
cyrus-imapd24, dovecot2, cfengine3, libpbc, some TeX packages, libraw,
shotwell, dconf, libtomcrypt, ldpc, knock, xournal, ficl, samba35,
libjpeg-turbo, quvi, asterisk18, renderproto9, supertuxkart,
boomerang, netbt-hcidump, cutter, mypaint, fml, and gajim.

Infrastructure changes:
None

Pkgsrc platforms:
AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin (Mac OS X), DragonFly, FreeBSD, FreeMiNT, HP/UX,
Haiku, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD, OSF/1, OpenBSD, SunOS (Solaris),
and UnixWare

releng-pkgsrc team:
tron sbd spz salo rtr pettai schnoebe

pkgsrc-security team:
joerg kefren obache gls tez tnn tonnerre wiz pettai

Over 1000 Secunia advisories evaluated and 269 entries added or
updated in vulnerability audit database.