head 1.2; access; symbols pkgsrc-2014Q4:1.1.0.2 pkgsrc-2014Q4-base:1.1; locks; strict; comment @# @; 1.2 date 2014.12.30.09.34.16; author obache; state dead; branches; next 1.1; commitid no4unFbfelLHU24y; 1.1 date 2014.11.09.01.35.45; author obache; state Exp; branches; next ; commitid DpnWPpSNoTBSUrXx; desc @@ 1.2 log @Drop release announcements from repository. It seems that PMC have no mind to manage and recod in repository tree. @ text @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 @ 1.1 log @Add missing announcement collections. @ text @@