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Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release

To : tech-pkg%pkgsrc.org@localhost, pkgsrc-users%pkgsrc.org@localhost

: Subject : Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release

: From : Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>

: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:39:10 +0100

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 55th quarterly release of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available with more than 18000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/ A neutral overview can be found at https://www.openhub.net/p/pkgsrc For the 2017Q2 release we welcome the following notable package additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection: - Firefox 54 - GCC 7.1 - MATE 1.18 - Ruby 2.4 - Ruby on Rails 4.2 - TeX Live 2017 - Thunderbird 52.1 - Xen 4.8 We say goodbye to: - Ruby 1.8 - Ruby 2.1 The following infrastructure changes were introduced: - Implement optional new pkgtasks and init infrastructure for pkginstall. - Various enhancements and fixes for building with ccache. - Add support to USE_LANGUAGES for newer C++ standards. - Enhanced support for SSP, FORTIFY, and RELRO. - The GitHub mirror has migrated to https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc In total, 210 packages were added, 43 packages were removed, and 1,780 package updates were processed since the pkgsrc-2017Q1 release. Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at http://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc or via cvs or tar file -- see https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html. The branch name for the 2017Q2 branch is "pkgsrc-2017Q2". Enjoy! -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com