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Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release

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: Subject : Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release

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

: Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 10:54:28 +0100

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 63rd quarterly release of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available with more than 20,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/ In total, 84 packages were added, 61 packages were removed, and 1,881 package updates (to 1,350 unique packages) were processed since the pkgsrc-2019Q1 release. For the 2019Q2 release we welcome the following notable package additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection: - BIND 9.11.8, 9.12.4pl2, 9.14.3 - Emacs 26.2 - Firefox 60.7.2, 67.0.4 - GCC 8.3.0 - Go 1.11.10, 1.12.5 - gpsd 3.18.1 - Irssi 1.2.1 - LibreOffice 6.2.4.2 - MATE 1.22.1 - MySQL 5.6.44, 5.7.26 - Mutt 1.21.1 - Nextcloud 16.0.1 - Node.js 10.16.0 - PHP 7.1.30, 7.2.19, 7.3.6 - pkgin 0.12.0 - PostgreSQL 9.4.23, 9.5.18, 9.6.14, 10.9, 11.4 - Python 2.7.16, 3.6.8, 3.7.3 - Ruby 2.4.6, 2.6.3 - Ruby on Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.3 - Rust 1.35.0 - SQLite 3.28.0 - WebKitGTK 2.24.2 We say notable goodbyes to: - Acroread 7, 8, 9 - BIND 9.10 - Firefox 3.6, 45 - PostgreSQL 9.3 - Python 3.4, 3.5 - Ruby 2.3 - Sun JRE/JDK 6 Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure: - Python 3.7 is now the default python, changing from 2.7. - Added support for LIBRSVG_TYPE that can be set to 'c' or 'rust' to respectively select librsvg C implementation (version 2.40.20) or Rust implementation (version 2.44.14, currently maintained version). 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 2019Q2 branch is "pkgsrc-2019Q2". -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com