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Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release

To : pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost

: Subject : Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release

: From : Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>

: Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:59:51 -0500

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 65th 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, 190 packages were added, 96 packages were removed, and 1,868 package updates (to 1388 unique packages) were processed since the pkgsrc-2019Q3 release. As usual, a large number of updates and additions were processed for packages for go (14), guile (11), perl (170), php (10), python (426), and ruby (110). This continues pkgsrc's tradition of adding useful packages, updating many packages to more current versions, and pruning unmaintained packages that are believed to have essentially no users. For the 2019Q4 release we welcome the following notable package additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection: - Many qt and kde packages were updated to qt5 and kde5 - ansible 2.9.2 - clang (and llvm) 9.0.0 - cmake 3.16.1 - compat80 8.0 (NetBSD 8 compatibility libs for -9 and -current) - emacs-snapshot 27.0.50 - erlang 22.1.8 - firefox 70.01 - git 2.24.1 - go 1.13.5 - libreoffice 6.3.3.2 - openjdk 11 - Mesa 19.2.7 - meson 0.52.1 (the package was also renamed) - mono 6.4.0.98 - mutt 1.13.2 - nextcloud 17.0.0 - nodejs 13.3.0 - php 7.4.1 - pkgin 0.14.0 - postgresql 12 - py-certbot 1.0.0 - python 3.8 - qgis 3.8.3 - rust 1.39.0 - sqlite 3.30.0 - tor 0.4.2.5 We say notable goodbyes to: - NodeJS 6 - PHP 7.1 Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure: - Many small improvements, but no significant changes Users of netbsd-7 (with gcc) should expect significant breakage as the upstreams of many packages require newer compilers and/or language features. This is newly mentioned, but the situation is not sharply worse than previous branches. Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at http://pkgin.net. pkgsrc itself can be obtained as a tar file, as a CVS checkout, or via a git mirror. See https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html. The branch name for the 2019Q4 branch is "pkgsrc-2019Q4". Greg