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Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release

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: Subject : Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release

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

: Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:30:18 +0100

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 60th quarterly release of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available with more than 22,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/ In total, 161 packages were added, 25 packages were removed, and 1,321 package updates (to 996 unique packages) were processed since the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. For the 2018Q3 release we welcome the following notable package additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection: - Asterisk 15.4.1 - BIND 9.11.4pl1, 9.12.2pl1 - Clang/LLVM 6.0.1 - Firefox 62.0 - GCC 8.2.0 - Go 1.11 - Lua 5.3.5 - Many Libretro emulators - MySQL 5.7.23 - Nextcloud 13.0.5 - Node.js 6.14.4, 8.12.0, 10.11.0 / npm 6.4.1 - ownCloud 10.0.9 - Perl 5.28.0 - PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22, 7.2.10 - pkgin 0.11.6 - PostgreSQL 10.5, 9.3.24, 9.4.19, 9.5.14, 9.6.10 - Python 3.4.9, 3.5.6, 3.6.6, 3.7.0 - Ruby on Rails 5.1.6 - Rust 1.29.1 - SQLite 3.25.1 - vim 8.1.0390 - Xen 4.11.0 We say goodbye to: - Asterisk 1.8 - BIND 9.9.13pl1 Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure: - Go packages are now versioned. Instead of lang/go, there is lang/go19, lang/go110, and lang/go111. Depending on the OS, an appropriate version is chosen as the default, and they can be installed simultaneously. 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 2018Q3 branch is "pkgsrc-2018Q3". -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com