Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

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