pkgsrc-2021Q3 branch announcement

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi!

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 72nd quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
with more than 25,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/

In total, 131 packages were added, 106 packages were removed, and 1754
package updates (to 1277 unique packages) were processed since the
pkgsrc-2021Q2 release.  Updates include 306 Python packages, 216 Ruby
packages, 152 perl5 packages, and 117 R packages.

As always, many packages have been brought up to date relative to
upstream.  For the 2021Q3 release we welcome the following
notable packages additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection:

 - asterisk 13.38.3, 16.19.0, 18.6.0
 - cmake 3.21.2
 - Firefox 78.14.0 (as an ESR), 91.1.0 (as an ESR)
 - Go 1.16.8, 1.17.1
 - i3 4.19.2
 - JACK Audio Connection Kit 1.9.19
 - LibreOffice 7.2.0.4
 - llvm/clang/lldb 12.0.1
 - MariaDB 10.4.20, 10.5.12, 10.6.4
 - Node.js 12.22.6, 14.17.6
 - PHP 7.3.31, 7.4.24, 8.0.11
 - Podman 3.3.1 [uses NVMM on NetBSD]
 - PostgreSQL 9.6.23, 10.18, 11.13, 12.8, 13.4
 - Python 3.6.15, 3.7.12, 3.8.12, 3.9.7
 - qemu 6.1.0
 - qgis 3.16.11
 - Rust 1.54.0
 - spotify-qt 3.7
 - SQLite 3.36.0
 - Syncthing 1.18.1
 - syslog-ng-3.34.1
 - Thunderbird 78.12.00
 - tor 0.4.6.7
 - Tor Browser 10.5.6
 - vlc-3.0.16
 - WebKitGTK 2.32.4

This branch we say notable goodbyes to:

 - a bunch of go packages, used only for building other departed packages
 - asterisk 15.7.4
 - Go 1.15

Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure and notes:

 - The default version of MySQL as set by the pkgsrc infrastructure
   was changed from MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.5.

   PHP packages are no longer tied to a specific MySQL version
   due to the native driver being enabled by default.

   You can change the default by setting MYSQL_VERSION_DEFAULT in mk.conf.

 - Rust support has been added for big endian NetBSD/aarch64, and
   pre-i686 NetBSD/i386 (allowing rust to be used on many x86 embedded
   boards).

 - graphics/ilmbase was superseded by math/imath. ilmbase should be
   removed when upgrading.

 - Note that Firefox, Thunderbird and likely other packages with
   difficult dependencies do not build on NetBSD 8 and other systems
   with non-recent compilers.  Users who wish to run these programs
   are advised to update to NetBSD 9 or newer versions of other
   operating systems.

Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
https://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from via CVS or
tar file, and also from a mirror at https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc.
See https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html for instructions.
The branch name for the 2021Q3 branch is "pkgsrc-2021Q3".

Cheers,
 Thomas