pkgsrc-2018Q2 packages for illumos now available

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

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that the pkgsrc-2018Q2 binary package sets for
illumos are now available.  As always you can install pkgsrc on any
illumos distribution using the instructions here:

  https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/

Thanks to efforts from the NetBSD developers, this release includes a
number of updates to the available desktop environment, including Mate
1.20, Firefox 61, Darktable, and others as shown in this example
screenshot running pkgsrc on Tribblix:

  https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/img/illumos-desktop-2018Q2.png

SmartOS users should use the new 18.2.0 images via imgadm(1M) due to
be released shortly.

Changes since pkgsrc-2018Q1:

 - Number of binary packages available:

   - x86_64: 18,500+
   - i386: 18,500+
   - multiarch: 14,500+

 - Notable new packages and updates (not all necessarily available as
   binary packages) include:

   - Clang/LLVM 6.0.1
   - Emacs 26.1
   - Firefox 60.1.0 ESR, 61.0
   - GCC 8.1.0
   - Go 1.10.3
   - Mate 1.20
   - Mutt 1.10.0
   - MySQL 5.7.22
   - Nginx 1.13.12, 1.14.0
   - NodeJS 6.1431, 8.11.3, 10.5.0
   - OpenJDK8 1.8.172
   - PHP 5.6.36, 7.0.30, 7.1.19, 7.2.7
   - pkgin 0.11.4
   - Postfix 3.3.1
   - PostgreSQL 9.3.23, 9.4.18, 9.5.13, 9.6.9, 10.4
   - PowerDNS 4.1.2
   - Rust 1.27.0
   - SQLite 3.24.0
   - Xorg 1.20.0

 - Package removals include:

   - NodeJS 4.8.7
   - PostgreSQL 9.2.24

 - Infrastructure changes:

   - pkgin has received a large number of changes to improve reliability
     and performance, especially during upgrades.

   - Default package versions have been bumped for PHP (7.1, previously
     5.6), Ruby (2.4, previously 2.3), and Emacs (26, previously 25).

 - Commit stats since 2018Q1:

   - 181 packages added
   - 15 packages removed
   - 1,995 package updates (to 1,414 unique packages)
   - 4,225 commits from 70 contributors

Please report any bugs or feature requests specifically related to
this binary package set on our GitHub issues page:

  https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/issues

Enjoy!

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com