pkgsrc-2018Q3 packages for illumos now available

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

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that the pkgsrc-2018Q3 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/

SmartOS users should use the new 18.3.0 images via imgadm(1M) due to
be released shortly.

Changes since pkgsrc-2018Q2:

 - Number of binary packages available:

   - x86_64: 19,500+
   - i386: 19,500+
   - multiarch: 14,500+

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

   - Asterisk 15.4.1
   - BIND 9.11.4pl1, 9.12.2pl1
   - Firefox 62.0
   - GCC 8.2.0
   - Go 1.11
   - Lua 5.3.5
   - Many Libretro emulators
   - Mutt 1.10.1
   - MySQL 5.7.23
   - Nextcloud 13.0.5
   - Node.js 10.11.0, 8.12.0, 6.14.4 / npm 6.4.1
   - OpenJDK8 1.8.181 / OpenJDK7 1.7.141
   - ownCloud 10.0.9
   - Percona 5.6.41 / Cluster 5.7.22
   - Perl 5.28.0
   - PHP 7.2.10, 7.1.22, 7.0.32, 5.6.38
   - pkgin 0.11.6
   - PostgreSQL 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24
   - PowerDNS 4.1.4
   - Python 3.7.0, 3.6.6, 3.5.6, 3.4.9
   - Ruby on Rails 5.1.6
   - Rust 1.29.1
   - SQLite 3.25.1
   - Unbound 1.8.0
   - vim 8.1.0390
   - Xen 4.11.0
   - Xorg 1.20.1

 - Package removals include:

   - Asterisk 1.8
   - BIND 9.9.13pl1

 - Infrastructure changes:

   - GCC 7.3.0 is now the default compiler, superceding GCC 4.9.  Our local
     patches to 4.9 have been forward ported, and we have also brought in
     illumos patches for -fclone-functions, -fstrict-calling-conventions,
     and -msave-args.

   - Spectre mitigation options have been enabled for all builds, specifically
     -mindirect-branch=thunk-inline, -mfunction-return=thunk-inline, and
     -mindirect-branch-register.  For the 64-bit package sets, -msave-args is
     also enabled.

   - Go packages are now versioned, allowing 1.9, 1.10, and 1.11 to be
     installed simultaneously.  The default has been bumped to 1.11.

   - PHP pgsql packages now support multiple PostgreSQL versions.

 - Commit stats since 2018Q2:

   - 161 packages added
   - 25 packages removed
   - 1,321 package updates (to 996 unique packages)
   - 3,453 commits from 63 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