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pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 61st quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available
with more than 22,500 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/
In total, 150 packages were added, 14 packages were removed, and 1,435
package updates (to 1,060 unique packages) were processed since the
pkgsrc-2018Q3 release.
For the 2018Q4 release we welcome the following notable package
additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection:
- CHICKEN 5.0.0
- Clang/LLVM 7.0.1
- Firefox 64.0
- Gnucash 3.3
- Go 1.11.4
- Midori 7
- MySQL 5.7.24
- Nextcloud 15.0.0
- Node.js 10.14.0
- Perl 5.28.1
- PHP 5.6.39, 7.0.33, 7.1.26, 7.2.13
- PostgreSQL 11.1, 9.3.25, 9.4.20, 9.5.15, 9.6.11, 10.6
- Python 3.6.7, 3.7.1
- Ruby on Rails 5.1.6.1
- Rust 1.31.1
- SQLite 3.26.0
- SWI-Prolog 7.6.4
- WebKitGTK+ 2.22.5
The branch also features:
- improved support for Minix 3.4.
- the new rc.d-boot package that starts rc.conf-enabled pkgsrc
services at boot time on a variety of non-NetBSD platforms
- qmail-run 20181230 which adds TLS, SPF, IPv6, recipient checks, and
many other good defaults
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 2018Q4 branch is "pkgsrc-2018Q4".
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