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pkgsrc is frozen for the 2026Q1 branch
Hi all,
The tree is now frozen for 2026Q1. The rules are:
- No new packages
- Build fixes are welcome
- Bug fixes (especially security fixes) are very welcome
- Micro updates that would be eligible and appropriate for stable branch
pullups, because they fix a security bug or something serious, are ok
- Micro updates for packages whose recursive total depending package
count is < 25 are ok
- For any other updates (especially under mk or pkgtools), please ask,
explaining why the update furthers pkgsrc's goals of stabilty and
usefulness for users. While there's no intent to completely prohibit
changes, I'm concerned about impacts to platforms not tested, and I
value working packages from the branch over packages being slightly
newer.
- No large-scale cleanup of things that are not causing failure of a
package to build, package, and run, e.g. HOMEPAGE and MASTER_SITES.
By definition, a "micro update" is one that contains only bugfixes. It
cannot contain build system changes, or anything that could cause it to
fail on a platform it has not been tested on. (Typically, a release
labeled micro from an upstream is a micro release, but some upstreams
make bigger changes; our definition is about actual content, not
upstream labeling.)
The rules are at https://pkgsrc.org/quarterly/ (and can be discussed if
you want to make changes to it).
Thanks for flying pkgsrc air
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