The pkgsrc-2007Q2 Release

=========================
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q2

release, which has support for more packages than previous releases.

As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of

pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler

support.
At the same time, the pkgsrc-2007Q1 release has been deprecated, and

continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q2 release.
Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 release are:
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take

advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  The following versions

of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2007Q2 release:
	+ apache-2.2.4

	+ firefox-2.0.0.4

	+ gnome-2.18.1

	+ kde-3.5.7

	+ mysql-5.0.41

	+ openoffice-2.2.1

	+ opera-9.21

	+ postgresql-8.2.4

	+ ruby-1.8.6

	+ samba-3.0.24

	+ seamonkey-1.1.2

	+ thunderbird-2.0.0.4

	+ wireshark-0.99.5

	+ zope-3.3.1
In addition, the default versions of firefox and thunderbird have been

set to the 2.0.0.x versions, replacing the previous 1.5.0.x versions

(which have been kept in www/firefox15, mail/thunderbird15, but are no

longer the default).
+ other changes include

	+ more modular X11 packages have been added, including the modular

	  X server modules, and many X clients. With the pkgsrc-2007Q2

	  release, the "xorg" X11_TYPE will become obsolete.

	+ we have continued to develop our "filesystems" category

	+ the adoption of a new bulk building system, pbulk, by Joerg

	  Sonnenberger

	+ the addition of some pertinent bright, shiny packages such

	  as opengrok, roundcube, more modular x11 clients, coda, tea,

	  t-prot, u9fs, teamspeak-server, fuse-gphotofs, alpine, goffice,

	  mecab, qtplay, fuse-obexfs, fuse-wdfs, tesseract, sparse, htop,

	  ragel, xhtmldiff, mimetex, antiright, psvn, planner, ipbt,

	  dvdisaster, deskmenu and freepops
To the list of platforms supported by pkgsrc - AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin

(Mac OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, Interix, Linux, NetBSD,

OSF1, OpenBSD, and SunOS (Solaris) - we are proud to welcome HP/UX,

thanks to Tobias Nygren, and we will extend the list of supported

platforms still further in the next few months.
+ the pkgsrc-2007Q2 release introduces support for case-insensitive

filesystems, which makes bootstrapping pkgsrc much simpler on the

average Mac. We encourage our Darwin and OS X users to try it out and

report any problems.
Our plans are for this to become the recommended Darwin configuration

for the pkgsrc-2007Q3 release, and to get rid of darwindiskimage and

the related information in the documents.
+ continuing engineering on the "stable" releases of pkgsrc continues,

and our thanks to the pkgsrc releng team for all the hard work they do

in sanity checking pullup requests, and managing the stable releases

in pkgsrc.
+ constant bulk building on a number of platforms has improved our

ability to identify potential areas of concern, and to correct them

sooner.  It has also improved our ability to make binary packages

available, and we are working on ways to improve this further.  For

more information, please refer to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list,

archives available at
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/
+ the number of packages has been increased to 7181; the number of

supported platforms has risen to 13.  NetBSD, on all its supported

architectures, is considered to be one pkgsrc platform.
As always, we'd like to encourage users of the packages collection to

install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day -

this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to

exploit.  The pkgsrc-security team do a marvellous job in tracking

notifications of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this

information, and our sincere thanks go to them for this essential work.
We'd also really appreciate it if people would install the

pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script

for us.  This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that

machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating

system.  The results will be kept confidential, but the output will

help us analyse the packages that are most used.
The source tar files for the new release can be found at:
	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.gz

		or

	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2007Q2/pkgsrc-2007Q2.tar.bz2
You can also use the "pkgsrc-2007Q2" tag to check it out yourself from

anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.
Alistair Crooks

On behalf of the Packages Team

The NetBSD Foundation