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Alistair Crooks | 12 Jan 2009 07:09

The pkgsrc-2008Q4 Release

The pkgsrc-2008Q4 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q4
release, which has support for even 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-2008Q3 release has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q4 release.

The pkgsrc-2008Q4 release celebrates 5 years of quarterly releases
within pkgsrc, and we would like to thank all of our users and
developers for using the world's most portable packaging system - to
all of the users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you"
from all of us.

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2008Q4 release are:

+ Jared McNeill has introduced pulseaudio to pkgsrc, which is a huge
boost, giving pkgsrc the benefits of one of the best audio systems
+ our GNOME packages have been updated by Thomas Klausner, and much
work has been done on the HAL layer within GNOME by Jared McNeill.  We
also now have improved zeroconf support through the avahi package -
our thanks to Adam Hoka for that.
+ more packages have been moved to install into a staging directory,
thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger
+ improved support for AIX, again, from Joerg Sonnenberger
+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
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S.P.Zeidler | 13 Jan 2009 21:30
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Planned outage for {mail,www,ftp,anoncvs,gnats,releng}.NetBSD.org

Dear all,

The NetBSD rack at ISC is getting a new switch Jan 14 04:00 UTC to
about Jan 14 05:00 UTC; availability of services will be utter
coincidence during that time. The new switch will be capable of gigabit
ethernet on all ports, not just the uplink.

best regards,
	spz
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spz <at> serpens.de (S.P.Zeidler)
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Soren Jacobsen | 29 Jan 2009 21:38
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NetBSD 5.0_RC1 binaries available for download

On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce
that the first release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for
download.

Those of you who have been paying close attention will have noticed that
RC1 was tagged on Sunday.  A few hiccups delayed the availability of
binaries, but they can now be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0-RC1/

Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the
netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-0-RC1 tag is available as well.

A second release candidate is expected to surface between at an
undetermined time between now and the 8th of February.  Please help us
test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible.
Remember, any feedback is good feedback.

Enjoy,
Soren
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