Project developers NetBSD presented Release Package repository pkgsrc-2021q1 , which became 70 in the account of the project. The PKGSRC system was created 23 years ago on the basis of FreeBSD ports and is currently used by default for managing a collection of additional applications in NetBSD and MINIX, as an additional means of distributing PKGSRC packets also applied by users of Solaris / ILLUMOS and MACOS. In general, PKGSRC supports 23 platforms, including AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DRAGONFLYBSD, HP-UX, Haiku, Irix, Linux, QNX and Unixware.
more than 26 thousand packages are offered in the repository. Compared to the past release, 381 new packages have been added, 61 packages are deleted, updated version 2064 packages, including 29 connected with R, 499 – C Python and 332 – with Ruby. The default GO language compiler is updated to version 1.16. Supported support for PHP 7.2, Node.js 8 and Go 1.14. To launch Firefox and Thunderbird now requires at least NetBSD 9 (the assembly for NetBSD 8 is stopped).
From version updates is marked:
- cmake 3.19.7
- Firefox 78.9.0 (AS AN ESR), 86.0.1
- gdal 3.2.2
- GO 1.15.10, 1.16.2
- LibreOffice 7.1.1.2
- mosquitto 2.0.9
- NextCloud 21.0.0
- node.js 12.21.0, 14.16.0
- ocaml 4.11.2
- OpenBlas 0.3.10
- owncloud 10.6.0
- PHP 7.3.27, 7.4.16, 8.0.3
- postgis 3.1.1
- PostgreSQL 9.5.25, 9.6.21, 10.16, 11.11, 12.6, 13.2
- Pulseaudio 14.2
- python 3.7.10, 3.8.8, 3.9.2
- qemu 5.2.0
- qgis 3.16.4
- Ruby 3.0
- rust 1.49.0
- Spotify-Qt 3.5
- sqlite 3.35.2
- syncthing 1.14.0
- thunderbird 78.9.0
- Tor 0.4.5.7
- Tor Browser 10.0.12
- vlc 3.0.12
- WebKitgTK 2.30.6