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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q4
3. Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q3
4. Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q2
5. Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q1
6. Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q4
7. Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q3
8. Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q2
9. Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q1
10. Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q4
11. Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q3
12. Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q2
13. Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q1
14. Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q4
15. Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q3
16. Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q2
17. Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q1

Introduction

With 18,000+ packages being constantly updated and changed, producing a full ChangeLog would be an exercise in futility and not very helpful. So instead we try to summarise the most important changes in each quarterly release.

While this page is primarily for the illumos quarterly package sets, the changes listed may be generic to pkgsrc and may not be available on illumos or enabled in our binary packages.

Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q4

New LTS branch, supported until the release of pkgsrc-2020Q4. This release marks the end of support for pkgsrc-2014Q4 and SmartOS 14.4.x images.

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 17,500+
  • i386: 17,000+
  • multiarch: 15,000+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Many new perl, python, go and tex packages.
  • PostgreSQL 10
  • Rust 1.22.1
  • PHP 7.2
  • clang/llvm/lldb 5.0.0
  • Firefox 57.0.2

• Package removals include:

  • Emacs 22, 23, and 24
  • Firefox 10 through 38
  • GDB 5 and 6
  • KDE 3

• Infrastructure changes:

  • CTF is now enabled for all packages that support it. For the x86_64 set this translates to 22,708 binaries across 5,625 packages. CTF enables improved debugging and DTrace support, see Robert Mustacci's blog post http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2013/11/14/userland-ctf-in-dtrace/ for more information.
  • The STRIP_DEBUG infrastructure has been improved and enabled to ensure that packages aren't bloated by the addition of debug data. Packages that have CTF enabled will see a small increase (usually around 3%) in size, but those that don't (primarily those written in C++ or other languages not supported by CTF) may see a significant reduction. The net result is that the sizes of the bootstrap kits and images have been reduced since 2017Q3.

• Commit stats since 2017Q3:

  • 222 packages added
  • 225 packages removed
  • 1,701 package updates (to 1,145 unique packages)
  • 4,089 commits from 67 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q3

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 17,000+
  • i386: 17,000+
  • multiarch: 14,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • 723 updates combined to packages for perl, python, and ruby
  • 47 new go packages
  • ocaml 4.05.0 and supporting packages
  • Firefox 55
  • gdb 8.0.1
  • qemu 2.10.0

• Package removals include:

  • teTex 3 (in favor of texlive)

• Infrastructure changes:

  • Additional SSP checks for consistent stack smashing protection support
  • New security features: PKGSRC_USE_STACK_CHECK and PKGSRC_MKPIE support for cwrappers.

• Commit stats since 2017Q2:

  • 247 packages added
  • 74 packages removed
  • 1,617 package updates (to 1,224 unique packages)
  • 4,356 commits from 69 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q2

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 16,500+
  • i386: 16,500+
  • multiarch: 14,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Firefox 54
  • GCC 7.1
  • MATE 1.18
  • Ruby 2.4
  • Ruby on Rails 4.2
  • TeX Live 2017
  • Thunderbird 52.1
  • Xen 4.8

• Package removals include:

  • Ruby 1.8
  • Ruby 2.1

• Infrastructure changes:

  • Implement optional new pkgtasks and init infrastructure for pkginstall.
  • Various enhancements and fixes for building with ccache.
  • Add support to USE_LANGUAGES for newer C++ standards.
  • Enhanced support for security features: SSP, FORTIFY, and RELRO.
  • The official GitHub mirror of pkgsrc CVS has been migrated to https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc, as a result the Joyent fork at https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc has had to be reinitialised.

• Commit stats since 2017Q1:

  • 210 packages added
  • 43 packages removed
  • 1,780 package updates
  • 4,198 commits from 74 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2017Q1

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 16,000+
  • i386: 16,000+
  • multiarch: 14,000+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Python 3.6
  • Nextcloud 11
  • Firefox 45.8.0 and 52.0.1
  • Gradle 3.4
  • pkg_comp 2.0
  • qmail 1.03nb24 binary packages work, supporting common use cases
  • Many additional Python, Perl and Ruby modules
  • Many additional TeX Live 2016 packages

• Package removals include:

  • GCC 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7
  • Xen 3.1, 3.3, and 4.1

• Infrastructure changes:

  • Default version of Apache changed from 2.2 from 2.4 (this was already the case with our illumos packages).
  • Improvements to the curses.mk infrastructure with many more packages updated to support native curses/terminfo if available.

• Commit stats since 2016Q4:

  • 192 packages added
  • 25 packages removed
  • 1,458 package updates
  • 3,901 commits from 68 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q4

New LTS branch, supported until the release of pkgsrc-2019Q4.

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 15,000+
  • i386: 15,000+
  • multiarch: 14,000+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Tryton 4.2.0
  • Firefox 50.1.0
  • Go 1.7.4
  • MySQL 5.7.17
  • PostgreSQL 9.5.5
  • PHP 7.1.0

• Infrastructure changes:

  • cwrappers was enabled by default on Darwin, Linux, NetBSD, and SunOS. This replaces some a part of the infrastructure that was written in shell with a C implementation and speeds up the build.

• Commit stats since 2016Q3:

  • 159 packages added
  • 1,359 package updates
  • 3,172 commits from 72 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q3

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 15,000+
  • i386: 15,000+
  • multiarch: 13,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Emacs 25.1
  • Firefox 49.0
  • GCC 6.2.0
  • Go 1.7.1
  • KDE Frameworks 5.25.0
  • MySQL 5.7.15
  • PHP 7.1.0rc2
  • Rust 1.11
  • Many more TeX Live 2016 packages

• Package removals include:

  • Python 3.3
  • PHP 5.5

• Infrastructure changes:

  • The pkg_install tools now support HTTPS, and both pkgin and pkg_add now fetch packages over HTTPS by default.
  • Dovecot plugins are now separate packages instead of compile-time options, providing more flexibility for binary package users.
  • The new GFORTRAN_VERSION variable allows the user to select which GCC package will supply the GNU Fortran implementation when PKGSRC_FORTRAN is set to gfortran. The default remains 48 (lang/gcc48).
  • Guile 2.0 is now the default, 1.8 is retained.
  • PHP modules are now automatically enabled at install time with per-module .ini files placed into the PKG_SYSCONFDIR/php.d directory.
  • PKGSRC_KEEP_BIN_PKGS is now set to yes by default, meaning that make install will now save/overwrite binary packages to PACKAGES. Users who prefer to retain a distinction between make install and make package, for example to avoid overwriting known-good binary packages during testing, should set this back to no in mk.conf.
  • pkg_tarup is no longer used for make replace in DESTDIR mode.
  • RUBY_VERSION_SUPPORTED is renamed _RUBY_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED to match other multi-version support, and *_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE support is added to ruby and php.

• Commit stats since 2016Q2:

  • 276 packages added
  • 1,520 package updates
  • 4,016 commits from 64 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q2

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 15,000+
  • i386: 15,000+
  • multiarch: 12,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Ansible 2.1.0.0
  • Ardour 4.7
  • Code::Blocks 16.01
  • CodeLite 9.1
  • CoreCLR 1.0.0
  • Firefox 45.1.0
  • KDE Frameworks 5
  • LXDE 1.0
  • MATE 1.14.0
  • PostgreSQL Contrib
  • TeX Live 2016

• Infrastructure changes:

  • The tools package set has the beginnings of RFD 42 support, allowing packages to install without useradd failures in the SmartOS Global Zone.
  • The default OpenJDK has been switched back to OpenJDK 7 for 32-bit, due to Oracle's deprecation of 32-bit support in OpenJDK 8. 64-bit will continue to default to OpenJDK 8.
  • OCaml is now available for 32-bit.
  • A new postgresql-contrib package has been introduced which includes all of the additional contrib PostgreSQL utilities.

• Commit stats since 2016Q1:

  • 301 packages added
  • 1,727 package updates
  • 3,861 commits from 73 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2016Q1

The 50th quarterly pkgsrc branch!

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 15,000+
  • i386: 15,000+
  • multiarch: 13,000+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • LLDB 3.8
  • MATE 1.14.0 (included from pkgsrc-wip)
  • PostgreSQL 9.5
  • Rust 1.8.0-dev for testing

• Infrastructure changes:

  • illumos packages are now built with -fstack-protector-strong to enable stack smashing protection for functions most at risk.
  • MANZ=yes has been enabled, ensuring manual pages are installed compressed.

• Commit stats since 2015Q4:

  • 204 packages added
  • 15 packages removed
  • 1,477 package updates
  • 4,477 commits from 75 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q4

New LTS branch, supported until the release of pkgsrc-2018Q4.

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 16,000+
  • i386: 15,000+
  • multiarch: 14,000+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • PHP 7.0
  • Python 3.5

• Infrastructure changes:

  • The default illumos compiler is now GCC 4.9.3.
  • illumos packages are now built with "-gdwarf-2" to ensure debugging information is available, and the core set of bootstrap packages are no longer stripped.
  • clang-3.7.0 is provided as an optional compiler for illumos, and has been patched to build over 12,000 packages successfully.
  • The proftpd package has been split up into separate packages, allowing users to simply choose which backends to install instead of using compiled-in defaults.

• Commit stats since 2015Q3:

  • 172 packages added
  • 58 packages removed, 7 with a successor
  • 1,185 packages updated
  • 3,418 commits from 73 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q3

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 14,500+
  • i386: 14,500+
  • multiarch: 13,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • GCC 5.1
  • Various additional Xorg 1.17 packages
  • TeX Live 2015 additions and updates

• Infrastructure changes:

  • Default package versions have been bumped for a number of core packages:
    • Lua 5.1 -> 5.2
    • PostgreSQL 9.3 -> 9.4
    • PHP 5.5 -> 5.6
    • Ruby 1.9.3 -> 2.0.0
  • The postfix package has been split up into separate packages, allowing users to simply choose which backends to install instead of using compiled-in defaults.
  • All platforms now contain the pkgin enhancements detailed in this blog post.
  • OSX users no longer show up in the login window.

• Commit stats since 2015Q2:

  • 225 packages added
  • 27 packages removed, 8 with a successor
  • 1,392 packages updated
  • 3,696 commits from 71 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q2

• Number of binary packages available:

  • x86_64: 14,500+
  • i386: 14,500+
  • multiarch: 13,500+

• New packages introduced (not all necessarily available as binary packages) include:

  • Boost 1.58.0
  • Emacs 24.5
  • MariaDB 5.5
  • Perl 5.22
  • TeX Live 2015
  • XFCE 4.12

• Infrastructure changes:

  • Packages and bootstrap kits are now available over HTTPS from https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/.
  • pkgin on illumos has significantly reduced memory requirements (for more information see this blog post).
  • OSX packages are now installed under the /opt/pkg prefix instead of the previous /usr/pkg in order to be compatible with the "System Integrity Protection" feature introduced in El Capitan / 10.11.
  • OSX package defaults have been changed in order to provide fully-featured packages out of the box.

• Commit stats since 2015Q2:

  • 1,155 packages have been added.
  • 27 packages removed, 12 with a successor.
  • 2,015 packages updated.
  • 4,135 commits from 68 contributors

Changes in pkgsrc-2015Q1

• OS X packages are now PGP signed and verified by default.
• OS X bootstraps now include the pkgsrc-gnupg-keys package for signature verification of the pkg-vulnerabilities file.
• PostgreSQL 9.4 has been added, PHP 5.3 has been removed.
• 216 packages have been added
• 2 packages have been renamed
• 46 packages removed, 11 with a successor
• 2,007 packages updated

The main pkgsrc-2015Q1 announcement is here.

Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q4

• This release introduces Long Term Support, PGP signed packages, and some other enhancements to our illumos sets. See this blog post for more details.
• This release sees the first set of 64-bit OS X packages, built on OS X Mavericks using clang, in addition to our existing 32-bit set.
• 156 packages have been added
• 4 packages have been renamed
• 48 packages removed, 9 with a successor
• 1,575 packages updated

The main pkgsrc-2014Q4 announcement is here.

Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q3

• Bootstrap kits now include mozilla-rootcerts and pkg_alternatives installed and configured by default.
• 210 packages have been added
• 3 packages have been renamed
• 15 packages removed, 12 with a successor
• 1,123 packages updated

The main pkgsrc-2014Q3 announcement is here.

Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q2

• 244 packages have been added
• 2 packages have been renamed
• 18 packages removed, 1 with a successor
• 1,085 packages updated

Changes in pkgsrc-2014Q1

Here are the major changes in the pkgsrc-2014Q1 release:

OpenSSL update

Everyone has heard of the Heartbleed attacks by now. 2014Q1 of course includes the latest OpenSSL (1.0.1g) to fix this issue.

Go 1.3beta1 for illumos 64-bit

Thanks to great work by Aram Hăvărneanu Go 1.3 will support illumos systems, and we've included the 1.3beta1 package in our illumos x86_64 repository. Please give it a spin and provide feedback so the main 1.3 release can be great!

Changes in pkgsrc-2013Q4

Here are the major changes in the pkgsrc-2013Q4 release:

Default version changes

We have updated the default versions for a number of core packages, they are:

• Apache 2.4 (was 2.2)
• Lua 5.1 (was 5.2)
• MySQL 5.6 (was 5.5)
• PostgreSQL 9.3 (was 9.1)
• PHP 5.5 (was 5.4)

The reason for the Lua default going backwards is that 5.2 is incompatible in a number of ways from 5.1, and there are still a reasonable number of modules which do not yet work with 5.2. We will revert back to 5.2 as default once support is comparable.

We try to provide multiple versions of each of these packages, and many modules are built for all versions, however some software can only be built against one version, so these version bumps will ensure those packages use the latest version.

In addition to these version defaults, we have changed the default implementation of JPEG to libjpeg-turbo, which is an optimised implementation of libjpeg using SIMD instructions.

Disabled -fomit-frame-pointer in GCC

We have disabled the -fomit-frame-pointer option globally in GCC 4.7 on illumos. This micro-optimisation creates binaries which are useless for debugging as the frame pointer is crucial for producing stack traces, and the potential performance gains are simply not worth the loss of observability.

All of the illumos packages produced in pkgsrc-2013Q4 are built with this compiler, so any packages which happened to use this option will now be built correctly.

Changes in pkgsrc-2013Q3

GHC 7.6 now available

For Haskell users, we are pleased to announce that ghc 7.6.3 is now available for all architectures. Previously we were only able to offer the older 6.8.3 release and only for 32-bit, but thanks to the efforts of those in our community, notably 'oddsignals' and Alain O'Dea we have a working bootstrap kit for the newer releases.

Changes in pkgsrc-2013Q2

Here are the major changes in the pkgsrc-2013Q2 release:

OpenJDK7 is now default

Thanks to the great work by SmartOS user 'jesse', we now have a working OpenJDK7 on illumos, built with GCC. This is now the default JRE/JDK, as we are unable to provide updated sun-{jre,jdk} packages due to Oracle's more restrictive redistribution policies.

The only user-visible change from this is that the Java binaries are prefixed with openjdk7-, so call e.g. openjdk7-java instead of java, or alternatively put /opt/local/java/openjdk7/bin at the front of your $PATH.

This allows co-existance with the legacy sun-{jre,jdk} packages.

Desktop support

Thanks to many Xorg updates from Richard Palo, Xorg is now functional on illumos, enabling many common desktop environments to now be used.

: Install the meta-package containing Xorg
$ pkgin in modular-xorg

: On OmniOS these are required on top of the basic install.
$ pkg install driver/x11/xsvc developer/macro/cpp

: Also on OmniOS 'od' is located in a different location
$ sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/od,/usr/gnu/bin/od,' /opt/local/bin/startx

A selection of desktops that are available:

GNOME 2.32 with Evolution and Firefox 22

$ pkgin in gnome-session gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras \
           gnome-terminal gnome-backgrounds evolution

$ vi .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH
/opt/local/bin/gnome-session

$ startx

: Currently the pkgsrc firefox22 fails on startup, so for now use the
: pre-built binaries from Mozilla (with some library hacks).
$ curl -s http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-22.0.en-US.opensolaris-i386.tar.bz2 \
    | bzcat | tar -xf -
$ ln -s /opt/local/lib/libX11.so firefox/libX11.so.4
$ ln -s /opt/local/lib/libXt.so firefox/libXt.so.4
$ env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib ./firefox/firefox

KDE 4.10.3

$ pkgin in kde-runtime4 kde-workspace4 kde-baseapps4 \
           kde-wallpapers4 kde-base-artwork konsole

$ vi .xinitrc
/opt/local/bin/startkde

XFCE 4.6 with Gnumeric and Abiword

$ pkgin in xfce4 gnumeric abiword

$ vi .xinitrc
/opt/local/bin/xfce4-session

Enlightenment 0.17 with GIMP

$ pkgin in enlightenment-0.17 gimp

$ vi .xinitrc
/opt/local/bin/enlightenment_start

Awesome 3.4.13

$ pkgin in awesome

$ vi .xinitrc
/opt/local/bin/awesome

Changes in pkgsrc-2013Q1

Here are the major changes in the pkgsrc-2013Q1 release:

OpenSSL 1.0.1 with AES-NI support

OpenSSL has been upgraded from the 0.9.8 series to the 1.0.1 series. The driving reason to pursue this upgrade was to take advantage of AES-NI support which significantly improves crypto performance on Intel CPUs which provide that feature.

On a OSX 10.7 Core i7 laptop the numbers below speak for themselves:

: /usr/bin/openssl 'OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011'
$ openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
  type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
  aes-128-cbc     157297.05k   173874.73k   176805.45k   177719.17k   179441.78k

: pkgsrc openssl 'OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013'
$ openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
  type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
  aes-128-cbc     643315.29k   685811.37k   696899.67k   699977.39k   693968.90k

A pretty significant 4x improvement for many hundreds of applications which use OpenSSL for crypto.

GCC Go support for SmartOS/illumos

Go is a reasonably new programming language from Google that a number of our users have asked us to support, so we are pleased to announce that beginning with pkgsrc-2013Q1 you will be able to use the gccgo front-end to compile and run Go applications on illumos.

You simply compile the go source code as you would for any other language that GCC supports, for example:

$ pkgin -y install gcc47

: /opt/pkg for the illumos package set, /opt/local for SmartOS datasets..
$ PATH=/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:$PATH

$ gccgo app.go -o app
$ ./app

Networking utilities on SmartOS

Thanks to initial work by @postwait there is now proper Zone support in libpcap, which has opened up the possibility to run a number of networking utilities in Joyent SmartMachines.

Yes, this means you can finally run tcpdump instead of snoop.

Changes in pkgsrc-2012Q4

Static UID/GID allocations

Up until this release, packages which require a user or group be created would choose the next available UID/GID on the target system. This meant that IDs would be different across a range of machines.

Starting in pkgsrc-2012Q4 we created a list of statically assigned UID and GID, using the range between 100-999, with a special _pkgsrc UID/GID taking 999. This means that the first useradd or groupadd done by the user will start at 1000 and avoid using the area reserved for pkgsrc.