Announcing the pkgsrc-2026Q1 branch
[email protected] Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:06:53 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.announce |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce pkgsrc-2026Q1 the 90th quarterly release of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc contains over 29,000 packages. More information on pkgsrc is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/. Since the last release (2025Q4), 141 packages were added, 2793 packages were updated (1811 distinct ones), 4 packages were downgraded, and 154 packages were removed. Notable package changes: - gnupg2 now installs the "gpg" binary (instead of "gpg2") gnupg1 now installs the "gpg1" binary. Notable package additions were: - Wine5, for the wine 5.0 branch - Qt6 QtWebEngine - Several KDE Plasma 6 packages - ruby40, providing Ruby 4.0, in addition to the existing Ruby versions: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 - php85, which provides PHP 8.5, in addition to the existing PHP versions: 5.6, 7.4, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 - lua55, providing Lua 5.5, in addition to the existing Lua versions: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 - sddm, a display manager for X11 and Wayland - openwv, an open source reimplementation of Google's Widevine - ndevd, NetBSD devpubd extended with event forwarding - reovim, a Rust neovim-like text editor - lx-cli, a re-imagined "ls" - wsjtx, a program for weak-signal digital communication by amateur radio - xtop, a system monitor written in Rust - py-typer, library and tool to create CLI applications - minikube, for running a local Kubernetes cluster (only supported on Linux and macOS) Notable package updates were: - ejabberd 26.01, an XMPP server - mosquitto 2.12, an MQTT broker Notable package removals were: - PHP 8.1 - Arcticfox - Firefox 115 Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at https://pkgin.net. pkgsrc itself can be retrieved via CVS, tar file, and other mirrors. See https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html for instructions. The branch name for the 2026Q1 branch is "pkgsrc-2026Q1".