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pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 61st quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
with more than 22,500 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/

In total, 150 packages were added, 14 packages were removed, and 1,435
package updates (to 1,060 unique packages) were processed since the
pkgsrc-2018Q3 release.

For the 2018Q4 release we welcome the following notable package
additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection:

 - CHICKEN 5.0.0
 - Clang/LLVM 7.0.1
 - Firefox 64.0
 - Gnucash 3.3
 - Go 1.11.4
 - Midori 7
 - MySQL 5.7.24
 - Nextcloud 15.0.0
 - Node.js 10.14.0
 - Perl 5.28.1
 - PHP 5.6.39, 7.0.33, 7.1.26, 7.2.13
 - PostgreSQL 11.1, 9.3.25, 9.4.20, 9.5.15, 9.6.11, 10.6
 - Python 3.6.7, 3.7.1
 - Ruby on Rails 5.1.6.1
 - Rust 1.31.1
 - SQLite 3.26.0
 - SWI-Prolog 7.6.4
 - WebKitGTK+ 2.22.5

The branch also features:

- improved support for Minix 3.4.

- the new rc.d-boot package that starts rc.conf-enabled pkgsrc
  services at boot time on a variety of non-NetBSD platforms

- qmail-run 20181230 which adds TLS, SPF, IPv6, recipient checks, and
  many other good defaults


Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
http://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from
https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc or via cvs or tar file -- see
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html.  The branch name for
the 2018Q4 branch is "pkgsrc-2018Q4".