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Announcing the pkgsrc-2022Q2 branch

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The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 75th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
with more than 26,000 packages, and supports 24 platforms, of which 10
are currently known to be working.  More information on pkgsrc itself
is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/

In total, 268 packages were added, 81 packages were removed, and 2289
package updates (to 1743 unique packages) were processed since the
pkgsrc-2021Q4 release.  Updates include 32 perl5 packages, 106 OCaml
packages, 361 Python packages, 126 Ruby packages, and 421 Tex
packages.

This announcement takes a high-level view, grouping related packages
under a single name, and treating multiple versions of an upstream
package as a logical unit.  Thus, 'gcc 12', while a new entry
'lang/gcc12', is an update to 'lang/gcc*'.

For the 2022Q2 release we welcome the following notable packages
additions:

 - esp32s2 gcc/binutils
 - Neovim 0.7.0

We welcome the following notable updates:

 - bbdb 3
 - certbot 1.28.0
 - cmake 3.23.2
 - drupal 9
 - emacs 28
 - FFmpeg 5.0.1
 - Firefox 101.0.1
 - gcc 12
 - gdal 3.5.0
 - harfbuzz 4.3.0
 - LibreOffice 7.3.3.2
 - lxqt 1.1.0
 - matrix-synapse 1.61.0
 - NodeJS 18.4.0 
 - MySQL Cluster 7.5.25
 - Nextcloud 24.0.1
 - nginx 1.22.0
 - OCaml 4.14.0
 - openjdk 17
 - openssh 9.0.1
 - prosody 0.12.0
 - QEMU 7.0
 - Rust 1.60.0
 - spotify-player 0.9.0
 - TeXlive 2022
 - tmux 3.3
 - ups-nut 2.8.0
 - VLC 3.0.17.4
 - WebKitGTK 2.36.3
 - X11: many classic programs
 - xfce4: [some core and plugin components updated]
 - yt-dlp 2022.5.18

As always, many packages have been brought up to date relative to
upstream micro releases.  Examples include:

 - Firefox ESR 91.10.0
 - Go 1.18.3, 1.17.11
 - MariaDB 10.6.8, 10.5.16
 - NodeJS 16.15.0, 14.19.1
 - PostgreSQL 14.4, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, 10.21
 - Python 3.10.5, 3.9.13
 - Qt 5.15.4
 - Ruby 3.1.2, 3.0.4, 2.7.6, 2.6.10

This branch we say notable goodbyes to:

 - BIND 9.11
 - NodeJS 10
 - PostgreSQL 9.6

Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure and notes:

 - New option to use C-based tools to speed up various parts of the mk
   infrastructure, enabled by setting PKGSRC_USE_MKTOOLS=yes in
   mk.conf.  For packages with large numbers of dependencies, you
   should see anywhere up to around 10x speed-up for the 'wrapper'
   phase, and perhaps more importantly a huge reduction in system time
   usage.  For now this is default off, but it may become default on
   as soon as 2022Q3.

 - Initial support for bootstrapping pkgsrc on the Linux variant
   NixOS (primarily for development and testing).

 - Note that Firefox, Thunderbird and likely other packages with
   difficult dependencies do not build on NetBSD 8 and other systems
   with non-recent compilers.  Users who wish to run these programs
   are advised to update to an up-to-date version of their operating
   system.

Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
https://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from via CVS or
tar file, and also from a mirror at https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc.
See https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html for instructions.
The branch name for the 2022Q2 branch is "pkgsrc-2022Q2".

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