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About FreeBSD Ports URL:https://ports.FreeBSD.org
Contributing to Ports URL: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing
Ports Management Team URL: https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/
Ports Tarball URL: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/

Contact: Tobias C. Berner <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>

The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the overall direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and personnel matters. Below is what happened in the last quarter.

According to INDEX, there are currently 32,471 ports in the Ports Collection. There are currently ~3,497 open ports PRs. The last quarter saw 10,525 commits by 160 committers on the main branch and 1771 commits by 107 committers on the 2024Q2 branch. Compared to last quarter, this means a large decrease in the number of commits on the main branch (down from 12,991) and backports to the quarterly branch (compared to 888). The number of ports also increased (up from 32,244).

The most active committers to main were:

  • sunpoet 3739

  • yuri 1450

  • jbeich 491

  • eduardo 220

  • bofh 200

  • diizzy 197

  • rene 188

  • fernape 156

  • jhale 133

  • arrowd 129

A lot has happened in the ports tree in the last three quarter, an excerpt of the major software upgrades is:

  • pkg 1.21.3

  • Default version of lazarus switched to 3.4.0

  • Default version of fpc switched to 3.2.3

  • Default version of python switched to 3.11

  • chromium updated from 123.0.6312.86 to 126.0.6478.126

  • firefox updated from 124.0.1 to 127.0.2

  • firefox-esr updated from 115.9.0 to 115.12.1

  • rust updated from 1.77.0 to 1.79.0

  • sdl2 updated from 2.6.3 to 2.8.2

  • wlroots updated from 0.17.2 to 0.17.4

  • wine updated from 8.0.2 to 9.0

  • wine-devel updated from 9.4 to 9.11

  • xorg-server updated from 21.1.11 to 21.1.13

  • qt5 updated from 5.15.13 to 5.15.14

  • qt6 updated from 6.6.3 to 6.7.2

  • kf5 updated from 5.115.0 to 5.116.0

  • kf6 updated from 6.0.0 to 6.3.0

  • plasma6 updated from 6.0.2 to 6.1.1

During the last quarter, pkgmgr@ ran 24 exp-runs to test various ports upgrades, updates to default versions of ports, subpackage support and base system changes.

Last modified on: August 18, 2024 by Lorenzo Salvadore