The pkgsrc-2008Q1 Release
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1
release, which has support for more packages than previous releases.
As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of
pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler
support.

At the same time, the pkgsrc-2007Q4 release has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q1 release.

With more than ten years of pkgsrc development behind us, we would
like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who have made
pkgsrc the most portable packaging system in the world - to all of the
users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank you" from all of
us.

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2008Q1 release are:

+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality. The following versions
of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2008Q1 release: