Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 06:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ports 2014Q2 branched Message-ID: <cf788dbbd5b58ec188820b601783c09a.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20140402092434.GY99393@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20140402092434.GY99393@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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> Hi all, > > I am pleased to announce that we have created the 2014Q2 branch of the ports > tree. > > Because the first 2014Q1 branch was experimental you might not have heard of it > yet. > > January 2014 saw the release of the first quaterly branch, intended at > providing a stable and high-quality ports tree. Those stable branches are a > snapshot of the head ports tree taken every 3 months and currently supported > for three months, during which they receive security fixes as well as build and > runtime fixes. > > Packages are built on regular basis on that branch (weekly) and published as > usual via pkg.FreeBSD.org (/quarterly instead of the usual /latest). > > They are signed the same way the /latest branch is. > > While packages for 2014Q1 were only built for 10 (i386 and amd64) 2014Q2 will be > built for both FreeBSD 9 and 10 (i386 and amd64). > > The first build of 2014Q2 will started this morning (wednesday at 1 am UTC) and should > hit your closest mirrors very soon. > > On behalf of the port management team > Bapt > A big +1 on this! IMHO l-o-o-n-g over due. Thanks Bapt! --Chris
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