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GitHub migration complete
by Clemens Lang 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Good day MacPorts developers and users, We are pleased to announce that MacPorts has moved to GitHub. Our Subversion repository has been split into several repositories on GitHub . The buildbot, email notifications, and Trac are now triggered by changes made on GitHub. MacPorts developers should now have commit access to the GitHub repositories. If you are a MacPorts developer and have not yet joined the MacPorts GitHub organization, please follow instructions in the FAQ linked below. If you have further questions, please refer to this new FAQ page: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ/GitHubMigration If your question is not yet answered, ask on the mailing lists so it can be added. We have tested the changes thoroughly, but in a system this complex there might still be undiscovered problems. If you notice any, please do not hesitate to ask on the mailing lists or file a ticket in Trac against the "server/hosting" component. On behalf of the MacPorts migration team, Lawrence Velázquez Rainer Müller Ryan Schmidt Clemens Lang

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New rsync server
by Ryan Schmidt 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce that our primary rsync server at rsync.macports.org is now hosted by the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. You may already have noticed a multilingual message welcoming you to ftp.fau.de in your MacPorts logs or verbose output; this is normal. In addition, while distfiles.macports.org and packages.macports.org continue to use MaxCDN to deliver files to users from the nearest possible location, MaxCDN will now get those files from the FAU web server. These changes are transparent to users and require no changes on your part. But if you are not located in or near Germany, you may want to edit your macports.conf and sources.conf files to use a closer mirror to get faster transfer speeds when you "sudo port selfupdate" or "sudo port sync". The list of available mirrors can be found at: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors FAU has supported MacPorts for many years already by providing a MacPorts mirror server, and we are grateful to have them now providing our primary file server.

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New build system
by Ryan Schmidt 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce the deployment of our new build system. This system automatically builds our ports on several macOS versions and, license permitting, deploys the archives to a server where MacPorts can download them. It's also useful for MacPorts developers to see if their ports build on each version of macOS. This change is transparent to users and requires no changes on your part. For those interested in the build system: This system is a rewrite of the previous build system that was deployed in 2011 and offers several improvements, including: - Instead of grouping multiple ports modified by a single commit into a single build, multiple builds are started. This lets you see the progress and logs individually for each port, and if any archives are created, they're deployed after each port is built. - If any dependencies were not yet deployed, they're deployed too. - Dependencies are installed in a separate step, so you can tell at a glance if dependencies failed or the port itself failed. - Ports using the obsolete portgroup will not be built. This avoids showing build failures for ports that are already known not to build. - Builders appear on the web site sorted in order by macOS version. - Tags are used to group builders in various ways on the console page and can be used to filter the waterfall page. More useful ways to customize the waterfall page are shown in the waterfall help page. Email notification of failed builds is not currently working. This will return in the future. More improvements to the build system are planned in the coming months. Interested MacPorts users and developers may view the new build system at: https://build.macports.org MacPorts committers who had an account on the old system may log in to the new system with the same username and password. MacPorts committers who would like an account on the new system should please send email to admin [at] macports.org. Build logs from the old system were not imported. If you need to see the log of a port on a particular version of macOS, just use the web interface to force a new build on the appropriate "portwatcher". This build system rewrite was spearheaded by the participants of the MacPorts Meeting in March 2016 -- Peter Danecek, Jackson Isaac, Clemens Lang, Dagobert Michelsen, Mojca Miklavec, Rainer Müller and Aljaž Srebrnič -- and completed over the past weeks by Clemens, Mojca, Rainer and me. My great thanks to them for improving our build system. -Ryan

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Web site and downloads now accelerated by MaxCDN
by Ryan Schmidt 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

The MacPorts project is delighted to announce that our main web site and primary file distribution web servers are now being accelerated by the MaxCDN content delivery network. With servers in multiple North American and European locations, many users will experience faster access to our web site and faster downloads of distfiles and archives when installing ports. You may have noticed this already; this change was made four weeks ago, and since then the CDN has already delivered over 10TB of data for MacPorts. We are very grateful to MaxCDN for donating this service to us and for its support of open-source software. https://www.maxcdn.com/ We also reiterate our very great thanks and gratitude to the many universities and other organizations providing MacPorts mirror servers. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors -Ryan

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Prebuilt archives available for El Capitan
by Ryan Schmidt 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce that prebuilt archives for OS X 10.11 El Capitan are now available for many ports, and will be used automatically when installing. These join our existing prebuilt archives for OS X 10.6, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10. (The building of binaries for OS X 10.7 is temporarily suspended but will resume.) A prebuilt archive cannot always be used, for a number of reasons: * Our archives are built only for the default prefix (/opt/local), so if MacPorts is installed in a custom prefix, it will not download them. This also applies to applications_dir (/Applications/MacPorts) and frameworks_dir (${prefix}/Library/Frameworks). * We only build archives for the default variants of each port. * Some ports have a license that does not allow for distribution of binaries, or have a license that conflicts with the license of a dependency in a way that prevents such distribution. * Some ports do not indicate their license, so we do not distribute archives of those ports. -Ryan

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MacPorts 2.3.4 has been released
by Joshua Root 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes. If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, and 10.5 (10.6 is universal i386/x86_64; 10.5 is i386/ppc) at [2]. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the subversion tag [3]. Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, packages and source tarballs have been made with my key, which is available on the keyservers and my MacPorts wiki page [4], the fingerprint being: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD Josh (on behalf of the MacPorts Port Managers) [1] <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_2_3/base/Chang…> [2] <https://www.macports.org/install.php> [3] <https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_2_3_4/> [4] <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/jmr>

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MacPorts 2.3.3 has been released
by Joshua Root 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.3. This is a bugfix release which addresses performance issues when using the SQLite version included with Yosemite. If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5 and 10.4 (10.6 is universal i386/x86_64; 10.4 and 10.5 are i386/ppc) at [2]. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the subversion tag [3]. Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, packages and source tarballs have been made with my key, which is available on the keyservers and my MacPorts wiki page [4], the fingerprint being: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD Josh (on behalf of the MacPorts Port Managers) [1] <https://www.macports.org/install.php> [2] <https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_2_3_3/> [3] <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/jmr>

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MacPorts 2.3.2 has been released
by Joshua Root 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.2. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes. If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5 and 10.4 (10.6 is universal i386/x86_64; 10.4 and 10.5 are i386/ppc) at [2]. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the subversion tag [3]. Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, packages and source tarballs have been made with my key, which is available on the keyservers and my MacPorts wiki page [4], the fingerprint being: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD Josh (on behalf of the MacPorts Port Managers) [1] <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_2_3/base/Chang…> [2] <https://www.macports.org/install.php> [3] <https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_2_3_2/> [4] <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/jmr>

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MacPorts 2.3.1 has been released
by Joshua Root 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.1. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes. If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5 and 10.4 (10.6 is universal i386/x86_64; 10.4 and 10.5 are i386/ppc) at [2]. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the subversion tag [3]. Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, packages and source tarballs have been made with my key, which is available on the keyservers and my MacPorts wiki page [4], the fingerprint being: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD Josh (on behalf of the MacPorts Port Managers) [1] <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_2_3/base/Chang…> [2] <https://www.macports.org/install.php> [3] <https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_2_3_1/> [4] <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/jmr>

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MacPorts 2.3.0 has been released
by Joshua Root 24 May '14

24 May '14

The MacPorts Project is happy to announce that the 2.3.0 version has now been released. It is available via the usual methods: - selfupdate if you already have MacPorts installed - package installers for 10.4 [1], 10.5 [2], 10.6 [3], 10.7 [4], 10.8 [5] and 10.9 [6] (all universal builds, i386/ppc for 10.4/10.5 and the others i386/x86_64) - source tarballs, both .tar.bz2 [7] and .tar.gz [8] - subversion tag [9] The list of what's new in 2.3.0 can be found in the ChangeLog [10]. A big thanks to the developers for their hard work with all of the various features and bug fixes in 2.3.0, and to all those who helped out by reporting bugs or testing. Detached PGP signatures for the pkg/dmgs and source tarballs have been made with my key, which is available on the keyservers and my MacPorts wiki page [11]. - Josh [1] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg> [2] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.5-Leopard.dmg> [3] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.pkg> [4] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.7-Lion.pkg> [5] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.8-MountainLion.pkg> [6] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0-10.9-Mavericks.pkg> [7] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0.tar.bz2> [8] <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.0.tar.gz> [9] <https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_2_3_0> [10] <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_2_3/base/Chang…> [11] <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/jmr> PS, my PGP key ID is 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD, fingerprint C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

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