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.