Announcing the pkgsrc-2024Q4 branch

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 85th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc contains over
28,000 packages, with varying support across 23 distinct operating
systems.  More information on pkgsrc itself is available at
https://www.pkgsrc.org/

Since the pkgsrc-2024Q3 release, 110 packages were added, 1580 packages
were updated (with 2399 updates, including language-specific updates:
24 Go, 3 OCaml, 66 Perl, 5 PHP, 626 Python, 282 Ruby, 44 TeX).  33
packages were removed.

For the 2024Q4 release we welcome the following notable package
additions:

 - MinGW-w64 12.0.0/14.2.0
 - OpenSMTPD Tables
 - Python 3.13
 - Ruby On Rails 7.2.2.1
 - Thunderbird 115

We welcome the following notable updates, as chosen by pkgsrc
developers:

 - matrix-synapse 1.120.2
 - pkgin 24.12.0
 - pkglint 23.10.0

This branch we say notable goodbyes to:

 - Firefox 102
 - PostgreSQL 12
 - Python 3.8
 - Thunderbird 102

Changes to the pkgsrc infrastructure:

 - Support for mktool was merged into the mk infrastructure.  mktool
   provides alternate implementations for various mk scripts, with
   observed speed increases of between 5x and 500x.  To enable,
   install pkgtools/mktool or 'cargo install mktool' and add:

     TOOLS_PLATFORM.mktool= /path/to/mktool
     FETCH_USING=           mktool

   to your mk.conf.

Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
https://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved via CVS, tar file,
and other mirrors.  See https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html
for instructions.  The branch name for the 2024Q4 branch is
"pkgsrc-2024Q4".

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