Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 55th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system.  pkgsrc is available
with more than 18000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/
A neutral overview can be found at https://www.openhub.net/p/pkgsrc

For the 2017Q2 release we welcome the following notable package
additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection:

 - Firefox 54
 - GCC 7.1
 - MATE 1.18
 - Ruby 2.4
 - Ruby on Rails 4.2
 - TeX Live 2017
 - Thunderbird 52.1
 - Xen 4.8

We say goodbye to:

 - Ruby 1.8
 - Ruby 2.1

The following infrastructure changes were introduced:

 - Implement optional new pkgtasks and init infrastructure for
   pkginstall.

 - Various enhancements and fixes for building with ccache.

 - Add support to USE_LANGUAGES for newer C++ standards.

 - Enhanced support for SSP, FORTIFY, and RELRO.

 - The GitHub mirror has migrated to https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc

In total, 210 packages were added, 43 packages were removed, and 1,780
package updates were processed since the pkgsrc-2017Q1 release.

Instructions on using the binary package manager can be found at
http://pkgin.net, and pkgsrc itself can be retrieved from
https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc or via cvs or tar file -- see
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html.  The branch name for
the 2017Q2 branch is "pkgsrc-2017Q2".

Enjoy!

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com