Firefox 3.6 was committed by beat@ latest night, we’re happy to got
all finish before the ports tree is going in the slush mode
to prepair packages for FreeBSD 7.3 Release. Please read careful
ports/UPDATING. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and
submitters, and a special big thanks to nox for his great debug
session to fix our [...]
The official release notes for this release can be found at here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series.
It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree,
because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port
KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it
in out FreeBSD 7.3 release.
We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Howdy,
The official release notes for this release can be found at
here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series.
It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree,
because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port
KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it
in [...]
We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6,
but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved.
The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain
addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all
problems are solved and we can start a CFT.
If everything works fine we plan to commit Firefox 3.6 next
weekend. We should also note that the java plugin currently
does not work with 3.6.
What’s new in Firefox 3.6
* Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to
increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click,
with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them
safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports
poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and
startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Please make sure all your addons are compatible with firefox 3.6,
backup your $HOME/.mozilla dir, also you need to reinstall
www/linux-f10-flashplugin10.
Howdy,
We know that a lot people are waiting for Firefox 3.6,
but nox@ found a strange bug which is now solved.
The problem was that starting Firefox 3.6 with certain
addons installed was not possible. Now it looks like all
problems are solved and we can start a CFT.
If everything works fine we plan to commit Firefox 3.6 next
weekend. [...]
Max has announce the QT 4.6.0 public test. see his Announcement.
The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce public call for testing Qt-4.6.0.
Ports can be downloaded from area51 repository:
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/QT
and integrated into portstree using ‘qtmerge’ script from
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/
Alternatively you can use patch vs portstree:
http://people.freebsd.org/~makc/patches/qt460.patch.bz2
Knowing issues: devel/qt4-designer fails to build when previous version is
installed, so you [...]
Yesterday i’ve got the idea to update our tinderbox-devel port.
This update include the latest cvs snapshot with few fixes and
two highly experimental patches from beat@ and Tim Bishop.
Fixes from upstream:
- Remove X11BASE support it is now obsolete. (already in ports-mgmt/tinderbox)
- Expand the glob to check for Perl so that it actually
captures lang/perl5.10. (already [...]
Howdy beat@ called few mins ago a secound CFT for the 3.1.2 release, unfortunaltely
we have updated the guest additions to a recent snapshot to fix a kernel module
problem but see self the mail and changelog from him here:
First of all thanks a lot for all the valuable feedback. We have updated
the ports to fix the [...]
Hi All,
Changelog from VirtualBox is available here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Changes in the port:
- VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.1.2.
- Port has been renamed to virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are using the
OSE version. Requested by: mm@
- A seperate port for the kernel modules has been created: virtualbox-ose-kmod
- A seperate port for guest additions for [...]
The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KOffice2 suite for FreeBSD.
The official KOffice 2.1.0 notes can be found here.
We’d like to say thanks to all helpers, testers and submitters.
Few hours after the Official Release we’re happy to
announce that KDE-4.3.4 is now available in the
FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.3.4 is only a Bugfix release.
A full changelog is available here.
Here is a small Status update about our work on gecko stuff:
beat@ already removed all references to www/mozilla. Also the
switch from USE_GECKO= xulrunner firefox mozilla to USE_GECKO= libxul
is mostly done. Some small parts are still in the tree and we
are working on them. Afterwards xulrunner will be removed.
Finally the first steps for upcoming Thunderbird3 and [...]
So FreeBSD 8.0 was now officially released, and the ports tree was now
opened.
I’ve taken the night and updated python to 2.6.4.
Also as i wrote, I am back to the KDE game,
we have updated Qt to 4.5.3.
fluffy@ spend a lot time to update py-qt4 which is
now 4.6.2, and py-sip is 4.9.3
and as finally we updated KDE [...]
Howdy,
beat@ want some tester for SeaMonkey 2.0
here a full quota:
A few days ago SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released. To install SeaMonkey 2.0
a modified bsd.gecko.mk is needed. Therefore we are not able to commit
it to the ports tree until the tree is unfreezed. So now we are looking
for tester/reviewer of the SeaMonkey 2.0 port.
The port is [...]
Here is a patch to update python to 2.6.4 and py-setuptools (thx to wen@), it seems all fine to me,
i’ve already update locally without any problems, tinderbox run was also fine and dependency ports
builds without problems. If you like to test the patch feel free and fetch it from here.
If you find any problems with [...]
We’re happy to announce that KDE-4.3.2 is ready
for testing. KDE-4.3.2 is only a Bugfix release.
If you want to play with KDE 4.3.2 please checkout
all ports from area51.
A note about area51, we have changed the repo layout,
Qt and KDE is now split between area51/QT and area51/KDE.
If you have an old check out please delete all and [...]
So beat@ did the Gecko job more or less alone . So I thought
it’s a good idea to help a bit the KDE Team.. I’ve started with
a rework of the area51 repo. We splitted now Qt and KDE into
2 seperated repo’s. Makes the life a bit easier in future.
Also I rewrote the build system [...]