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=== Ports Collection

Links: +
link:https://ports.FreeBSD.org[About FreeBSD Ports] URL:link:https://ports.FreeBSD.org[] +
link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[Contributing to Ports] URL: link:https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing[] +
link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[Ports Management Team] URL: link:https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/[] +
link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[Ports Tarball] URL: link:http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/[]

Contact: Tobias C. Berner <[email protected]> +
Contact: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <[email protected]>

The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the overall direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and personnel matters.
Below is what happened in the last quarter.

According to INDEX, there are currently 32,471 ports in the Ports Collection.
There are currently ~3,497 open ports PRs.
The last quarter saw 10,525 commits by 160 committers on the main branch and 1771 commits by 107 committers on the 2024Q2 branch.
Compared to last quarter, this means a large decrease in the number of commits on the main branch (down from 12,991) and backports to the quarterly branch (compared to 888).
The number of ports also increased (up from 32,244).

The most active committers to main were:

* sunpoet   3739
* yuri      1450
* jbeich     491
* eduardo    220
* bofh       200
* diizzy     197
* rene       188
* fernape    156
* jhale      133
* arrowd     129

A lot has happened in the ports tree in the last three quarter, an excerpt of the major software upgrades is:

* pkg 1.21.3
* Default version of lazarus switched to 3.4.0
* Default version of fpc switched to 3.2.3
* Default version of python switched to 3.11
* chromium      updated from   123.0.6312.86 to  126.0.6478.126
* firefox       updated from         124.0.1 to         127.0.2
* firefox-esr   updated from        115.9.0 to         115.12.1
* rust          updated from          1.77.0 to          1.79.0
* sdl2          updated from           2.6.3 to           2.8.2
* wlroots       updated from          0.17.2 to          0.17.4
* wine          updated from           8.0.2 to             9.0
* wine-devel    updated from            9.4 to             9.11
* xorg-server   updated from         21.1.11 to         21.1.13
* qt5           updated from         5.15.13 to         5.15.14
* qt6           updated from           6.6.3 to           6.7.2
* kf5           updated from         5.115.0 to         5.116.0
* kf6           updated from           6.0.0 to           6.3.0
* plasma6       updated from           6.0.2 to           6.1.1

During the last quarter, pkgmgr@ ran 24 exp-runs to test various ports upgrades, updates to default versions of ports, subpackage support and base system changes.