Book a Demo!
CoCalc Logo Icon
StoreFeaturesDocsShareSupportNewsAboutPoliciesSign UpSign In
freebsd
GitHub Repository: freebsd/freebsd-doc
Path: blob/main/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/portmgr.adoc
18097 views
=== Ports Collection

Links: +
link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[About FreeBSD Ports] URL:link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/[] +
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 36,504 ports in the Ports Collection.
There are currently ~3,379 open ports PRs.
The last quarter saw 11,594 commits by 154 committers on the main branch and 832 commits by 78 committers on the 2024Q3 branch.
Compared to last quarter, this means a slight increase in the number of commits on the main branch (from 10,525) and about half of the backports to the quarterly branch (compared to 1,771).
The number of ports also increased (up from 32,471).

The most active committers to main were:

- 5133 [email protected]
- 1262 [email protected]
-  375 [email protected]
-  357 [email protected]
-  331 [email protected]
- 192 [email protected]
- 185 [email protected]
- 172 [email protected]
- 148 [email protected]
- 131 [email protected]

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

- Default version of PostgreSQL switched to 16
- chromium      updated from  126.0.6478.126 to 129.0.6668.100
- firefox       updated from         127.0.2 to 131.0-rc1
- firefox-esr   updated from         115.9.1 to 128.3.0-rc1
- rust          updated from          1.79.0 to 1.81.0
- sdl2          updated from          2.30.3 to 2.30.7
- wlroots       updated from          0.17.4 to 0.18.1
- wine-devel    updated from             9.4 to 9.16
- qt5           updated from         5.15.14 to 5.15.15
- qt6           updated from           6.7.2 to 6.7.3
- plasma6       updated from           6.1.1 to 6.1.2

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