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MacPorts 2.5.4 now available

Oct 3, 2018

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.5.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.14 Mojave and all older releases back to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, package installers and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, and the git tag has been signed with the same key. The public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.5.3 now available

Jul 5, 2018

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.5.3. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.13 High Sierra and all older releases back to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, package installers and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, and the git tag has been signed with the same key. The public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.5.1 now available

Jun 4, 2018

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.5.1. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.13 High Sierra and all older releases back to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, package installers and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, and the git tag has been signed with the same key. The public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.5.0 now available

May 28, 2018

The MacPorts Project is happy to announce that the 2.5.0 version has now been released. It is available via the usual methods:

The list of what’s new in 2.5.0 can be found in the ChangeLog.

A big thanks to the developers for their hard work with all of the various features and bug fixes in 2.5.0, and to all those who helped out by reporting bugs or testing.

Detached PGP signatures for the pkg/dmgs and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, whose public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki.

Key ID: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD Fingerprint: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.5.0 release candidate 1 available

May 24, 2018

Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.5.0-rc1 are now available. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.

Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find (after first searching Trac, of course!)

If no show-stopping bugs are found in the next few days, this will become the 2.5.0 release.

There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog for a list of most of the major ones. You may like to focus your testing on the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.

Changes since beta1 are:

  • Made portindex(1) more robust in the case of more than one port with the same name being accidentally added to the tree. (raimue in aa2b75c)
MacPorts 2.5.0 beta1 available

May 10, 2018

Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.5.0-beta1 are now available. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.

Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find (after first searching Trac, of course!)

There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog for a list of most of the major ones. You may like to focus your testing on the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.

MacPorts 2.4.4 now available

May 6, 2018

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.13 High Sierra and all older releases back to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, package installers and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, and the git tag has been signed with the same key. The public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.4.3 now available

Apr 11, 2018

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.3. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.13 High Sierra and all older releases back to OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, package installers and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, and the git tag has been signed with the same key. The public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.4.2 now available

Oct 5, 2017

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.2. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, package installers are available for the most current macOS 10.13 High Sierra and all older releases back to OS X 10.4 Tiger. The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images and package installers have been made by Joshua Root, while the git tag and source tarballs have been signed by Rainer Müller. Both public keys are available on the keyservers and our MacPorts wiki pages, the fingerprints being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

0x670191C05C5C6749: 7500 E6A3 6FA5 83B4 071B B540 6701 91C0 5C5C 6749

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.4.1 now available

Feb 26, 2017

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.1. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6 and 10.5 (10.6 is universal i386/x86_64; 10.5 is i386/ppc, the rest are x86_64). The source is also available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2, or from the git tag.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images, packages and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, whose public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki, the fingerprint being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.4.0 now available

Jan 27, 2017

The MacPorts Project is happy to announce that the 2.4.0 version has now been released. It is available via the usual methods:

The list of what’s new in 2.4.0 can be found in the ChangeLog.

A big thanks to the developers for their hard work with all of the various features and bug fixes in 2.4.0, and to all those who helped out by reporting bugs or testing.

Detached PGP signatures for the pkg/dmgs and source tarballs have been made by Joshua Root, whose public key is available on the keyservers and the MacPorts wiki.

Key ID: 0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD

Fingerprint: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

The MacPorts Port Managers

MacPorts 2.4.0 release candidate 1 available

Jan 24, 2017

Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.4.0-rc1 are now available. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.

Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find (after first searching Trac, of course!)

If no show-stopping bugs are found in the next few days, this will become the 2.4.0 release.

There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog for a list of most of the major ones. You may like to focus your testing on the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.

Changes since beta1 are:

  • Fixed variants requested on the command line or in variants.conf not being properly passed down to dependencies when +universal is added by arch checking. (#53322, jmr in 4972592)
  • Fixed a few more issues with pkg filenames. (jmr in e0c7f1c, 75584d8)
MacPorts 2.4.0 beta1 available

Jan 11, 2017

Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.4.0-beta1 are now available. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.

Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find (after first searching Trac, of course!)

There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog for a list of most of the major ones. You may like to focus your testing on the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.

MacPorts 2.3.5 now available

Nov 17, 2016

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.3.5. This is a bugfix release with small changes only, but the first we cut from our new home at GitHub. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes.

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, there are also package installers available for 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6, and 10.5 on our website. These installers and the source tarballs are also available from the corresponding v2.3.5 tag on GitHub.

Detached PGP signatures for the disk images and package installers have been made by Joshua Root and the source tarballs have been signed by Rainer Müller. Both public keys are available on the keyservers and our MacPorts wiki pages (jmr, raimue), the fingerprints being:

0x01FF673FB4AAE6CD: C403 7936 5723 6DCF 2E58 0C02 01FF 673F B4AA E6CD

0x670191C05C5C6749: 7500 E6A3 6FA5 83B4 071B B540 6701 91C0 5C5C 6749

The MacPorts Port Managers

Moving to GitHub

Oct 29, 2016

The MacPorts source code has been moved to GitHub. See the announcement email for this change. We have a list of frequently asked questions for the migration.

Please continue to use Trac to report tickets. Note that our Trac now uses GitHub for login. Any tickets you have previously filed in Trac will automatically be assigned to your new account if you have the email address you used in the old MacPorts Trac configured in your GitHub account. See our FAQ entry on the conversion.

The MacPorts team is looking forward to your pull requests!

New rsync server

Aug 9, 2016

The MacPorts rsync server is now being provided through the generosity of the Friedrich-Alexander University. See the email announcement for more details.

Google Summer of Code 2011: Get money for working on MacPorts

Mar 30, 2011

Google Summer of Code is a yearly program offering students stipends to write code for Open Source projects. Students can choose one of many mentoring organizations to work for. MacPorts is taking place in the program since 2007 and has been accepted once again for 2011!

You may apply to work on MacPorts for this summer and get $5000 USD as compensation. There is no requirement for any contribution to MacPorts or other Open Source projects before, it is only expected that you show us the motivation to work on your task.

Each organizations provides experienced mentors to discuss your task beforehand and will give you advice during implementation. This is a great opportunity to start into Open Source development.

We have a list of ideas with possible tasks for MacPorts and additional information about the application process:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

Of course we are also open to any ideas you might bring up. In any case, get in contact with us and discuss your proposal with us before handing in the application.

Google Summer of Code 2009 - Money for students working on MacPorts!

Mar 31, 2009

Summer of Code is a annual program hold by Google to attract new developers for the open source world. You work on a open source project over the summer and earn $4500 USD.

It is a great opportunity for college students to get a real, on the ground programming experience, work on an exciting open source project with mentoring from its developers. MacPorts has great tasks on the ideas page that could use attention, and still has slots for volunteers. Get in contact with us and apply if you are interested!

Please also spread the word if you are a MacPorts user and a friend of yours would be qualified. This is a great opportunity not just for the students, but to foster and extend the MacPorts project.

See this wiki page for more information:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

Application is still open until April 3, 19:00 UTC. For more details, just contact the macports-dev mailing list or any of the mentors.

MacPorts 1.7.1 now available

Mar 28, 2009

The MacPorts Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.7.1. This is a bugfix release with small changes only.

Notable changes for end users:

  • port upgrade will no longer act on ports which are not installed

Notable changes for port authors:

  • port lint no longer requires master_sites if the port does not have any distfiles
  • ${applications_dir} and ${frameworks_dir} are automatically created in the destroot
  • configure.compiler supports apple-gcc-4.2
  • New use_7z yes port option to allow distfiles in 7z format

If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:

sudo port selfupdate

For new installs, there are also package installers in disk images available for 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (with the latter two being universal builds). The source is available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2 in the same directory and it is also available from the subversion tag.

You can also read the email announcement.

New Management

Nov 3, 2008

As of 14 October, 2008, MacPorts has undergone a change of management. The email announcement can be found at:

https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-October/011899.html

The first order of business (once getting settled in is complete) is to put the final wraps on a 1.7.0 release and have a beta1 version out soon. This will be a big release, as it has been quite some time since 1.6.0. There is a milestone for 1.7.0 tickets on Trac:

https://trac.macports.org/milestone/MacPorts%201.7.0

However, many other changes have been made without tickets, and the entire set of updates is in the ChangeLog:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/ChangeLog

It is quite a list since 1.6.0.

New team members

Dec 17, 2007

It’s been long since we last publicly announced new team members, and as a result some of them have gone without their deserved welcoming posts, sorry ‘bout that. It’s been so long that I couldn’t possibly remember which ones were the last publicly announced ones, so rather than sifting through our list of members and older blog posts I’ll just post the entire list itself:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsDevelopers

Feel like you want to be in it…? Great, we’re always looking for more helping hands! Shape up and browse over to https://www.macports.org/contact.php#PortMgr

New website and guide

Dec 17, 2007

The MacPorts team is most proud to present to the world its new face at https://www.macports.org, after a couple of months long redesign of the old website we had at OpenDarwin servers and which now replaces the default Wordpress portal we were using since our migration to Mac OS Forge.

Coupled to our new webpage is a considerable and on-going facelift to our until unfortunately lacking documentation, our new guide at https://guide.macports.org, mostly the work of our own Mark Duling, Boey Maun Suang and Simon Ruderich.

Enjoy them and feel free to give us as much feedback as you may have by following the guidelines in the brand new https://www.macports.org/contact.php page.

Kudos to all those who helped make these important milestone happen, keep it up!

MacPorts published in German magazine c't

Nov 14, 2007

The MacPorts Team is pleased to see MacPorts being published by German computer magazine c’t. Edition 24⁄2007 features a CD with system tools that includes MacPorts version 1.5 and a short description of MacPorts inside the magazine.

MacPorts v1.5 released

Jul 15, 2007

The MacPorts team is pleased to announce the release of MacPorts v1.5.

A major achievement in this release is the completion of code and documentation changes to reflect the transition in project name from DarwinPorts to MacPorts. This results in a slightly modified installation layout.

In addition to that, there are a sizable number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.

Please see the release notes for more details.

Mac OS X v10.3 and 10.4 downloads are available.

MacPorts v1.4.0 released

Apr 5, 2007

The MacPorts project is pleased to announce the release of MacPorts v1.4.0.

Change log is at MacPorts 1.4.0 ChangeLog. Downloads are available at MacPorts 1.4.0 downloads.

Thanks to all project members who contributed to this release, and especially to Juan Manuel Palacios, who served as release manager. Bugs may be filed at the MacPorts bug reports page.

We plan to release a v1.4.1 within weeks with some ongoing enhancements. Please note that our official plan is to build disk images only for 1.x.0 releases, and let subsequent point releases selfupdate from there. Note also that if you have a previous release of MacPorts installed, the easiest path to MacPorts 1.4.0 is simply “sudo port selfupdate”.

MacPorts accepted into Google Summer of Code 2007

Mar 15, 2007

We’re very pleased to announce that MacPorts has been selected by Google as an organizational member of Google Summer of Code 2007. This means that students may apply to work on MacPorts projects through the Summer of Code program sponsored by Google. Compensation for completion of a project is $4500 to the student, and $500 to MacPorts.

The members of the MacPorts portmgr team and community are excited by this opportunity to improve MacPorts while also welcoming new contributors to the MacPorts ecosystem.

For more information, please see the MacPorts tracking page for summer of code.

We encourage qualified and interested students to apply!

MacPorts applies for Google Summer of Code

Mar 12, 2007

MacPorts today filed an application with Google for Summer of Code 2007. Summer of Code is a Google-sponsored program under which students work over the summer on an open source project, gaining valuable experience while also contributing important effort to open source projects.

We’ll know by March 14 whether our application has been accepted. We’ve set up a tracking page at SummerOfCode with more information and a list of potential tasks.

Please join us in sending good vibes to google to get our application approved so that we can help students learn while enhancing MacPorts.

Developers' Locations

Feb 11, 2007

We now have a Google Map (again) with the locations of our developers. Developers that are not yet registered on the map yet may mail to mww or - if they have commit bit - add their location themselves to the xml-marker file.