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 addon’s problem.

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 out FreeBSD 7.3 release.

We’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.

Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.

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. 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* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them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.

here is the patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/gecko/firefox36.diff

A big thanks is going to nox@, Andreas Tobler, Florian Seemts.

Happy Testing!

- Martin on behalf of the FreeBSD Gecko Team.

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 have to deinstall qt4-designer before starting update
procedure.

Please send feedback to kde-freebsd@kde.org

Special thanks to Alberto Villa for his hard work on getting Qt-4.6.0 ports
into shape.

Max Brazhnikov, on behalf of the FreeBSD KDE team

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 in ports-mgmt/tinderbox)
- Restore some of the leftover exceptions but use LOCALBASE instead of X11BASE.
- Expand the MySQL glob to match on MySQL 5.4 and 5.5.
- Adjust the SQL query to remove all entries from a BuildPortsQueue. This
makes things more compatible.

Two Experimental patches from Tim Bishop and beat@.

Tim has added support for multiple tinderd instances at the same
time.

The parallel patch allows to run multiple tinderd instances at the
same time.
You can enable multiple tinderd instances via /etc/rc.conf with
tinderd_instances=”X”

beat as added support for tmpfs to enable the usage of FreeBSD’s
tmpfs implementation.

I use both patches now more than 3 or 4 month’s without problems.

Both patches are experimental and are not official supported by the Tinderbox
distribution.

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 reported problems:

- – virtualbox-ose-additions:
- Update to a more recent svn snapshot. The kernel module from 3.1.2
was not loadable.
- Adjust pkg-descr and COMMENT to make it clear what additions are
good for (Patch by dougb@)
- Install rc.d style start script to load the kernel module
- Add check if kernel sources are available
- Mark BROKEN on FreeBSD 6.x

- – virtualbox-ose-kmod:
- Install rc.d style start script to load the network related kernel
modules in correct order
- Mark BROKEN on FreeBSD 6.x

- – virtualbox-ose:
- Update pkg-message to reflect recent changes
- Add missing PulseAudio dependency

New version of the tarball is available here:

https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r621.tar.gz

Virtualbox 3.1.2 no longer requires procfs. If no other program requires
/proc mounted you could remove /proc from /etc/fstab.

If you are using the kernel modules for bridged or host-only networking
please load the virtualbox kernel module via /boot/loader.conf:
vboxdrv_load=”YES”

Then remove vboxnetflt or vboxnetadp entries from /boot/loader.conf and
add this to /etc/rc.conf and reboot the machine afterwards:
vboxnet_enable=”YES”

If you install virtualbox-ose-additions on a FreeBSD guest add this to
/etc/rc.conf:
vboxguest_enable=”YES”

The vboxvideo_drv should be recognized by “Xorg -configure”. If not, use
something like this in your xorg.conf for the video card:
Section “Device”
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: “True”/”False”,
### <string>: “String”, <freq>: “<f> Hz/kHz/MHz”
### [arg]: arg optional
Identifier  “Card0″
Driver      “vboxvideo”
VendorName  “InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH”
BoardName   “VirtualBox Graphics Adapter”
BusID       “PCI:0:2:0″
EndSection

To use vboxmouse_drv please adjust the mouse section in your xorg.conf
like this:
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier  “Mouse0″
Driver      “vboxmouse”
EndSection

Thanks,
Beat, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team

I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.

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 FreeBSD guests has been created:
virtualbox-ose-additions
- Added proper PulseAudio support for FreeBSD. Contributed
by Noriyoshi Kawano
- procfs is no longer required because vbox uses sysctl(3) now. Contributed
by Baptiste Daroussin and Bernhard Froehlich
- Fix build with a non-standard location for the system source. Submitted by: scf@

How to upgrade:
- Fetch the new ports:
# fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
# tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz

- Build the new ports:
# cd virtualbox-ose-kmod && make
# cd ../virtualbox-ose && make

- If build was ok, deinstall old port
# pkg_deinstall virtualbox-\*

- Install new port:
# cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean
# cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean

For FreeBSD guests within VirtualBox please try the new guest
additions port:
# fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
# tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
# cd virtualbox-ose-additions && make install clean
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxguest.sh start

Check that the VirtualBox kernel module is loaded via loader.conf
and reboot the machine.

Check the wiki page for known problems: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox

Please report any functionality which was working with previous versions of VirtualBox
and no longer working with 3.1.2 or any build failure.

Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all tester and patch submitter and the whole
vbox@ team.

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.