Small note I just committed nspr and Firefox 3.5 RC3 to the portstree.
Please read UPDATING carefully befor you blame us.

Happy Testing!

Howdy,

Yesterday FF3.5 RC1 was released! Unfortunately
RC1 need a newer version of devel/nspr, we
already updated devel/nspr and it seems to be
work all fine. If you like to play with
both updates you can try following patch [1]. I
need to make a exp-run request for this
update to make sure nothing will be failed.

[1]
http://miwi.homeunix.com/patches/ff3.5rc1.diff

Please let us know if you see any problems.

- Martin

Today Virtualbox was committed to the FreeBSD ports tree.
After a lot of work we had a good discussion today about
how stable Virtualbox is, and after the CTF with take6 we
got a lot of good feedback, so it was time to commit.
Please READ the pkg-messages carefully, as well as the
wiki page.

If you like to use packages please see here for i386 and
here for amd64

We’d like to say thank you to everyone who
helped make this possible.

A friend of mine posted in the German BSDGroup.de a
nice howto to use an USB-Stick as a installmedium.
(German only i’ve translated to english )

here is a quick howto:

1: clear your stick:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1

2: make the USB-Stick bootable

bsdlabel -Bw da0 auto

3: create an UFS2 Filesystem with GEOM Lable “FreeBSD”

newfs -L FreeBSD /dev/da0a

4: mount ISO-Image:

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f 8.0-HEAD-20090609-JPSNAP-i386-dvd1 -u 0 && mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/iso

5: mount your USB-STICK

mount /dev/da0a /mnt/USB-Stick

Now copy all files from your mounted cd
in to your USB-Stick, after that you need
to create a fstab for your USB-Stick:

vi /mnt/USB-Stick/etc/fstab and put following in:

/dev/ufs/FreeBSD / ufs ro 0 0

save it. Now you can boot from the USB-Stick.
That’s nice to have for Netbooks or PCs without
a cd/dvd drive. .

When do peoples learn? Kris Moore and Dima Panov
made the mistakes of sending a lot of patches!
Now it was time to spend both a area51 commit bit.
Welcome to the KDE FreeBSD Team!

After a lot work, i’m happy to announce that python 2.6.2
now the default version on the FreeBSD portstree.
Please read careful ports/UPDATING.

I’d like to say many thanks to:

pav, gahr, lwhsu, mva, amdmi3

Happy Updating.

Today marks my three year anniversary with the FreeBSD project.
I can say it has been a pleasure to work on this Project.
I’ve learned a lot over the years and found lots of friends
in the Community. Thanks to everyone I’ve had the opportunity
to work with so far, especially my mentors Kirill Ponomarew,
Marcus Brueffer for ports and my doc mentor Johann Kois.
Also I’ve been given the opportunity to join the Portmgr Team.
I’m really happy about beeing offered this position. Now I’ll
be able to help more on the ports Infrastructure and see what we
can do to improve it. I’d like to say thanks for all your
trust. I’ll do my best and hope not to disappoint anyone.

So long ..

KDE 4.2.4 has been committed to ports.
We’re happy to announce that KDE-4.2.4 is now available in
the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.2.4 is only a Bugfix release.
A full changelog is available here.

Happy Updating.