Howdy All,

How you all know is Robert Noland our X guy but he lose most of his time
for his new job and x11 is to many for one people. Robert is dealing
most time with x stuff on the src site and we need now some people to
help him on the ports side. Beat@ and I have been started to help him,
we’ve setup a SVN [1] and small wiki page [2] with all needed infomations.
If you have intrested to help us a bit please mail me back or join
us via irc EFnet/#freebsd-xorg.

[1]
http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/branches/xorg-dev

[2]:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5

Many Thanks

- Martin

Hello Internet,

We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was
released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before
you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before
FreeBSD 7.3 was released.

What is new:
KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate
local and network social services .. and a lot more. The official
release notes for this release can be found at
http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/

Now you can get KDE SC 4.4 with a svn checkout:

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/PORTS
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/KDE
svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/

now try:

sh Tools/scripts/portsmerge
sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge

Please read carefull /usr/ports/UPDATING-area51
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/UPDATING-area51

Happy Updating!!

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.