With both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 out, the older releases of the 6.x branch, 6.1 and 6.2, and the legacy 5.5 release will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Also, ports infrastructure will no longer be supported on the 5.x branch. Start planning your upgrades rather sooner than later!

On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached
their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security
Team. Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the
FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will
also cease at the same point. Users of any of these FreeBSD releases are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 before
that date.

Please note that the End of Life dates for FreeBSD 5.5 and FreeBSD 6.1
were announced in May 2006; and the End of Life for FreeBSD 6.2, which
was originally announced as January 31, 2008, has been extended by four
months in order to allow time for users to upgrade.

The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to inform users that May 31st (the
security team’s End-Of-Support date for FreeBSD 5.x) will also be the end
of support for the Ports Collection on both 5.5-RELEASE and the 5-STABLE
branch. Neither the infrastructure nor individual ports are guaranteed to
work on these FreeBSD versions after that date. A CVS tag will be created
for users who cannot upgrade for some reason; as of that commit, these users
are advised to stop tracking the latest ports CVS repository and instead
stay with the version as of that tag.

Full announcement.

Portmgr is pleased to announce that Florent Thoumie has accepted the challenge of being a portmgr member. Florent has been with the project for a long time and is one of our most active committers. Amongst other things, he was one of the people that worked on the complete overhaul of the X11 infrastructure with the Xorg 7.2 upgrade.
He will join the other portmgr members on integrating infrastructure patches and quality assurance in addition to other portmgr tasks.

Wish him luck!

It happened again. After sending more than 250 PRs, it was not to be avoided and my former mentee Gabor stepped up, together with araujo as co-mentor, to punish Felippe de Meirelles Motta (AKA lippe) with a ports commit bit. Keep up the good work, all three of you!

Martin Wilke not only spends a lot of time on fixing ports and closing PRs, but also has time to look for new blood and found some. Pietro Cerutti sent too many PRs and got the appropriate punishment. Welcome!

Philippe sent, amongst others, a large amount of fixes for the new GCC 4.2 version of the compiler, which did not go unnoticed. Thomas Abthorpe and Thierry Thomas have therefore decided to duely punish him for it with a FreeBSD port commit bit. Welcome aboard, Philippe!

A bit late for a Christmas present, of course completely planned so I did not have to bother giftwrapping it, Wesley Shields was punished with a ports commit bit today. Renato Botelho (garga) will be the executioner, and I’m sure he’ll think twice before saying “ni!” this time, or even try to send more patches. Good luck to the both of them!

At last, I couldn’t ignore reality anymore and could not protect Henrik against being punished for his ever lasting mails with patches. He was therefore punished with a FreeBSD ports commit bit and I myself will be his mentor. Wish him luck!

While Jung-uk Kim has been a src committer for over 2 years, he has also started helping out on the java ports. A bit too much and too good, so glewis has punished him with a ports commit bit additionally to his src bit. Welcome to the ports people!

As long time contributor, clsung finally thought he sent one too many PRs and offered to punish him for it. Please welcome Thomas Abthorpe to the ranks of the ports committers!

When do people learn? Lars Engels made the classic mistake of sending too many, too good PRs and miwi@ forced him to join the committers guild. Welcome aboard!