MidnightBSD Developer Journal

Opera software recently released Opera 9.50. Normally, we'd like to include new versions of browsers anyway. However, this version also includes several security fixes. The mports/www/opera port has been updated to 9.50, but it may be tweaked as we move forward. The structure of the port changed quite a bit. We're not doing any config file changes yet. Paths for plugins might be incorrect, etc.

We were not able to update the linux-opera port. That was marked broken as the new versions require qt4 or are debian packages we don't have support for right now. If you don't care about the security risks, just comment out the BROKEN= with a # in the Makefile for the port.

Some of our developers are taking time off for the summer. At least two of them will be on vacation within the next few weeks. I'm currently taking a summer class which ends at the end of the month. At that time, I plan to pick up on work. (laffer1@)

mports commits might get slower during the next few weeks as I start working on src. We do plan to get gnome ports fixed up.

There has also been a change in plans for 0.2 and 0.3. We plan to release 0.2 sooner than planned. MidnightBSD 0.1.1 comes with many outdated packages. Most of our users are installing from CD and not updating mports. We feel that it is necessary to release something in the next two months with updated package and security updates. So 0.3 will be the feature release that 0.2 was supposed to be.

Prior to the release, we want to stabalize mports and fix one outstanding bug in src. There will also be some installer changes.