Recent Package Updates
2025-07-05: libarchive31-3.8.1-2 (Archiver library for tar, pax and others)
The bsdtar program is FreeBSD's modern implementation of tar based
on the libarchive. It started as a test harness, but has grown into a
feature-competitive replacement for GNU tar.
The libarchive is a stream-oriented library for variety of archives.
It focuses on tar format and its variants primarily, but can also
read and/or write other families of archive formats.
Following formats are supported ('r' for reading and 'w' for writing).
On read, compression and format are always detected automatically.
[rw] uuencoded files
[rw] gzip compression
[rw] bzip2 compression
[rw] compress/LZW compression
[rw] lzma, lzip, and xz compression
[rw] lz4 compression
[rw] lzop compression
[rw] zstandard compression
[rw] GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and
sparse files)
[r ] Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs)
[rw] Old V7 tar archives
[rw] POSIX ustar
[rw] POSIX pax interchange format
[rw] "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for
entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc).
This is the default, which is mostly compatible with the standard tar.
[rw] POSIX octet-oriented cpio ("odc")
[rw] SVR4 ASCII cpio ("newc")
[rw] Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian)
[ w] shar archives
[rw] ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge or Joliet extensions)
[rw] ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries)
[rw] GNU and BSD 'ar' archives (including 64-bit)
[rw] 'mtree' format
[rw] 7-Zip archives
[r ] Microsoft CAB format
[r ] LHA and LZH archives
[r ] RAR archives (including RAR 5.0)
[r ] ZIPX archives (with xz, lzma, ppmd8 and bzip2 compression)
[rw] XAR archives
[rw] WARC (ISO 28500:2009) archives
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
libarchive:
fix compat_version in .info
fix install of .pc file (cf libarchive/libarchive#2676)2025-07-01: gnulib-20250303-2 (GNU portability library)
Gnulib, the GNU portability library, is a macro system and C
declarations and definitions for commonly-used API elements and
abstracted system behaviors. It can be used to improve portability and
other functionality in your programs.
commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):
copy more files to the install (cf Debian) so that it actually works when other packages need to use this2025-06-30: vim-9.1.1498-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor:
Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection,
graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars,
text selection), and much much more.
commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]):
Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.1.1498.2025-06-30: vim-nox-9.1.1498-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor:
Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection,
graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars,
text selection), and much much more.
commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]):
Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.1.1498.
