Recent Package Updates

2026-10-31: mtools-4.0.50-1 (Collection of tools to manipulate MSDOS files)

Mtools is a collection of programs to allow unix systems to read, write,
and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem. Each program attempts to
emulate the MSDOS eqivalent command as closely as practical.

commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):

    mtools: v4.0.50

2026-10-31: nano-9.3-1 (Free Pico clone with some new features)

GNU nano is an easy-to-use text editor originally designed as a replacement
 for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine
 (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).

commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):

    nano: v9.3

2026-10-31: nano-small-9.3-1 (Free Pico clone with some new features)

GNU nano is an easy-to-use text editor originally designed as a replacement
 for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine
 (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).

commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):

    nano: v9.3

2026-10-31: nano-noutf8-9.3-1 (Free Pico clone with some new features)

GNU nano is an easy-to-use text editor originally designed as a replacement
 for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine
 (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).

commit log from Hanspeter Niederstrasser ([email protected]):

    nano: v9.3

2026-10-27: vim-nox-9.2.1245-1 (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-9.2.1245.

2026-10-27: vim-9.2.1245-1 (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-9.2.1245.

2026-10-26: libbrotli1-1.2.1-1 (High quality LZ77 compression lib)

High quality LZ77 compression lib

commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]):

    libbrotli: new version (closes #1322)