MacPorts 2.11

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jun 8 17:24:11 UTC 2025


On 5/6/2025 16:10, raf via macports-dev wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:42:42PM +1000, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Just a heads up that I'm planning to create a new release branch and tag a
>> 2.11.0 beta soon. Is there anything that we'd really like to get into master
>> ahead of that?
>>
>> - Josh
> 
> Can I just say that I'd like to be given lots of notice
> before the 2.11 version comes out. My understanding is
> that it will be the first version that no longer
> supports macos 10.4. Perhaps this is that notice. So
> I'd like to be able to get my 10.4 laptop up to date
> before 2.11. I'll do an update on my 20ish year old
> laptop right now :-).

There will be at least one beta and one release candidate, which will be 
announced as usual. When the final version is released, selfupdate on 
10.4 will fail. 'port sync' will still work, and new features are not 
supposed to be used in the ports tree for two weeks after a major 
release, so you will have that long before you need to stop syncing to 
avoid breaking things.

We also always create a tag in the ports repo at the time of a new base 
release.

- Josh


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