MacPorts 2.4.3

Changes since 2.4.2:

• Fix trace mode on macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
  (#55575, raimue in 995dde8)

• Using subport= with a nonexistent subport causes an error.
  (#34619, jmr in 9c48520)

• livecheck.regex is matched case-insensitive.
  (khindenburg in 0310feb)

• Sandbox allows read/write access to /dev/{u,}random.
  (jmr in c8c1565)

• Sandbox allows write access to /var/db/mds.
  (#50469, cal in 1f76522)

MacPorts 2.4.2

Changes since 2.4.1:

• Sandbox prevented ports to set suid permission bit on High Sierra.
  (#54963, raimue in d72ad48)
• Change compiler and SDK selection rules for Sierra and High Sierra.
  (#54504, ryandesign, jeremyhu in 7eccb87, b1b1ea0)
• Use copyfile(3) with COPYFILE_CLONE for SIP workaround in trace mode.
  (raimue in 3d4c9b3)
• Fix memory leak in 'port reclaim'.
  (#54156, mojca in c2df3cc)

MacPorts 2.4.1

Changes since 2.4.0:

• Avoid an infinite loop when livecheck.regex is empty.
  (raimue in d33a8a0)
• Fixed detection of /opt/local/bin already in the user's PATH in the
  installer postflight script. (barry-scott in dcb0788, b757252)
• Fixed the display of default variants by 'port variants' when the
  defaults are affected by variants present in variants.conf.
  (jmr in 9e63a61)
• Fixed 'port reclaim' deleting a file installed by the MacPorts installer
  for technical reasons.
  (#53436, cal in b0c0957)
• Display warning if reinplace doesn't change anything.
  (#15514, khindenburg in 8460505)
• Fixed 'port select' failure when the currently selected version no
  longer exists. (#31702, raimue in 9389e83)
• Fixed 'port lint' complaining that very large epoch values are
  non-numeric. (#53489, ionic in eb0a577, 0846afb)
• Fixed fallback to building from source when MacPorts is configured to
  get packages from an FTP server. (#53530, jmr in 6718cc6)
• Fixed failure to extract portdir archives. (#53532, jmr in 8c2da16)
• Fixed 'port diagnose' incorrectly offering to fix the PATH in some
  shells by skipping the check with shells it doesn't know about.
  (#53473, jmr in 17c70c9)
• Reduced the default verbosity of 'port diagnose'. (jmr in 741a77b)
• Fixed 'port diagnose' incorrectly reporting some symlinks as missing.
  (#53490, jmr in 103d6f6)
• Fixed 'port lint' complaining that GitHub handles should be obfuscated.
  (jmr in 2cadd1b)

MacPorts 2.4.0

Changes since 2.3.5:

• New action 'port reclaim' to clean inactive ports and unnecessary
  distfiles to get back disk space, developed during GSoC 2014.
  (ksammons in branch gsoc14-cleanup)
• New action 'port diagnose' to check for installation problems and
  configuration errors, developed during GSoC 2014.
  (ksammons in branch gsoc14-cleanup)
• Replaced the strings previously printed by "port help" with much more
  detailed and current manpages written using asciidoc that open
  automatically. Added documentation for almost all commands currently
  implemented by MacPorts.
  (raimue in branch new-help-system, merge in r123002,
  manpages written by cal, jmr, raimue, ionic, jeremyhu,
  #44530, #15467)
• Added interactive questions for various use cases like 'install',
  'activate', 'uninstall --follow-dependencies'. Also added global
  flag '-N' to provide non-interactive invocations.
  (shasha in branch gsoc14-interactive, merge in r124243)
• Display notes for installed or updated ports at the end of the
  installation to prevent them from getting lost in the scrolling output.
  (#24507, cal in r118304, patch by snc)
• Show date in verbose output of 'port installed'
  (raimue in r146757, r152685)
• Added "setunrequested" alias for "unsetrequested" command.
  (ionic in r130217)
• Handle SIGTERM and SIGINT (^C) in MacPorts to prevent inconsistencies in
  the registry database when MacPorts is aborted during a critical
  operation.
  (cal in r118297 and r118298)
• Added macports_version to the Portfile execution context, to allow
  checking the current MacPorts version in Portfiles.
  (cal in r134511)
• Add depends_test to handle the dependencies for the test phase of ports.
  (#38208, khindenburg in r140488)
• Remove "support" for rpm and deb packages in MacPorts, leaving pkg/mpkg.
  (afb in r123004)
• Remove deprecated rpm-vercomp function, ports should use vercmp instead.
  (afb in r123005)
• Use pkgbuild instead of PackageMaker.app in 'port pkg' on newer systems.
  (#42725, jmr in dd89bb8)
• Fixed a bug that could cause installation of ports with large numbers of
  dependencies to fail due to running out of file descriptors.
  (#50986, jmr in 0fd195f)
• Fixed variants requested on the command line or in variants.conf not
  being properly passed down to dependencies when +universal is added
  by arch checking. (#53322, jmr in 4972592)
• Fixed building dmgs of ports with a non-zero revision.
  (#51136, jmr in 62d7125, e0c7f1c, 75584d8)
• Fix 'port info' output for multi-valued maintainers
  (#52928, raimue in ba2002c)

MacPorts 2.4.0-rc1

Changes since beta1:

• Fixed variants requested on the command line or in variants.conf not
  being properly passed down to dependencies when +universal is added
  by arch checking. (#53322, jmr in 4972592)
• Fixed a few more issues with pkg filenames. (jmr in e0c7f1c, 75584d8)

MacPorts 2.4.0-beta1

• New action 'port reclaim' to clean inactive ports and unnecessary
  distfiles to get back disk space, developed during GSoC 2014.
  (ksammons in branch gsoc14-cleanup)
• New action 'port diagnose' to check for installation problems and
  configuration errors, developed during GSoC 2014.
  (ksammons in branch gsoc14-cleanup)
• Replaced the strings previously printed by "port help" with much more
  detailed and current manpages written using asciidoc that open
  automatically. Added documentation for almost all commands currently
  implemented by MacPorts.
  (raimue in branch new-help-system, merge in r123002,
  manpages written by cal, jmr, raimue, ionic, jeremyhu,
  #44530, #15467)
• Added interactive questions for various use cases like 'install',
  'activate', 'uninstall --follow-dependencies'. Also added global
  flag '-N' to provide non-interactive invocations.
  (shasha in branch gsoc14-interactive, merge in r124243)
• Display notes for installed or updated ports at the end of the
  installation to prevent them from getting lost in the scrolling output.
  (#24507, cal in r118304, patch by snc)
• Show date in verbose output of 'port installed'
  (raimue in r146757, r152685)
• Added "setunrequested" alias for "unsetrequested" command.
  (ionic in r130217)
• Handle SIGTERM and SIGINT (^C) in MacPorts to prevent inconsistencies in
  the registry database when MacPorts is aborted during a critical
  operation.
  (cal in r118297 and r118298)
• Added macports_version to the Portfile execution context, to allow
  checking the current MacPorts version in Portfiles.
  (cal in r134511)
• Add depends_test to handle the dependencies for the test phase of ports.
  (#38208, khindenburg in r140488)
• Remove "support" for rpm and deb packages in MacPorts, leaving pkg/mpkg.
  (afb in r123004)
• Remove deprecated rpm-vercomp function, ports should use vercmp instead.
  (afb in r123005)
• Use pkgbuild instead of PackageMaker.app in 'port pkg' on newer systems.
  (#42725, jmr in dd89bb8)

MacPorts 2.3.5

• Updated compiler selection for macOS 10.12 Sierra
  (jeremyhu in r141134 and r150305)
• Do not use default archive_sites for custom ports trees
  (raimue in r147456)
• Prune symlinks to deleted libtool archives (.la)
  (#40935, jmr in r119571, r119594, r119595)
• Return an error if livecheck matched a version older than the current
  version.
  (jmr, raimue in r127797, r149299)
• Permit pkg phase to be run as root, if needed for additional
  modifications in destroot.
  (ctreleaven in r152115)
• Ignore warnings on stderr for archive extraction to allow use of gnutar.
  (#42492, cal in r132312)
• Create the documented porthier(7) directory structure in ${prefix}/var
  and ${prefix}/share for destroot phase.
  (#45434, #47688, ryandesign in r135998, r135999)
• When syncing a ports tree failed, operation could continue with the
  wrong uid.
  (#43202, cal in r118570)
• Change default of livecheck.ignore_sslcert to "no".
  (#52515, raimue in r153648)
• No longer check Subversion properties in 'port lint'
  (#48577, ryandesign in r153865)
• Fix problems with the postflight script in the installer.
  (#43875, #43749, cal in r122042, r122044, r154073, r154110)
• Warn when the obsolete Subversion repository is used.
  (raimue in r154451)
• port lint: warn if obsolete $Id$ keyword is used.
  (#52757, raimue in fc45aaf)
• Support multi-valued entries in the maintainers field and allow GitHub
  usernames as maintainers
  (cal in 30c27d5)