Fink 0.8.0

The Fink project made three new releases available over the weekend: 0.6.4 for Jaguar, 0.7.2 for Panther, and 0.8.0 for Tiger. If you're using Fink, you probably want to upgrade to get access to the latest and greatest. The big news for Tiger users is that the 10.4 port has broken 1500 packages–1565 as of June 9th–or more than 80% of the current Panther total.

The big news for Jaguar users is that this is the last Fink release for 10.2; neither the fink application itself not the ports tree are being maintained any longer, although they anticipate the 0.6.4 realase will be usable for "years." I certainly understand why they've chosen to do this, but I do hope someone steps in and and at least keeps up with security patches for some of the popular packages.

[Edit: that's "broken" as in broken a record, met a goal. As far as we know, the release is solid, as usual.]