MacPorts provides an easy way to install various open-source software products on macOS. MacPorts manages the dependencies for you and makes it easy to later update or uninstall software too. MacPorts provides binary archives of much of the software available in its collection so that you can install software quickly without having to compile it yourself.
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- Upgrade will now update registry metadata if needed for ports that are not outdated. This should hopefully cut down on revision increases requiring a rebuild just to do things like add or remove dependencies.
- Added new option startupitem.logfile.stderr. (#67955, mascguy in e70a512)
- Many single-letter command line options should now work when given after the action name, and apply only to that action. A few like -N can't easily be turned on and off internally, so if in doubt, keep putting single-letter options before the action.
- Ports that set platforms containing any are now not considered outdated after major OS updates.
- Dependencies installed for the first time when upgrading a port no longer inherit all variants from the dependent port. Arch checking is now done in this case so +universal is added to the dependency iff needed.
- Prevented rev-upgrade from complaining about weakly-linked libs that are not present.
- Avoid installing build-time dependencies when force-upgrading an installed port for which a binary archive will be used.
- Fixed error when running upgrade with -R and -u options.
- Fixed rev-upgrade potentially trying to access registry entries that have been uninstalled as a result of a rebuild.
- Fixed missing make command potentially causing some ports to fail to parse.
- Prevented destroot.keepdirs from creating files outside the destroot.
- Running port install on a port that is already installed will set the requested flag for that port.
- Fixed trace mode on Intel macOS 13.
- Fixed incorrect trace mode handling of setuid/setgid binaries.
- Fixed the deactivate and uninstall actions sometimes not handling multiple ports in correct dependency order if one or more of them was specified with non-canonical case.
- Fixed port names that differ only in case not being considered to be the same when evaulating boolean expressions.
- Fixed some issues that could occur in the unusual case that a mirror has an archive but not its corresponding signature.
- If the macports user has an incorrect home directory set somehow, the installer should now fix it.
- Skip vacuuming the registry database on shutdown (after uninstalling one or more ports) if it would not save significant space.
- Clean up the SQLite write-ahead log file when closing the registry.
- Added a simple default test phase for all ports, which currently just checks the architectures of installed files. test.run yes enables the tests defined by the Portfile, as before. It should always be safe to run port test now, and if it fails it means a test didn't pass.
- Using multiple threads for portindex.
- There is a separate installer for each OS version; be sure to use the correct one.
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