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Fink News Support for macOS 11 through macOS 13 The main source branch for Fink development supports macOS 11 through macOS 13, under both intel (x86_64) and Apple's M1 and M2 (arm64) CPUs. Final work on a full release is ongoing. As t... fink-0.45.6 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.6. This is a quick release to fix a bug introduced in fink-0.45.5 (issue #240). This release does not yet support macOS 11 (Big Sur) or macOS 12 (Monte... fink-0.45.4 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.4. This is a minor upgrade to support XQuartz 2.8. This release does not yet support macOS 11 (Big Sur) or macOS 12 (Monterey). Support for those two r... fink-0.45.3 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.3. This is a minor behavioral fix for an issue introduced in 0.45.2. With this release, the default prefix for new installs is reverted to /sw for all macOS... fink-0.45.2 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.2. This release provides support for all macOS releases up to and including 10.15.7. Most importantly, it changes the default install path location to /opt/s... fink-0.45.1 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.1. This release provides support for all macOS releases up to and including 10.15.4, as well as support for users running the zsh shell. Run fink selfupdate... Further 10.15 (Catalina) and Xcode11 upgrade details If upgrading to macOS 10.15 (Catalina) from an earlier macOS release, your existing Fink install will cease to work if installed outside /opt (such as to the previous default /sw) and must be reins... 10.15 (Catalina) and Xcode11 information Fink 0.45.0 and up support the upcoming 10.15 release, but there are some important things to note: Apple locked down the / (root) directory where Fink normally installs (in /sw by defaul... fink-0.45.0 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.45.0. This release provides support for macOS 10.14.5 and up, including preliminary support for macOS 10.15beta. This release also provides full support for .ap... Fink mirrors are back Thanks to the work of Fink members Chris Z and Justin H, the finkmirrors.net domain is operational once again. We are looking for new mirror owners to extend our mirroring service. If you can... Issues with macOS 10.14.5 Apple's release of macOS 10.14.5 updated the system perl version from 5.18.2 to 5.18.4. This update broke bootstrapping fresh installs, as well as existing perl modules dependent on perl-5.18.2... fink-0.44.1 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.44.1. This is primarily a bugfix release to fix bootstrapping or using the Install Fink.tool script, but with some additional optimization updates behind the s... Mirrors currently down Fink's finkmirrors.net domain is currently down. This will affect users selfupdating via rsync, as well as those using the binary distribution. In order to keep your Fink distribution up... fink-0.44.0 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.44.0. This release now supports macOS 10.14 (Mojave), as well as Java 10. Usefink selfupdate to install it. The best update sequence from going to 10.9-... fink-0.43.1 released The Fink Project has released fink-0.43.1. This is a bugfix release. Usefink selfupdate to install it. If you happen to have updated your OS X before updating fink, follow the "Fixing...

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