Around the first of Jul 2026 I was building QGIS 3 or 4 on 3 NetBSD systems, 1 fast, 2 slow, in order to check that each worked with PostgreSQL 14, 16 or 18, respectively. It mostly worked, albeit as slow as molasses in winters of yore.
To do the builds requires pkgsrc source code, as the pre-packaged versions are only built with version 16 database driver/library support.
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| CPU temperature + Processor load 24 hours+ |
On the 6th, I reworked the Bengies drive-in geocache and tent map.
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| The Bengies Drive-In |
On the bigger system, 4.0 QGIS
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| QGIS 4 splash screen |
Next thing I know, 4.2.0 is sitting in work-in-progress to I backed up and restarted the build.
Very nice, and worked about the same as the 4.0.
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| 4.2.0 About Screen |
I tried the Authentication option briefly, didn't get screen shots, and then. poof again, 2026Q2 pkgsrc became available after bulk builds, NetBSD 11.0 was released after a BETA and 6 or more Release Candidates.
By 31-July, a geospatial PDF:
When I finished 11.0 upgrades and wiped pkgsrc for a clean slate, there came one more work-in-progress version, 4.2.1.
Or "final".
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| QGIS 4.2.1 on NetBSD 11.0 |
