===== Tracking Upstream Updates =====

It's not easy for maintainers to track when new upstream versions of ports are released.

Many projects, like %%FreeBSD%% itself, have some kind of **announce** mailing-list. You should subscribe to it and watch your inbox for new versions.

==== Portscout ====

We have an application, written by [[/ShaunAmott|ShaunAmott]] and run by [[/MartinWilke|MartinWilke]], which looks for new distfiles, publishing the findings daily:

http://portscout.freebsd.org/

The list of unmaintained ports with an outstanding update may be of interest:

http://portscout.freebsd.org/ports@freebsd.org.html

The service also sends out notifications via e-mail when updates are found. Contact Shaun or Martin to opt-in to this.

See [[http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/portscout|ports-mgmt/portscout]].

==== Repology ====

[[https://repology.org|Repology]], maintained by [[/DmitryMarakasov|DmitryMarakasov]], tracks package versions across a lot of repositories, including Linux (ALT, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mageia, %%OpenSUSE%%, %%SlackBuilds%%) and other *BSDs (%%OpenBSD%%, %%NetBSD%% pkgsrc), compares versions and detects packages which need updates. Among other features, per-maintainer view is available:

https://repology.org/metapackages/by-maintainer/ports@freebsd.org/

==== Berlios ====

See %%SourceForge%%, but the list is in the **Summary** section, not **Files**.

==== CPAN ====

There's a page with recently updated modules. You'll have to watch it in order to stay current:
http://search.cpan.org/recent

There should be a better way involving automated processing of the **recent** file against a list of CPAN modules you maintain. It will appear here later.

==== Mozilla Add-ons ====

There exists a page listing available update at https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/search/?category=alerts-updates&type=extension .

Note: ATM legacy extensions aren't supported after Firefox 57.

==== Savannah ====

:( Not clear yet

==== SourceForge ====

In the **Files** section of each project there's a list of packages named **Latest File Releases**, each with a monitor button to the right. Press the button to start tracking a particular package. You'll get a mail for each new release, but you won't get any notification if a new package appears in the project. Some projects release new versions as separate packages, making this monitor feature useless. You must be logged in in order to be able to subscribe.

==== Use other package management systems ====

You can track updates to separate ports at http://gentoo-portage.com/

[[/AndrewPantyukhin|AndrewPantyukhin]] uses [[http://www.google.com/reader/|Google Reader]] to track updates in
[[http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/01286172033585676987/label/packages|other package management projects]] and [[http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/01286172033585676987/label/soft|software aggregators]].
He peruses the following feeds:
  * http://fedoranews.org/cms/taxonomy/term/5/0
  * http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/
  * http://www.freshports.org/
  * http://ports.openbsd.nu/
  * http://pkgsrc.se/
  * http://packages.gentoo.org/
  * http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/newpkg_main
  * https://addons.mozilla.org/
  * http://sourceforge.net/