2:57 PM - cpio updated
GNU cpio was updated to 2.7 in CURRENT last night. Many of the other BSDs use pax for cpio including NetBSD and OpenBSD. We may think about that down the road.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to update many of the applications in contrib. We've got quite a bit of stale software in there.
In the last few days, I've updated bzip2, cpio, less, and tcsh.
I'm considering updates to amd (auto mount...) , diff and so on. diffutils was released in 2002 which was the first update since 1994. FreeBSD did a number of local patches over the years that we inherited so a feature comparison might need to be done and a verification that we aren't depending on anything weird for ports before I can update that. (same goes for patch which is now included in it)
In the case of amd, we wouldn't benefit from new features just a few bug fixes.