As you're aware, Ingo and Oliver have an ongoing development contract and they've been working on Package Management, arguable the last big hurdle before Haiku can release Beta 1. They've provided us updates through blog posts and Ingo has now posted the latest one.

A couple of things in the update the pop out, hybrid builds are working again, along with them having added support for bootstrapping Haiku to the build system. And... there's a repository!! Yep, Haiku now has a software repository. You'll use the new tool named pkgman to work with it and it works pretty well, tried the latest PM build, available here (thanks to Matt for posting the link) and enjoyed it. Stephan in the meantime is working on a frontend for it titled HaikuDepot.

Good news for Haiku, who knows, by the time BeGeistert rolls by, Beta 1 could be announced! Wait and see, wait and see...