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Port details
qb3 Extremely Fast Lossless Image Compression
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Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-05-29 04:54:16
Last Update: 2026-05-07 14:27:31
Commit Hash: 34846b3
License: APACHE20
WWW:
https://github.com/lucianpls/QB3
Description:
QB3: Image/Raster Compression, Fast and Efficient - Better compression than PNG in most cases - Lossless compression and decompression rate of 500MB/sec for byte data, 4GB/sec for 64 bit data - All integer types, signed and unsigned, 8 to 64bit per value - Lossless, or lossy by division with a small integer (quanta) - No significant memory footprint during encoding or decoding - No external dependencies, very low complexity
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/qb3-2.1.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/qb3-2.1.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/qb3-2.1.0/APACHE20
  4. bin/cqb3
  5. cmake/libQB3Config.cmake
  6. cmake/libQB3ConfigVersion.cmake
  7. cmake/libQB3Targets-release.cmake
  8. cmake/libQB3Targets.cmake
  9. include/QB3.h
  10. lib/libQB3.so
  11. @owner
  12. @group
  13. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • qb3>0:graphics/qb3
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/graphics/qb3/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install graphics/qb3
  • pkg install qb3
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: qb3
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1778096604 SHA256 (lucianpls-QB3-V2.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = bd173f5c6e2f7ff7d8d5cdc6b5d411da80ad605681c49892d8fdb51aba1c289f SIZE (lucianpls-QB3-V2.1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 217703

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
qb3
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest2.0.02.0.0-1.3.2_12.0.0n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly2.0.02.0.0-1.3.2_12.0.0n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest2.1.02.1.0-1.3.2_12.1.0---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.0.02.0.0-1.3.2_12.0.0---
FreeBSD:15:latest2.1.02.1.0n/a1.3.2_1n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly2.0.02.0.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest2.1.02.1.0n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. cmake : devel/cmake-core
  2. ninja : devel/ninja
Library dependencies:
  1. libicd.so : graphics/libicd
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for qb3-2.1.0: AVX2=on SSE4=on ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
graphics_qb3
USES:
cmake compiler:c++11-lang
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/lucianpls/QB3/tar.gz/V2.1.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 4

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.1.0
07 May 2026 14:27:31
commit hash: 34846b3672236e2bafc94a6bebfbf48c82ecda36commit hash: 34846b3672236e2bafc94a6bebfbf48c82ecda36commit hash: 34846b3672236e2bafc94a6bebfbf48c82ecda36commit hash: 34846b3672236e2bafc94a6bebfbf48c82ecda36 files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
graphics/qb3: Update to 2.1.0

Changes:	https://github.com/lucianpls/QB3/releases
2.0.0
03 Feb 2026 05:09:14
commit hash: 438be4cd1ea67432e5e8f56876f2148aed5d1249commit hash: 438be4cd1ea67432e5e8f56876f2148aed5d1249commit hash: 438be4cd1ea67432e5e8f56876f2148aed5d1249commit hash: 438be4cd1ea67432e5e8f56876f2148aed5d1249 files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
graphics/qb3: Update to 2.0.0

Changes:	https://github.com/lucianpls/QB3/releases
1.3.2_1
04 Jul 2025 09:05:29
commit hash: 33d606993423e1965128059a153a088a4f45b04ccommit hash: 33d606993423e1965128059a153a088a4f45b04ccommit hash: 33d606993423e1965128059a153a088a4f45b04ccommit hash: 33d606993423e1965128059a153a088a4f45b04c files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
graphics/qb3: Fix build on i386

- Bump PORTREVISION for package change

Reference:	https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy21/data/142i386-default/8b06c03ce600/logs/qb3-1.3.2.log
1.3.2
29 May 2025 04:52:18
commit hash: c81c8ecd8643e6801b30e336def1ca75efde0397commit hash: c81c8ecd8643e6801b30e336def1ca75efde0397commit hash: c81c8ecd8643e6801b30e336def1ca75efde0397commit hash: c81c8ecd8643e6801b30e336def1ca75efde0397 files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
graphics/qb3: Add qb3 1.3.2

QB3: Image/Raster Compression, Fast and Efficient
- Better compression than PNG in most cases
- Lossless compression and decompression rate of 500MB/sec for byte data,
  4GB/sec for 64 bit data
- All integer types, signed and unsigned, 8 to 64bit per value
- Lossless, or lossy by division with a small integer (quanta)
- No significant memory footprint during encoding or decoding
- No external dependencies, very low complexity

Number of commits found: 4