If we're not imminently ready to release MacPorts 2.5, here are some bugfixes I would nominate to be merged back to the release-2.4 branch to be released as MacPorts 2.4.3.
Reinplace quietly when clearing dependency_libs in .la files https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/49a0c6f5a6088b4f7ecd0137b18d10a56f30694d Fix case-only renames with no arguments https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/acc1e62d8560609652977e563734f805c41244cf Fix incorrect portindex usage message https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/1c7c8b21c42962e9761aeb97844aa91f320eee47 Remove clang-3.8 from compiler fallback list on El Capitan and older https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c4107fcd483646853321027af2e123aa0e70a1ce Fix error when sw_vers fails https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/adf078d0e0626b831463dea740bfe4f008142cda Fix typos in manpages https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/38fe236f3f830a79c39e50526a20a32b2345d6dc Update macOS version checks https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/3ba09e0620be7a8e77e1b84da03309b09d98e902 Update Xcode version checks https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/5f6bd08834d4f6cab011e068f192b965993edc30 Error when port opened with nonexistent subport https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/9c48520c7347a84af603ed35ed27a96a42d57838 Fix leaving orphaned Portfiles in registry https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/6c8c70b370753b9015400b27afdcd303b7a0cb63 Ignore case in livecheck regexps https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/0310feb5f4c3858e067e3500936f6fa099c78803 Fix typo in warning message https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/677dda56cbf3fc310b96a2fc1b54ee7c85ce5375 Add /dev/{u,}random to sandbox https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/c8c1565f42a60c2b9e85a204603a66052f444c43
