http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/611 <pre>FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March 2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIXŽ operating system. Our release engineering team has been also busy with preparation of the 8.3-RELEASE, which was publicly announced in April. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period between April and June 2012 is July 15th, 2012. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * FreeBSD Services Control * GNU-Free C++11 St</pre> Daniel Gerzo 2012-05-12T21:39:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/610 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2012-05-03 Credits: Adam Langley, George Kadianakis, Ben Laurie, Ivan Nestlerode, Tavis Ormandy Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p7) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.3-STABLE) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_3, 8.3-RELEASE-p1) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p7) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p9) 2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-</pre> FreeBSD Security Advisories 2012-05-03T16:01:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/609 <pre> Heads up. ----- Forwarded message from NYC*BUG Announcements &lt;announce&lt; at &gt;lists.nycbug.org&gt; ----- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:29:03 -0400 From: NYC*BUG Announcements &lt;announce&lt; at &gt;lists.nycbug.org&gt; To: announce&lt; at &gt;lists.nycbug.org Subject: [announce] proposed announce for mirrors So, we are just waiting on MD sorting out uploading his images with Mark, plus someone hitting the Tor project so they list our Tor mirror. Comments appreciated, inline. *** The New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) is proud to announce the launching of multiple mirrors serving the BSD and open source community. The mirrors, hosted in a cabinet donated by New York Internet, include the following official mirrors: * DragonFlyBSD * OpenBSD * m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall distribution customized for embedded devices * The Tor Project, an open source public anonymity network * BHyVe images, a FreeBSD-based type 2 Hypervisor virtualization created by NetApp developers, with the images maintained by Michael Dexter of Call for Te</pre> Jason Hellenthal 2012-04-21T15:53:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/608 <pre> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: - usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter - TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework - graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4)) - ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28 - Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4 For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.3R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.3R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability ------------- FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available for the</pre> Ken Smith 2012-04-18T14:19:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/607 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and cost-effectiveness. To find out more about the proposal process please read Project Proposal Procedures at: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FreeBSD%20Foundation%20Proposals%20March%202012.pdf. This is is your chance to get funding to help improve FreeBSD! Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce&lt; at &gt;freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe&lt; at &gt;freebsd.org" </pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-03-16T18:04:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/606 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow filesystems while they are mounted. "Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation. This project will add GEOM and filesystem changes that are necessary to increase the size of both UFS and ZFS filesystems while a filesystem is mounted read-write. This project will provide the additional benefit of online provisioning of virtual instances. The Foundation is pleased to be working with Edward again. He was previously awarded a grant to implement resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism. This work was included in FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE. This project is expected to be completed by October 2012. _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce&lt; at &gt;freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb</pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-03-06T14:45:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/605 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On March 31st, FreeBSD 7.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 7.3 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.4, FreeBSD 8.1, FreeBSD 8.2, or FreeBSD 9.0 before the that date. Please note that due to the unexpectedly long interval between FreeBSD 8.2 and the upcoming FreeBSD 8.3, the EoL date for FreeBSD 8.2 (originaly set at February 29, 2012) has been postponed until July 31, 2012 in keeping with the policy of having a three-month "upgrade window". In the unlikely event that FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE arrives later than the end of April, the EoL dates for FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.2 will be further postponed. The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+----------</pre> FreeBSD Security Officer 2012-03-06T13:47:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/604 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of George Neville-Neil to its board of directors. George has been dabbling in the BSD world since his undergraduate days in the mid-1980s. He was granted his commit bit in 2004, and has served two terms on the FreeBSD Core team between 2006 and 2010. In 2011, he started organizing the semi-annual FreeBSD Vendor Summits that gather commercial customers of FreeBSD along with project members in order to facilitate the movement of technologies between the Project and its customers. George co-authored "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System." His technical contributions are mostly within the FreeBSD network stack with occasional forays into other parts of the system. "The Foundation is at a pivotal point in our growth as a company," said Deb Goodkin, Secretary/Treasurer, The FreeBSD Foundation. "We believe with George's previous and current involvement in FreeBSD, that he will be a significant contributor in helping </pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-03-05T14:46:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/603 <pre>EuroBSDcon 2012 =============== EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday and talks on Saturday and Sunday. Call for Proposals ------------------ The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting developers and users of BSD-based systems to submit innovative and original papers not submitted to other European conferences on BSD-related topics. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes. Call for Tutorial Proposals --------------------------- The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting qualified practitioners in their field to submit proposals for half or full day tut</pre> Pawel Jakub Dawidek 2012-03-02T10:23:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/602 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to bring their comprehensive NAND Flash file system and storage stack to FreeBSD. This technology enables FreeBSD to natively manage NAND Flash devices, satisfying a crucial requirement for many applications needing access to fast, reliable, non-volatile storage. FreeBSD is widely used as the OS foundation of embedded appliances both small and large. Semihalf's NAND Flash stack opens new opportunities for FreeBSD in this space, where size, cost, or performance, mandate the use of direct attached NAND Flash. Made possible by matching funds from Juniper Networks, this FreeBSD Foundation grant covers the costs of transferring technology developed for Juniper Networks by Semihalf to the FreeBSD project. This will ensure that the NAND framework meets community standards and can be easily maintained and enhanced. Highlighting the return on investment offered by this kind of technology transfer,</pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-03-01T18:45:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/601 <pre>Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to AsiaBSDCon 2012. The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf by February 20, 2012 to apply for this grant. This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers, documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc). In some cases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active community members and FreeBSD advocates. Your request should be based on a realistic and economical estimate of travel costs (economy airfare, trainfare, ...), accommodations (conference hotel and sharing a room), and registration or tutorial fees. If there are other sponsors willing to cover costs, such as your employer or the conference, we prefer that you talk to them first, as our budget is limited. We are happ</pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-02-16T00:13:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/600 <pre>We apologize that http://www.bsdcan.org/ was offline for 12 hours from early Sunday morning. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Tuesday 31 January. BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. We are now accepting proposals for talks. The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include: * How we manage a giant installation with respect to handlin</pre> Dan Langille 2012-01-29T19:55:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/599 <pre>FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report October-December, 2011 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2011. It is the last of the four reports planned for 2011. This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next major version of FreeBSD, 9.0, which was already successfully released in the beginning of January 2012. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period between January and March 2012 is April 15th, 2012. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * Auditdistd Project * BSD-Licensed C++ Stack * pfSense User-land Programs * Replacing the Regular Expression Code * System Configuration Utilities FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Ports Management Team Status Report * Release Engineering Team Status Report *</pre> Daniel Gerzo 2012-01-27T10:07:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/598 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement auditdistd daemon. The FreeBSD audit facility provides fine-grained, configurable logging of security-relevant events. One of the key purposes of logging security events is postmortem analysis in case of system compromise. Currently the kernel can push audit records directly into a file or make them available through /dev/auditpipe device. Because audit logs are stored locally by the kernel, an attacker has access to them once the system is compromised, which enables him to remove trails of his activity. The auditdistd project goal is to securely and reliabily distribute audit records over the TCP/IP network from a local auditdistd daemon to a remote auditdistd daemon. In case of source system compromise, attacker's activity can be analysed using data collected by the remote system, as only remote system's audit logs can be trusted then. The project will conclude in February 2012. ______________</pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-01-12T23:29:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/597 <pre> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights: - A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release - The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling - ZFS updated to version 28 - Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework - Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework - Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support - User-level DTrace - The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available - NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2 - High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH) - Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD c</pre> Ken Smith 2012-01-12T21:42:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/596 <pre>BSDCan 2012 will be held 11-12 May, 2012 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 9-10 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. We are now accepting proposals for talks. The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include: * How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam. * and/or sysadmin. * and/or networking. From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations</pre> Dan Langille 2012-01-11T23:19:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/595 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to analyze the performance of FreeBSD's IPv6 stack. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems. Last year, Bjoern improved FreeBSD IPv6 support, allowing the possibility to build a FreeBSD system without IPv4 support. This project will continue on this work and concentrate on the kernel, looking at the performance of FreeBSD's IPv6 stack. Various parties have seen lower performance when comparing IPv4 to IPv6 on FreeBSD. While the numbers seem to differ between releases the causes are mostly unknown. The project will carry out a detailed performance analysis starting with benchmarking IPv6 to IPv4 to get up-to-date numbers to better understand where we are. It will then continue to identify the origins of differences in performance, and where possible, directly address them or identify areas of future work. Having initial benchmark numbers will allow changes to be evaluated by re-running the measurements and qua</pre> Deb Goodkin 2012-01-10T19:54:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/594 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: freebsd-update support for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Category: core Module: freebsd-update Announced: 2012-01-04 Affects: All versions of FreeBSD prior to 9.0-RC2. Corrected: 2011-10-26 20:07:58 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_3, 7.3-RELEASE-p10) 2011-10-26 20:06:27 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.2-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p8) 2011-10-26 20:01:43 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-RC2) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Adviso</pre> FreeBSD Errata Notices 2012-01-05T00:00:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/594 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: freebsd-update support for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Category: core Module: freebsd-update Announced: 2012-01-04 Affects: All versions of FreeBSD prior to 9.0-RC2. Corrected: 2011-10-26 20:07:58 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_3, 7.3-RELEASE-p10) 2011-10-26 20:06:27 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.2-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p8) 2011-10-26 20:01:43 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-RC2) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Adviso</pre> FreeBSD Errata Notices 2012-01-05T00:00:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/594 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: freebsd-update support for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Category: core Module: freebsd-update Announced: 2012-01-04 Affects: All versions of FreeBSD prior to 9.0-RC2. Corrected: 2011-10-26 20:07:58 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_7_3, 7.3-RELEASE-p10) 2011-10-26 20:06:27 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.2-STABLE) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p6) 2012-01-04 23:47:20 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p8) 2011-10-26 20:01:43 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-RC2) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Adviso</pre> FreeBSD Errata Notices 2012-01-05T00:00:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/593 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, Thank you to everyone who has made a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation this year! We have raised over $310,000 from 691 donors towards our goal of $400,000 for 2011. We are grateful for the outpouring of support we have received and the hundreds of volunteers who help support the FreeBSD Project. If you have not had the opportunity to donate this year, it's not too late! It only takes a few minutes to make a donation and help make a difference for the FreeBSD Project and community. Please visit us at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ to make a donation today! If you send a check, the envelope must be postmarked by December 31, 2011 to count as a 2011 donation. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation www.FreeBSDFoundation.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce&lt; at &gt;freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe&lt; at &gt;freebsd.org" </pre> Deb Goodkin 2011-12-29T16:39:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.os.freebsd.announce