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New channel on YouTube for BSD technical talks

Murray Stokely — 2008-12-04T00:54:45

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a dedicated YouTube channel for technical lectures about FreeBSD and other BSD operating systems : http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences This channel allows us to post full hour long lectures from FreeBSD conferences. The first four videos that Julian Elisher recorded at MeetBSD 2008 have been posted : Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis, MeetBSD 2008 BSD Certification, Dru Lavigne, MeetBSD 2008 Embedding FreeBSD, Warner Losh, MeetBSD 2008 FreeBSD Foundation Update & Recognition, Robert Watson, MeetBSD 2008 This channel provides the rich YouTube API for extracting and embedding these videos in other websites. You can also simply subscribe to the RSS feed in your feedreader to be notified when new videos are posted. Work is ongoing to integrate the video content here with the multimedia area of the FreeBSD web site. If you have video content from a previous BSD conference that you would like to see added to t

FreeBSD Foundation Project Announcement

Deb Goodkin — 2008-12-03T16:42:46

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is very pleased to announce the next in a series of developer grants. This grant has been awarded to Lawrence Stewart and Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA, http://caia.swin.edu.au) for improvements to the FreeBSD TCP stack. This three-part project will include implementing Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC) RFC3465 support, adapting and merging CAIA's Statistical Information for TCP Research (SIFTR) TCP analysis tool into FreeBSD, and making improvements to the TCP reassembly queue. "These changes target both improved performance and improved quality of the FreeBSD TCP stack through feature enhancements and integrated testing," said Professor Grenville Armitage, CAIA's Director. He also added, "We use FreeBSD daily in our IP networking research testbeds and for our centre's various servers, so we're looking forward to contributing these TCP improvements to the FreeBSD community." "Supporting the technology t

FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE Available

Ken Smith — 2008-11-28T18:11:17

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: - New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client - Support for the Camellia cipher - boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes - DVD install ISO images for amd64/i386 - KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3 - Updates for BIND, sendmail, OpenPAM, and others 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/6.4R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.4R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ The FreeBSD Security Team intends to support 6.4-RELEASE until November 30th, 2010. Availa

FreeBSD Foundation Project Announcement

Deb Goodkin — 2008-11-26T16:10:36

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce continued funding of the network stack virtualization project, made possible by a grant from NLNet. The virtualized network stack will significantly enhance FreeBSD's jail functionality, allowing jails to have their own complete and locally administered network stacks, including firewalls, routing, and IPsec configurations. The Foundation will be sponsoring Bjoern Zeeb, a FreeBSD network developer, to enhance the existing prototype, now being merged into FreeBSD 8.x, as well as provide code review. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce< at >freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe< at >freebsd.org"

FreeBSD Security AdvisoryFreeBSD-SA-08:11.arc4random

FreeBSD Security Advisories — 2008-11-24T17:47:13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-08.11.arc4random Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: arc4random(9) predictable sequence vulnerability Category: core Module: sys Announced: 2008-11-24 Credits: Robert Woolley, Mark Murray, Maxim Dounin, Ruslan Ermilov Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2008-11-24 17:39:39 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE) 2008-11-24 17:39:39 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p6) 2008-11-24 17:39:39 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE) 2008-11-24 17:39:39 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE) 2008-11-24 17:39:39 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p6) CVE Name: CVE-2008-5162 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security b

Official FreeBSD Forums

Brad Davis — 2008-11-16T16:04:03

Dear FreeBSD users, The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists. You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org The structure of the forum is still in a late beta stage, so if you have ideas, suggestions for improvements or bug reports, send them to: forum-moderators at FreeBSD dot org. Please also have a look at our rules before you create your first thread or post your first message. You can find our official list of forum rules here: http://forums.freebsd.org/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_rules Also, FreeBSD developers (people with commit access to our CVS/SVN trees) can be distinguished by having an '< at >' character at the end of their username. It is our hope that both users and developers will find this new service useful. Pleas

Foundation Project Announcement

Deb Goodkin — 2008-11-12T15:54:20

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce one of the projects from the accepted project proposals! The project is to make FreeBSD tolerate the removal of active disk devices, such as when a USB flash device with a mounted filesystems is physically detached by a user. Currently the system may panic in this situation. The work involves adding proper reference counting to strategic portions of the kernel and modifying filesystems to properly handle "device lost" errors. Edward Tomasz Napierala is the developer working on this project. "We are very excited to be able to fund this project, which we know is of great interest to our users, especially in the desktop space," said Robert Watson, president of The FreeBSD Foundation. Robert also said, "The removable USB disk causing a crash turns out to be our #1 reported bug." "I am very happy to have the opportunity to work on this exciting project," said Edward Tomasz Napierala, FreeBSD developer. "It's just wrong when the system pa

meetBSD California - 5 Days Left!

Matt Olander — 2008-11-10T19:47:17

Hi everyone, There are only 5 days left until meetBSD California at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California starting Saturday, November 15th at 10am. The first meetBSD in the United States also marks the 15th Anniversary of the FreeBSD operating system, which will be commemorated with an After-Party on Saturday night hosted at the Buddha Lounge. We still have a few spots left (around 25-30, I believe) but registration will be closing at some point over the next few days, so if you've been putting off registering, now is the time! The conference is *free* to attend and only $50 dollars for you and a guest to attend the After-Party, which includes dinner and drinks :-) More information as well as the registration form can be found at http://www.meetBSD.com . If you are attending the conference but not the party, leave the party checkbox blank and select Mail-In Payment and you will not be billed. See you all there! -matt

Foundation End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive!

Deb Goodkin — 2008-10-24T15:03:05

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off our End-of-Year Fund Raising Drive! Our goal this year is to raise over $300,000. So far we have raised over $181,000 this year. We are little more than half way to our goal. That’s where you come in… Why do we need donations? The goal of the FreeBSD Project is to provide software that may be used for any purpose -- and without strings attached. Our mission is to support the FreeBSD Project and community. Our funding comes from people like you – those who are determined to keep FreeBSD free! How have we spent the money this year? • Sponsored FreeBSD related conferences like BSDCan, EuroBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, meetBSD, and NYCBSDCon. We also sponsored FreeBSD developer summits in Ottawa and Cambridge. • Provided 22 travel grants and funding to individuals to attend these conferences this year. • Provided legal support for the project on issues like understanding the GPLv3 impact on FreeBSD, providing a privacy policy, trade

Accepting Travel Grant Applications for meetBSD

Deb Goodkin — 2008-10-23T17:46:25

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to MeetBSD. 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 October 31, 2008 to apply for this grant. How it works: 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. (1) You request funding 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 you talk to them first, as our budget is limited. We are hap

meetBSD California - FreeBSD 15 Year AnniversaryParty - 3 weeks!

Matt Olander — 2008-10-22T18:15:18

Hi all, The 2 day meetBSD conference and FreeBSD 15 year Anniversary party at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California on November 15th and 16th is a little over 3 weeks away! If you haven't registered for the conference yet, please do so if you are planning on attending. The conference is free to attend and the party is $50 dollars for you and a guest. This includes catered dinner and drinks at a private party being held at the Buddha Lounge in Mountain View. Although the conference is free, you *must* register in advance, no registrations will be accepted at the door. Don't miss out on some great talks, good food, awesome schwag, andthe chance to celebrate FreeBSD's 15th birthday with the rest of the community! You can sign up and find more information including the conference schedule, speaker info, and venue directions and information at http://www.meetBSD.com. There will also be a 2 day FreeBSD Developer's Summit the 2 days following meetBSD. More information on the FreeBSD developer's summit is a

Reminder for EuroBSDCon 2008

Program Committee — 2008-10-09T09:56:11

Hi, This is a reminder about the upcoming (next week!) EuroBSDCon 2008 conference, held this year in Strasburg, FRANCE. Registration is here: http://eurobsdcon2008.eventbrite.com/ It also allows registration (and displays the schedule) for tutorials. http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/ The talks schedule is available here : http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html The tutorials schedule is available here : http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials.html There is a 20% discount for students (use discount code Student when registering). You can also for a travel grant to the FreeBSD Foundation for details ask board< at >FreeBSDFoundation.org For FreeBSD developers, there is also the FreeBSD DevSummit. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/200810DevSummit It is open to all src/www/doc/ports committers & guests. We hope to see you all next week ! _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce< at >freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6

FreeBSD Security Advisories — 2008-10-02T00:39:19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol routing vulnerability Category: core Module: sys_netinet6 Announced: 2008-10-01 Credits: David Miles Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p5) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE) 2008-10-01 00:32:59 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p5) CVE Name: CVE-2008-2476 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. B

Registration Open for EuroBSDCon 2008

Marc Simon — 2008-09-26T09:39:14

Hi, We're glad to announce that registration is finally open for EuroBSDCon 2008 in Strasbourg. http://eurobsdcon2008.eventbrite.com/ It also allows registration (and displays the schedule) for tutorials. Later this day, the links will be made available on the website : http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/ The talks schedule is available here : http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html The tutorials schedule is available here : dule is available here : http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials.html There is a 20% discount for students (use discount code Student when registering). We hope to see you all in three weeks !

19 Days Until NYCBSDCon 2008

Steven Kreuzer — 2008-09-23T01:44:30

NYCBSDCon begins in a few weeks, so make sure you register as soon as possible. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/register.html NYCBSDCon brings together the best and brightest of the BSD communities from the New York area and beyond. The conference costs $95, including breakfast and lunch on both days, in addition to a number of other extras. Full-time students and Columbia University affiliates pay only $50 with valid identification. This year's schedule is impressive: from file systems and the portable C compiler to system and network management, we are thrilled to be able to provide such strong content. A full array of BSD developers and systems administrators are speaking, including Pawel Dawidek, Michael Lucas, Jason Wright and DragonFlyBSD's Matt Dillon. And Jason Dixon looks to top his 2006 presentation on "Is BSD Dying?" with a look at "BSD versus the GPL." While the conference officially begins on Saturday morning, October 11th, attendees will be gathering on Friday night at Havanna

Another successful Summer of Code

Murray Stokely — 2008-09-19T22:41:44

Congratulations to the successful students and their FreeBSD Project mentors for participating in another productive Google Summer of Code. This program encourages students to contribute to an open source project over the summer break with generous funding from Google. We have had a total of over 70 successful students working on FreeBSD as part of this program from 2005 through 2008. These student projects included security research, improved installation tools, filesystems work, new utilities, and more. Many of the students have continued working on their FreeBSD projects even after the official close of the program. We have gained nearly a dozen new FreeBSD committers from previous summer of code projects already, and more are in the process of formally joining the project. Information about the student projects is available from our Summer of Code wiki (http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2008) and all of the code is checked into Perforce. A summary of each individual project by the students themsel

NYCBSDCon 2008 Registration Is Open

George Rosamond — 2008-09-11T02:42:59

We are proud to announce the release of the speaker's schedule and that registration is now open for NYCBSDCon 2008. The conference will be held at Columbia University on October 11 and 12 in Manhattan. The speaker line-up is an impressive list of developers and systems administrators from all of the BSD projects. We strongly encourage everyone to register as soon as possible. Early registration is $95 and includes not just the meetings, but also breakfast and lunch for both Saturday and Sunday. Walk-ins will be charged $145. With valid current identification, the Columbia University staff, students and faculty rate is $50. Other full-time students can also receive this discounted rate with valid identification. Friday evening, attendees will be gathering at Havanna Central at 2911 Broadway between 113th and 114th streets beginning at 7 pm. That will also be the location for the Saturday night social. There are plenty of other non-presentation activities such as: * The BSD Certification

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:09.icmp6

FreeBSD Security Advisories — 2008-09-03T20:13:20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-08:09.icmp6 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Remote kernel panics on IPv6 connections Category: core Module: sys_netinet6 Announced: 2008-09-03 Credits: Tom Parker, Bjoern A. Zeeb Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p4) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p4) CVE Name: CVE-2008-3530 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount

FreeBSD Security Advisories — 2008-09-03T20:13:13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: nmount(2) local arbitrary code execution Category: core Module: sys_kern Announced: 2008-09-03 Credits: James Gritton Affects: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE Corrected: 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.1-PRERELEASE) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p4) CVE Name: CVE-2008-3531 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The mount(2) and nmount(2) system calls are used by various utilities in the base system to graft a file system object on to the file sy

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64

FreeBSD Security Advisories — 2008-09-03T20:13:04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: amd64 swapgs local privilege escalation Category: core Module: sys_amd64_amd64 Announced: 2008-09-03 Credits: Nate Eldredge Affects: All supported FreeBSD/amd64 versions. Corrected: 2008-08-21 09:58:18 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.0-STABLE) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p4) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-PRERELEASE) 2008-09-03 19:09:47 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p4) CVE Name: CVE-2008-3890 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background

Java Installable Packages Now Available

Deb Goodkin — 2008-08-27T17:12:47

Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the Java JDK and JRE 6.0 binary installable packages for FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on the i386 and amd64 architectures! The binaries are available at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. We would like to thank Kurt Miller for his hard work on this project. We would also like to thank Greg Lewis and Jung-uk Kim from the FreeBSD Java Project for their help and support. These releases would not be possible without the help of the volunteers developing Java for FreeBSD, Sun Microsystems, and your donations! We hope you will consider making a donation to help us fund more development projects to improve FreeBSD. Please go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ to find out how to make a donation. Sincerely, The FreeBSD Foundation _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce< at >freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any