http://blog.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/668 <pre>Important Dates --------------- Sep 26-29: Tutorials and Talks in St. Julian's, Malta http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks-and-schedule/ Mid June: Registration opens http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/registration/ May 27: Request for Proposals closes http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/2013/03/28/call-for-proposals/ EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place Thursday, September 26 through Sunday, September 29 at the Hilton (http://goo.gl/maps/hnACd) in St. Julian's, Malta (tutorials on Thursday and Friday, talks on Saturday and Sunday). Last Call for Talk Proposals ---------------------------- The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementat</pre> Beat Gaetzi 2013-05-14T17:38:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/667 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored. This has followed a significant effort to review security throughout the FreeBSD Project's infrastructure, and reengineer the package-building system to support greater compartmentalization and resilience. This includes the redports.org and ports QAT, generation and update of INDEX files, publication of binary package sets, and binary-package building itself. The revised infrastructure provided binary packages for the recent release of FreeBSD 8.4. We are now glad to announce that binary packages available again for 8.x, 9.x branches on i386 and amd64 architectures at the usual locations: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.4-release/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.4-release/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/ </pre> FreeBSD Core Team Secretary 2013-05-14T04:55:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/666 <pre>FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2013 Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March 2013. This is the first of four reports planned for 2013. Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations of 8.4-RELEASE, restoration of binary package building, steady progress of several porting efforts, like work on the FreeBSD ports of xorg, GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing FreeBSD to Cubieboard and Hackberry boards, development of ARM and AMD GPU support, improving performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, and introducing a multipath TCP implementation for the network stack. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. The deadline for submissions covering the period between April and June 2013 is July 7th, 2013. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * FreeNAS * Kernel Information in Process </pre> Gabor Pali 2013-05-12T17:56:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/665 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position. In this position Ed will manage the Foundation's sponsored work, including projects funded under specific grants, operational support and project development undertaken by the Foundation's permanent technical staff. Working with the Foundation's Board of Directors, Ed will identify and document specific areas of future project work interest. This roadmap planning will include coordination with FreeBSD consumers and the FreeBSD community. "2012 represented an inflection point in the Foundation's history,'' said Justin T. Gibbs, President of the FreeBSD Foundation. "The Foundation has a stated goal of investing in permanent staff through 2013. With Ed taking on this new position I'm excited by the Foundation's increased capacity to manage our project development an</pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-05-09T16:11:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/664 <pre>Hi all, A reminder: The deadline for applications is 19:00 UTC Friday May 3rd (tomorrow). FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This gives University students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchange for working on Open Source software over their Summer break. Students have around 12 weeks to work on their project, and will be mentored by existing FreeBSD committers. Participating organisations will earn $500 USD per student mentored. Over the past eight years we have hosted over 150 successful projects, and look forward to continuing this trend. FreeBSD's organisation page may be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/freebsd and a list of possible project ideas may be found at https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage . Please note that projects do not have to come from the ideas list, and indeed students are encouraged to produce their own project ideas - the majority of past projec</pre> Gavin Atkinson 2013-05-02T13:05:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/663 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Insufficient input validation in the NFS server Category: core Module: nfsserver Announced: 2013-04-29 Revised: 2013-04-29 Credits: Adam Nowacki Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2013-04-29 21:10:49 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-PRERELEASE) 2013-04-29 21:10:53 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p8) 2013-04-29 21:11:31 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC1-p1) 2013-04-29 21:11:31 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC2-p1) 2013-04-29 21:11:01 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE) 2013-04-29 21:11:05 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p3) CVE Name: CVE-2013-3266 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, inc</pre> FreeBSD Security Advisories 2013-04-29T21:56:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/662 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Insufficient input validation in the NFS server Category: core Module: nfsserver Announced: 2013-04-29 Credits: Adam Nowacki Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2013-04-29 20:15:43 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-PRERELEASE) 2013-04-29 20:15:47 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p8) 2013-04-29 20:16:25 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC1-p1) 2013-04-29 20:16:25 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC2-p1) 2013-04-29 20:15:55 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE) 2013-04-29 20:16:00 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p3) CVE Name: CVE-2013-3266 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the </pre> FreeBSD Security Advisories 2013-04-29T20:55:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/661 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013. A FreeBSD committer since 2007, Edward previously completed a number of projects under Foundation grants, including safe device removal with mounted filesystems, growing mounted filesystems, and resource containers. Edward is currently implementing a native in-kernel iSCSI stack (both target and initiator) for this increasingly popular block storage protocol. "Although there are a number of iSCSI target implementations that support FreeBSD, the project lacks a high performance and reliable in-kernel target. As iSCSI gains favor, this stack will be a key element in maintaining FreeBSD's competitive position in enterprise and open-source deployments" said Justin T. Gibbs, president of the FreeBSD Foundation. The project is expected to be completed in October 2013. Another part of Edward's responsibilitie</pre> Ed Maste 2013-04-29T15:10:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/660 <pre> Hi all, FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This gives University students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchange for working on Open Source software over their Summer break. Students have around 12 weeks to work on their project, and will be mentored by existing FreeBSD committers. Participating organisations will earn $500 USD per student mentored. FreeBSD's organisation page may be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/freebsd and a list of possible project ideas may be found at https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage . Please note that projects do not have to come from the ideas list, and indeed students are encouraged to produce their own project ideas - the majority of past projects have been thought up by the particpants themselves. Students are also encouraged to visit http://www.google-melange.com/ to view more details of the program, including eligibility </pre> Gavin Atkinson 2013-04-22T08:42:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/659 <pre>Hi all, Verisign, Inc., who has become involved with FreeBSD over the last 3 years, would like to announce a user and developer conference to be held Oct 25 – 27, 2013 at the Dulles Hyatt in Dulles, VA. More information on this conference is available at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/04/17/vbsdcon-oct-25-27-2013/. We are excited to host this conference and are looking forward to seeing you there. -- Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmiller&lt; at &gt;verisign.com t: 703.948.4395 m: 703.581.3068 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190 http://www.verisigninc.com “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may be constituted as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication </pre> Miller, Vincent (Rick 2013-04-17T13:37:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/658 <pre>FreeBSD is internationally recognized as an innovative leader in providing a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Our mission is to continue and increase our support and funding to keep FreeBSD at the forefront of operating system technology. But, we can’t do this without your help! Last year with your generosity, we raised over $770,000. This allowed us to not only achieve our goal, but to exceed it by over $250,000. This year, with your help, we will do more. This year we will double the amount we spend. This year we will invest $1,000,000 to support and promote FreeBSD. What will the Foundation accomplish with your donation in 2013? • Spend almost $600,000 on software development projects for FreeBSD. • Support the Release Engineering and Security teams with paid staff time. • Grow to five technical staff members by year-end. • Support BSD conferences around the globe, in Europe, Japan, Canada, and the USA. • Spend over $130,000 on hardware to maintain and improve Fr</pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-04-16T13:13:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/657 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a development grant to further improve the Capsicum framework. The grant is jointly funded by Google's Open Source Programs Office. The project includes the integration of previous work, implementation of new programmer-friendly capability system calls, improvements to the Casper Capsicum service daemon, and sandboxing various security-sensitive applications. "My previous Capsicum work focused on improving the framework itself to make it a better fit for real world applications. This new project will make use of the improved Capsicum to secure sensitive programs and libraries found in FreeBSD. The project will also produce many examples for others to follow, allowing them to take advantage of Capsicum to improve the security of their programs," said Pawel. Ben Laurie, of Google's security team, added that "traditional operating system security is based on Access Control Lists (ACLs). Decades </pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-04-15T15:55:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/656 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:04.bind Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: BIND remote denial of service Category: contrib Module: bind Announced: 2013-04-02 Credits: Matthew Horsfall of Dyn, Inc. Affects: FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1 and FreeBSD 9.x Corrected: 2013-03-28 05:35:46 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-BETA1) 2013-03-28 05:39:45 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE) 2013-04-02 17:34:42 UTC (releng/9.0, 9.0-RELEASE-p7) 2013-04-02 17:34:42 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p2) CVE Name: CVE-2013-2266 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit &lt;URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/&gt;. I. Background BIND 9 is a</pre> FreeBSD Security Advisories 2013-04-02T18:04:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/655 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:03.openssl Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2013-04-02 Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2013-03-08 17:28:40 UTC (stable/8, 8.3-STABLE) 2013-04-02 17:34:42 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p7) 2013-03-14 17:48:07 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE) 2013-04-02 17:34:42 UTC (releng/9.0, 9.0-RELEASE-p7) 2013-04-02 17:34:42 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p2) CVE Name: CVE-2013-0166, CVE-2013-0169 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit &lt;URL:http://securit</pre> FreeBSD Security Advisories 2013-04-02T18:03:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/654 <pre>EuroBSDcon 2013: September 26-29 in Malta ========================================= EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place Thursday, September 26 through Sunday, September 29 at the Hilton in St. Julian's, Malta (tutorials on Thursday and Friday, talks on Saturday and Sunday). Call for Proposals ------------------ The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented at other European conferences. 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 and are to be delivered in English. Call for Tutorial Proposals --------------------------- The EuroBSDcon program committee is also inviting qu</pre> Beat Gaetzi 2013-03-28T06:47:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/653 <pre>The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of project proposals for funded development grants. Proposals may be related to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system, and will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. Key dates for this proposal solicitation: Call for proposals: 27th March 2013 Deadline for submissions: 26th April 2013 Notifcation of accepted proposals: 17th May 2013 Proposals must include the following: * A detailed description of what is being proposed, how it will benefit the FreeBSD Project, and why the work is needed. * A timeline and costing for the project. * One or more people that will act as technical reviewers for the work. Proposals are open to all developers, including non-FreeBSD committers, but developers without access to commit to the source tree must provide details about how the completion guidelines will be achieved. For details on the proposal submis</pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-03-27T15:05:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/652 <pre>Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2013. 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 April 17, 2013 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. W</pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-03-18T21:34:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/651 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of techical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation's investment in staff for 2013. Konstantin has been a FreeBSD committer since 2006, and he recently implemented support for current-generation Intel graphics controllers under contract to the FreeBSD Foundation. This new position will allow him to spend his full working time on supporting and improving FreeBSD. Konstantin's first project brings support for unmapped I/O to FreeBSD. The unmapped I/O project improves performance by avoiding mapping buffers in the buffer cache, significantly reducing overhead on multi-processor systems. The project builds on foundational work to unify machine-dependent parts of the busdma interface, recently contributed by Jeff Robertson at EMC's Isilon Storage Division. EMC became a FreeBSD foundation donor in 2012. Netflix, another new Foundation donor for 2012, is already making u</pre> Deb Goodkin 2013-03-14T15:21:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/650 <pre>Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Benno Rice has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to boot FreeBSD in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot environment. The work to be done includes a new version of the loader, kernel modifications to support starting from a UEFI environment and the ability to create install media for pure UEFI systems. "UEFI support is critical for FreeBSD's future on the amd64 platform and I'm really pleased to be able to ensure that FreeBSD gains support for it," said Benno. This project is expected to be completed in March 2013. 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 2013-03-05T15:18:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/649 <pre>FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, October-December 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2012. This is the last of four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this status report include a very successful EuroBSDCon 2012 conference and associated FreeBSD Developer Summit, both held in Warsaw, Poland. Other highlights are several projects related to the FreeBSD port to the ARM architecture, extending support for platforms, boards and CPUs, improvements to the performance of the pf(4) firewall, and a new native iSCSI target. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. The deadline for submissions covering the period between January and March 2013 is April 21st, 2013. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * BHyVe * Native iSCSI Target * NFS Version 4 * pxe_http -- booting FreeBSD </pre> Isabell Long 2013-03-04T13:54:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.announce/648 <pre>FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, July-September, 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September 2012. This is the third of the four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this quarter include successful participation in Google Summer of Code, major work in areas of the source and ports trees, and a Developer Summit attended by over 30 developers. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * FreeBSD on Altera FPGAs * Native iSCSI Target * Parallel rc.d execution FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Bugbusting Team * FreeBSD Foundation * The FreeBSD Core Team Kernel * FreeBSD on ARMv6/ARMv7 Documentation * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project Ports * KDE/FreeBSD * Ports Collection Miscellaneous * FreeBSD Developer Summit,</pre> Isabell Long 2013-03-04T13:51:15 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.os.freebsd.announce