From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 19:55:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0059B1065738 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (ns1.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A829C8FC17 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Deb-Goodkins-MacBook-Pro.local (c-71-196-153-166.hsd1.co.comcast.net [71.196.153.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0AJswER093913 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:54:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Message-ID: <4F0C978D.3010308@freebsdfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:54:53 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (aslan.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]); Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:54:58 -0700 (MST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:21:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces Newly Funded Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:55:00 -0000 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 quantifying the improvements. "As the world starts to roll out IPv6 and traffic patterns shift from IPv4 to IPv6, not only correctness and stability, but also feature parity and performance matter," said developer Bjoern Zeeb. "Getting the performance numbers aligning with IPv4 will ensure that our users will not need more resources when using IPv6." "ISC uses FreeBSD extensively across our server infrastructure and have provided IPv6 services to the community since 2002," commented Peter Losher, ISC Sr. Operations Engineer. "We are excited to support The FreeBSD Foundation and Bjoern's efforts to improve IPv6 performance in FreeBSD." Bjoern Zeeb is a consultant based in Germany and has been an active FreeBSD committer since 2004. He is currently also a member of the FreeBSD Security and Release Engineering teams. From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 23:36:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D7C1065679 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:36:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DBE8FC13 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEAE50BA2 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:19:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id a53vONpK8M9B for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DEE7050B81 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:19:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Dan Langille Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:19:22 -0500 Message-Id: <7B7D8F09-F15D-402C-A43E-EB952901DE60@langille.org> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:44:02 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] BSDCan 2012 - call for papers X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:36:17 -0000 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. =46rom the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 8 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance begins 29 Jan 2012 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2012 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2012 are available from: --=20 Dan Langille - http://langille.org From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 21:55:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDC0106566B for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:55:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kensmith@FreeBSD.org) Received: from myers.cse.buffalo.edu (myers.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96928FC1B for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from myers.cse.buffalo.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myers.cse.buffalo.edu (8.14.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id q0CLgbDE075130 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by myers.cse.buffalo.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q0CLgbtw075129 for freebsd-announce@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kensmith) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:37 -0500 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120112214237.GA75114@myers.cse.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:55:17 -0000 --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 configuration for embedded platforms - The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3 - The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported - Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3 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/9.0R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Dedication ---------- The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of=20 Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIX[tm] operating=20 system. It is on the foundation laid by the work of visionaries like Denni= s=20 that software like the FreeBSD operating system came to be. The fact that his work of so many years ago continues to influence new design decisions to this very day speaks for the brilliant engineer that he was. May he rest in peace. Availability ------------- FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures. FreeBSD 9.0 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones such as amd64 and i386. NOTE: A problem was discovered with the DVD images for amd64 and i386 architectures shortly after they were loaded on the FTP distribution server. Those images have since been replaced and we have allowed enough time that the newer images should have distributed to all the FTP servers that carry the release. If you downloaded the amd64 or i386 DVD images prior to this announcement it would be a good idea to verify the checksums of the image you downloaded with the checksums provided as part of this Release Announcement. The only thing wrong with the images that were replaced is that sysinstall(8) can not be used to install the pre-built packages on the DVD. Other than that there is nothing different on the updated images. The bad DVD images were never available on BitTorrent. MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO and memory stick images are included at the bottom of this message. The purpose of the images provided as part of the release are as follows: dvd1: This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, the documentation, and a small set of pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media. disc1: This contains the base FreeBSD operating system. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages. bootonly: This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself. You would need to perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from the CD. memstick: This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. There are no pre-built packages. As one example of how to use the memstick image, assuming the USB drive appears as /dev/da0 on your machine something like this should work: # dd if=3DFreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D10240= conv=3Dsync Be careful to make sure you get the target (of=3D) correct. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 9.0-based products is: ~ FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ BitTorrent ---------- 9.0-RELEASE ISOs are available via BitTorrent. A collection of torrent files to download the images is available at: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ FTP --- At the time of this announcement the following FTP sites have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE available. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp8.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.cz.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.fr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp2.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp10.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ However before trying these sites please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html For instructions on installing FreeBSD or updating an existing machine to 9.0-RELEASE please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html Support ------- The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support FreeBSD 9.0 until January 31st, 2013. For more information on the Security Team and their support of the various FreeBSD branches see: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ Other Projects Based on FreeBSD ------------------------------- There are many "third party" Projects based on FreeBSD. The Projects range from re-packaging FreeBSD into a more "novice friendly" distribution to making FreeBSD available on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure. For more information about these Third Party Projects see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartyProjects Acknowledgments --------------- Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to support the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 9.0 including The FreeBSD Foundation, Yahoo!, NetApp, Internet Systems Consortium, Sentex Communications, New York Internet, Juniper Networks, and iXsystems. The release engineering team for 9.0-RELEASE includes: Ken Smith Release Engineering, amd64, i386, sparc64 Release Buildi= ng, Mirror Site Coordination Robert Watson Release Engineering, Security Konstantin Belousov Release Engineering Marc Fonvieille Release Engineering, Documentation Josh Paetzel Release Engineering Hiroki Sato Release Engineering, Documentation Bjoern Zeeb Release Engineering Marcel Moolenaar ia64, powerpc Release Building Nathan Whitehorn powerpc64 Release Building Joe Marcus Clarke Package Building Erwin Lansing Package Building Mark Linimon Package Building Pav Lucistnik Package Building Ion-Mihai Tetcu Package Building Martin Wilke Package Building, Ports Security Colin Percival Security Officer Trademark --------- FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. 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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DEC8FC08 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Deb-Goodkins-MacBook-Pro.local (c-71-196-153-166.hsd1.co.comcast.net [71.196.153.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0CNT5fF019226 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Message-ID: <4F0F6CBC.7020807@freebsdfoundation.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:00 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (aslan.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:06 -0700 (MST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:37:01 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Funding auditdistd Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:07 -0000 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.