Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:58:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40174 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news Message-ID: <201211280158.qAS1w7D4008239@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gavin Date: Wed Nov 28 01:58:07 2012 New Revision: 40174 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40174 Log: Update on progress after the compromise, for 27th November Approved by: bcr (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/2012-compromise.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/2012-compromise.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/2012-compromise.xml Wed Nov 28 00:52:45 2012 (r40173) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/2012-compromise.xml Wed Nov 28 01:58:07 2012 (r40174) @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ <ul> <li><a href="#announce">Announcement</a></li> + <li><a href="#update20121127">Update: 27th November 2012</a></li> <li><a href="#update20121122">Update: 22nd November 2012</a></li> <li><a href="#update20121118">Update: 18th November 2012</a></li> <li><a href="#details">Initial Details: 17th November 2012</a></li> @@ -72,6 +73,46 @@ <p>More details will be added here as they become available.</p> + <h1><a name="update20121127">Update: November 27th, 2012</a></h1> + + <p>Due to the legacy third-party package build controller head + nodes being offlined pending reinstall, we have been unable to + build new package sets over the last two weeks. As a result, + FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE has been delayed as it was felt that we + should not ship the release without at least a minimal package + set available. We are now in a position where we are once + again able to build third-party packages for both of our + <a href="/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html"> + Tier-1 architectures</a> (i386 and amd64), and are planning on + releasing it within the next few days with only a slightly + limited set of packages. Please note that historically we have + also provided packages on a best-effort basis for some of our + Tier-2 architectures such as sparc64, ia64 and powerpc. We are + not currently expecting to be in a postition to build any Tier-2 + packages before FreeBSD 9.1 ships, so initially for these + platforms no such precompiled packages will be available. We + may be in a position to provide some packages for these + architectures shortly after the release.</p> + + <p>A few reports covering this incident on external tech news + websites have confused details relating to how this incident + was discovered. Over the last few weeks, many of our primary + cluster servers have been either physically relocated and/or + replaced with new hardware as part of work planned several + months in advance. The discovery of this incident was + unrelated to this ongoing cluster maintenance. Several + service outages in the days surrounding the incident were + correctly attributed to ongoing cluster work, and were not + related in any way to the compromise. In parallel with the + physical upgrades and relocation of servers, we are also + reworking the network layout in order to provide better + functionality, security, resilience, and to reduce any impact + from incidents such as this. Due in a large part to the + progress already made here, we were able to have full + confidence in many systems and services so quickly after the + compromised hosts on the legacy network segment were + discovered.</p> + <h1><a name="update20121122">Update: November 22nd, 2012</a></h1> <p>Although not mentioned in the original report,
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