Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:05:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42203 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307090705.r6975KCf087811@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jul 9 07:05:19 2013 New Revision: 42203 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42203 Log: - Improve entries in response to bjk's and des' (private) feedback Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 06:36:51 2013 (r42202) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:05:19 2013 (r42203) @@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ <body> <p>On April 15th Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Xin Li took over as security officers for the &os; Project, and the team welcomed - Qing Li back in the team in June. This report briefly + Qing Li back to the team in June. This report briefly summarizes the work of the Security Team from April until the end of June.</p> @@ -1074,20 +1074,27 @@ <li><tt>FreeBSD-SA-13:06.mmap</tt>: Privilege escalation via <tt>mmap()</tt>, reported by Konstantin Belousov.</li> + </ul> + + <p>The Security Team has contributed to the following errata + notices:</p> - <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet</tt>: <tt>vtnet(4)</tt> - network interface issue on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, + <ul> + <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet</tt>: Frames are not properly + forwarded to <tt>vtnet(4)</tt> when two or more MAC addresses + are configured on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Julian Stecklina.</li> - <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp</tt>: <tt>dhclient(8)</tt> utility - issue on <tt>fxp(4)</tt> network interface in 8.4-RELEASE, - reported by Michael L. Squires.</li> + <li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp</tt>: Initialization of + <tt>fxp(4)</tt> network interfaces results in an infinite loop + with <tt>dhclient(8)</tt> in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Michael + L. Squires.</li> </ul> - <p>Per request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has also - reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and test - system which is planned to be used for producing <tt>pkg(8)</tt> - ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.</p> + <p>Per the request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has + also reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and + test system which is planned to be used for producing + <tt>pkg(8)</tt> ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.</p> </body> </project> @@ -1173,10 +1180,11 @@ <body> <p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in - preparation for the merge to ports. As part of this exp-run - were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues. - Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version - 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p> + preparation for the merge to ports. As a part of this, ports + exp-runs were performed to find and resolve regressions and + other issues. Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was + updated to version 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard + work.</p> <p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous @@ -1205,16 +1213,16 @@ ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task> <task>Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open - source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be + source operating system seems to be Wayland. This needs to be ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task> <task>Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for - hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux. - A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to - have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and - KDE teams.</task> + hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by + Linux. A replacement, perhaps build on top of <tt>devd(8)</tt>, + would be nice to have. This work should be coordinated with the + &os; GNOME and KDE teams.</task> </help> </project> </report>
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