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A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10 +
A buildbot running sanitizer tests under &os; stable/10 has been established. See the Links section.
-To make it possible to run programs with sanitizers - checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named +
To make it possible to run programs with sanitizer + checks enabled on &os;, a new sysctl named kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count has been added. - See the Links section.
- -Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state - to be set to 1.
+ See the Links section. Running the address sanitizer checks + on stable/10 requires this sysctl to be set to 1.A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the
thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel
@@ -702,7 +700,7 @@
Finish GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
+ Finish the GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
(development series).
The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the +
The newest graphics stack (that is, the set of ports conditional on the WITH_NEW_XORG knob) was enabled on all architectures. The only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or 9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and @@ -758,7 +756,7 @@
We will attend XDC 2014 (X.Org Developer's Conference) from October 8th through 10th in Bordeaux, France. The goal is to - reconnect with graphics stack developers, mostly working with + reconnect with graphics stack developers, who are mostly working with Linux these days. We will give a presentation on the current state of this stack on &os;. See the XDC website in the Links section for the program and live streaming.
@@ -877,10 +875,10 @@ USES format. Several options, such as support for easy_install, were deprecated or removed to make the infrastructure easier to maintain and less complex for - maintainers. + port maintainers.The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve - maintenance and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the + maintainability and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the previously complex and error-prone build process.
The Python 2 branch was updated to Python 2.7.8 and @@ -2302,8 +2300,8 @@
We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on - adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available - soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.
+ adding support for the Dynamic Edition which will be available + soon. The fifth issue is also due out soon.Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran @@ -2313,7 +2311,7 @@ the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.
-Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a +
Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward NapieraĆa refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts. The automounter is available in the development branch of @@ -2342,22 +2340,22 @@ which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced by default as part of the release process.
-Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.
+A plan has been put together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.
-Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI +
More hardware has been purchased to support &os; infrastructure at NYI and Sentex.
-Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to +
We announced a collaboration between the Foundation and Cavium to deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.
-Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the +
We signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the TCKs for Java 7 and 8.
Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code student to attend the summit.
-Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran +
We provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran BSDDay in Argentina.
We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the @@ -2368,7 +2366,7 @@ sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.
-Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is +
We organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is happening November 3 and 4.
Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil @@ -2376,7 +2374,7 @@ of the FreeBSD Operating System."
Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel - and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.
+ and gave a talk on the implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13 (fossetcon.org).
@@ -2384,7 +2382,7 @@We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events, including the Grace Hopper conference.
-Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep +
We started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did the previous month to support &os;.
@@ -2405,8 +2403,7 @@The &os; Cluster Administration Team consists of the people responsible for administering the machines that the project relies on for its distributed work and communications to be - synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on the - following:
+ synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on: