From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Mon Nov 25 19:20:34 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199AC1B7384; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trasz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47MH1Z0dMJz3LCv; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trasz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECC1919549; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trasz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id xAPJKXJ7064590; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:33 GMT (envelope-from trasz@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from trasz@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id xAPJKXSl064588; Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:33 GMT (envelope-from trasz@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201911251920.xAPJKXSl064588@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: trasz set sender to trasz@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Edward Tomasz Napierala Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:33 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53636 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head X-SVN-Commit-Author: trasz X-SVN-Commit-Paths: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 53636 X-SVN-Commit-Repository: doc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:20:34 -0000 Author: trasz Date: Mon Nov 25 19:20:33 2019 New Revision: 53636 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53636 Log: Add Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3. Reviewed by: allanjude Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22323 Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.xml (contents, props changed) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Sun Nov 24 21:16:43 2019 (r53635) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile Mon Nov 25 19:20:33 2019 (r53636) @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ XMLDOCS+= report-2018-01-2018-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2018-09-2018-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2019-01-2019-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2019-04-2019-06 +XMLDOCS+= report-2019-07-2019-09 XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.xml ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.xml Mon Nov 25 19:20:33 2019 (r53636) @@ -0,0 +1,3108 @@ + + + + + + + + + + 07-09 + + 2019 + + +
+ Introduction +

Here is the third quarterly status report for 2019.

+ +

This quarter the reports team has been more active than usual thanks +to a better organization: calls for reports and reminders have been +sent regularly, reports have been reviewed and merged quickly (I would +like to thank debdrup@ in particular for his reviewing work).

+

Efficiency could still be improved with the help of our community. +In particular, the quarterly team has found that many reports have +arrived in the last days before the deadline or even after. I would +like to invite the community to follow the guidelines below that +can help us sending out the reports sooner.

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  • Send a first draft of your report when you receive the first call +for reports (1 month before the deadline).
    • +
  • Update your report, if needed, when you receive reminders: you will +normaly receive two (2 weeks and 1 week before the deadline).
    • +
  • If after the deadline you still have some more updates ask the team +(either on IRC via #freebsd-wiki or send an email at monthly@) to +wait for you if you feel that they are urgent, otherwise start +putting them in a draft for the next quarter.
+ +

Starting from next quarter, all quarterly status reports will be +prepared the last month of the quarter itself, instead of the first +month after the quarter's end. This means that deadlines for +submitting reports will be the 1st of January, April, July and +October.

+

Next quarter will then be a short one, covering the months of November +and December only and the report will probably be out in mid January.

+ +

-- Lorenzo Salvadore

+
+ + + team + + &os; Team Reports + +

Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, + as found in the Administration + Page.

+ + + + proj + + Projects + +

Projects that span multiple categories, from the kernel and userspace + to the Ports Collection or external projects.

+ + + + kern + + Kernel + +

Updates to kernel subsystems/features, driver support, + filesystems, and more.

+ + + + arch + + Architectures + +

Updating platform-specific features and bringing in support + for new hardware platforms.

. + + + + bin + + Userland Programs + +

Changes affecting the base system and programs in it.

+ + + + ports + + Ports + +

Changes affecting the Ports Collection, whether sweeping + changes that touch most of the tree, or individual ports + themselves.

+ + + + third + + Third-Party Projects + +

Many projects build upon &os; or incorporate components of + &os; into their project. As these projects may be of interest + to the broader &os; community, we sometimes include brief + updates submitted by these projects in our quarterly report. + The &os; project makes no representation as to the accuracy or + veracity of any claims in these submissions.

+ + + + FreeBSD Core Team + + + + FreeBSD Core Team + core@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

The FreeBSD Core Team is the governing body of FreeBSD.

+ +
    +
  • Core has provisionally accepted the BSD+patent license for + use in some cases. + The Core Team must approve the import of new BSD+Patent + licensed components or + the change of license of existing components to the + BSD+Patent License. +
    + https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent
    • + +
  • Kernel Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) + maintainership was updated to + reduce the contribution barrier for committers who have + demonstrated + competence in this part of the tree.
    • +
  • Core approved a source commit bit for Paweł Biernacki. + Konstantin Belousov + <kib@> will mentor Paweł and Mateusz Guzik + <mjg@> will be co-mentor.
    • +
  • The Core-initiated Git Transition Working Group met over + the last quarter, + however a report is still forthcoming. Discussions will + continue in the + fourth quarter of 2019. There are many issues to resolve + including how to + deal with contrib/, whether to re-generate hashes in the + current Git + repository, and how to best implement commit testing.
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+ + + + + + + FreeBSD Release Engineering Team + + + + FreeBSD Release Engineering Team + re@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE announcement + FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE schedule + FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE BETA/RC builds + FreeBSD development snapshots + + + +

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is responsible for + setting + and publishing release schedules for official project + releases + of FreeBSD, announcing code freezes and maintaining the + respective branches, among other things.

+ +

During the third quarter of 2019, the FreeBSD Release + Engineering team + finished the 11.3-RELEASE cycle, with the final release + build started on + July 5th and the official announcement sent on July 9th.

+ +

FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE is the fourth release from the + stable/11 branch, + building on the stability and reliability of 11.2-RELEASE.

+ +

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team also started work on + the upcoming + 12.1-RELEASE, which started September 6th. This release + cycle is the + first "freeze-less" release from the Subversion + repository, and the test bed + for eliminating the requirement of a hard code freeze on + development branches. + Commits to the releng/12.1 branch still + require explicit approval from + the Release Engineering Team, however.

+ +

At present, there have been three BETA builds, and so far, + two RC builds, with + the final 12.1-RELEASE build scheduled for November 4th.

+ +

Additionally throughout the quarter, several development + snapshots builds + were released for the head and + stable/11 branches; snapshots for + stable/12 were released as well although + not during the 12.1-RELEASE cycle.

+ +

Much of this work was sponsored by Rubicon Communications, + LLC (Netgate) + and the FreeBSD Foundation.

+ + + + + + + FreeBSD Security Team + + + + Security Team + secteam@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD security information + + + +

Several members of the security team met at the Vendor + Summit in October to + formalize team structure dedicated for architecture and + crypto engineering in + addition to the existing product security incident + response function.

+ +

Since June we have started having fortnightly conference + calls to discuss + important issues and to collaborate closely on advisories + and errata notices in + the pipeline.

+ +
    +
  • Security advisories sent out in 2019-Q3: 7
    • + +
  • Errata Notices sent out in 2019-Q3: 5
    • +
+ + + + + + + Cluster Administration Team + + + + Cluster Administration Team + clusteradm@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

The FreeBSD 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:

+ +
    +
  • Change IPv6 address in TWN site.
    • + +
  • Solved hardware issues in KWC site (with hrs@).
    • + +
  • Moved remaining infrastructure from the YSV (Yahoo!) site + to NYI (New York Internet) (peter@).
    • + +
    • YSV hosted most of FreeBSD.org between 2000 and 2019.
    + +
  • Installed new machines for portmgr@ courtesy of the + FreeBSD Foundation.
    • + +
  • Resolved outtages (thanks uqs@) with GitHub exporter, + Bugzilla and hg-beta (thanks bapt@).
    • + +
  • PowerPC64 servers are online (power8) building pkgs and + reference hosts.
    • + +
  • Ongoing systems administration work:
    • + +
    • Creating accounts for new committers.
      • + +
    • Backups of critical infrastructure.
      • + +
    • Keeping up with security updates in 3rd party software.
    +
+ +

+ Work in progress:

+ +
    +
  • Review the service jails and service administrators + operation.
    • + +
  • South Africa Mirror (JINX) in progress.
    • + +
  • NVME issues on PowerPC64 Power9 blocking dual socket + machine from being used as pkg builder.
    • + +
  • Drive upgrade test for pkg builders (SSDs) courtesy of the + FreeBSD Foundation.
    • + +
  • Boot issues with Aarch64 reference machines.
    • + +
  • New NYI.net sponsored colocation space in Chicago-land + area.
    • + +
  • Setup new host for CI staging environment.
    • +
+ + + + + + + Continuous Integration + + + + Jenkins Admin + jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org + + + Li-Wen Hsu + lwhsu@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD Jenkins Instance + FreeBSD CI artifact archive + FreeBSD Jenkins wiki + freebsd-testing Mailing List + FreeBSD CI Repository + Tickets related to freebsd-testing@ + Hosted CI wiki + FreeBSD CI weekly report + + + +

The FreeBSD CI team maintains continuous integration + system and related tasks + for the FreeBSD project. The CI system regularly checks + the committed changes + can be successfully built, then performs various tests and + analysis of the + results. The results from build jobs are archived in an + artifact server, for + the further testing and debugging needs. The CI team + members examine the + failing builds and unstable tests, and work with the + experts in that area to + fix the code or adjust test infrastructure. The details + are of these efforts + are available in the weekly CI reports.

+ +

We had a testing working group at the 201909 + DevSummit + lwhsu@ has presented the Testing/CI project status and + "how to work with the FreeBSD CI system", slides + are available at the DevSummit page. + Some contents have been migrated to + https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins/Debug , extending + is welcomed.

+ +

We continue publishing CI Weekly Report and moved the + archive to https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI

+ +

Work in progress:

+ +
    +
  • Collecting and sorting CI tasks and ideas at + https://hackmd.io/bWCGgdDFTTK_FG0X7J1Vmg
    • + +
  • Setup the CI stage environment and put the experimental + jobs on it
    • + +
  • Extending and publishing the embedded boards testbed
    • + +
  • Implementing automatic tests on bare metal hardware
    • + +
  • Adding drm ports building test against -CURRENT
    • + +
  • Testing and merging pull requests at + https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/pulls
    • + +
  • Planning for running ztest and network stack tests
    • + +
  • Help more 3rd software get CI on FreeBSD through a hosted + CI solution
    • +
+ +

+ Please see freebsd-testing@ related tickets for more WIP + information.

+ + + + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + + + + + FreeBSD Foundation + + + + Deb Goodkin + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + +

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit + organization dedicated to + supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community + worldwide. + Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and + is used to fund + and manage software development projects, conferences and + developer summits, + and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The + Foundation purchases + and supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD + infrastructure and + provides resources to improve security and quality + assurance efforts; + publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and + advocate for the + FreeBSD Project; facilitates collaboration between + commercial vendors and + FreeBSD developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD + Project in executing + contracts, license agreements, and other legal + arrangements that require a + recognized legal entity.

+ +

Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD + last quarter:

+ +

Partnerships and Commercial User Support + We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users + and FreeBSD + developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their + needs and bring + that information back to the Project. In Q3, Ed Maste and + Deb Goodkin met + with a few commercial users in the US. It is not only + beneficial for the + above, but it also helps us understand some of the + applications where + FreeBSD is used. We were also able to meet with a good + number of commercial + users at vBSDCon and EuroBSDCon. These venues provide an + excellent + opportunity to meet with commercial and individual users + and contributors + to FreeBSD.

+ +

Fundraising Efforts + Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are + continuing to work hard + to get more commercial users to give back to help us + continue our work + supporting FreeBSD. More importantly, we'd like to thank + our individual + donors for making $10-$1,000 donations last quarter, for + more than $16,000!

+ +

Please consider + making + a donation to help us + continue and increase our support for FreeBSD!

+ +

We also have the Partnership Program, to provide more + benefits for our + larger commercial donors. Find out more information at + www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/ + and share with your companies.

+ +

OS Improvements + The Foundation supports software development projects to + improve the FreeBSD + operating system through our full time technical staff, + contractors, and + project grant recipients. They maintain and improve + critical kernel + subsystems, add new features and functionality, and fix + problems.

+ +

Over the last quarter there were 345 commits to the + FreeBSD base system + repository sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation - this + represents about + one fifth of all commits during this period. Many of these + projects have + their own entries in this quarterly report (and are not + repeated here).

+ +

Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov committed many + improvements to + multiple kernel subsystems, as well as low-level 32-bit + and 64-bit x86 + infrastructure. These included fixes for robust mutexes, + unionfs, the + out of memory (OOM) handler, and per-cpu allocators.

+ +

Additional work included fixes for security issues and + introduction and + maintenance of vulnerability mitigations, and improving + POSIX conformance.

+ +

Ed Maste committed a number of minor security bug fixes + and improvements, + as well as the first iteration of a tool for editing the + mitigation control + ELF note. Additional work included effort on build + infrastructure and the + tool chain.

+ +

Clang's integrated assembler (IAS) is now used more + widely, as part of the + path to retiring the assembler from GNU binutils 2.17.50. + The readelf tool + now decodes some additional ELF note information.

+ +

Ed also enabled the Linuxulator (Linux binary support + layer) on arm64, and + added a trivial implementation of the renameat2 system + call (handling common + options).

+ +

Mark Johnston added Capsicum support to a number of ELF + Tool Chain utilities, + and committed a number of other Capsicum kernel and + userland fixes.

+ +

Mark worked on a number of changes related to security + improvements, including + integration and support of the Syzkaller automated system + call fuzzer, and + fixing issues identified by Syzkaller. Other changes + included addressing + failures caused by refcount wraparound, improvements to + the prot_max memory + protection. Other work included NUMA, locking, kernel + debugging, RISC-V and + arm64 kernel improvements.

+ +

Edward Napierala continued working on Linuxulator + improvements over the + quarter. The primary focus continued to be tool + improvements - strace is now + more usable for diagnosing issues with Linux binaries + running under the + Linuxulator. That said, as with previous work a number of + issues have been + fixed along the way. These are generally minor issues with + a large impact - + for example, every binary linked against up-to-date glibc + previously + segfaulted on startup. This is now fixed.

+ +

Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance + The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is + working on improving + our automated testing, continuous integration, and overall + quality assurance + efforts.

+ +

During the third quarter of 2019, Foundation staff + continued to improve the + project's CI infrastructure, worked with contributors to + fix the failing build + and test cases, and worked with other teams in the Project + for their testing + needs. We added several new CI jobs and worked on getting + the hardware + regression testing lab ready.

+ +

Li-Wen Hsu gave presentations "Testing/CI status update" + and "How to work with + the FreeBSD CI system" at the + 201909 + DevSummit. + Slides are available at the DevSummit page.

+ +

We continue publishing the CI weekly report on the + freebsd-testing@. + mailing list, and an archive + is available.

+ +

See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for completed + work items and + detailed information.

+ +

Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure + The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve + the FreeBSD + infrastructure. Last quarter, we continued supporting + FreeBSD hardware + located around the world.

+ +

FreeBSD Advocacy and Education + A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating + for the Project. + This includes promoting work being done by others with + FreeBSD; producing + advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD and help + make the path to + starting using FreeBSD or contributing to the Project + easier; and attending + and getting other FreeBSD contributors to volunteer to run + FreeBSD events, + staff FreeBSD tables, and give FreeBSD presentations.

+ +

The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, + and summits around + the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open source, + or technology events + geared towards underrepresented groups. We support the + FreeBSD-focused events + to help provide a venue for sharing knowledge, to work + together on projects, + and to facilitate collaboration between developers and + commercial users. + This all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the + non-FreeBSD events + to promote and raise awareness of FreeBSD, to increase the + use of FreeBSD in + different applications, and to recruit more contributors + to the Project.

+ +

Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did + last quarter:

+ +
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  • Sponsored USENIX 2019 Annual Technical Conference as an + Industry Partner
    • + +
  • Represented FreeBSD at OSCON 2019 in Portland, OR
    • + +
  • Represented FreeBSD at COSCUP 2019 in Taiwan
    • + +
  • Presented at the Open Source Summit, North American in San + Diego, CA
    • + +
  • Executive Director Deb Goodkin was interviewed by TFiR + https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/tfir-interview-freebsd-meets-linux-at-the-open-source-summit/
    • + +
  • Sponsored FreeBSD Hackathon at vBSDcon 2019 in Reston, VA
    • + +
  • Sponsored the attendee bags and attended vBSDcon 2019 in + Reston VA
    • + +
  • Represented FreeBSD at APNIC-48 in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    • + +
  • Represented FreeBSD at MNNOG-1 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
    • + +
  • Served as an administrator for the Project’s Google Summer + of Code Session. See the Google Summer of Code + section of this report for more information.
    • + +
  • Sponsored FreeBSD Developers Summit at EuroBSDCon in + Lillehammer, Norway
    • + +
  • Sponsored and attended EuroBSDcon 2019 in Lillehammer, + Norway
    • + +
  • Applied and was accepted for a FreeBSD Miniconf at + linux.conf.au, in Gold Coast, Australia, Jan 14, + 2020
    • + +
  • Our FreeBSD talk was accepted at seaGL, Seattle, WA, + November 15 and 16.
    • +
+ +

+ We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help + people promote + FreeBSD. Learn more about our recent efforts to advocate + for FreeBSD + around the world: + https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-around-the-world/

+ +

Our Faces of FreeBSD series is back. Check out the latest + post: + Roller + Angel.

+ +

Read more about our conference adventures in the + conference recaps and trip + reports in our monthly newsletters: + + https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/

+ +

We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the + professionally + produced FreeBSD Journal. As we mentioned previously, the + FreeBSD Journal + is now a free publication. Find out more and access the + latest issues at + https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/.

+ +

You can find out more about + events + we attended and upcoming events.

+ +

We opened our official FreeBSD Swag Store. Get stickers, + shirts, mugs and + more at ShopFreeBSD.

+ +

We have continued our work with a new website developer to + help us improve + our website. Work has begun to make it easier for + community members to find + information and to make the site more efficient.

+ +

Legal/FreeBSD IP + The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to + protect them. We also provide legal support for the core + team to investigate + questions that arise.

+ +

Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we + support FreeBSD and + how we can help you!

+ + + + + + + FreeBSD Graphics Team status report + + + + FreeBSD Graphics Team + x11@freebsd.org + + + Niclas Zeising + zeising@freebsd.org + + + + + Project GitHub page + + + +

The FreeBSD X11/Graphics team maintains the lower levels + of the FreeBSD graphics + stack. + This includes graphics drivers, graphics libraries such as + the + MESA OpenGL implementation, the X.org xserver with related + libraries and + applications, and Wayland with related libraries and + applications.

+ +

During the last period, several changes have been made, + but most of them has + been behind the scene. + We have also worked on general clean up of old xorg ports + that have been + deprecated upstream.

+ +

The ports infrastructure for xorg ports and ports that + depend on xorg ports have + been updated. + We have switched USE_XORG and XORG_CAT + to use the USES framework, instead + of the old way of including bsd.xorg.mk from + bsd.port.mk. + This infrastructure work has been fairly substantial, and + new ports depending on + xorg ports should add USES=xorg to their + makefiles. + As part of this bsd.xorg.mk was split up, and the + XORG_CAT part was split + out to USES=xorg-cat. + This is used for the xorg ports themselves, and sets up a + common environment for + building all xorg ports. + In addition, framework for pulling xorg ports directly + from freedesktop.org + gitlab was added, which will make improve development and + testing, since it + makes it possible to create ports of unreleased versions. + Further improvements in this area includes framework for + using meson instead of + autotools for building xorg ports. + This is still a work in progress.

+ +

We have also worked to clean up and deprecate several old + xorg ports and + libraries. + Some of these ports have already been removed, and some + are still waiting on + removal after a sufficient deprecation period. + Most notably amongst the deprecations are + x11/libXp, which required to fix + several dependencies. + Several other old libraries have also been deprecated, + such as x11/Xxf86misc, + x11-fonts/libXfontcache and + graphics/libGLw. + Some applications and drivers have also been deprecated + during the period. + With the remaining removals in this area, we should be up + to speed with + deprecations upstream. + We are currently investigating if there are new software + added upstream that we + need to port to FreeBSD.

+ +

We have also continued our regularly scheduled bi-weekly + meetings.

+ +

People who are interested in helping out can find us on + the x11@FreeBSD.org + mailing list, or on our gitter chat: https://gitter.im/FreeBSDDesktop/Lobby. + We are also available in #freebsd-xorg on EFNet.

+ +

We also have a team area on GitHub where our work + repositories can be found: + https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop

+ + + + + + + Google Summer of Code 2019 + + + + Summer of Code Admins + soc-admins@freebsd.org + + + + + 2019 Summer of Code Project Wikis + 2019 Summer of Code Projects + + + +

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to have participated in + Google Summer of Code 2019 marking our 14th year of + participation. + This year we had six successful projects:

+ +
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  • Dual-stack ping command by Ján Sučan
    • + +
  • Firewall test suite by Ahsan Barkati
    • + +
  • Kernel sanitizers by Costin Carabaș
    • + +
  • MAC policy on IP addresses for FreeBSD + Jail by Shivank Garg
    • + +
  • Separation of ports build process from local + installation by Theron Tarigo
    • + +
  • Virtual memory compression by + Paavo-Einari Kaipila
    • +
+ +

+ We thank Google for the opportunity to work with these + students and hope + they continue to work with FreeBSD in the future.

+ + + + + Google Summer of Code + + + + + + GSoC'19 Project - MAC policy on IP addresses in Jail: mac_ipacl + + + + Shivank Garg + shivank@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD's Phabricator Differential Link + Github Diff Link + Project Wiki Page + + + +

About - With the introduction of VNET(9) + in FreeBSD, Jails are free to + set their IP addresses. However, this privilege may need + to be limited by + the host as per its need for multiple security reasons. + This project uses mac(9) for an access control framework + to impose + restrictions on FreeBSD jails according to rules defined + by the root of the + host using sysctl(8). It involves the development of a + dynamically loadable + kernel module (mac_ipacl) based on The TrustedBSD MAC + Framework to + implement a security policy for configuring the network + stack. + This project allows the root of the host to define the + policy rules to + limit the root of a jail to a set of IP (v4 or v6) + addresses and/or subnets + for a set of interfaces.

+ +

Features this new MAC policy module are:

+ +
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  • The host can define one or more lists of IP + addresses/subnets + for the jail to choose from.
    • + +
  • The host can restrict the jail from setting certain IP + addresses or + prefixes (subnets).
    • + +
  • The host can restrict this privilege to a few network + interfaces.
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