From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 20:53:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 823207D2; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6399384B; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9CKrUt9068845; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s9CKrUhR068844; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201410122053.s9CKrUhR068844@svn.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: svn.freebsd.org: wblock set sender to wblock@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Warren Block Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45800 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:53:30 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 20:53:29 2014 New Revision: 45800 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45800 Log: Whitespace-only fixes, translators please ignore. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 20:45:55 2014 (r45799) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 20:53:29 2014 (r45800) @@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ September 2014. This is the third of four reports planned for 2014.

The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for the - FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM - platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in &os; - 11 and the various ports teams have worked hard to improve the - state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, - performance improvements feature in several places in this report - and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking to validate - our results.

The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for + the FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM + platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in + &os; 11 and the various ports teams have worked hard to improve + the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, + performance improvements feature in several places in this + report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking to + validate our results.

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 0 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

@@ -120,9 +120,10 @@ integrate with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service.

The &os; Foundation worked with enterprise and university users - to test the new automounter in existing LDAP-based environments, - including some with thousands of map entries.

The &os; Foundation worked with enterprise and university + users to test the new automounter in existing LDAP-based + environments, including some with thousands of map + entries.

The code is now ready to use. It has been committed to 11-CURRENT and 10-STABLE, and will ship as part of @@ -264,7 +265,8 @@

Switch to the USES framework
Support both GTK2 and GTK3, with GTK2 being the default.
Support both GTK2 and GTK3, with GTK2 being the + default.
A GNOME-like default icons theme

sysctl

The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help users - address the most common questions or problems they might face with ZFS. - It would be useful to hear experiences, questions, misconceptions, - gotchas, stumbling blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from - other users. A use cases section that highlights some of the - cases where ZFS provides advantages over traditional file systems - is also planned.

The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help + users address the most common questions or problems they might + face with ZFS. It would be useful to hear experiences, + questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and + suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. A use cases + section that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides + advantages over traditional file systems is also planned.

Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.

The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) is a fast memory error detector that can detect use-after-free errors and buffer - overflows. It has been ported to &os;. The mainline version of - LLVM is known to pass all of the tests in the LLVM and Asan test - suites without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.

A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10 has been established. See the Links section.

A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread - sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel programs, is in - progress.

Second part of project is about booting the fai (Fully - Automatic Installer) from the network by PXE. Made installer + Automatic Installer) from the network by PXE. Made installer distro based on mfsbsd. After boot, fai looks for the - "bootfile-name" parameter from the DHCP server. This parameter - instructs fai where the bsdinstall script is located. Fai - supports mac-based config or a default, if a mac-based - configuration file does not exist.

@@ -681,11 +684,11 @@ part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like operating systems, including &os;.

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to the - 1.8 versions.

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to + the 1.8 versions.

Now that cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, has - been updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has started. +

Now that cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, + has been updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has started. Currently we are doing test builds to find ports broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of incompatible updates.

@@ -928,12 +931,11 @@ -

The project adds support for the AES-GCM and AES-CTR cryptography - modes to the OpenCrypto framework. - Both software and AES-NI accelerated versions are now functional and - working. - Ermal Luçi (eri@) is working on adding support for these additional - modes to IPsec.

The project adds support for the AES-GCM and AES-CTR + cryptography modes to the OpenCrypto framework. Both software + and AES-NI accelerated versions are now functional and + working. Ermal Luçi (eri@) is working on adding support for + these additional modes to IPsec.

@@ -1066,9 +1068,9 @@

At present, I do not yet have a patch relative to libc. Once I do, this will be suitable for more - testing. I would like to see some real-world benchmarks that show - measurable improvement before pushing any of this up into the - tree.

+ testing. I would like to see some real-world benchmarks that + show measurable improvement before pushing any of this up into + the tree.

@@ -1523,12 +1525,11 @@ -

Until recently, all ARM CPU designs were 32-bit only. With the - introduction of the ARMv8 architecture, ARM has added a new - 64-bit mode. This new mode has been named AArch64. Arm64 is - the name of the in-progress port of &os; to ARMv8 CPUs when in - AArch64 mode. -

Until recently, all ARM CPU designs were 32-bit only. With + the introduction of the ARMv8 architecture, ARM has added a + new 64-bit mode. This new mode has been named AArch64. Arm64 + is the name of the in-progress port of &os; to ARMv8 CPUs when + in AArch64 mode.

Since the last status report, &os; has started to execute userland instructions. This includes implementing more of the @@ -2028,11 +2029,11 @@ POPULATE TOKEN/WRITE USING TOKEN (SPC-4 extensions of XCOPY), WRITE SAME and UNMAP.

All XCOPY operations are currently limited to one storage host. - ODX operations are currently limited only to iSCSI disks. - Accelerated inter-host copying or copying to/from files on - Samba shares is not implemented and handled by initiators in - the legacy way.

All XCOPY operations are currently limited to one storage + host. ODX operations are currently limited only to iSCSI + disks. Accelerated inter-host copying or copying to/from + files on Samba shares is not implemented and handled by + initiators in the legacy way.

The code is committed to &os; head and stable/10 branches, and will be present in &os; 10.1 and FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 / @@ -2073,12 +2074,11 @@ -

This project aims to add support to the &os; kernel for running - in Xen Paravirtualised mode on amd64 systems. - This project has finally reached a "Proof of Concept" stage - on the branch - - projects/amd64_xen_pv

This project aims to add support to the &os; kernel for + running in Xen Paravirtualised mode on amd64 systems. This + project has finally reached a "Proof of Concept" stage on the + branch projects/amd64_xen_pv

Testing and bug reports on various configurations is encouraged! The author is also seeking bounties to help @@ -2164,14 +2164,13 @@ an API for allowing a debugger to disable ASLR to support deterministic debugging. Oliver Pinter enhanced the performance of our ASLR implementation. A package building - exp-run was ran and came out favorably in terms of performance. - Shawn Webb bumped up the maximum number of bits allowed to be - randomized to 20 and set the default to 14.

+ exp-run was ran and came out favorably in terms of + performance. Shawn Webb bumped up the maximum number of bits + allowed to be randomized to 20 and set the default to 14.

Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter founded The HardenedBSD project to - serve as a staging area for their work on security-related +

Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter founded The HardenedBSD project + to serve as a staging area for their work on security-related projects for &os;.

- SoldierX