From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Mon Aug 7 02:26:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4F5DD853E; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@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 mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE1B176D80; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v772Q1m5038602; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:01 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v772Q1e4038601; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:01 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201708070226.v772Q1e4038601@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:01 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50640 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head X-SVN-Commit-Author: bjk X-SVN-Commit-Paths: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 50640 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: 2.1.23 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, 07 Aug 2017 02:26:02 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Mon Aug 7 02:26:00 2017 New Revision: 50640 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50640 Log: Edits to the 2017Q2 report from linimon Submitted by: linimon Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Sun Aug 6 06:09:38 2017 (r50639) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml Mon Aug 7 02:26:00 2017 (r50640) @@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ OVH is using ZFS, an introduction to jails, and a use case for BGP/bird on &os;.

The second meetup, also hosted in the OVH office, presented these +

The second meetup, also hosted in the OVH office, presented these subjects: how to create a &os; port (presented by jadawin@), how OVH is using Finite State Machines for managing their - storage system, network high-availibility with &os;, and a + storage system, network high-availability with &os;, and a jail tutorial by means of a demonstration running 200 OSFP (using net/bird) routers using jail and vnets on a small PC Engines APU2 system with only 4 CPU cores (1Ghz AMD) @@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ of &os;, announcing code freezes, and maintaining the respective branches, among other things.

The &os; 11.1-RELEASE cycle started on May 19, and is - continuing as scheduled. &os; consumers are urged to test +

The &os; 11.1-RELEASE cycle started on May 19, and + continued as scheduled. &os; consumers are urged to test whenever possible to help ensure the reliability and stability of the upcoming second release from the stable/11 branch.

@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ &os; lld Wiki Page &os;/LLD Tracking PR (LLVM Bugzilla) - Exp-Run Request Using lld as /usr/bin/ld + Exp-Run Request Using lld as /usr/bin/ld @@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ -

DTS (Device Tree Source) files provide a human-readable source description of the hardware resources for a given @@ -687,7 +686,7 @@ usable. This attempt that I call "Plan B", only uses &os;, with one &os; server handling the metadata operations and multiple &os; servers configured to serve - data, is now ready for third party testing. If testing by + data and is now ready for third party testing. If testing by third parties goes well, I anticipate the code will be merged into &os; head in time for &os; 12. Fairly recent &os; or Linux systems should be usable as pNFS @@ -1084,7 +1083,7 @@

The most important changes since the last report are:

Ceph has releassed the release candidate of v12.1.0 (aka +
Ceph has released release candidate v12.1.0 (aka Luminous); the corresponding packaging is sitting in my tree waiting for Luminous to be actually released.

Design a vitual disk implementation that can be used with + Design a virtual disk implementation that can be used with bhyve and attached to an RBD image. @@ -1417,7 +1416,7 @@ is both a KDE committer and part of our KDE on &os; team, for spearheading the efforts.

The following big updates were landed in the ports tree this +

The following big updates landed in the ports tree this quarter:

py-sip was updated to 4.19.2, PyQt4 to 4.12 and PyQt5 to 5.7.1
Several fixes for ARMv6 were landed to the Qt4 and Qt5 +
Several fixes for ARMv6 landed in the Qt4 and Qt5 ports — thanks to Mikaël Urankar

@@ -1654,8 +1653,8 @@

Some major version updates are: pkg 1.10.1, Firefox 54.0.1, and Chromium 59.0.3071.115.

Behind the scenes, antoine@ ran 36 exp-runs to test version updates, - making CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing +

Behind the scenes, antoine@ ran 36 exp-runs to test version + updates, making CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing bsdgrep(1) as /usr/bin/grep, test LLVM updates, test the ino64 project, and perform Makefile cleanups.

@@ -1750,7 +1749,7 @@ RAM.

The default linker on arm64 is now lld. This - means &os; is able to built itsself with just the components + means &os; is able to build itself with just the components in the base system, a big milestone!

@@ -1781,7 +1780,7 @@ also making slow progress to add support for even more platforms.

Discussion has started upstream to support API/ABI breaking +

Discussion has started upstream to support API/ABI-breaking changes between major releases of operating systems. For instance, this is required to be able to target both &os; 11.x and 12.x, which have ABI changes involving important @@ -1897,7 +1896,7 @@ Randomization (ASLR) as an initial focal point and is now implementing further exploit mitigation techniques.

It has been a long while since HardenedBSD's laste appearance +

It has been a long while since HardenedBSD's last appearance in a quarterly status report, with the last status report being from December of 2015. Accordingly, this status report will be a long one!

@@ -1941,7 +1940,7 @@ a number of high-profile ports in HardenedBSD's ports tree.

In March of 2017, we added Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for +

In March of 2017, we added Control Flow Integrity (CFI) to the base system. CFI is an exploit mitigation technique that helps prevent attackers from modifying the behavior of a program and jumping to undefined or arbitrary memory @@ -1970,12 +1969,12 @@ HardenedBSD's PaX SEGVGUARD implementation received a few updates to make it more stable and performant.

In March of 2017, HardenedBSD is now accessible through a Tor - hidden service. The main website, binary updates, and +

As of March 2017, HardenedBSD is now accessible through a + Tor hidden service. The main website, binary updates, and package distribution are all available over the hidden service.

We now maintains our own version of the drm-next +

We now maintain our own version of the drm-next branch for updated graphics support. Binary updates are also provided for this branch.

@@ -2058,9 +2057,9 @@ well as locally adjusting the default version a lot easier.

gcc8-devel has been added, and armv6hf support removed, and we - made adjustments for newer versions of &os;. Also of note are - various cleanups and changes to improve the robustness of our +

gcc8-devel has been added, and armv6hf support removed, + and we made adjustments for newer versions of &os;. Also of note + are various cleanups and changes to improve the robustness of our packages and the addition of support for aarch64 to many ports.

@@ -2392,9 +2391,9 @@ Read more at https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/.

RootConf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)

Rootconf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)

In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore. +

In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore. Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and operations engineers share real world knowledge about building reliable systems. https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/ software has been released under a BSD license. It sounds - like it should be possible to port this to &os; with minimal - effort. Read more at https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/.

BSDCan 2017/&os; Developers Summit (contributed by Deb