Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:26:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> 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 Message-ID: <201708070226.v772Q1e4038601@repo.freebsd.org>
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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;.</p> - <p> The second meetup, also hosted in the OVH office, presented these + <p>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 <tt>net/bird</tt>) 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.</p> - <p>The &os; 11.1-RELEASE cycle started on May 19, and is - continuing as scheduled. &os; consumers are urged to test + <p>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 <tt>stable/11</tt> branch.</p> @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ <links> <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/LLD">&os; <tt>lld</tt> Wiki Page</url> <url href="http://llvm.org/pr23214">&os;/LLD Tracking PR (LLVM Bugzilla)</url> - <url href="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/214864">; Exp-Run Request Using <tt>lld</tt> as <tt>/usr/bin/ld</tt></url> + <url href="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/214864">Exp-Run Request Using <tt>lld</tt> as <tt>/usr/bin/ld</tt></url> </links> <body> @@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ </person> </contact> - <body> <p>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 @@ <p>The most important changes since the last report are:</p> <ul> - <li>Ceph has releassed the release candidate of v12.1.0 (aka + <li>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.</li> @@ -1164,7 +1163,7 @@ the packages &os; already has in place. There are many details to work out here.</task> - <task>Design a vitual disk implementation that can be used with + <task>Design a virtual disk implementation that can be used with <tt>bhyve</tt> and attached to an RBD image.</task> </help> </project> @@ -1417,7 +1416,7 @@ is both a KDE committer and part of our KDE on &os; team, for spearheading the efforts.</p> - <p>The following big updates were landed in the ports tree this + <p>The following big updates landed in the ports tree this quarter:</p> <ul> @@ -1445,7 +1444,7 @@ <li><tt>py-sip</tt> was updated to 4.19.2, PyQt4 to 4.12 and PyQt5 to 5.7.1</li> - <li>Several fixes for ARMv6 were landed to the Qt4 and Qt5 + <li>Several fixes for ARMv6 landed in the Qt4 and Qt5 ports — thanks to Mikaël Urankar</li> </ul> @@ -1654,8 +1653,8 @@ <p>Some major version updates are: <tt>pkg</tt> 1.10.1, Firefox 54.0.1, and Chromium 59.0.3071.115.</p> - <p>Behind the scenes, antoine@ ran 36 exp-runs to test version updates, - making CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing + <p>Behind the scenes, antoine@ ran 36 exp-runs to test version + updates, making CRAN ports platform-independent, test installing bsdgrep(1) as <tt>/usr/bin/grep</tt>, test LLVM updates, test the ino64 project, and perform Makefile cleanups.</p> </body> @@ -1750,7 +1749,7 @@ RAM.</p> <p>The default linker on arm64 is now <tt>lld</tt>. 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!</p> </body> </project> @@ -1781,7 +1780,7 @@ also making slow progress to add support for even more platforms.</p> - <p>Discussion has started upstream to support API/ABI breaking + <p>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.</p> - <p>It has been a long while since HardenedBSD's laste appearance + <p>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!</p> @@ -1941,7 +1940,7 @@ a number of high-profile ports in HardenedBSD's ports tree.</p> - <p>In March of 2017, we added Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for + <p>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.</p> - <p>In March of 2017, HardenedBSD is now accessible through a Tor - hidden service. The main website, binary updates, and + <p>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.</p> - <p>We now maintains our own version of the <tt>drm-next</tt> + <p>We now maintain our own version of the <tt>drm-next</tt> branch for updated graphics support. Binary updates are also provided for this branch.</p> @@ -2058,9 +2057,9 @@ well as locally adjusting the default version a lot easier.</p> - <p><tt>gcc8-devel</tt> 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 + <p><tt>gcc8-devel</tt> 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.</p> @@ -2392,9 +2391,9 @@ Read more at <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/</a>.</p>; - <p>RootConf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p> + <p>Rootconf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p> - <p>In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore. + <p>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. <a @@ -2415,8 +2414,8 @@ without compromising availability. Their spotswap <a href="https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/">https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/</a>; 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 <a + as though it should be possible to port this to &os; with + minimal effort. Read more at <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/</a>.</p>; <p>BSDCan 2017/&os; Developers Summit (contributed by Deb
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