From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 3 17:48:16 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEDF31D; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:48:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail0.glenbarber.us (mail0.glenbarber.us [208.86.227.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E51DB29C2; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from glenbarber.us (70.15.88.86.res-cmts.sewb.ptd.net [70.15.88.86]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: gjb) by mail0.glenbarber.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55A4913B5A; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:48:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.3 mail0.glenbarber.us 55A4913B5A Authentication-Results: mail0.glenbarber.us; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:48:04 -0500 From: Glen Barber To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: 10.0-BETA3, why it was added Message-ID: <20131103174804.GH1792@glenbarber.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqCDj3hiknadvR6t" Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:48:16 -0000 --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Just a quick update on why -BETA3 was added to the 10.0-RELEASE schedule: A problem was discovered in the base iconv(1), which introduces a major regression with character encoding, specifically with malformed output. Sample code to reproduce the issue: % perl -e "print pack('C*', 0xa5,0xa2,0xa5,0xe1,0xa5,0xea,0xa5,0xab); \ print qq/\n/;" \ | iconv -f euc-jp -t utf-8 \ | iconv -f utf-8 -t euc-jp \ | hexdump -C 00000000 a2 a5 e1 a5 ea a5 ab a5 0a 00000009 While there are no compile-time issues in general, this makes the base iconv(1) unusable with certain character sets. Solutions are being evaluated. For the immediate time, -BETA3 builds have started. Glen On behalf of: re@ --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSdoxUAAoJELls3eqvi17Qqb8P/i3Msuk5bOF2YkP3aERdd20d PvdpUiiXcDbTExAFfTmQd89/tIlnnsVSz0bth43/sKSIhKymdcboydK267zErXKG V1VnslyP8ZYrMOFLVGcULsyHZmCyYU/axqrtACv3jfCcwzKlpEQauLVitRl9f1US /sU42vNcd36mJ1X5Cdxy9PpeiDLtVyMkqQIPfMUJx5s7NYb0swWy1OzSOcHTuygy AoCxp2c21tlj4drkmxMdpqYFRZ8aLBUiJtBPz9yNJ48gbMJ+F7d/2t3XrQICjibo eoWGmsD5qvUzMgQse3fN5tjDGDkr+ClK9AjhAfidw7pgXxnQKBfqJEEp9rBLJkDd 7NxKhP0imEJWR7KtY2BFUN+I8F1UT4xtcrxrTTdAEu603pxuDmiI4ZVwvhnrV6m9 1LYbeGdhSjPv4VTCsPg1KRVSfznq/BYZawv1ATVgLQOFaXNugbqL6FLtHH5wPfeE Gx9aEj8iJant6uujrKOmTXfjs00IEjnbNkxubO284DgnSNOZbv3160ZDSe+xK/9U YtcR8PbDezt97EgptYRppkWNLDvN70jnJrkvcrInu0MXFEw+UHsRLcL7MWTdHBFV U8/eQIGcbSgO8wdDdeLOEIGzl/xUXzBp8B8RksnN0orSxliCM3vYK0xMNH9U915T sUOxx6DfCUkCoZBF6ZjS =fDi1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t--