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Daniel Gerzo | 12 May 23:39
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report January-March, 2012

Introduction

   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March
   2012. It is the first of the four reports planned for 2012. This
   quarter was highlighted by releasing the next major version of FreeBSD,
   9.0, which was finally released in the beginning of January 2012. The
   FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of
   Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers of the UNIXŽ operating
   system. Our release engineering team has been also busy with
   preparation of the 8.3-RELEASE, which was publicly announced in April.

   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
   contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

   Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
   between April and June 2012 is July 15th, 2012.
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Projects

     * FreeBSD Services Control
     * GNU-Free C++11 Stack
     * Growing filesystems online
     * The FreeNAS Project

User-land Programs

     * Clang Replacing GCC in the Base System
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FreeBSD Security Advisories | 3 May 18:01
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl


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FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl                                    Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities

Category:       contrib
Module:         openssl
Announced:      2012-05-03
Credits:        Adam Langley, George Kadianakis, Ben Laurie,
                Ivan Nestlerode, Tavis Ormandy
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.4-STABLE)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_7_4, 7.4-RELEASE-p7)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.3-STABLE)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_3, 8.3-RELEASE-p1)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_2, 8.2-RELEASE-p7)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_8_1, 8.1-RELEASE-p9)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_9, 9.0-STABLE)
                2012-05-03 15:25:11 UTC (RELENG_9_0, 9.0-RELEASE-p1)
CVE Name:       CVE-2011-4576, CVE-2011-4619, CVE-2011-4109,
                CVE-2012-0884, CVE-2012-2110

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I.   Background
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Jason Hellenthal | 21 Apr 17:53

[announce <at> lists.nycbug.org: [announce] proposed announce for mirrors]


Heads up.

----- Forwarded message from NYC*BUG Announcements <announce <at> lists.nycbug.org> -----

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:29:03 -0400
From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce <at> lists.nycbug.org>
To: announce <at> lists.nycbug.org
Subject: [announce] proposed announce for mirrors

So, we are just waiting on MD sorting out uploading his images with Mark,
plus someone hitting the Tor project so they list our Tor mirror.

Comments appreciated, inline.

*	*	*

The New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) is proud to announce the
launching of multiple mirrors serving the BSD and open source community.

The mirrors, hosted in a cabinet donated by New York Internet, include the
following official mirrors:

* DragonFlyBSD

* OpenBSD

* m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall distribution customized for embedded
devices
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Ken Smith | 18 Apr 16:19
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FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Available


The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
of FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE.  This is the fourth release from the 8-STABLE
branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.2 and introduces some
new features.  Some of the highlights:

	- usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter
	- TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion
	  control framework
	- graid(8) GEOM class added to support various BIOS-based software
	  RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4))
	- ZFS subsystem updated to SPA version 28
	- Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.4

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:

    http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.3R/relnotes.html
    http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/8.3R/errata.html

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities,
please see:

    http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

 Availability
 -------------

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, pc98,
and sparc64 architectures.
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Deb Goodkin | 16 Mar 19:04
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The FreeBSD Foundation is Requesting Project Proposal Submissions

Dear FreeBSD Community,

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are soliciting the
submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems
or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system.  Proposals
will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit and
cost-effectiveness.

To find out more about the proposal process please read Project Proposal 
Procedures at:

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FreeBSD%20Foundation%20Proposals%20March%202012.pdf.

This is is your chance to get funding to help improve FreeBSD!

Sincerely,

The FreeBSD Foundation

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Deb Goodkin | 6 Mar 15:45
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Foundation Funds Project to Grow Filesystems Online

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz
Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow
filesystems while they are mounted.

"Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with
the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow
mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, Director, The FreeBSD Foundation.

This project will add GEOM and filesystem changes that are necessary to
increase the size of both UFS and ZFS filesystems while a filesystem
is mounted read-write. This project will provide the additional
benefit of online provisioning of virtual instances.

The Foundation is pleased to be working with Edward again. He
was previously awarded a grant to implement resource containers
and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism. This work was
included in FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE.

This project is expected to be completed by October 2012.
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FreeBSD Security Officer | 6 Mar 14:47
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HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.3 EoL coming soon


Hello Everyone,

On March 31st, FreeBSD 7.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer
be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.  Users of FreeBSD 7.3 are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.4, FreeBSD 8.1, FreeBSD 8.2,
or FreeBSD 9.0 before the that date.

Please note that due to the unexpectedly long interval between FreeBSD 8.2
and the upcoming FreeBSD 8.3, the EoL date for FreeBSD 8.2 (originaly set
at February 29, 2012) has been postponed until July 31, 2012 in keeping
with the policy of having a three-month "upgrade window".  In the unlikely
event that FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE arrives later than the end of April, the
EoL dates for FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.2 will be further postponed.

The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are:

   +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
   |  Branch   |  Release   |  Type  |   Release date  |  Estimated EoL  |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |February 28, 2013|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010   |March 31, 2012   |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7_4 |7.4-RELEASE |Extended|February 24, 2011|February 28, 2013|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_8   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |last release + 2y|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|July 23, 2010    |July 31, 2012    |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
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Deb Goodkin | 5 Mar 15:46
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Please Join Us in Welcoming George Neville-Neil!

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of George 
Neville-Neil to its board of directors.

George has been dabbling in the BSD world since his undergraduate days 
in the mid-1980s. He was granted his commit bit in 2004, and has served 
two terms on the FreeBSD Core team between 2006 and 2010.

In 2011, he started organizing the semi-annual FreeBSD Vendor Summits 
that gather commercial customers of FreeBSD along with project members 
in order to facilitate the movement of technologies between the Project 
and its customers.

George co-authored "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD 
Operating System." His technical contributions are mostly within the 
FreeBSD network stack with occasional forays into other parts of the 
system.

"The Foundation is at a pivotal point in our growth as a company," said 
Deb Goodkin, Secretary/Treasurer, The FreeBSD Foundation. "We believe 
with George's previous and current involvement in FreeBSD, that he will 
be a significant contributor in helping us achieve our ambitious goals 
this year."
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek | 2 Mar 11:23
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Announcing EuroBSDcon 2012

EuroBSDcon 2012
===============

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and
developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference
will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012
to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday
and talks on Saturday and Sunday.

Call for Proposals
------------------

The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting developers and users of
BSD-based systems to submit innovative and original papers not
submitted to other European conferences on BSD-related topics.

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited
to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and
security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics
concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use.

Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes.

Call for Tutorial Proposals
---------------------------

The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting qualified practitioners in
their field to submit proposals for half or full day tutorials on
topics relevant to development, implementation and use of BSD-based
systems.
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Deb Goodkin | 1 Mar 19:45
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Foundation Announces NAND File System for FreeBSD Project

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an
embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to bring their
comprehensive NAND Flash file system and storage stack to FreeBSD.
This technology enables FreeBSD to natively manage NAND Flash
devices, satisfying a crucial requirement for many applications
needing access to fast, reliable, non-volatile storage.

FreeBSD is widely used as the OS foundation of embedded appliances
both small and large.  Semihalf's NAND Flash stack opens new
opportunities for FreeBSD in this space, where size, cost, or
performance, mandate the use of direct attached NAND Flash.

Made possible by matching funds from Juniper Networks, this FreeBSD
Foundation grant covers the costs of transferring technology
developed for Juniper Networks by Semihalf to the FreeBSD
project.  This will ensure that the NAND framework meets
community standards and can be easily maintained and enhanced.

Highlighting the return on investment offered by this kind of
technology transfer, FreeBSD Foundation president Justin T. Gibbs,
noted:

"Open sourcing enhancements that do not expose 'business critical
intellectual property' reduces the cost of managing a FreeBSD
distribution that has been customized for a product.  The NAND
subsystem is a perfect example of how technology transfer
benefits both the FreeBSD community and its commercial users.
We'd like to thank Semihalf and Juniper for partnering with us
to make the code available under a BSD license"
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Deb Goodkin | 16 Feb 01:13
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Reminder that we are accepting Travel Grant Applications

Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses 
to AsiaBSDCon 2012.

The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel 
grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit 
the Travel Grant Request Application at 
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf by 
February 20, 2012 to apply for this grant.

This program is open to FreeBSD developers of all sorts (kernel hackers, 
documentation authors, bugbusters, system administrators, etc). In some 
cases we are also able to fund non-developers, such as active community 
members and FreeBSD advocates.

Your request should be based on a realistic and economical estimate of 
travel costs (economy airfare, trainfare, ...), accommodations 
(conference hotel and sharing a room), and registration or tutorial 
fees. If there are other sponsors willing to cover costs, such as your 
employer or the conference, we prefer that you talk to them first, as 
our budget is limited. We are happy to split costs with you or another 
sponsor, such as just covering airfare or board.

If you are a speaker at the conference, we expect the conference to 
cover your travel costs, and will most likely not approve your request.

If your application is approved, we will authorize you to seek 
reimbursement up to a limit. We consider several factors, including our 
overall and per-event budgets, and the benefit to the community by 
funding your travel. We reimburse costs based on receipts, and by check 
or bank transfer. And, we do not cover your costs if you end up having
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