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Beat Gaetzi | 14 May 2013 19:38
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EuroBSDCon Sep 28/29 2013 in Malta: Last Call for Proposals

Important Dates
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Sep 26-29: Tutorials and Talks in St. Julian's, Malta
           http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks-and-schedule/

Mid June:  Registration opens
           http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/registration/

May 27:    Request for Proposals closes
           http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/2013/03/28/call-for-proposals/

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers
of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place Thursday, September
26 through Sunday, September 29 at the Hilton (http://goo.gl/maps/hnACd)
in St. Julian's, Malta (tutorials on Thursday and Friday, talks on
Saturday and Sunday).

Last Call for Talk Proposals
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The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users to
submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously presented
at other European conferences.

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.
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FreeBSD Core Team Secretary | 14 May 2013 06:55
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Binary Packages Are Available Again

Dear FreeBSD Community,

Six months have passed since the November security incident which
brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are
pleased to announce that all services are now restored.  This has
followed a significant effort to review security throughout the FreeBSD
Project's infrastructure, and reengineer the package-building system to
support greater compartmentalization and resilience.  This includes the
redports.org and ports QAT, generation and update of INDEX files,
publication of binary package sets, and binary-package building itself.
The revised infrastructure provided binary packages for the recent
release of FreeBSD 8.4.

We are now glad to announce that binary packages available again for
8.x, 9.x branches on i386 and amd64 architectures at the usual
locations:

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.4-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.4-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/

Note that the previously missed binary packages for 9.1-RELEASE have
been also recovered and can be found here:

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.1-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/

However before trying any of these sites above please check your
regional mirrors first by going to:
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Gabor Pali | 12 May 2013 19:56
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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2013

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2013

Introduction

   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between January and March
   2013. This is the first of four reports planned for 2013.

   Highlights from this status report include the busy preparations of
   8.4-RELEASE, restoration of binary package building, steady progress
   of several porting efforts, like work on the FreeBSD ports of xorg,
   GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, bringing FreeBSD to Cubieboard and Hackberry
   boards, development of ARM and AMD GPU support, improving
   performance of UFS/FFS and callouts, and introducing a multipath TCP
   implementation for the network stack.

   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
   contains 31 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

   The deadline for submissions covering the period between April and
   June 2013 is July 7th, 2013.
     __________________________________________________________________

Projects

     * FreeNAS
     * Kernel Information in Process Core Dumps
     * Native iSCSI Stack

FreeBSD Team Reports
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Deb Goodkin | 9 May 2013 18:11
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FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste as Director of Project Development

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the
Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development.  Ed has served
on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to
accept this new position.

In this position Ed will manage the Foundation's sponsored work,
including projects funded under specific grants, operational support and
project development undertaken by the Foundation's permanent technical
staff.

Working with the Foundation's Board of Directors, Ed will identify
and document specific areas of future project work interest.  This
roadmap planning will include coordination with FreeBSD consumers and
the FreeBSD community.

"2012 represented an inflection point in the Foundation's history,''
said Justin T. Gibbs, President of the FreeBSD Foundation.  "The
Foundation has a stated goal of investing in permanent staff through
2013.  With Ed taking on this new position I'm excited by the
Foundation's increased capacity to manage our project development and
operational support.''

Ed has over ten years of experience in companies building products
on FreeBSD, in both technical and managerial roles.  He resides in
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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Gavin Atkinson | 2 May 2013 15:05
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Google Summer of Code 2013

Hi all,

A reminder: The deadline for applications is 19:00 UTC Friday May 3rd
(tomorrow).

FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to
participate in the Google Summer of Code program.  This gives University
students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchange for
working on Open Source software over their Summer break.  Students have
around 12 weeks to work on their project, and will be mentored by
existing FreeBSD committers.  Participating organisations will earn $500
USD per student mentored.  Over the past eight years we have hosted over
150 successful projects, and look forward to continuing this trend.

FreeBSD's organisation page may be found at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/freebsd and a
list of possible project ideas may be found at
https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage .  Please note that projects do not
have to come from the ideas list, and indeed students are encouraged to
produce their own project ideas - the majority of past projects have
been thought up by the particpants themselves.  We are encouraging
discussion of projects on the freebsd-hackers mailing list and the
#freebsd-soc IRC channel on EFNet.

Students are also encouraged to visit http://www.google-melange.com/ to
view more details of the program, including eligibility requirements,
and a list of other participating organisations.

If you have administrative questions you can contact the FreeBSD GSoC
administration team at soc-admins <at> FreeBSD.org.
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FreeBSD Security Advisories | 29 Apr 2013 23:56
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver [REVISED]


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FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver                                  Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          Insufficient input validation in the NFS server

Category:       core
Module:         nfsserver
Announced:      2013-04-29
Revised:        2013-04-29
Credits:        Adam Nowacki
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2013-04-29 21:10:49 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-PRERELEASE)
                2013-04-29 21:10:53 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p8)
                2013-04-29 21:11:31 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC1-p1)
                2013-04-29 21:11:31 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC2-p1)
                2013-04-29 21:11:01 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE)
                2013-04-29 21:11:05 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p3)
CVE Name:       CVE-2013-3266

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/>.

0.   Revision History

v1.0  2013-04-29 Initial release.
v1.1  2013-04-29 Corrected patch URL.
                 Additional workaround information.
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FreeBSD Security Advisories | 29 Apr 2013 22:55
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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver


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FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver                                  Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          Insufficient input validation in the NFS server

Category:       core
Module:         nfsserver
Announced:      2013-04-29
Credits:        Adam Nowacki
Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected:      2013-04-29 20:15:43 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-PRERELEASE)
                2013-04-29 20:15:47 UTC (releng/8.3, 8.3-RELEASE-p8)
                2013-04-29 20:16:25 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC1-p1)
                2013-04-29 20:16:25 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RC2-p1)
                2013-04-29 20:15:55 UTC (stable/9, 9.1-STABLE)
                2013-04-29 20:16:00 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p3)
CVE Name:       CVE-2013-3266

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

The Network File System (NFS) allows a host to export some or all of its
file systems so that other hosts can access them over the network and mount
them as if they were on local disks.  FreeBSD includes server and client
implementations of NFS.
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Ed Maste | 29 Apr 2013 17:10
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FreeBSD Foundation announces second technical staff member and iSCSI project

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz
Napierala has joined as its second member of technical staff.  This is
a continuation of the Foundation's plan to invest in staff in 2013.

A FreeBSD committer since 2007, Edward previously completed a number
of projects under Foundation grants, including safe device removal
with mounted filesystems, growing mounted filesystems, and resource
containers.

Edward is currently implementing a native in-kernel iSCSI stack (both
target and initiator) for this increasingly popular block storage
protocol.  "Although there are a number of iSCSI target implementations
that support FreeBSD, the project lacks a high performance and reliable
in-kernel target.  As iSCSI gains favor, this stack will be a key
element in maintaining FreeBSD's competitive position in enterprise and
open-source deployments" said Justin T. Gibbs, president of the FreeBSD
Foundation.  The project is expected to be completed in October 2013.

Another part of Edward's responsibilities will be assisting the FreeBSD
Security Team in preparing security advisories and patches.

Edward lives in Warsaw, Poland.
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Gavin Atkinson | 22 Apr 2013 10:42
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FreeBSD is participating in Google Summer of Code


Hi all,

FreeBSD is pleased to announce that once again we have been selected to 
participate in the Google Summer of Code program.  This gives University 
students the opportunity to earn a $5000 USD stipend in exchange for 
working on Open Source software over their Summer break.  Students have 
around 12 weeks to work on their project, and will be mentored by existing 
FreeBSD committers.  Participating organisations will earn $500 USD per 
student mentored.

FreeBSD's organisation page may be found at 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/freebsd and a list 
of possible project ideas may be found at 
https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage .  Please note that projects do not 
have to come from the ideas list, and indeed students are encouraged to 
produce their own project ideas - the majority of past projects have been 
thought up by the particpants themselves.

Students are also encouraged to visit http://www.google-melange.com/ to 
view more details of the program, including eligibility requirements, and 
a list of other participating organisations.

Thanks,

Gavin
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Miller, Vincent (Rick | 17 Apr 2013 15:37
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Verisign Announces vBSDCon

Hi all,

Verisign, Inc., who has become involved with FreeBSD over the last 3 years, would like to announce a user and
developer conference to be held Oct 25 – 27, 2013 at the Dulles Hyatt in Dulles, VA.  More information on
this conference is available at
http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/04/17/vbsdcon-oct-25-27-2013/.  We are excited to host this
conference and are looking forward to seeing you there.

--
Vincent (Rick) Miller
Systems Engineer
vmiller <at> verisign.com

t: 703.948.4395   m: 703.581.3068
12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA  20190

http://www.verisigninc.com
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Deb Goodkin | 16 Apr 2013 15:13
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Raise a Million - Spend a Million!

FreeBSD is internationally recognized as an innovative leader in 
providing a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Our 
mission is to continue and increase our support and funding to keep 
FreeBSD at the forefront of operating system technology. But, we can’t 
do this without your help!

Last year with your generosity, we raised over $770,000. This allowed us 
to not only achieve our goal, but to exceed it by over $250,000.

This year, with your help, we will do more.
This year we will double the amount we spend.
This year we will invest $1,000,000 to support and promote FreeBSD.

What will the Foundation accomplish with your donation in 2013?
• Spend almost $600,000 on software development projects for FreeBSD.
• Support the Release Engineering and Security teams with paid staff time.
• Grow to five technical staff members by year-end.
• Support BSD conferences around the globe, in Europe, Japan, Canada, 
and the USA.
• Spend over $130,000 on hardware to maintain and improve FreeBSD 
project infrastructure.
• Grow the FreeBSD community through marketing and outreach to users and 
businesses.
• Protect the FreeBSD trademarks and provide the project with access to 
legal counsel.

We have kicked off the new year with 3 newly funded projects, and are 
actively soliciting additional project proposals now. We've added one 
new technical staff member and are in the process of adding more.
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