May and June were remarkably busy months for the FreeBSD Project-- FreeBSD developers met in Monterey, CA in June for FreeBSD Developer Summit III to discuss strategy for the - FreeBSD 5.0 release later this year, and for the USENIX Annual - Technical conference and the FreeBSD BoF. Substantial technical - progress was made on FreeBSD 5.0, and another release was cut - on the RELENG_4 branch, 4.6-RELEASE in June.
+ FreeBSD 5.0 release later this year, for the USENIX Annual + Technical conference and for the FreeBSD BoF. Substantial + technical progress was made on FreeBSD 5.0, and FreeBSD + 4.6-RELEASE was cut on the RELENG_4 branch in June. -The remainder of the summer will be busy. Final development +
The remainder of the summer will continue to busy. Fina components and features for 5.0-RELEASE will go into the tree, and the development direction will change from new features to stability, performance, and production-readiness. With additional 5.0 development previews late in the summer, we hope - to broaden the tester base for the 5.0 technologies, and start + to broaden the tester base for the -CURRENT branch, and start to get early adopters digging out any potential problems in - their test environment.
+ their test environments. I encourage both FreeBSD Developers + and FreeBSD Users to give 5.0-DP2 a spin (on a machine without + critical data!) and let us know how it goes. The more testing + that happens before the release, the less fixing we have to do + afterwards!Robert Watson
URL: http://www.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom/
- -Contact: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
- -The GEOM code has gotten so far that it beats our current - code in some areas while stil lacking in others. The goal is - for GEOM to be the default in 5.0-RELEASE.
- -Currently work on a cryptographic module which should be - able to protect a diskpartition from practically any sort of - attack is progressing.
-Contact: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
- Contact: Kirk Mckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
UFS2 is an extension to the well-known UFS filesystem which - using a new inode format adds support for "64bit - everywhere" and later for extended attribute support, in - addition to the current UFS features: soft-updates and - snapshots.
- -The basic UFS2 code has been committed and work on the - extended attribute interface and vnode operations will - continue.
-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/~phk/Geom/
+ +Contact: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
+ +The GEOM code has gotten so far that it beats our current + code in some areas while stil lacking in others. The goal is + for GEOM to be the default in 5.0-RELEASE.
+ +Currently work on a cryptographic module which should be + able to protect a diskpartition from practically any sort of + attack is progressing.
+Massive diff reduction. Merge KSEIII.
+Massive diff reduction. KSEIII merged. Main tree integration + will begin shortly.
Updated prototype code may be retrieved from the TrustedBSD CVS trees on cvsup10.FreeBSD.org.
Contact: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
+ Contact: Kirk Mckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
UFS2 is an extension to the well-known UFS filesystem which + using a new inode format adds support for "64bit + everywhere" and later for extended attribute support, in + addition to the current UFS features: soft-updates and + snapshots.
+ +The basic UFS2 code has been committed and work on the + extended attribute interface and vnode operations will + continue.
+