diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml index 94fa494367..739cb94056 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml @@ -2819,4 +2819,81 @@ + + CloudABI: Pure Capabilities Runtime Environment + + + + + Ed + Schouten + + ed@FreeBSD.org + + + + + CloudABI project + page. + CloudABI Ports + Collection. + CloudABI + presentation at FrOSCon. + + + +

CloudABI is a POSIX-like runtime environment that uses Capsicum + as its sole access control mechanism. CloudABI allows you to + develop software that is better hardened against security + vulnerabilities, is easier to test, and is easier to migrate + across systems.

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As of August, all of the kernel modifications that are needed to + run CloudABI programs have been integrated into &os; head. Once + you load the cloudabi64 kernel module, you can + either run CloudABI programs directly from the shell or by + using the cloudabi-run tool + (sysutils/cloudabi-utils). The latter allows you to + inject sockets, files, and directories into the launched + program in a more structured way.

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In the meantime, work has started on developing a Ports Collection + that contains cross-compiled utilities and libraries for CloudABI. + The intent is that this framework generates native packages for a + number of operating systems, making it possible to develop + CloudABI applications on any operating system, regardless of + whether that operating system actually supports CloudABI.

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If you are interested in CloudABI, be sure to go to the project + page on GitHub, watch recordings of talks at conferences or wait + for the upcoming edition of the FreeBSD Journal, which will + feature an article on CloudABI.

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CloudABI is currently only available for amd64. It would + make sense to port CloudABI to additional architectures (e.g., + aarch64).

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Support for CloudABI has only been integrated into &os;. + If we manage to upstream support for CloudABI into other operating + systems, it should be possible to run the same binary on multiple + operating systems, without recompilation.

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The CloudABI Ports Collection currently only has 60 packages. + Though these packages already allow you to build some interesting + software, we're always interested in expanding.

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