diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.xml b/en/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.xml index 7c72cfbefd..bd57eb28d8 100644 --- a/en/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.xml +++ b/en/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.xml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + @@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

This report covers &os;-related projects between July and September 2010. It is the third of the four reports planned for - 2010. During this period, we were - victims of one of the biggest BSD events of the year - EuroBSDCon. + 2010. During this period, we were victims of one + of the biggest BSD events of the year — EuroBSDCon. We hope that the ones of you who have been able to attend it have enjoyed your stay. Another good news is that work on the new minor versions of &os;, 7.4 and 8.2, is progressing well.

-

This report, with 52 entries, is the longest report in +

This report, with 54 entries, is the longest report in the whole history and shows a good condition of the &os; community.

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you - enjoy the reading.

+ enjoy reading it.

Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period between October and December 2010 is January 15th, 2011.

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - pkg_patch + Binary Package Patch Infrastructure — pkg_patch @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - Extfs Status Report + ExtFS Status Report @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

We recently imported the 2.8 release of Clang into head. This +

We recently imported the 2.8 release of Clang into CURRENT. This release contains many new features and improvements. The integrated assembler ships with this version, but it is not ready for general use yet.

@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

Work on new event timers infrastructure continues. In HEAD +

Work on new event timers infrastructure continues. In CURRENT amd64, arm (Marvell), i386, mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v architectures were refactored to use new timers API.

@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
  • ade: multiple runs autotools upgrade
  • gerald: setting USE_GCC=4.5 as default
  • ashish: changes to Mk/bsd.license.mk
    • -
  • kwm: test of clang in head
    • +
  • kwm: test of clang in CURRENT
    • @@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

    During the last two months the USB stack in &os;-current has +

    During the last two months the USB stack in &os;-CURRENT has been enhanced to support USB 3.0 and the XHCI USB 3.0 chipset from Intel. The XHCI chip will eventually replace the EHCI, OHCI and UHCI chips.

    @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">     - + &os;/mips Ralink RT3052F/Broadcom BCM5354 @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - The &os; German Documentation Project Status Report + The &os; German Documentation Project @@ -965,7 +965,8 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - mandoc/mdocml - groff replacement for rendering manpages in &os; + mandoc/mdocml — groff replacement for rendering manpages + in &os; @@ -1093,13 +1094,14 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Presentation of feature set on the various mailing lists. - Committing to -HEAD, possibly merging to stable branches + Committing to CURRENT, possibly merging to stable branches (changes do not break ABI/KBI). - PEFS + Kernel-level stacked cryptographic filesystem — + PEFS @@ -1132,8 +1134,8 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - - ringmap + + Packet Capturing Stack — ringmap @@ -1677,8 +1679,8 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

    Support for xz compression has been enabled in bsdtar (HEAD, - 8-STABLE) and added to pkg_create(1) and pkg_add(1) (HEAD). +

    Support for xz compression has been enabled in bsdtar (CURRENT + 8-STABLE) and added to pkg_create(1) and pkg_add(1) (CURRRENT). Packages with the .txz suffix can be created and installed. Logfile compression using xz in newsyslog(8) will be integrated soon. Benchmarks show 15-30% better compression ratios and up to @@ -1910,7 +1912,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

    pc-sysinstall was imported into HEAD recently. For the moment +

    pc-sysinstall was imported into CURRENT recently. For the moment it is feature complete, although progress on the text front end for it may expose additional functionality it needs.

    @@ -2052,7 +2054,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> a module as well.

    Currently, this work is considered stable and a patch against - -CURRENT has been released on freebsd-pf@ mailing list.

    + CURRENT has been released on freebsd-pf@ mailing list.

    The reason why this work is based off of OpenBSD 4.5 is that after this release they have changed the syntax which is not @@ -2069,7 +2071,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - + OpenAFS port @@ -2094,20 +2096,20 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> OpenAFS home page - FreeBSD port for the OpenAFS 1.5.77 release + &os; port for the OpenAFS 1.5.77 release

    AFS is a distributed network filesystem that originated from the Andrew Project at Carnegie-Mellon University; the OpenAFS - client implementation has not been particularly useful on FreeBSD - since the FreeBSD 4.X releases. The previous status report + client implementation has not been particularly useful on &os; + since the &os; 4.X releases. The previous status report brought the OpenAFS client to a useful form on 9.0-CURRENT, though with many rough edges. Only a couple of those edges have been smoothed out during the past few months, as developer time was scarce. A mismatch between file size and vmobject size tracking was resolved (allowing executables to be run from AFS), - and our system call entry has been updated on HEAD and RELENG_8 + and our system call entry has been updated on CURRENT and 8-STABLE to match reality. Thanks to kib@ for both of those! The code is useful enough that we plan to submit an openafs-devel port to the Ports Collection in the coming cycle.

    @@ -2236,7 +2238,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    There are three new GELI (a disk encryption GEOM class) - features available in FreeBSD HEAD:

    + features available in &os;-CURRENT:

    • AES-XTS encryption. XTS mode is a standard that is @@ -2277,12 +2279,26 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> + + Wiki page + + + bibtbucket repository + + Bug + tracker + +

      Valgrind is a tool for detecting memory management and threading bugs, and profiling. Version 3.6.0 has recently been - released, while we have a working port of 3.5.0 now. Work is - now underway to update the &os; port to 3.6.0, with the eventual - goal of having our changes integrated upstream.

      + released and the &os; port has now been updated.

      + +

      Development of the Valgrind port has moved from perforce to + bitbucket.org, in order to make it easier for others to track + changes as we progress towards getting the port into shape to + commit upstream. You can access the repository at the bitbucket + URL at the beginning of this report.

      A bugzilla entry has been submitted to track the &os; Valgrind port. You can see the status and vote for the bug to express your @@ -2302,7 +2318,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - + Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX @@ -2402,7 +2418,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - FreeBSD Bugbusting Team + &os; Bugbusting Team @@ -2520,7 +2536,7 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

      The Release Engineering Team has announced the schedule for the - upcoming joint release of FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2. The schedules + upcoming joint release of &os; 7.4 and 8.2. The schedules are available on the Web site:

        @@ -2533,4 +2549,91 @@ Status Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

        It is expected that 7.4 will be the last of the 7.X releases.

        + + + The &os; Japanese Documentation Project + + + + + Hiroki + Sato + + hrs@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ryusuke + Suzuki + + ryusuke@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Japanese &os; Web Pages + + The + &os; Japanese Documentation Project Web Page + + + +

        The www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/ have been updated constantly + since the last status report. We committed a big patch for + the "Installing &os;" chapter of the &os; Handbook which was + contributed by many people since a long time. This chapter is + still outdated and needs more work. Some progress was made in + the Porter's Handbook as well.

        + + + + Further translation of the &os; Handbook and contents of + the www.FreeBSD.org site to + the Japaneese language. + + Pre-/post-commit review of the translation. + +         + + + EuroBSDCon 2010 + + + + + Wolfgang + Zenker + + eurobsdcon2010@egeling.de + + + + + Gábor + Páli + + pgj@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + +

        EuroBSDCon 2010 happened in Karslruhe, Germany, with many + users, developers, friends, and others. We had many tutorials, + and 22 interesting presentations on various topics connected to + &os;, OpenBSD, NetBSD, like the new USB stack, jail + improvements, Virtual Private Systems, SSH and PGP convergence, + ZFS, journaled Soft-Updates, BSD certification, porting to the + latest ARM processors, and pc-sysinstall. The event was opened by + a keynote speech from Poul-Henning Kamp on software tools and + their future, and it was closed by short status reports on + different BSD flavors. Next year's event in 2011 will take place + in the Netherlands from 6th to 9th October 2011.

        + +