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Status Report//EN"
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<report>
<date>
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<body>
<p>On June 6, the &os; documentation project held a doc sprint
where a number of documentation issues were discussed. The sprint
took place primarily on efnet's IRC channel #bsddocs. Notes were
took place primarily in IRC channel #bsddocs on EFNet. Notes were
taken in an Etherpad document where all participants could
concurrently edit them in an easy to use interface. Parallel to the
discussion, a number of doc problem reports have been closed. There
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and does not support wide characters. There are various open
source regular expression libraries but replacing the code is
not a simple task because there are quite many considerations
and requirements. The best candidate is TRE, which is
and requirements. The best candidate is TRE, which is a
BSD-licensed, supports wide and multibyte characters, conforms
to POSIX and it performs well compared to another available
alternatives, so the work has been started with TRE. Apart
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MAKE_JOBS), it cannot build multiple ports concurrently. This tool
accomplishes just that.</p>
<p>Some of it's key features:</p>
<p>Some of its key features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Concurrent port building</li>
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in a per-interface basis. The traditional "host" and "router"
node model in IPv6 RFCs is translated into a concept of
"RA-receiving interfaces" and "RA-sending interfaces" in
&os; 9.0 or later, not depending only on system-wide IP
&os;&nbsp;9.0 or later, not depending only on system-wide IP
forwarding capability. This is useful for a system with
multiple IPv6-capable interfaces (such as a customer-edge
router) which require SLAAC (Stateless Address
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also contains a more comprehensive introduction, as well as links
to related work and documentation.</p>
<p>In July 2011 we released DIFFUSE v0.4. This release contains a
<p>In July 2011, we released DIFFUSE v0.4. This release contains a
number of bug fixes and new features. Most notably we improved the
functionality of the tools used for training classification models,
and performing offline analysis.</p>
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<body>
<p>The new NFS client and server are no longer considered
experimental and will most likely be the default for &os;9.0.
experimental and will most likely be the default for &os;&nbsp;9.0.
Included is support for NFSv4.0 as well as NFSv3 and NFSV2. The
NFSv4.0 support was tested at a recent NFSv4 Interoperability
Bakeathon held at CITI of the University of Michigan. Also tested
at the Bakeathon was a basic client implementation of NFSv4.1 which
will soon be available as a test patch against the &os;9.0
will soon be available as a test patch against the &os;&nbsp;9.0
kernel sources. If you are interested in testing NFSv4,1, stay
tuned to the freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org mailing list.
zkirsch@FreeBSD.org and friends will be taking on a majority of the
NFSv4 server work while I concentrate on the client, with hopes
that the NFSv4.1 support will mature over the next year or so.</p>
<p>I will also be making a patch for an experimental agressive
<p>I will also be making a patch for an experimental aggressive
client side on-disk caching mechanism for NFSv4 I call Packrats
available. An announcement about this will be made on
freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org as well.</p>
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<body>
<p>ZFS pool version 28 has been merged into 8-STABLE as of
2011-06-06. In addition, several bugfixes and improvements from the
Illumos project have been imported.</p>
June 6, 2011. In addition, several bugfixes and improvements
from the Illumos project have been imported.</p>
</body>
<help>
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are already synchronized with www/en at this moment, and this
updating work will be finished within this year.</p>
<p>For &os; Handbook, translation work for kernelconfig section
<p>For &os; Handbook, translation work for the kernelconfig section
was just started. In addition, we are planning to translate the
upcoming release announcement because it is also important for
Japanese people.</p>
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<p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count
still remains at about 1100.</p>
<p>In Q2 we added 3 new committers, took in 2 commit bit for safe
keeping and added a new member to portmgr.</p>
<p>In Q2 we added 3 new committers, took in 2 commit bits for safe
keeping, and added a new member to portmgr.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an
ongoing basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the
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Tier-2 architectures</a>. (List needs updating, too)</task>
<task>Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing,
committing and closing.</task>
committing, and closing.</task>
</help>
</project>
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<body>
<p>Some applications from the base system received sandboxing
support, current task is to adapt lightweight resolver daemon for
using it in sandboxes -- this fixes problems with applications that
using it in sandboxes &mdash; this fixes problems with applications that
need to convert IP addresses into domain names while in
sandbox.</p>
</body>
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</links>
<body>
<p>The &os; Foundation sponsored project to port Linux
<p>The &os; Foundation sponsored project to port the Linux
kernel-mode driver for Intel GPU progressed to the point where some
machines can use Xorg with ddx driver from the git head and latest
Mesa. On my test machine I was able to run uhexen2 and
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<p>During the last period most work went into keeping the Handbook
up to date; it is currently up-to-date except for a section on
network servers. Other areas being worked on are the FAQ and the
web site. The latter two are still work-in-progress.</p>
web site. The latter two are still a work-in-progress.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Volunteers! The best part is that you do not need to be an
expert on &os; nor the Dutch language to join, just some
enthousiasm and spare time.</task>
enthusiasm and spare time.</task>
</help>
</project>
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but backward jumps are allowed). If later a rule with
<tt>return</tt> action is encountered, the processing returns to
the first rule with number greater than the number saved in the
internal stack. This makes possible to organize "subroutines"
internal stack. This makes it possible to organize "subroutines"
with rules, e.g. to call one subroutine several times from
different places in the ruleset. For more details, see <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE&amp;format=html">