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l2k15 Hackathon Report: dlg@ on SMP networking
David Gwynne (dlg@) writes in with our next report from the l2k15 hackathon, detailing all the networking dragons he and the crew faced.Read more...
l2k15 Hackathon Report: Bernard Spil on portable LibreSSL
The next trip report comes from hackathon invitee Bernard Spil, who's been upstreaming LibreSSL-related ports fixes and integrating it into other projects.Read more...
OpenBSD 5.8 CD sets and swag shipping soon
The OpenBSD 5.8 pre-orders are about to ship. The OpenBSD Store twitter account tweeted with a picture of soon-to-be-shipped CD sets on Saturday, September 26th:
DRM updated, includes Broadwell support
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has just committed a large update to the drm(4) graphics code, syncing with upstream Linux 3.14.52 and introducing Broadwell GPU support.Read more...
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released
The LibreSSL project has started a new development release branch, LibreSSL 2.3.0. The announcement posted by Brent Cook (bcook@) says,
l2k15: (mpi@) The first rule of the Hackathon is...
l2k15: guenther@ on hacking libc symbols
Fresh from the l2k15 hackathon, here comes Philip Guenther's (guenther@) report:
l2k15 Hackathon Report: krw@ on GPT
With the l2k15 hackathon having just wrapped up, Ken Westerback (krw@) writes in to tell us how it went.Read more...
GPT support enabled
Amongst the flurry of commits from the l2k15 hackathon, Ken Westerback (krw@) has been hacking away on GPT support, and it's now enabled in the GENERIC kernel.Read more...
Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD
As the j2k15 hackathon comes to a close, OpenBSD gets its very own native EFI bootloader.On Twitter, Yojiro UO (yuo@-san) posted a list of systems tested and working with the new bootloader.
OpenBSD 5.8's third song announced
The third of the expected four OpenBSD 5.8 release songs, A Year in the Life, has been released.The song is available in mp3 and ogg formats, with lyrics mainly about the LibreSSL story (remember this?), but as the song notes point out,
Coming Soon to OpenBSD/amd64: A Native Hypervisor
Earlier today, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) publisheda teaser for something he's been working on for a while. Then a little later in the day, an announcement appeared on tech@:
BSDNow Episode 104: Beverly Hills 25519
This weekon BSDNow,the hosts have an interview with Damien Miller (djm@) of OpenSSH fame. He talks about the recent scrubbing of the default crypto options in OpenSSH, the reasons behind the move to ChaCha20 and the problems with CBC-mode ciphers, the issue of obsolete OpenSSH releases in the wild, code refactoring for the purpose of automated testing, and a list of ideas for future improvements.Additionally, they have the usual roundup of the week's happenings in all things BSD.[Video|HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent]
Call for Testing: Using tame() in userland
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has justreleaseda call for testing of an initial conversions of programs in OpenBSD baseto use thetame(2)API:
Removal of SSLv3 from LibreSSL
Earlier today, Doug Hogan (doug@) committed the first parts of the removal of SSLv3 support from LibreSSL:
Kernel W^X extended to i386
As mentioned back in January, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) has been working on improving W^X protections in the OpenBSD kernel. The bulk of the work was focused on the amd64 architecture, but he recently committed similar support for the i386 architecture as well.Read more...
OpenBSD 5.8, Another Song
The second of an anticipated four songs for the OpenBSD 5.8 release has ben published, this one written and performed by Alexandre Ratchov (ratchov@). In the announcement he says:
OpenBSD 5.8 Preorders Enabled, Release Song Published
Two important events of the OpenBSD 5.8 release cycle happened today:
c2k15: beck@ on LibreSSL security, midlayer work
For your reading pleasure, here is the c2k15 report from Bob Beck (beck@):
The OpenBSD Foundation Announces New Silver Donor: Yandex
The OpenBSD Foundation's 2015 fundraising campaign is picking up steam. The Foundation's directors wrote in to announce yet another Silver-class donor:
c2k15: renato@ on ldpd(8), eigrpd(8) progress
Our next c2k15 report comes from Renato Westphal (renato@), who writes,
c2k15: guenther@ on C-states, kbind, misc improvements
Our next c2k15 report comes from Philip Guenther (guenther@), who writes,
c2k15: bluhm@ on regress tests, syslogd progresss, TLS work and more
Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) wrote in with this report from the recently completed c2k15 hackathon:
c2k15: florian@ on building the hackathon network, httpd and pflow
Our next c2k15 report comes from Florian Obser (florian@).
The OpenBSD Foundation Announces First Platinum Donor: CII
We have a platinum donor. The OpenBSD Foundation has announced the name of the first platinum donor:
c2k15: pirofti@ on Octeon architecture progress
Next up in the c2k15 reports series is Paul Irofti (pirofti@), who writes:
c2k15: afresh1@ on libtool(1), encouragement, locales, and Hipster coffee
Our next c2k15 report comes from Andrew Fresh (afresh1@). Andrew writes,
c2k15: sashan@ on SMP pf progress
One of our new developers, Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), writes in to tell us about his trip to the lovely locale of Calgary for c2k15.
c2k15: jsg@ on graphics work: Mesa, xenocara, drm, libGL
The next c2k15 hackathon report comes from Jonathan Gray (jsg@), who got a lot done this time:
c2k15: rzalamena@ on mpw(4), network MP safety
For our next c2k15 installment, we welcome new developer Rafael Zalamena (rzalamena@), who just submitted his first-ever hackathon report:
c2k15: jeremy@ on ruby work, kernel and libc bugs, ports progress
Our series of c2k15 hackathon reports continues with this entry from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@):
c2k15: mpi@ on trunk(4), pf(4), wifi, routing, bridge(4) and more
Our next c2k15 report comes from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@), who appears to have had a quite productive hackathon:
c2k15: jasper@ on puppet progress, sed(1) enhancements and more
This just in - a fresh hackathon report, this time from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@). Jasper writes,
c2k15: ajacoutot@ on rc.d refinements, ports churn and sysmerge's future
Next up in our series of c2k15 hackathon reports is from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@), who writes:
c2k15: stsp@ on wifi and usb matters, and a peek to the UTF-8 future
Stefan Sperling (stsp@) may not have landed just yet, but he did file this report from the newly concluded hackathon:
c2k15: krw@ on softraid on 4k disks, cardbus on Dell vs Synaptics and Thinkpads
Kenneth Westerback (krw@) just came back from c2k15 and filed his report:
c2k15: Internal jump targets to help navigating big manual pages
One of our favorite developers Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in about a new feature that he just added to mandoc(1).
tame(2) WIP
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has pulled back the curtainon his entry into the process sandboxing contest:
Sudo Replacement Hits the Tree
The long international nightmareis over, now that Ted Unangst (tedu@) hasimporteddoas(1):
EuroBSDCon 2015 Registration Is Open
Registration for this year's European BSDs conference is now open at registration.eurobsdcon.org, open up until right before the conference starts but early bird discounts end on August 31st (midnight CEST). And to help you plan your conference, the you can look up the talks and tutorials (with a useful portion of OpenBSD stuff in all tracks) by clicking the links.See you in Stockholm October 1st through 4th, 2015!
OpenSSH to Replace SunSSH
Darren Moffat, who led the original effort to include an SSH implementation in Solaris,announcedthat the SunSSH fork would be phased out in favor of OpenSSH:
EuroBSDCon 2015 Preliminary Program Published
The EuroBSDCon 2015 organizers have published the initial list of accepted talks and tutorials, with a useful portion of OpenBSD stuff in all tracks.It is worth noting that this is a preliminary version (the schedule is not yet finalized), but barring the usual human and practical factors, this is likely close to the conference's final program.
Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor
On the heels ofannouncing supportfor SSH, and specificallyOpenSSH,Microsoft has become theOpenBSD Foundation's first-everGoldcontributor:
Call for Testing: Valgrind on OpenBSD
Masao Uebayashi (uebayasi@) has given us a call for testing cleverly disguised asa quick how-to on using valgrind natively on OpenBSD:
Out With the Old, in With the New
Ted Unangst (tedu@) has given out ablog postdetailing some of the recent work going into OpenBSD:
Handling Leap Seconds the OpenBSD Way
Christian Weisberger (naddy@)let us all knowwhat we need to do to prepare for the impending leap second:
BSDCan 2015 Videos Online
The videos of the recently-concluded BSDCan are coming online at record speed. The OpenBSD videos online are:
Quantitative analysis of issues found by afl in mandoc
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in with an analysis of the issues found by afl in mandoc:After realizing that I have nine topics for my BSDCan talk and that I can't cover them all in the depth they deserve, here are a few more details about afl and mandoc than I can't cover in the talk. Not a spoiler, there is still plenty of material for the talk!Read more...
BSDNow Episode 094: Builder's Insurance
On this week'sepisodeofBSDNow,Marc Espie (espie@) talks about dpb, OpenBSD's distributed package builder,which runs the binary package builds in Theo'sbasement.He talks about why it came about, the security measures built in, and the minimalistic and works-out-of-the-box configuration, among other things.The hosts also talk about their experiences at the recent BSDCan, and,ss usual, they have the roundup of the news, big and small, in the world of allthings BSD.[Video|HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent]
Call for Testing: audio(4)
Alexandre Ratchov (ratchov@)posteda call for testing of a newaudio(4)driver:
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