The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE
cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64
architectures. The target schedule as well as the current status of the
release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
The schedule has slipped by a bit over a week so the actual target for
the release [...] The second of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC1, is now
available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target
schedule as well as the current status of the release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
The schedule has slipped by about a week but so far it looks like we are
on track for just [...] Hello Everyone,
The branches supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer have been updated
to reflect the EoL (end-of-life) of FreeBSD 6.3. The new list is below
and at <URL: http://security.freebsd.org/ >.
Users of FreeBSD 6.3 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer release,
either by downloading an updated source tree and building updates manually,
or (for i386 and amd64 [...] FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple’s OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the internet.
FreeBSD rose from the ashes [...] 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now
available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target
schedule along with the current status of the release is available here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO
For now we plan on BETA1 being followed by two Release Candidates, then
the release itself. If you notice problems you can [...] Hi all,
On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date — more conservative
users will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4 or FreeBSD 7.1 (which are
both extended-support [...] Dear FreeBSD Community,
We would like to thank everyone who has donated to the FreeBSD
Foundation this year. We have raised $183,888 towards our 2009 goal of
$300,000! We are almost 2/3 of the way to reaching our goal! Oh, and
BTW, we have had 671 donors this year. This is compared to just over 300
this time last year. [...] Apple is making a lot of money these days. The more money it makes, the greater the contempt for its customers it seems to display. A critical bug recently discovered in FreeBSD, and the speed with which this bug was resolved, illustrates this rather well. If you use Apple’s products in your business, be afraid; [...] An exploit for FreeBSD is in circulation that allows users with restricted access to escalate their privileges to root level. The problem is caused by a flaw in the run-time link editor (rtld) which, in certain circumstances, accepts specially crafted environment variables. According to Kingcope, the developer of the exploit, the flaw is “incredibly easy” [...] Hello folks,
BSDCan 2010 will be held 13-14 May, 2010 in Ottawa at the University of
Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May.
We are now accepting proposals for talks.
The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias.
Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not
appropriate for this [...] Two months after the first release candidate was made available, the FreeBSD developers have released version 8.0 of their popular free Unix derivative. While FreeBSD 8.0 is now available from the project’s FTP servers, an official announcement has yet to be made. As with all major updates, the latest release includes a number of changes, [...] The third and hopefully last of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD
8.0 release cycle is now available. Unless something catastrophic comes
up within the next couple of days we will begin the final builds for
8.0-RELEASE.
There is one known issue with the igb(4) driver we are still deciding
whether or not to fix as part of 8.0-RELEASE [...] The second of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle
is now available. At this point we feel most of what has been
discovered during public testing that is feasible to fix as part of the
release process has been addressed. So the current plan is to have
8.0-RC3 in about two weeks.
Details about the [...] Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch technology introduced in Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” was open-sourced under the Apache license last month by Apple and now it has worked its way into FreeBSD. This software, which helps in optimizing applications for multi-core systems, has ported the libdispatch library from GCD to FreeBSD and made Grand Central [...] FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD related projects between April and September
2009. During that time a lot of work has been done on wide variety of
projects, including the Google Summer of Code projects. The BSDCan
conference was held in Ottawa, CA, in May. [...] The first of the Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is
now available. How many RC’s we have will depend on how well 8.0-RC1
does. At the moment only one more RC is on the schedule but odds are
fairly high we will wind up inserting at least one more RC. Between
BETA4 and [...] The fourth and most likely final BETA build for the FreeBSD 8.0 release
cycle is now available. We expect the next test build to be the first
if the Release Candidates, RC1. Since BETA3 many bugs that were
identified from testing done so far were addressed. Some of the bigger
issues were an mbuf leak along [...] The third of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now
available. All major work related to new features in 8.0 has been
completed and we are shifting into “bugfix only” mode for the balance of
the release cycle. Debugging features (e.g. WITNESS) are still enabled
but will be removed from stable/8 between now and [...] Dear FreeBSD Community,
We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation’s
Semi-Annual Newsletter.
Go to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2009Jul-newsletter.shtml
to find out how we have supported the FreeBSD Project and community this
year.
Sincerely,
The FreeBSD Foundation The second of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now
available. There are still a few things being finished up so a couple
more moderately large commits are coming but we seem to be making good
progress. The target date for the last of the things still being worked
on is BETA3. In [...] | 