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The third quarter of 2014... was a very busy and productive - time
+The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for the + FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM + platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in &os; + 11 and the various ports teams have worked hard to improve the + state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, + performance improvements feature in several places in this report + and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking to validate + our results.
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@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ -Deficiencies in the current automounter, amd(8), are +
Limitations of the current automounter, amd(8), are a recurring problem reported by many &os; users. A new automounter is being developed to address these concerns.
@@ -118,7 +124,7 @@ to test the new automounter in existing LDAP-based environments, including some with thousands of map entries. -The code is ready to use - it has been committed to +
The code is now ready to use. It has been committed to 11-CURRENT and 10-STABLE, and will ship as part of 10.1-RELEASE. There is ongoing work on improving performance and fixing possible bugs.
@@ -247,25 +253,22 @@ lightweight while still being visually appealing and easy to use. -There were no major updates in the ports tree except cosmetic - changes (fix pkg-plist, switch to USES= libtool, and so - on).
- -Still, the Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce +
The Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next - stable release (no date scheduled).
+ stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major updates + in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this quarter. + -Major changes will be:
+Major upcoming changes include:
Below is a list of current ports in the devel repository (see
@@ -309,12 +312,12 @@
Finish to patch ACPI helper (xfce4-power-manager). Finish patching the ACPI helper (xfce4-power-manager). Continue to work on documentation, especially the Porter's
- Handbook and creating a FAQ).
The remaining work is the FAQ section. To help users address - the most common questions or problems they might face with - ZFS. It would be useful to hear experiences, questions, - misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and suggestions for - the FAQ section from other users. Also, a use cases section - that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides - advantages over traditional file systems.
+The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help users + address the most common questions or problems they might face with ZFS. + It would be useful to hear experiences, questions, misconceptions, + gotchas, stumbling blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from + other users. A use cases section that highlights some of the + cases where ZFS provides advantages over traditional file systems + is also planned.
Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.
@@ -496,11 +499,9 @@Anthony Williams reported that the version of the Java Native Access (JNA) library bundled with Jenkins has problems on &os;. This causes problems with Jenkins using libpam and - other plugins which use JNA. Craig filed JENKINS-24521 + other plugins that use JNA. Craig filed JENKINS-24521 against Jenkins. Craig submitted patches to Jenkins to update - Jenkins to use JNA 4.1.0, which has fixes for &os;. Github - pull request 1410 was accepted into Jenkins, while pull - request 1387 is pending.
+ Jenkins to use JNA 4.1.0, which has fixes for &os;.&a.rodrigc; worked on automatically running the tests in the &os; /usr/tests directory under Jenkins using the @@ -581,14 +582,16 @@
-The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) has been ported to &os;. - The mainline version of LLVM is known to pass all unit and lit - Asan tests without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.
+The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) is a fast memory error + detector that can detect use-after-free errors and buffer + overflows. It has been ported to &os;. The mainline version of + LLVM is known to pass all of the tests in the LLVM and Asan test + suites without unexpected failures on &os; 10.0.
A buildbot running sanitizers tests under &os; stable/10 has been established. See the Links section.
-In order to make it possible to run programs with sanitizers +
To make it possible to run programs with sanitizers checks enabled on &os; a new kernel state named kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count has been added. See the Links section.
@@ -597,7 +600,8 @@ to be set to 1.A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread - sanitizer (Tsan) is in progress.
+ sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel programs, is in + progress. @@ -622,17 +626,18 @@This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In the first part, an implementation was added for scripted - bsdinstall(8). It supports variables like: KEYMAP, + bsdinstall(8). It supports variables such as KEYMAP, HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are also included.
Second part of project is about booting the fai (Fully - Automatic Installer) from network by PXE. Made installer - distro based on mfsbsd. After boot fai looks for - "bootfile-name" parameter from DHCP server which tell fai - where bsdinstall script located is. Fai supports mac-based - config or default, if mac-based file does not exist.
+ Automatic Installer) from the network by PXE. Made installer + distro based on mfsbsd. After boot, fai looks for the + "bootfile-name" parameter from the DHCP server. This parameter + instructs fai where the bsdinstall script is located. Fai + supports mac-based config or a default, if a mac-based + configuration file does not exist.