From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 21:23:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99A51C6; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85966B64; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9CLNa1V084349; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s9CLNaB3084348; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201410122123.s9CLNaB3084348@svn.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: svn.freebsd.org: wblock set sender to wblock@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Warren Block Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45802 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 New Revision: 45802 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45802 Log: Clarity and consistency edits. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:04:40 2014 (r45801) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 (r45802) @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ 2014.

The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for - the FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM + the &os; 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. The various ports teams have also worked hard to improve the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ -

ZFS is one of the premier features of &os; and the quality +

ZFS is one of the premier features of &os;, and the quality of the documentation should match that of other important features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary @@ -372,18 +372,17 @@ about ZFS than proper documentation.

After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added - to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the - basics of creating, managing and maintaining a ZFS pool, as - well as using some of the advanced features like compression, - deduplication, and delegation. The chapter also contains a + to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the + basics of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. + Advanced features like compression, + deduplication, and delegation are covered. The chapter also contains a glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique - to ZFS. The chapter also includes documentation of some of - the many sysctl variables that can be used to tune - ZFS.

+ to ZFS, and documents some of + the many sysctl variables that can be used for tuning.

The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help +

The remaining work to be done is in 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, + face with ZFS. We would like 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 @@ -602,9 +601,9 @@

Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state to be set to 1.

A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread +

A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel - programs, is in progress.

+ programs.

@@ -626,7 +625,7 @@ -

This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide +

This is a Google Summer of code project to provide a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In the first part, an implementation was added for scripted bsdinstall(8). It supports variables such as KEYMAP, @@ -687,9 +686,9 @@

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.

Now that cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, - has been updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has started. - Currently we are doing test builds to find ports broken by the +

Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, + has been updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. + We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of incompatible updates.

@@ -1199,7 +1198,7 @@

Write a CAM peripheral driver that implements an interface - to the FreeBSD disk(9). It will send MMC I/O + to the &os; disk(9). It will send MMC I/O commands using the MMC XPT layer.

@@ -1321,10 +1320,10 @@

bhyve is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64 - platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux + platform. At present, it runs &os; (8.x or later), Linux i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests. Current development is focused on enabling additional guest - operating systems, and implementing features found in other + operating systems and implementing features found in other hypervisors.

A significant amount of progress has been made since the last @@ -1367,7 +1366,7 @@

Virtio RNG device emulation

Chapter about bhyve added to FreeBSD +

Chapter about bhyve added to &os; Handbook

@@ -1853,9 +1852,9 @@ The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver (i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been - made available to check for regressions against current - functionality, but is not yet expected to provide fully - functional new functionality. The GEM I/O ioctl code path + made available to test for regressions against current + functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new functions. + The GEM I/O ioctl code path has been modified to more closely resemble the Linux code structure (easing future imports).

@@ -2011,10 +2010,10 @@ -

CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI +

The CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI server, got support for VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration. It permits avoiding network - bottlenecks and improved storage efficiency on sets of large + bottlenecks and improves storage efficiency on sets of large operations, such as virtual machine (or large file) creation, initialization to zeros, copy, delete, etc..

@@ -2250,7 +2249,7 @@

In mid-July, &os; 9.3-RELEASE was released without delay in release cycle.

In late August, &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of +

In late August, the &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of this writing, is expected to stay on schedule.

Work has continued to produce virtual machine images as part