Development

I will release third (more or less unstable) release ISO if nothing will prevent me from doing that :-) The latest delphijfork includes several new features, which is tend to exhibit new technologies and possiblities of FreeBSD:

• An implementation of RFC 3522 ported from DragonFlyBSD
• An implementation of Early Retransmission ported from DragonFlyBSD

Also, FreeBSD-CURRENT has several new features, including:

• In progress import of binutils 2.15
• pf 3.5. Including several new features and works better with spamd.
• better ACPI support

David O’Brien has just imported binutils 2.15 snapshot into FreeBSD src repository. What’s more, he stated that he will do gdb 6.x import soon. This will drastically improve the debug and development environment in FreeBSD.

I have uploaded delphijfork 20040615 snapshot isos, which is based on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT.

MD5 (5.2-delphij-20040615-i386-bootonly.iso) = 98c8429770d70dc5e10760cac6154f54
MD5 (5.2-delphij-20040615-i386-disc2.iso) = 7a8ed76c082023138d80a5698801ff40
MD5 (5.2-delphij-20040615-i386-miniinst.iso) = 31616bc0833339c39886a9863ffdc0c0

Thanks to the FreeBSD China Community for supplying the release publication space.

Big news. FreeBSD is calling for more developers to take attention on 5.3-RELEASE development, the 5.3-RELEASE, a.k.a. first 5-STABLE release, will begin its release engineering process in 4-6 weeks.

If you are using FreeBSD and willing to migrate to a 5.x branch release or 5-STABLE, it is highly recommended to use -CURRENT and report any problem you encounter. Also, you can help the development by checking out something on TODO list, or resolve some problem.

It appears that NetBSD has finally adopted packet filter, an OpenBSD feature to its base. Compared to FreeBSD’s pf port, this will be much easier one because the VM structure is almostly alike.

I am not sure whether there’s someone who wants to pick up mono’s FreeBSD port. I personally do not want to do this :-) However it will be interesting if I have enough time to kill. And, of course, it will be good if it is released under a more loose license…

This is an experimental release which tend to exhibit the latest -CURRENT technologies, maintaining stablity and incorporating my improvements which has not been integrated into FreeBSD’s central repository.

It seems that they are now replacing explicit XFree86-4-libraries to USE_XLIB and so. Is this a step dropping XFree86 and go XOrg? :-)

I don’t like lawyer much, however, we all have to respect law :-) Apple has released some of their code under a license called “APSL”, what’s that? To quote Robert Watson, a FreeBSD core team member, APSL was considered as something like GPL/LGPL, which is acceptable for standard-alone userspace tools, however, should be taken carefully on kernel aspect.

It seems that FreeBSD community has reviewed and committed one of my bigger patch on sbin/syslogd, which was primarily obtained from OpenBSD. These changes are more or less “sync with OpenBSD”, which will increase security performance of FreeBSD.