FreeBSD

Mike Silberack has posted a patch related to illegal TCP RST attacks.

Now we have RELENG_4_10 branch :-) There are a lot of -CURRENT improvements has been MFC’ed, however, the most important part of -CURRENT, say, KSE and SMPng, will never be MFC’ed because of the architecture change introduced by this.

Finally the long-awaited gcc 3.4.0 RELEASE has been released. When will it be ported to FreeBSD’s main tree?

I’m going on to track down the Pentium 4 HTT issue of FreeBSD. Currently I have setup a tinderbox (hengdm’s workstation because he is not here :-P and it’s the only box which supports HTT) and compiled a SMP kernel on it.

I have turned on several anti-spam settings on beastie.frontfree.net to ease my life. They stand for “most evident spam characters” and hence should not go to the content filtering subsystem and should be directly dropped.

I am planning to have a commit storm on GridDistribute’s source tree. This will happen in the following steps:

Today FreeBSD has upgraded CVS in their source tree, from 1.11.5 to 1.11.15, which addresses numerous security issues.

TERAMOTO Masahiro kindly gave maintainership of security/clamav to Rob Evers, the maintainer of the clamav-devel port.

Today I met a famous FreeBSD developer, David O’Brien (a.k.a. obrien@) and he gave us a presentation about the AMD64 architecture, which cleared my misunderstanding about the AMD64 architecture set by some marketing guys presenting in Tsinghua University.