pf

It seems that OpenBSD people has then patched cvs vulnerablity, though. In this version, OpenBSD has pf(4) improved a lot!

Wietse Venema has released postfix 2.1-RC5 yesterday, and this is expected to be the final Release Candidate of postfix 2.1-RELEASE.

It seems that postfix 2.1-RELEASE will include an amazing feature called “policy server”, which can be used to implement greylisting, a brand new and effective technique to fight against spammers.

Bruce M Simpson has added Daniel Hartmeier to the active committers’ rank. Daniel is from the OpenBSD campaus and is one of the authors of OpenBSD’s stateful firewall, pf(4).

Yesterday I have talked with Max Laier about the pf accessories, say, the spamd. He explained me why it is kept in ports/ and not the base system - this is to keep the base system small, and I completely agree this.

I’m still working on deploying the new beastie.frontfree.net (builder.frontfree.net at present). Because a bug(?) in FreeBSD kernel I have temporary disabled HTT on the box.

Scott Long today announced the release. This is a point release over 5.2-RELEASE which addresses many critical bugs.

The -CURRENT have already differentiated from the RELENG_5_2 branch, say, 5.2.1-RELEASE by this time. The most significant differences are: