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Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@ when wearing OpenBSD-only hat) wrote in to let us know about the new release: From: Ingo Schwarze [elided] Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 22:21:13 +0200 To: [email protected] Subject: mandoc-1.14.4 released Hello, after a ... [More] full year of tranquil development, i just released mandoc-1.14.4. This is a regular maintenance release. As there are no major structural changes, i expect it to be very stable, so all downstream systems are encouraged to upgrade from any earlier version. Read more… [Less]

Patrick Wildt (patrick@) has been experimenting with small I2C and SPI-connected displays, and with this commit, it was enabled for armv7 and arm64 platforms as ssdfb(4) in -current. Read more…

For the g2k18 Ljubljana hackathon, i decided to try and get rid of as many small userland tasks as possible. Lots of them have been piling up over time. Read more…

In a message to tech@, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) discusses the state of development of unveil(2) support in userland (and for a certain port): Read more…

A new g2k18 hackathon report has arrived, this time from Kenneth Westerback (krw@), who writes: Other than missing a connection due to "seat maintenance" in YYZ, travel was uneventful. I arrived MUC (twelve hours late) and spent a week hacking with ... [More] bluhm@ and mpi@ at Genua's Geekweek, to which bluhm@ had kindly arranged an invitation. I managed to start committing some disklabel(8) code refactoring otto@ and I have been discussing for a while. Mostly cleaning up partition offset and size rounding code. I also tightened up some dhcpd(8) man page ambiguity as requested by sthen@ and started by jmc@. I ok'ed a mpi@ fix for a dhclient(8) issue and reviewed and ok'ed various diffs from bluhm@. Read more… [Less]

Philip Guenther (guenther@) and Bryan Steele (brynet@) have added more mitigations against speculative execution CPU vulnerabilities on the amd64 platform. Read more…

rad(8) [as described in the g2k18 hackathon report by Florian Obser (florian@)] is now the only IPv6 router advertisement daemon in -current, following the removal of rtadvd(8). Advice on making the transition has been added to current.html

Claudio Jeker (claudio@) is next up with his report from Ljubljana: I arrived in Ljubljana late on Sunday. At that time I knew I will spend most of my time on making bgpd(8) fast since this is actually my day job for the next year. Read more…

Another g2k18 hackathon report has arrived, this one from Carlos Cardenas (ccardenas@), who writes: Howdy. This was my first hackathon and as a FNG, I didn't know what to expect, except for meeting folks and being able to place a face with their ... [More] name/handle. Luckily, I got some great advice from mlarkin@: You can start something; You can finish something; But you can't start and finish something at a Hackathon. Read more… [Less]

The next g2k18 report comes from Klemens Nanni (kn@), who writes: With no clear goal in mind, I mainly set out to g2k18 for meeting new faces, discovering the city and to wander off through various places in our tree… Read more…