Autumn's releases

Hi folks,

Soon it is Christmas, but before that there are couple of releases worth to mention :

- Haproxy 1.8.0 which represents a tremendous amount of work (HTTP2 is the most noticeable new feature). But since there are so many additions, this is not a release for the "fainted hearts", thus I m not advising for everybody but only to people ready to face bugs and to help to make precise reports. Otherwise I would recommend waiting Q1 2018 at least. Also to mention W. Tarreau had spent ~15 years working in Haproxy project apparently ... that s quite a commitment :-)

- PHP 7.2.0 ... lot of bug fixes (since 7.0 they really take things seriously, the code quality had increased noticeably) and enough nice new features.

For which I made my shares of pull requests ... There also numerous projects to which I contributed ... Cassandra c++ driver ... mod security/mod_defender ... mariadb ... h2o ... and even more tiny pull requests here and there ... I did a bit a pause with video games (I still look strongly at barony though mainly) and try to port to *BSD what can be :-)

Seemingly OpenBSD is going to (finally) support TLS (for Thread Local Storage) natively :-) lot of softs I contribute to needs this and using gcc from ports with emulated TLS is just a "band aid" at the moment (not counting the C++14 and > projects )... We can count on @kettenis to provide it for 6.3 :-)

FreeBSD visiting Dublin

Hi folks,

We are approaching the end of autumn but unlikely feeling sad, indeed there is many events ongoing from september ;-) EuroBSDCon and probably few local events as well.

Apart of this, same as usual, some of my commits for various projects first some (indirectly) work related like the Cassandra driver where I brought a little bit of BSD "spirit" ... The incoming PHP 7.2 version where I just updated a component I updated already a while ago. Apart of this, Doomsday engine accepted my little fixes and a handful doom client engines :-) Few other things are still ongoing but that s pretty much all at the moment...

Last thing ... Benedict Reuschling the famous FreeBSD Foundation Vice-President and one of the BSDNow talkers visited us, the Dublin BSD Group, in Dublin sharing his great and long experience of FreeBSD growing popularity, his great documentation knowledge and lot of great anecdotes and showing his love to teach to other people.

Hopefully, we ll see each other again in the next EuroBSDCon with some other BSD folks ;-)