You always remember the first time ...

Hi folks,

Writing from Bucharest (for a change) after day one. Was pretty fullfilling (OpenBSD diving and proper BSD mandoc and LibreSSL documentation), even though I prefer the tomorrow's talks topics more or less. Also finally did my own talk (and pretty happy it happened early morning :-)).

As expected, Kamil delivered a great first part then was able to do mine even though I did no go through the whole content (let s say 80/85 % of) it was a good first time (was happy to see some smiles when there was humor :-)) and got enough questions of interests right after (and McCusick and Daroussin were attending :-)). So really people were more after libfuzzer than Xray instrumentation in general ... now it s available in LLVM 7 it will widen in various contexts for sure. Unfortunately no livestream but that was the only culprit but all the rest was good from warm local people to their food and other traditions.

Last post pre-EuroBSDCon

Hi folks,

September and its usual accelerating "things-being-made" pace, some events were/are occurring since the last time.

As previously planned LLVM 7.0 is finally released and announced. With so many new items (llvm-mca/exegesis and so on) I am so surprised my small contributions are mentioned :-) Thanks to the resilience of the testers it s done and behind. Starts to be available in some systems, for the Mac users you would have to wait a little bit to see whether in Homebrew (will happen shortly though, PR seems accepted) or simply as final binaries (just got uploaded) ... even more patient to see it landed in Xcode (most likely next year) :-) FreeBSD taking his time to import it as a package (still RC3 when I write) but since the differences are mainly about documentations ... it is pretty safe to still use this version.

Also, nginx/njs had accepted my little contribution, a basic sandbox mode, and released a new 0.2.4 version just this week here. It is always nice to be able to make a difference in such popular softwares :-)

Still contribute to radare2, more about fixing these days, to be able to have a more solid version than 2.9.0. Speaking of this, one of my old fixes got a CVE identifier here.

PHP 7.3 had really entered its RC phase now on master it s the future 7.4 and will start to think to provide few ideas (at least a small percentage of them) I kept wrapped until now.

After the incoming EuroBSDCon, LLVM 8 development with other usual folks like kamil or vitalybuka and so on will finally really start as there is still things (but exciting) ahead of us :-)

For now ... see you in Bucharest (for who is masochist enough for :-P)

Finally ...

Hi folks,

On this first of August, LLVM 7.0.0 had been created. For the next couple of weeks, that will be Release Candidates, bugs fixing and a bit of docs changes. It has been a nice ride being part of the release since December :-) FreeBSD already schedules its import in the base system for the 12.x release (OpenBSD will do the same most likely for 6.4 or 6.5 ...) which means having finally in addition msan, fuzzer and X-ray instrumentation among other things ...
Now thinking fully of the next 8.0.0 !!

Speaking of FreeBSD, my little fix for the top command line had been merged. This is a kind of subtle issue not noticeable in production when its plays with memory boundaries ...
Apart of this, some openbsd-gaming folks (thfr in fact :-) a great FNA game specialist it seems) pointed out a new open sourced video game Starrulers 2 when I fixed very little things so he can port it in due time ...

At last, as last year, there is EuroBSDCon, this time at the University of Politechnica of Bucharest with lot great tutorials and speeches.

Soon the summer ...

Hi folks,

While se slowly walk towards the next summer, there is still a joint BSD effort to fix our Intel CPUs security issues, Matt Dillon following Theo de Raadt advices like here ... The recent controversy in the last BSDCan between a couple of FreeBSD persons and Theo in the other hand is not something particularly a joy to see ... I believe there is other ways to display disagreements ... Beyond that, the last BSDCan had been fruitful regarding various reactions in social medias, in some weeks videos ought to be available to watch ...

Apart of this, the usual ... some LLVM commits here and there, next attempt would be to be able to have Ubsan's unit tests for OpenBSD ... , radare2 where I try to improve both FreeBSD and OpenBSD support ...

That is mainly it for now, looking for EuroBSDCon this next autumn :-)