Sunday, 9 September 2018

Rainy end of summer updates

Hi folks,

Hopefully you are enjoying the last sun rays batch !

Couple of updates ... For LLVM normally the 7th release was expected for the 5th of September but is postponed obviously ... there will be first a RC3 just to fix the last blockers and hopefully still a release within the month ... We shall see. Speaking of the 7th, FreeBSD is importing it at slow pace and was decided to make it available for releases post 12 due to releases dates colliding. For now the only new sanitizer enabled compared to LLVM 6 is Msan (and for amd64 only for now). Finally, maybe OpenBSD will have this version before FreeBSD :-) well ... at this stage it s just a wild guess.
After this, for LLVM 8, I start to push changes here and there, porting CFI from compiler-rt to FreeBSD and NetBSD.

After that, Barony underwent a hotfix, versioned 3.2.1 but still need some further fixes. I had personally fixed two issues which are both merged. It is very pleasant, in an user point of view, there is still significant game and content updates (and not sold as DLC).

Also, radare really has a fast pace for releasing version, since the last time a lot bug fixes from various sources. I fixed mostly memory leaks and couple of workflow breakages. Now aiming for 3.0 ...

At last, PHP 7.3 finally enter its RC phase, it is pretty already solid at this stage even though i would not recommend for production :-) since the last time I finally did the fixed map fix only for FreeBSD, postponing the Linux version for 7.4 or after, waiting 4.18 kernels distributions being available widely.

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Wednesday, 1 August 2018

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.

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