9.0 is finally out !

Hi people here and there !
As the title suggests, LLVM 9 has finally made it after couple of more Release Candidates than envisioned but glad it is finally behind now. As you can see, it is now available here ; a bit of patience before it lands and replace release candidates in your preferred os/distribution :-)

So, EuroBSDCon 2019 had finally began I personally look forward to recorded videos, the "Porting Robot Operating System (ROS) to FreeBSD" in particular and also the other about the Rust programming language for curiosity ...

Following my nomination into the NodeJS membership, I enjoyed quite reviewing a certain amount of Pull Requests, in general of great qualities coming from first time contributors to "old timers" :-), rather than contributing directly (except libuv, which is a strong dependency), mostly in order to prepare the future 13.x branch. I can say the environment, ambiance is generally peaceful, respectful and the community is pretty diverse which I appreciate a lot.

Apart of these, I mostly focused on improving FreeBSD or macOS support in radare, HAProxy even AFLplusplus the nice little fork of Google AFL ;  a bit of varnish-cache in between. Wish you well for this next autumn :-)

After eight

... Not really mentioning here the famous mint chocolate brand here :-) most likely, for who is interested, LLVM 8 branching had been done just today as scheduled, now time to pass on to the testers people/doc writers/... ! Normally the real release date is still scheduled in a month and half more or less ... Thanks for few FreeBSD people having reviewed few of my changes (Ed Maste, Mark Johnston) ... I'll be watching this test period for a little while if there any concern for sanitisers in BSD for example ... but mainly my mind has already shifted towards the future 9th version. That was my first time following a full release development cycle from the beginning though, so this experience will serve me just fine ...

Having spent most of the time adding api interceptions with Kamil, for next I may spend more time in other sanitiser components I did not look at for a while even though I do not have real precise plans for now. If I can, I may do a bit of static code analysis work again ...


Otherwise got a little "step back" recently, getting stolen laptop and few other things (if it would have been used for proper purposes, it would have been great but I doubt the new owner has such ideas :-)) ... that is just usual events happening in life ... As possible, do not let material possessions define you but what you have up there in your head is much more valuable ;-) now rebuilding slowly but surely my usual unixes environments and all will be fine.