Japan's tour

Moshimoshi folks !

As mentioned in previous posts, there is AsiaBSDCon, held in the University of Sciences in Tokyo,  ongoing and already lot of interesting talks went by. 

Similar as last year, there is my personal preferences :

- Adventure in DRMLand with Emmanuel Vadot.

- Intel HAXM/ NetBSD kernel by Kamil Rytarowski.

- bhyve arm64 by Alexandru Elisei.

- powerpc 64 support on FreeBSD by Piotr Kubaj.

So as you can see, almost as the time order presents it ! Also in a personal level I enjoy discovering for the time this country and appreciate the exuberant "eccentric" nature of the city, the vast majority of the population is very smiley and welcoming, not counting the not less surprising meals and incredible stores (especially electronic and similar). That was also the opportunity to expand on my previous talk in Romania last year, so I gave an updated version in the beginning of the afternoon with quite some stress while forgetting some of the points I wanted to mention to be honest :-) but seems some of the attendees appreciated this ...

Tomorrow will be not less interesting I have yet to decide which to attend though, will keep you posted ... While away, some of my previous submissions had been accepted, first radare2/rabin2 will now display the full compiler toolchain used (Elf only for now), Stalker/Xray-16 had accepted my little additional metadata in the debug console, hopefully more to come soon-ish in the meantime I wish you well !

6.5 on its way

Hi dear folks,

For those who (dare to) use OpenBSD, here is a draft of the summary of the changelog for the next 6.5 version. Notably, finally the mips64 architecture got clang as arm64 and x86 (that is great) :-) there is further more network stack improvements, started with unlocking them previously by mpie@... A bit soon to get all the benefits but we can already have a raw idea. For the third party packages, in my side apart of radare I did not update my own packages I maintain, basically nmap undergoes a lengthy development and bug fixes since the last release, hopefully this project won't face more difficulties as they did in the past. openal might get an update before the next release but that will be it. Somehow, I have the feeling the next OpenBSD 6.6., as a whole, will be a more important game changer ... but we will see ; maybe I will be totally wrong.

Finally, radare2 got its awaited 3.2 release (specifically 3.2.1, 3.2.0 lasted only couple of hours :-)) and despite its nickname it really happened I promise :-) A lot of efforts had been done to fix various build (meson and the autotools-like one), and the usual dev of the visual department had fixed his share of bugs. In the end, all the FreeBSD improvements are available, somehow whoever want to update the FreeBSD port, I would advise to wait proper cutter update as it is aligned to radare releasing ... which should happen not too far from now (usually). OpenBSD port is not affected by such things, so if Edd Barrett does not do, I may take care of it. For next, I have more innovative plans for this software as, for example, adding web authentication for the embedded server which will be reviewed in due time.


Apart of that, I had "planted couple of seeds" since weeks and expect some code reviews in various projects, like redis, some project maintainers might be still in holidays after all. At last, I got questions these last days, yes FreeBSD has end of life and are a bit shorter than used to be and yes you might need to update the last version of your current release if you expect security fixes and updates. FreeBSD might be judged as oses for hobbyists :-) but it is serious as many other projects and used by companies too.