OpenBSD Journal

What's in -current this week

Contributed by deanna on from the shiny-new-things dept.

Interesting changes in -current this week: malloc enhancements, a new usb serial driver, ripd enabled, a new webpage, several new sets of slides, and some security updates to ports. And as usual, tons of enhancements and bugfixes.
src

  • security enhancement: malloc

    Changes by:             tedu@           2006/10/23 22:35:30
    
    Modified files:
            lib/libc/stdlib: malloc.c
    
    Log message:
    respond to ben hawkes's ruxcon presentation.
    create special allocators for pginfo and pgfree structs instead of imalloc.
    this keeps them separated from application memory.
    for chunks, to prevent deterministic reuse, keep a small array
    and swizzle the to be freed chunk with a random previously freed chunk.
    this last bit only for chunks because keeping arbitrarily large regions
    of pages around may cause out of memory issues (and pages are, to some
    extent, returned in random order).
    all changes enabled by default.
    thanks to ben for pointing out these issues.
    ok tech@
    

  • spamlogd gets its own pflog interface

     
    Changes by:             henning@        2006/10/25 13:17:56
    
    Modified files:
            libexec/spamlogd: spamlogd.8 spamlogd.c
    
    Log message:
    allow spamlogd to use an alternate pflog interface
    spamlogd was the #1 reason for me to implement the multiple pflog thing,
    so now you can finally have a nice seperation between logging and spamlogd
    tracking smtp connections
    joint work with djm, ok djm bob and kinda "Berk D. Demir"
    

  • new driver: moscom

    Changes by:             jsg@            2006/10/25 22:14:09
    
    Modified files:
            sys/dev/usb    : files.usb
            share/man/man4 : usb.4 Makefile
            sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC
            sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC
    Added files:
            sys/dev/usb    : moscom.c 
            share/man/man4 : moscom.4
    
    Log message:
    Driver for MosChip MCS7703 based USB Serial devices.
    Support for hardware flow control not yet implemented.
    
  • ripd enabled
    Changes by:             norby@          2006/10/29 11:06:07
    
    Modified files:
            usr.sbin       : Makefile
            
    Log message:
    Connect ripd and ripctl to the build.
    

www

  • new web page: hackathons

    Changes by:             deraadt@        2006/10/26 02:41:26
       
    Added files:
            .              : hackathons.html
            images/hackathons: c2k2-s.gif c2k2.gif c2k3-s.gif c2k3.gif
                               c2k4-s.gif c2k4.gif c2k5-s.gif c2k5.gif
                               c2k6-s.gif c2k6.gif k2k6-s.gif k2k6.gif
                               p2k6-s.gif p2k6.gif pf2k4-s.gif pf2k4.gif
                               r2k6-s.gif r2k6.gif v2k5-s.gif v2k5.gif
       
    Log message:
    make a page about our hackathon culture
    

  • new slides: bio and sensors in OpenBSD

    Changes by:             marco@          2006/10/28 15:15:03
    
    Added files:
            papers         : bio.pdf 
    
    Log message:
    Add my slides from NYCBSDCon.
    
  • new slides: OpenBSD/sparc64: from U1 to U3
    Changes by:             jason@          2006/10/29 09:15:26
    
    Modified files:
            .              : events.html
            
    Log message:
    link to my slides from NYCBSDCON 06  
    
  • new slides: PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore
    OpenBSD spamd - greylisting and beyond

    Changes by:             jason@           2006/10/29 14:53:37
       
    Modified files:
            .              : events.html
    
    Log message:
    move NYCBSDCON06 to the past and add bob's other talk
    

ports

  • security update: screen (backported to 3.9, 3.8)

    Changes by:             mbalmer@        2006/10/25 10:27:04
    
    Modified files:
            misc/screen    : Makefile distinfo
    
    Log message:
    security:  update to screen 4.0.3, previous versions are vulnerable may
    lead to a DoS.
    

  • security update: qt3 (backported to 3.9, 3.8)

     
    Changes by:             espie@          2006/10/24 16:39:36
    
    Modified files:
            x11/qt3        : Makefile qt3.port.mk
    Added files:
            x11/qt3/patches: patch-src_kernel_qfontengine_x11_cpp
                             patch-src_kernel_qimage_cpp
                             patch-src_kernel_qpixmap_x11_cpp
            
    Log message:
    Add the security patches from qt 3.3.7
    
    we'll update to qt 3.3.7 after the immodule patch has been merged, which
    should hopefully happen in the middle of november....
    

  • security update: postgresql (backport to 3.9, 3.8)

    Changes by:             sturm@          2006/10/29 11:19:07
       
    Modified files:
            databases/postgresql: Tag: OPENBSD_3_9 Makefile distinfo
            databases/postgresql/patches: Tag: OPENBSD_3_9 patch-configure
            databases/postgresql/pkg: Tag: OPENBSD_3_9 PLIST-docs
            
    Log message:
    update to postgresql  8.1.5, turns out this fixes several bugs that
    could cause DoS          
    

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Comments
  1. By Josh Grosse (68.43.88.176) on

    There have been daily continues updates to OpenOffice, too. It's getting quite a workout.

  2. By Antonios (89.210.245.84) on

    many many big and shiny THANKS go to deanna for keeping up the summaries :-)

    Comments
    1. By MotleyFool (71.228.108.67) on

      > many many big and shiny THANKS go to deanna for keeping up the summaries :-)

      yep, I agree, kudos to deanna for a pretty thankless task. Not everyone takes the time to read all the cvs commits.

      Comments
      1. By wob (12.109.229.8) wob@bonch.org on

        > > many many big and shiny THANKS go to deanna for keeping up the summaries :-)
        >
        > yep, I agree, kudos to deanna for a pretty thankless task. Not everyone takes the time to read all the cvs commits.

        Ditto. This is very nice. :)
        Thanks Deanna!



      2. By jared spiegel (67.139.90.84) jrrs@ice-nine.org on

        > > many many big and shiny THANKS go to deanna for keeping up the summaries :-)
        >
        > yep, I agree, kudos to deanna for a pretty thankless task. Not everyone takes the time to read all the cvs commits.

        or /yep/s/t/m/7p

        rock on

  3. By Dustin Lundquist (209.147.112.69) on

    This provides just the right level of info and the links to presentations are very helpful, please keep them coming.

  4. By Han (213.84.147.9) han@mijncomputer.nl on

    Good idea Deanna!

    Keep up the good work!

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