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What's in -current this week

Contributed by deanna on from the neat-new-stuff dept.

Interesting changes in -current this week: two new pf features, a new ipsec feature, better vmware support and improved support for two network drivers. And, as usual, lots of minor improvements, bugfixes, new ports and documentation.
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  • pf improvement: ruleset optimization
    
    Changes by:             mcbride@        2006/10/31 07:17:45
    
    Modified files:
            sbin/pfctl     : parse.y pfctl.c pfctl_optimize.c pfctl_parser.h
    
    Log message:
    Allow pfctl ruleset optimizer to be controlled from the ruleset.
            
    "set" "ruleset-optimization" [ "none" | "basic" | "profile" ]
    
    You can optionally control ruleset optimization with these keywords on the
    command line with the -o option; the command line setting will override the
    pf.conf setting. The existing -o/-oo flags continue to work as expected.
    

  • pf improvement: recursive anchor display
    Changes by:             mcbride@        2006/10/31 16:46:25
    
    Modified files:
            sbin/pfctl     : pfctl.c pfctl_parser.c pfctl_parser.h
    
    Log message:   
    Allow a user to recursively print anchors including those without
    reserved names, if a trailing * is specified in the anchor name.
    e.g. recursively print the main  ruleset:
    
    pfctl -a '*' -sr
    
    Recursively print the spam anchor:
       
    pfctl -a 'spam*'
    pfctl -a 'spam/*'
    
    Also fix a bug which prevented the contents of inline anchors with
    explicit names from being loaded into the kernel.
    

  • ipsec improvement: aggressive mode
     
    Changes by:             mcbride@        2006/10/31 20:10:02
    
    Modified files:
            sbin/ipsecctl  : ike.c ipsec.conf.5 ipsecctl.c ipsecctl.h
                             parse.y
    
    Log message:
    Add support for aggressive mode (from the k2k6 IPsec hackathon).
    

  • new vmware network driver: vic
    Changes by:             dlg@            2006/11/02 13:45:17
    
    Modified files:
            sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC RAMDISK_CD
       
    Log message:
    enable vic(4) now that it works.
    
  • more available drivers: gem and gentbi now in i386/amd64

    Changes by:             deraadt@        2006/11/05 20:34:59
    
    Modified files:
            sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC
            sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC
    
    Log message:
    add gem and gentbi; why not
    

www
  • new webpage: ports updating for maintainers
     
    Changes by:             espie@          2006/11/04 03:53:37
       
    Modified files:
            .              : checklist.html porting.html
            porting        : libraries.html
    Added files:
            porting        : update.html
    
    Log message:
    add placeholders linking to porting/update.html, to be fleshed out a bit
    later.
    document the libtool changes with respect to shared libraries.
    

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Comments
  1. By First post! (80.43.122.238) on

    FIRST POST!

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (74.115.21.120) on

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      1. By Jeroen Janssen (213.84.80.73) on http://efantasy.be

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        Comments
        1. By Anonymous Coward (84.169.243.173) on

          > Indeed. What an complete idiot. The post of him is worth nothin' and adds none to the original post!
          >
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    2. By grey (69.226.130.113) on

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  2. By Anonymous Coward (74.114.186.166) on

    Thanks Deanna.

  3. By deanna (64.231.233.75) on

    Here's a late (or early) addition that's quite relevant:

    Changes by:         pvalchev@          2006/11/06 09:18:42
    
    Modified files:
            .              : plus40.html
    
    Log message:
    a month more bringing 4.0 plus to completion! thx to jan.johansson@it.su.se
    
    http://www.openbsd.org/plus40.html

    Thanks Jan!

  4. By grg (202.136.110.195) on

    A couple of MFCs and entries for errata.html too.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (64.142.92.182) on

      > A couple of MFCs and entries for errata.html too.
      >

      That's not to do with -current though ;-)

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