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The NetBSD CVS repository has seen a lot of work over the recent months to clean up various historic artefacts. Together with the improvements in cvs2fossil and the Fossil->Git conversion, it is now possible to provide a precise, up-to-date conversion.

The Git repositories can be found on github, checkout pkgsrc and src.

The Fossil repositories can be found at

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The NetBSD CVS repository has seen a lot of work over the recent months to clean up various historic artefacts. Together with the improvements in cvs2fossil and the Fossil->Git conversion, it is now possible to provide a precise, up-to-date conversion.

The Git repositories can be found on github, checkout pkgsrc and src.

The Fossil repositories can be found at

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Postfix 2.8.4 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.2 are:

• Performance: a high load of DSN success notification requests could slow down the queue manager. Solution: make the trace client asynchronous, just like the bounce and defer clients.
• The local(8) delivery agent ignored table lookup errors in mailbox_command_maps, mailbox_transport_maps, fallback_transport_maps and (while bouncing mail to alias) alias

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Postfix 2.8.4 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.2 are:

• Performance: a high load of DSN success notification requests could slow down the queue manager. Solution: make the trace client asynchronous, just like the bounce and defer clients.
• The local(8) delivery agent ignored table lookup errors in mailbox_command_maps, mailbox_transport_maps, fallback_transport_maps and (while bouncing mail to alias) alias

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More and more modern computers don't come with a "real" keyboard interface anymore, and that makes our lives hard when we have to enter the kernel debugger DDB. Well, not anymore if you run -current. jmcneill@ committed code which lets you use DDB with USB keyboards. See

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2011/07/30/msg025233.html

for the full commit message.

More and more modern computers don't come with a "real" keyboard interface anymore, and that makes our lives hard when we have to enter the kernel debugger DDB. Well, not anymore if you run -current. jmcneill@ committed code which lets you use DDB with USB keyboards. See

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2011/07/30/msg025233.html

for the full commit message.

The directors of the NetBSD Foundation and the Core group wish to welcome Alan Barrett as new member of the Core group.

He is replacing Antti Kantee; our sincerest thanks to Antti for all his efforts during his core tenure, specially for pushing through the tiered port support model and for making bug bounties a reality.

The directors of the NetBSD Foundation and the Core group wish to welcome Alan Barrett as new member of the Core group.

He is replacing Antti Kantee; our sincerest thanks to Antti for all his efforts during his core tenure, specially for pushing through the tiered port support model and for making bug bounties a reality.

The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C, and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64, and MIPS. This software is an implementation of the C++ Application Binary Interface originally developed for Itanium and now used for the x86 family by

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The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C, and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64, and MIPS. This software is an implementation of the C++ Application Binary Interface originally developed for Itanium and now used for the x86 family by

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The following projects have been chosen for Google Summer of Code™ this year (sorted by student's last name):

• Implementing the algorithms described in RFC 6056 within the NetBSD
• Student: Vlad Balan
• Mentor: Christos Zoulas

• Socket option to timestamp UDP packets in NetBSD kernel
• Student: Dmitry Cherkassov
• Mentor: Marc Balmer

• pkgsrc cross-building: connecting the dots
• Student: Efstathios Kamperis
• Mentor: Aleksej Saushev

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The following projects have been chosen for Google Summer of Code™ this year (sorted by student's last name):

• Implementing the algorithms described in RFC 6056 within the NetBSD
• Student: Vlad Balan
• Mentor: Christos Zoulas

• Socket option to timestamp UDP packets in NetBSD kernel
• Student: Dmitry Cherkassov
• Mentor: Marc Balmer

• pkgsrc cross-building: connecting the dots
• Student: Efstathios Kamperis
• Mentor: Aleksej Saushev

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The Illumos project is "a community maintained derivative of the OpenSolaris ON source, including open source replacements for closed bits, and additional changes" (from http://www.illumos.org/). A couple of month ago, the Illumos community launched "The Illumos pkgsrc project", thus communicating for the first time on pkgsrc being officially supported by a SunOS derivative.

First thing done was a bootstrap

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The Illumos project is "a community maintained derivative of the OpenSolaris ON source, including open source replacements for closed bits, and additional changes" (from http://www.illumos.org/). A couple of month ago, the Illumos community launched "The Illumos pkgsrc project", thus communicating for the first time on pkgsrc being officially supported by a SunOS derivative.

First thing done was a bootstrap

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The NetBSD core team has announced a tier system for the hardware architectures supported by NetBSD. The tier system classifies ports into three tiers. Summarizing, the tiers consist of ports that NetBSD will support, ports that NetBSD does its best to support, and ports which may be desupported soon. The purpose of this classification is to clarify the development

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The NetBSD core team has announced a tier system for the hardware architectures supported by NetBSD. The tier system classifies ports into three tiers. Summarizing, the tiers consist of ports that NetBSD will support, ports that NetBSD does its best to support, and ports which may be desupported soon. The purpose of this classification is to clarify the development

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Postfix 2.8.2 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.1 are:

• Bugfix: postscreen DNSBL scoring error. When a client disconnected and then reconnected before all DNSBL results for the earlier session arrived, DNSBL results for the earlier session would be added to the score for the later session. This is very unlikely to have affected any legitimate mail.

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Postfix 2.8.2 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.1 are:

• Bugfix: postscreen DNSBL scoring error. When a client disconnected and then reconnected before all DNSBL results for the earlier session arrived, DNSBL results for the earlier session would be added to the score for the later session. This is very unlikely to have affected any legitimate mail.

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Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends for a 3 month programming project with the participating open source mentoring organization of their choice.

NetBSD is among the 175 projects chosen to be mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2011.

Look at the list of suggested projects, and if you are eligible to participate,

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Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends for a 3 month programming project with the participating open source mentoring organization of their choice.

NetBSD is among the 175 projects chosen to be mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2011.

Look at the list of suggested projects, and if you are eligible to participate,

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