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A long long long discussion had taken place around the two ftp daemons that we serve in our FreeBSD operating system. We had discussed that we would want to only serve on, and the security track record isn’t great either.

For this reasons I will be removing lukemftpd real soon now! If you use it from base, please consider using ftp/tnftpd instead, this port is more recent then the code in our base system, and can be updated when needed. It’s too late to rediscuss this.

I am waiting for a “make universe“ before I will commit this to head, and I will commit it to the 8-stable branch 3 days after the commit.

edit: 20090903: The category is ftp instead of net. Suggested by Thomas Abthorpe.
20090903: The universe build is almost complete, the most important architectures build fine.

Last night the FreeBSD team had unfrozen the development branch for -HEAD (What will eventually lead up to 9.0-RELEASE). Although people need to be conservative about commits they make, they can continue development again. RELENG_8 is still frozen but people are allowed to merge after consulting the Release Engineering Team. Good Progress is being made now to get 8.0 out of the door.

Today RELENG_8 had been opened up again. Reason for stalled commits and such is that the SVN to CVS exporter was unable to cope with the new branch and didn’t export anymore. To prevent massive surgeries needed to get the system backup again, we stopped the exporter and fixed it. Simon Nielsen and Peter Wemm did a lot of work to get this in the proper position again.

Unfortunatly this stalled development and working towards RELENG_8 a bit. But headsup, things are now getting back to normal and the queue by re@ is being flushed.

Stay tuned!

You should order yourself a copy of the BSD Magazine _FAST_! You can find it here http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdmag.05?id=YtVdjmGH&mv_pc=108 make sure you do that as soon as possible to get the magazine in your possession. Why? Because I wrote in it? Because they need it? Because the community needs these kind of things! The magazine only costs a few bucks, it’s worth spending that few bucks!

At the beginning of this year I was asked by the BSD Magazine people to write an article. I asked what the idea was and I was told that I could emphasize on security, or the installation of FreeBSD and things like that. But then in a way to that everyone can understand it. Also I knew that I was going to move out of the house within limited time, so I agreed writing it if I could have some help.

Jeremy Reed, Michael Lucas and Murray Stokely helped where possible and it resulted in a very nice article. The issue should be out soon, so you are invited to order the issue of http://www.bsdmag.org and read the article I wrote. It goes about installing FreeBSD 7.1 (yeah it applies to 7.2 as well for whats it worth ). So stay tuned!

20090612: In addition you can download/order it from here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdmag.05?id=HtzwqhCU&mv_pc=105.

If you read it, I am ofcourse interested in seeing what you think about it, so do not hesitate to let me know!