svn commit: r42203 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jul 9 07:05:20 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jul  9 07:05:19 2013
New Revision: 42203
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42203

Log:
  - Improve entries in response to bjk's and des' (private) feedback

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Tue Jul  9 06:36:51 2013	(r42202)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Tue Jul  9 07:05:19 2013	(r42203)
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@
     <body>
       <p>On April 15th Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Xin Li took over
 	as security officers for the &os; Project, and the team welcomed
-	Qing Li back in the team in June.  This report briefly
+	Qing Li back to the team in June.  This report briefly
 	summarizes the work of the Security Team from April until the
 	end of June.</p>
 
@@ -1074,20 +1074,27 @@
 
 	<li><tt>FreeBSD-SA-13:06.mmap</tt>: Privilege escalation via
 	  <tt>mmap()</tt>, reported by Konstantin Belousov.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>The Security Team has contributed to the following errata
+	notices:</p>
 
-	<li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet</tt>: <tt>vtnet(4)</tt>
-	  network interface issue on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE,
+      <ul>
+	<li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet</tt>: Frames are not properly
+	  forwarded to <tt>vtnet(4)</tt> when two or more MAC addresses
+	  are configured on QEMU 1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE,
 	  reported by Julian Stecklina.</li>
 
-	<li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp</tt>: <tt>dhclient(8)</tt> utility
-	  issue on <tt>fxp(4)</tt> network interface in 8.4-RELEASE,
-	  reported by Michael L. Squires.</li>
+	<li><tt>FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp</tt>: Initialization of
+	  <tt>fxp(4)</tt> network interfaces results in an infinite loop
+	  with <tt>dhclient(8)</tt> in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Michael
+	  L. Squires.</li>
       </ul>
 
-      <p>Per request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has also
-	reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and test
-	system which is planned to be used for producing <tt>pkg(8)</tt>
-	("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.</p>
+      <p>Per the request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has
+	also reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and
+	test system which is planned to be used for producing
+	<tt>pkg(8)</tt> ("new-style") packages on the &os; cluster.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
 
@@ -1173,10 +1180,11 @@
     <body>
       <p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making
 	the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in
-	preparation for the merge to ports.  As part of this exp-run
-	were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues.
-	Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version
-	7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p>
+	preparation for the merge to ports.  As a part of this, ports
+	exp-runs were performed to find and resolve regressions and
+	other issues.  Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was
+	updated to version 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard
+	work.</p>
 
       <p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating
 	and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous
@@ -1205,16 +1213,16 @@
 	ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task>
 
       <task>Port Wayland.  The future of graphical environments in open
-	source operating system seem to be Wayland.  This needs to be
+	source operating system seems to be Wayland.  This needs to be
 	ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that
 	it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as
 	a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task>
 
       <task>Look into replacements for HAL.  HAL is used for
-	hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux.
-	A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to
-	have.  This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and
-	KDE teams.</task>
+	hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by
+	Linux.  A replacement, perhaps build on top of <tt>devd(8)</tt>,
+	would be nice to have.  This work should be coordinated with the
+	&os; GNOME and KDE teams.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 </report>
