Hi guys,

Issue 4 of the NetBSD Digest is out.

This week:

On the 14th of April NetBSD version 2.0.2 was released. You can see the 
announcement here.
Well done and thank you to all involved in making this possible.

DMA and AC97 controllers enabled on the Lubbock evaluation board.

Emmanuel Dreyfus has resurrected TCP-MD5 support.

Konrad Schroder continues his work on lfs. Now we keep track of the highest 
block held by an LFS inode. Prior to this a file extension could cause the 
filesystem to be flushed, this would mean an intervening crash would leave 
the filesystem in an inconsistant state, meaning fsck_lfs would complain of 
an inode being "partially truncated".
 Konrad has also significantly reduced the system cpu usage of an average file 
write. Splay trees are now used instead of hash tables to mannage the 
accounting of blocks allocated through VOP_BALLOC(). This accounting no 
longer takes a noticeable fraction of the system cpu.

Matthias Drochner has comitted code to add a "security" command to atactl(8). 
This allows querying the state of the security extension and to freeze it 
thereby protecting your hard disk by stopping intruders from scrambling the 
root password.

TAMURA Kent continues his wourk on the kent-audio2 branch. PCM mixing filter 
has been added. Please note that as of this time the kent-audio2 branch is 
not compilable. 

pf's spamd is now known as pfspamd to avoid confusion with spamassasins spamd.

PR's opened this week
     PR: 29954 Argentina zoneinfo files installing incorrectly
     PR: 29968 distribution build fails if some MK* variables are set to 'no'
     PR: 29938 [PATCH]: Duplicated word 'bytes' in humanize_number.3
     PR: 29958 native readline misses rl_variable_bind and 
rl_attempted_completion_over
     PR: 29953 assumes pointer is 32 bits

PR's closed this week
     PR: 29928 NetBSD-amd64 build broken because of bootfloppy overflow
     PR: 29792 xenevt_event calls wakeup at too high ipl
     PR: 29954 Argentina zoneinfo files installing incorrectly
     PR: 29968 distribution build fails if some MK* variables are set to 'no'
     PR: 29938 [PATCH]: Duplicated word 'bytes' in humanize_number.3
     PR: 29953 assumes pointer is 32 bits

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Have fun

Mark