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NetBSD Quarterly Status Report - 2004Q3

July - September 2004:

In the third quarter of 2004, the NetBSD Project has moved closer and closer
to the much anticipated release of NetBSD 2.0.  The equally impatiently
awaited publication of the new NetBSD Logo is also imminent, delayed only be a
few legal processes concerning the transfer of the copyright etc.  Aside from
these two high-profile issues, there were, of course, a lot of other important
and interesting news during the last three months.

The third quarter of 2004 within NetBSD in details:


Administrative:
	- NetBSD Logo Design Contest update [20040930]
	- New Developers [20040901]

Miscellaneous:
	- NetBSD-2.0_RC1 tagged, followed by RC2, RC3 [20040927]
	- NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record [20040930]

pkgsrc:
	- buildlink2 retired [20040706]
	- New stable branch: pkgsrc-2004Q3 [20040920]
	- pkgsrc documentation moved to website [20040928]
	- Non-NetBSD bulk-builds improving [20040930]

Ports:
	- hpcarm: Thumb code working on NetBSD [20040820]
	- macppc: COMPAT_DARWIN update [20040815]
	- sgimips: wscons support for Indigo in-tree [20040708]
	- sgimips: Working driver for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2 [20040711]
	- sgimips: New snapshot [200040805]

Security:
	- Security Advisory [20040817]
	- Support for SHA1 hashed passwords [20040701]

Technical:
	- Miscellaneous updates
	- IPv4 PIM support integrated [20040905]
	- Work-in-progress "wedges" implementation [20040922]
	- NetBSD Version Numbering Scheme Changes [20040930]



Administrative:
===============

NetBSD Logo Design Contest update [20040930]
- --------------------------------------------

As announced in the last quarterly status report, the NetBSD Project has
reviewed all of the entries submitted to the international competition for the
creation of a new logo.  Members of the NetBSD Foundation voted for the new
logo from a short-list of six submitted designs selected by the logo
committee.  Characteristics important for the new logo were simplicity,
appealing form and color choice, and identification with the project.

At this point, a new logo has been selected the last formal step -- the
process of transferring the Intellectual Property from the artist to the
NetBSD Foundation (which includes the time-consuming but important careful
review of some legal documents by a lawyer to ensure that everything is done
correctly and appropriately) -- is virtually completed.  Updating the website
and creating imagery from the master copy are the last steps that need to be
resolved.  It is unfortunate that this procedure has delayed the official
announcement of the new logo even further;  the NetBSD Project would like to
thank all users for their patience.

The publication of the new logo, part of the NetBSD Foundations effort to
create a new, recognizable and differentiated NetBSD identity, is expected
within the next two weeks, coincidentally (though not entirely
inappropriately) heralding the release of NetBSD 2.0 soon thereafter.


New Developers [20040901]
- -------------------------

The NetBSD Project is pleased to welcome the following new developers during
the third quarter of 2004:

* Simas Mockevicius (login: symka), who will be working on website
  documentation.
* Takehiko NOZAKI (login: tnozaki), who will be working on i18n.
* Ian Lance Taylor (login: ian), who will be working on toolchain and the
  building process.



Miscellaneous:
==============

NetBSD-2.0_RC1 tagged, followed by RC2, RC3 [20040927]
- ------------------------------------------------------

At the end of September, the NetBSD Releng Team announced that the first
Release Candidate for NetBSD 2.0 (ie NetBSD-2.0_RC1) has been tagged. This is
a major milestone in the much anticipated release of NetBSD 2.0: from now on,
any pullups must address some form of show-stopping issue to even be
considered.

Soon after, during the first days of October, a number of important pullups
were incorporated to fix some issues with Linux emulation under NetBSD/i386 as
well as some installation problems under some of the arm-based ports, and
NetBSD-2.0_RC2 was tagged, followed soon after by RC3, which includes an
important NFS fix.  This pushes the anticipated release date of NetBSD 2.0
tentatively near the end of October.

The NetBSD Project encourages all users to test the binary snapshots that will
soon be available on the release engineering ftp server
(ftp://releng.NetBSD.org).


NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record [20040930]
- --------------------------------------------------------------

One of the last items to make it into this quarterly status report is the good
news that NetBSD did it again:  after the original Internet2 Land Speed Record
set by NetBSD in May 2004 (http://www.NetBSD.org/Changes/#internet2-landspeed)
was broken, NetBSD shines again: Once more researchers at the Swedish
University Network (SUNET) have broken the Internet2 Land Speed Record, using
the upcoming version of NetBSD 2.0.

The new records are 124.935 Pbmps in a single stream (was 69.073 Pbmps), and
122.367 Pbmps in multiple streams. NetBSD was used once more due to the
``scalability of it's TCP code''.

More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be
found at http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-s/ for single stream and
http://proj.sunet.se/LSR3-m/ for multiple streams.  The website of the
Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at:
http://lsr.internet2.edu/.



pkgsrc:
=======

At the end of September, the NetBSD Packages collection contained 5018
packages.  Since July 2004, 1014 packages were updated, 250 new packages added
and 30 removed, leading to an overall increase of 220 packages in 3 months
(73.3 packages added per month, or 2.4 new packages per day).

Some of the most visible additions and updates include gcc-3.4.2, gnome-2.8,
kde-3.3.0, mozilla-1.7.3, suse91_* and the X.org based packages.  In addition,
the following items show some aspects of the activity related to the NetBSD
Packages Collection since July 2004:


buildlink2 retired [20040706]
- -----------------------------

buildlink2 is dead;  long live buildlink3!  After the first stable pkgsrc
branch was cut in March 2004, Alistair Crooks (login: agc) announced that one
of the goals of subsequent pkgsrc branches would be the move to the buildlink3
framework, and on July 6th, Thomas Klausner (login: wiz) announced that
buildlink2 is now officially retired.


New stable branch: pkgsrc-2004Q3 [20040920]
- -------------------------------------------

On behalf of the pkgsrc team, Alistair Crooks (login: agc) announced on
September 20th, 2004, that a new pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch was created after a
two-week freeze on the pkgsrc trunk.  This branch, which includes a total of
4959 actively-maintained and supported packages, deprecates the last stable
pkgsrc branch (pkgsrc-2004Q2); all maintenance will take place on this new
pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch.  Please see Alistair's message to the tech-pkg mailing
list (http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-pkg/2004/09/20/0005.html) and our
online documentation of the NetBSD Packages Collection
(http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/) for details.


pkgsrc documentation moved to website [20040928]
- ------------------------------------------------

In an effort to avoid unneccesary duplication of documentation, the main
pkgsrc documentation was finally moved into the htdocs module, making it
available in full on the NetBSD website as the authoritative source.  The
existing XML documentation was updated by Hubert Feyrer (login: hubertf) and
Grant Beattie (login: grant) and is available at
http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/.


Non-NetBSD bulk-builds improving [20040930]
- -------------------------------------------

Jonathan Perkin (login: sketch), who has been running pkgsrc bulk-builds on
SunOS 5.9 reports that after Johnny C. Lam's (login: jlam) new wrapper
framework was committed, he was able to instantly build some 500 binary
packages more than previously.  His bulk-build results for successful packages
jumped from 545 to 1190.

Jan Schaumann (login: jschauma) also reported significant progress on another
non-NetBSD platform.  His latest IRIX 6.5 bulk-build completed an impressive
1354 binary packages built with the SGI MIPSPro compiler chain using SGIs n32
ABI;  a 64bit bulk build for IRIX 6.5 was still busy compiling packages at the
time of this writing.  Binary packages for IRIX 6.5/n32 are now available from
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/IRIX-6.5/n32/pkgsrc-2004Q3/All/.

Both these results show the impressive progress the NetBSD Packages Team has
made in bringing a cross-platform build framework to system administrators
of many different platforms.



Ports:
======

Due to the large number of supported platforms, this status report
will only point out the very significant changes to some of the ports.
For a full list of port-specific changes, please refer to
http://www.NetBSD.org/Changes/changes-2.0.html#port_specific and
http://www.NetBSD.org/Changes/changes-2.1.html#port_specific.

	
hpcarm: Thumb code working on NetBSD [20040820]
- -----------------------------------------------

Richard Earnshaw (login: rearnsha) announced that he was able to commit code
that supports applications compiled as Thumb code, resulting in an impressive
decrease in the size of binaries (30.2% smaller for the cc1 binary, as an
example).

``Thumb is an extension to the 32-bit ARM architecture. The Thumb instruction
set features a subset of the most commonly used 32-bit ARM instructions which
have been compressed into 16-bit wide opcodes. On execution, these 16-bit
instructions are decompressed transparently to full 32-bit ARM instructions
in real time without performance loss.''
(http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/archi-thumb.html)

See Richard's posting to the port-hpcarm and port-arm mailing lists
(http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-hpcarm/2004/08/20/0000.html) for details.


macppc: COMPAT_DARWIN update [20040815]
- ---------------------------------------

Emmanuel Dreyfus (login: manu) gave a detailed update of the status of
COMPAT_DARWIN development, a binary compatibility option in the NetBSD kernel
that enable MacOS X binaries to run on NetBSD/powerpc, in the middle of
August.  He summarizes that command-line applications do work, and X11
applications should work, while the current focus is to run QuartzDisplay.
See his message to the port-macppc mailinglist at
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-macppc/2004/08/14/0005.html.


sgimips: wscons support for Indigo in-tree [20040708]
- -----------------------------------------------------

Christopher Sekiya (login: sekiya) committed code to provide wscons support
with GR2 graphics controllers and z8530 based keyboard/mouse on IP20/IP12
(i.e. Indigo machines).  His message to the port-sgimips mailinglist is at
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sgimips/2004/07/09/0000.html.


sgimips: Working driver for on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet on O2 [20040711]
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Izumi Tsutsui (login: tsutsui) has added a working driver for O2 (IP32)
on-board MACE MAC-110 Ethernet.  As much of this driver was derived from
trial-and-error, he encourages all users to report problems using send-pr(1),
as usual.  His message to the port-sgimips mailinglist is at
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sgimips/2004/07/11/0001.html.


sgimips: New snapshot [200040805]
- ---------------------------------

Christopher Sekiya (login: sekiya) has made available an updated 2.0 snapshot
for NetBSD/sgimips.  This snapshot includes the dynamic X server (backported
from -current).  Christopher's message to the port-sgimips mailinglist is at
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-sgimips/2004/08/05/0003.html.



Security:
=========

Security Advisory [20040817]
- ----------------------------

The NetBSD Security-Officer team released one security advisory in
the third quarter of 2004:

* ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-009.txt.asc
  ftpd root escalation

More information on previous Security Advisories is available at
http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/.


Support for SHA1 hashed passwords [20040701]
- --------------------------------------------

Simon J. Gerraty (login: sjg) has been working on support for sha1 hashed
passwords as discussed on the tech-userlevel mailinglist earlier this year
(http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-userlevel/2004/05/29/0001.html).  At the
beginning of July, he committed the necessary code to the libcrypt library.

The algorithm used is essentially PBKDF1 from RFC 2898 but using hmac_sha1
rather than SHA1 directly (a suggestion Simon took from Steven M. Bellovin
(login: smb)).  The code implements HMAC as defined in RFC 2104 and includes
a unit test for both hmac_sha1 and hmac_sha1 using a selection of the Known
Answer Tests from RFC 2202.  It is worth noting that to be FIPS compliant the
hmac key (password) should be 10-20 chars.  



Technical:
==========

Miscellaneous updates
- ---------------------

* texinfo updated to version 4.7 [20040713]
Thomas Klausner (login: wiz) upgraded texinfo to version 4.7 in the middle of
July.

* IPFilter updated to version 4.1.3 [20040723]
Martti Kupparinen (login: martti) upgraded IPFilter to version 4.1.3 near the
end of July.

* groff updated to version 1.19.1 [20040730]
Thomas Klausner (login: wiz) upgraded groff to version 1.19.1 at the end of
July.


IPv4 PIM support integrated [20040905]
- --------------------------------------

Emmanuel Dreyfus (login: manu) announced that he integrated IPv4 PIM support
from Pavlin Radoslavov and Hitoshi Asaeda.  Part of this work has been
supported by the XORP project http://www.xorp.org.

PIM is multicast routing protocol aimed as a replacement for DVRMP. pimd and
XORP routing daemons should be able to work with IPv4 multicast on NetBSD now,
provided the MROUTING and PIM kernel options are enabled.  Documentation is
available from newly imported  multicast(4) and pim(4).  XORP is available
from the NetBSD Packages collection.


Work-in-progress "wedges" implementation [20040922]
- ---------------------------------------------------

Jason R. Thorpe (login: thorpej) has proposed a new way of representing disk
partitions in the NetBSD kernel, called ``wedges''.  This approach decouples
the internal representation of disk partitions from the on-disk
representation.  Currently, the NetBSD kernel uses "struct disklabel" (a.k.a.
BSD disklabel) for both in-core and on-disk representation, and operates on
this structure exclusively.

His detailed proposal, which spawned a lively discussion on the tech-kern
mailing list, can be found at
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2004/09/22/0009.html, which also
contains a link to the suggested patches.


NetBSD Version Numbering Scheme Changes [20040930]
- --------------------------------------------------

Christos Zoulas (login: christos) announced that the NetBSD Core Team ratified
the proposed changes to the NetBSD version numbering scheme to clarify the
relationship between ``current'' and ``release'' versions of NetBSD.  The
major version number will from now on be used to indicate a major release and
the minor version number to indicate a minor release.

A detailed explanation of why these changes were necessary and how they
are implemented can be found in Christos' message to the tech-kern mailing
list (http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2004/09/30/0020.html).


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