MidnightBSD Developer Journal

The PHP5 port was updated to 5.2.3. The new version includes several security patches.

Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split() (by Gerhard Wagner, CVE-2007-2872)
Fixed possible infinite loop in imagecreatefrompng. (by Xavier Roche, CVE-2007-2756)
Fixed ext/filter Email Validation Vulnerability (MOPB-45 by Stefan Esser, CVE-2007-1900)
Fixed bug #41492 (open_basedir/safe_mode bypass inside realpath()) (by bugs dot php dot net at chsc dot dk)
Improved fix for CVE-2007-1887 to work with non-bundled sqlite2 lib.
Added mysql_set_charset() to allow runtime altering of connection encoding.

A recent update to libdvdread broke the mport on i386.  The optimized byte swap patch was removed.  The port now works as intended.

http://gplv3.fsf.org/

FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Slashdot article:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/06/29/172228.shtml

The most recent 0.1 snap from May has been reported not to work on several systems.  We are investigating the problem.  Please use the March snapshot for now. 

triv has committed several changes to mports to correct recent problems with GNUstep ports. 

I've had some reports of problems with the captcha on the account registration page. I've disabled it for now. If you were having problems registering, please try again.

There seems to be some issues with the GNUstep ports.  I'm discussing some changes with mports that might have caused the problem with another developer.  We hope to get these working soon.

The Opera Software browser was updated to 9.21.  /usr/mports/opera

I added a Limewire port tonight. This will only work with i386 and you must have a binary Java port installed.

I did a little ports work tonight. screen and rtorrent were updated. rtorrent is at 0.11.4 which is the most recent stable version. screen is now at 4.0.3.

I also added screenie which allows you to get a list of backgrounded tasks using the screen facilities.

Steven Kreuzer has ported OpenBSD's BSD licensed sdiff to FreeBSD.  I'm experimenting with this tonight.  If it seems to be working well, I will commit it to current.  Please send in objections.  Below is the e-mail:

On 5/17/07, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at f2o.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings-
>
> OpenBSD includes a version of sdiff written by our very own Ray
> Lai, and released to the public domain.
>
> In a quest to remove as much GPL code from FreeBSD as possible, I
> ported it over.
>
> If you want to try it out, You can download the source at
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer/code/sdiff.tar.gz
>
> To install:
> $ su -
> # cd to /usr/src
> # patch -p0 < /path/to/sdiff-cvs-merge.patch
> # sh /path/to/sdiff.shar
> # make buildworld && make installworld
>
> Let me know if you encounter any problems. I would like to see if
> I can get the GNU version of sdiff removed and replaced with this
> in FreeBSD. It might be somewhat of an uphill battle, but it is
> worth a shot.
>
> --
> Steven Kreuzer
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer 

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Both the sendmail and dovecot ports were updated to the most recent versions.

I've added a new torrent for the latest 0.1 snapshot. The link is 0 1-20070525-SNAP-i386-disc1 iso

I updated the MySQL port to 5.0.41.  I added a bittorrent client, ctorrent.  adodb for php was added to mports/databases. 

I've updated linux-firefox to 2.0.0.4.  This is a recommended security update for all users of that port. 

The GENERIC kernel configuration is now SMP enabled.  With new processors shipping with at least two cores, it makes sense to look forward with MidnightBSD.  By the time we ship 1.0, these new systems should be commonplace.  This change is only in CURRENT and will not be done in STABLE. 

I just purchased a Widescreen display for my PC.  It was a low cost (read cheap) display from westinghouse.  I couldn't get X11 to display anything except at 1280x1024 which isn't even supported by the display!  Very strange.  After a little googling, I learned about the ModeLine property for monitors in X11.  I've written a blog entry on the setting changes here.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259

This could effect MidnightBSD distribution in Germany. 

ctriv has created a new i386 snapshot. Look for 0.1-20070525-SNAP which includes the latest security update.