Personal newsfeeds active again
The personal news feeds are active once again.
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Announcements
Site changes, new feature, etc.
The latest and greatest vulnerabilities
FreshPorts, the place for ports, now lists the latest vulnerabilities. Along the left hand side of the page, you’ll see the last 15 vulnerabilities, as obtained from the ports/security/portuadit/vuln.xml file. Happy patching.
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Python listening now in production
The Python listening script is now in production. With a few luser-type problems along the way. Specifically: I have discovered, quite recently, that having the same name for both the NOTIFY command and the LISTEN command is kind of a good strategy when you actually want your listener to be notified. The problem? The code
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Fundraising for new hardware
I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.
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Watch list interface changes
Royce Williams wrote in with a good suggestion about the watch list interface. When I read it, I immediately new it was a good idea. Royce said the existing icons for adding and removing a port from the watch list were not intuitive. He suggesting using as a base, and putting either a plus (+)
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Security Notices will return
It was not long ago that I announced the deprecation of the security notificaiton report. This report depended upon manually designating a particular commit as security-related within the FreshPorts database. A lack of resources to perform this task meant that the report was rarely sent out. I suggested that everyone install and use portaudit, which
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Newsfeeds in more formats than you will ever need!
I’m in Charlottetown today, and waiting for a meeting to finish (I’m not in that meeting), so I thought I’d take the time to post this about newsfeeds. FreshPorts now has more newsfeeds in more formats than you could ever possibly want or need. We now have 9 formats, all available from one central location.
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Caching To Disk – implemented
Caching to disk, at least for ports, is now implemented. I didn’t plan to moved a new feature into production on the day before I leave for a conference, but it happened. If you notice that the website has not been updated after a port has been committed, please let me know. That will indicate
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Spam is very annoying
Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve have enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today
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Better URL parsing
I’m just about to commit some changes that will greatly improve the URL parsing. I’m sure there’s more room for improvment, but this is a first step. Please read Parsing the URL for a bit of background. It now handles virtual categories correctly. In the process, I had to fix up a number other items
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