This month was spent in writing utilities and libraries for HardenedBSD's infrastructure. I wrote a little library, called liblattzfs, to help our infrastructure monitoring daemon (hbsdmon) monitor the various ZFS pools on our systems. Though liblattzfs is developed out-of-tree, I've already merged it into the source tree.

I also worked on another library, liblattutil, to make it so that our applications can have one centralized logging API. It also has a nifty SQLite3 wrapper. One could use this wrapper to convert a SQLite3 query's result to JSON. :-)

I created a new little application (rync) to convert our every-six-hour auto-sync scripts from csh to C.

I also disabled CFI for wpa_supplicant. It's my hope that one day, I/we finally get Cross-DSO CFI working in base so that we can re-add CFI to some of these applications. I'm hoping to get back to Cross-DSO CFI work in the coming week.

FreeBSD released some securty advisories, so I made sure that we had binary updates released in a timely fashion. The package builds are still running.

FreeBSD updated ports-mgmt/pkg from 1.16.3 to 1.17.1, introducing some major changes that caused issues with our package repo. It took me a few days to find and resolve the issues. If anyone else notices any issues with the package repo itself, please let me know.

Loic reported an issue with randompid calculation, so I fixed that. He also fixed a few ports and researched the failures of a few others.

Overall, August was a month spent on HardenedBSD's auxiliary applications with the goal of enhanced stability.

liblattzfs: https://git.hardenedbsd.org/shawn.webb/liblattzfs
liblattutil: https://git.hardenedbsd.org/shawn.webb/liblattutil
rync: https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/rync