Simplicity is a form of art...

And now, 31 days later...
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 01 August 2013

... the Gentoo Hardened team had its monthly online meeting again ;-)

On the agenda were the usual suspects, such as the toolchain. In this category, Zorry mentioned that he has a fix for GCC 4.8.1 for the hardenedno* and vanilla gcc-config options which will be added to the tree …

Hardening is our business... new monthly report ;-)
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 27 June 2013

We're back with another report on the Gentoo Hardened project. Please excuse my brevity, as you've noticed I'm not that active (yet) due to work on an external project - I'll be back mid-July though. I promise.

On the Toolchain side, GCC 4.8.1 is in the tree and has …

Gentoo Hardened spring notes
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 16 May 2013

We got back together on the #gentoo-hardened chat channel to discuss the progress of Gentoo Hardened, so it's time for another write-up of what was said.

Toolchain

GCC 4.8.1 will be out soon, although nothing major has occurred with it since the last meeting. There is a plugin …

Another Gentoo Hardened month has passed
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 18 April 2013

Another month has passed, so time to mention again what we have all been doing lately ;-)

Toolchain

Version 4.8 of GCC is available in the tree, but currently masked. The package contains a fix needed to build hardened-sources, and a fix for the asan (address sanitizer). asan support in …

Gentoo Hardened goes onward (aka project meeting)
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 07 February 2013

It's been a while again, so time for another Gentoo Hardened online progress meeting.

Toolchain

GCC 4.8 is on development stage 4, so the hardened patches will be worked on next week. Some help on it is needed to test the patches on ARM, PPC and MIPS though. For …