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Ports and Package users, Ports now have SSP enabled by default. The package repository will now build SSP by default as well. SSP is "Stack Smashing Protection" and can be read about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection. This only applies to the head (/latest) packages, not the Quarterly branch packages. This applies to the ports checkout that portsnap uses. WITHOUT_SSP can be defined in make.conf to not use this feature. SSP will be used to build ports (with -fstack-protector) on all amd64 releases and i386...

...tector, but -fstack-protector-all > may optionally be set instead. > > Please help test this on your system. We would like to eventually enable > this by default, but need to identify any major ports that have run-time > issues due to it. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection > We have not had any feedback on this yet and want to get it enabled by default for ports and packages. We now have a repository that you can use rather than the default to help test. We need your help to identify any issues before switching the default. This repository is available for: h...

Ports and Package users, Ports now have SSP enabled by default. The package repository will now build SSP by default as well. SSP is "Stack Smashing Protection" and can be read about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection. This only applies to the head (/latest) packages, not the Quarterly branch packages. This applies to the ports checkout that portsnap uses. WITHOUT_SSP can be defined in make.conf to not use this feature. SSP will be used to build ports (with -fstack-protector) on all amd64 releases and i386...

...tector, but -fstack-protector-all > may optionally be set instead. > > Please help test this on your system. We would like to eventually enable > this by default, but need to identify any major ports that have run-time > issues due to it. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection > We have not had any feedback on this yet and want to get it enabled by default for ports and packages. We now have a repository that you can use rather than the default to help test. We need your help to identify any issues before switching the default. This repository is available for: h...

Ports and Package users, Ports now have SSP enabled by default. The package repository will now build SSP by default as well. SSP is "Stack Smashing Protection" and can be read about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow_protection. This only applies to the head (/latest) packages, not the Quarterly branch packages. This applies to the ports checkout that portsnap uses. WITHOUT_SSP can be defined in make.conf to not use this feature. SSP will be used to build ports (with -fstack-protector) on all amd64 releases and i386...