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* Ludovic Courtes [fixed invalid port deallocation in `symlink'](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00013.html) and [made console-run resilient against missing /dev/console](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00002.html), improving the overall reliability of the system.
-* Pino Toscano improved the POSIX compliance of the Hurd [for nanosleep](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00130.html) [ptsname_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00122.html),
-[getlogin_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00121.html)
-and [getgroups](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00120.html), making it easier to port POSIX programs.
+* Pino Toscano improved the POSIX compliance of the Hurd [for nanosleep](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00130.html) [ptsname_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00122.html),
+[getlogin_r](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00121.html), [getgroups](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00120.html) and [sendto](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-06/msg00009.html), making it easier to port POSIX programs.
* Richard brown improved memory mapping [with a red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), which should speed up memory access.
* Thomas Schwinge [improved the Hurd build system](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00087.html), making it easier to get in: „running autoreconf is all you need“.
-*
+* Thomas DiModica [merged](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-06/msg00018.html) the cthreads to pthreads patch to Hurd master and [added a branch for it](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-07/msg00087.html) to make it easier to work on getting Hurd to use the more current pthreads.
+
+* Samuel Thibault [added TLS support](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-05/msg00046.html) to Hurd, getting us up to date with the standard of secure networking.
+
+* Roland McGrath [merged many libc changes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-05/msg00033.html) for upstream inclusion, reducing the maintenance load for getting recent improvements of libc.
+
+* Samuel Thibault [made iconx build](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-06/msg00004.html), which fullfills a requirement for FTBFS.
+
+------ Q3 ------
+
+* Richard Braun [added a VM page cache](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-07/msg00031.html) for better response times of the Hurd - along with fixes to bugs in several programs exposed by the increased freedom of the memory allocation of the kernel.
+
+* Pino Toscano improved the POSIX compliance of the Hurd for [fsync](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-08/msg00067.html) and
+[ptrace](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-08/msg00068.html), making it easier to port POSIX programs.
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