BSD News 17/11/2014

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Releases: DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, FreeNAS
Other news:freeNAS, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, BSDnow, DragonFly BSD, TrueOS, BSDMag, BSDTalk

Releases

FreeNAS 9.3-BETA

 This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases.  It features a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Windows 2012 clustering, better integration with VMWare, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and hundreds of other technology enhancements.

DragonFly 4.0 RC2 tagged  
No, wait, RC3   ( DragonFly 4.0.0RC3 images )


FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

Some of the highlights:
  • The new console driver, vt(4), has been added.
  • Support for FreeBSD/i386 guests has been added to bhyve(4).
  • The bhyve(4) hypervisor now supports booting from a zfs(8) filesystem.
  • Support for SMP was added to the armv6 kernels and enabled by default in the configuration files for all platforms that contain multi-core CPUs.
  • Initial support for UEFI boot has been added for the FreeBSD/amd64 architecture.
  • Support has been added to cache geli(8) passphrases during system boot.
  • Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) has been added to the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks.
  • The new filesystem automount facility, autofs(5), has been merged from FreeBSD-CURRENT.
  • The sshd(8) rc.d(8) startup script now generates ED25519 sshd(8) host keys if keys do not already exist when ssh_keygen_alg() is invoked.
  • OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.6p1.
  • The nc(1) utility has been updated to match the version in OpenBSD 5.5.
  • Sendmail has been updated to 8.14.9.
  • The unbound(8) caching resolver and ldns have been updated to version 1.4.22.
  • OpenPAM has been updated to Ourouparia (20140912).
  • OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.1j.
  • The pkg(8) package management utility has been updated to version 1.3.8.
For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at:


Other news

BSDMag – HardenedBSD  

Let’s take a look at what you will read in this issue of BSD. First, our experts will instruct you on how to install and configure a dedicated web server. Afterwards, we will head to our series of 100+ Unix Commands and Find out About System Configuration. Last but not least, we will learn all […]

A Man's man | BSD Now 63 


This time on the show, we've got an interview with Kristaps Džonsons, the creator of mandoc. He tells us how the project got started and what its current status is across the various BSDs. We also have a mini-tutorial on using PF to throttle bandwidth. This week's news, answers to your emails and even some cheesy mailing list gold, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

bsdtalk247 - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years with Jordan Hubbard

A recording from MeetBSD 2014 in California.  A talk by Jordan Hubbard titled "FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years."File Info: 39Min, 18MB.

Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk247/bsdtalk247.ogg



Code stuff
BSDFan, a simple fan control utility for ThinkPads 

Need community feedback on new role system for PC-BSD 
USB 3.0 Enabled in -current 
reapctl() added to DragonFly 
A DRM speedup 
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