BSD News 30/03/15

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Releases: OPNsense
News: EuroBSDCon, OpenBSD, ssh, DragonFly BSD, BSDnow, Hammer, FreeBSD, BSDSec, OpenNTPD

BSDSec

OpenNTPD 5.7p4 released

Releases

OPNsense version 15.1.8 Released

Here is the full list of changes:

• src: applied FreeBSD-SA-15:06.openssl
• src: updated to tzdata2015b
• src: add missing max-packets parsing for pf(4)
• src: OPNsense branding for boot loader
• bsdinstaller: speed up SD card writes using async mode and assorted cleanups
• opnsense-update: don’t trigger a spurious update after a fresh install when invoked for the first time
• notable port updates: isc-dhcp42 4.2.8, libressl 2.1.6, openssl 1.0.1m, ca_root_nss 3.18
• core: removed obsolete conf_mount_ro() and conf_mount_rw() usage
• core: removed platform awareness with a more appropriate probe for install media
• core: removed all remnants of the old firmware update code
• core: completely rewrote the config.xml handling to unify old and new GUI components
• core: added support for config backup to Google Drive
• packages: removed the legacy package system
• upnp: transformed the preinstalled package into a standard feature
• openvpn: added the client export package as a standard feature
• dyndns: minor follow-ups for Duck DNS support
• firewall log: fix bug that would prevent the filter from working correctly
• ntp: added numerous config form tweaks and fixed daemon startup
• igmpproxy: fixed daemon startup
• dns: properly regenerate hosts file on reload
• ssh: fix sshd reload on save in system admin access page
• rc: avoid invoke of FreeBSD’s rc system on halt and reboot
• dhcp: improve compatibility with IPv6 deployments

The install media images can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opnsense/files/15.1.8/
 

News

EuroBSDCon 2015 Call for Papers Is Out 

The EuroBSDCon 2015 conference organizers have announced the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Go to https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers/ for details; the full text of the announcement also follows after the fold.
Read more... 

SSL in the Wild | BSD Now 82   

We'll be chatting with Bernard Spil about wider adoption of LibreSSL in other communities. He's been doing a lot of work with FreeBSD ports specifically, but also working with upstream projects. As usual, all this weeks news and answers to your questions, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/28
OpenBSD SSH Protocol 1 Now Disabled at Compile Time
DragonFly: A PHP upgrade note
DragonFly: New locking and synchronization docs 

Interesting articles

 Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaks, iTWire, Sam Varghese 
Clustering and copies in HAMMER2 
Using the arswitch ethernet switch on FreeBSD

Wallpaper of the week

as found at http://www.pcbsd.org/en/artwork.html

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