BSD News 27/07/2015

Last week in BSD

Releases: FreeBSD, OPNSense
Other news: c2k15, OpenBSD, docker, zfs, FreeBSD, BSDSec, DragonFly BSD, BSDSec, OPNsense, NetBSD, OctoPkg, HardenedBSD

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BSDSec

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:13.tcp

[FreeBSD-Announce] Updates regarding FreeBSD.org svn mirrors

Releases

FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available

The first RC build of the 10.2-RELEASE cycle is now available.
Installation images are available for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures.
FreeBSD/arm SD card images are available for the BEAGLEBONE, CUBOX-HUMMINGBOARD, GUMSTIX, RPI-B, PANDABOARD, and WANDBOARD kernels.
FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 is also available on several third-party hosting providers.
See the PGP-signed announcement email for installation image checksums and more information.

OPNsense 15.7.4 Released

Here are the the full patch notes:

• updated sudo 1.8.14p3 [1], pcre 8.37_2 [2], and FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15 [3]
• firmware: fix upgrade when using opnsense-devel package
• proxy: fix config write for multiple interfaces
• crash reporter: raise PHP log level to warnings after an extensive cleanup
• dashboard: made widgets translatable (contributed by Fabian Franz)
• firewall logs: usability improvements (contributed by Fabian Franz)
• languages: Simplified Chinsese 64% complete
• languages: German 40% complete
• menu: fixed navigation for PPPoE edit

Other news

BSD Gnow | BSD Now 99

This week we’ll be talking with Ryan Lortie and Baptiste Daroussin about GNOME on BSD. Upstream development is finally treating the BSDs as a first class citizen, so we’ll hear about how the recent porting efforts have been since.

Watch it here. 

HardenedBSD 11-CURRENT amd64 (x86-64) installers

• SHA256 hashes for published images: CHECKSUMS.SHA256
• CD ISO: HardenedBSD-11-CURRENT_hardenedbsd-stable-master-amd64-disc1.iso
• USB memstick: HardenedBSD-11-CURRENT_hardenedbsd-stable-master-amd64-memstick.img
• source code via git: git clone --single-branch --branch hardened/current/master https://github.com/hardenedbsd/hardenedbsd-stable/ hardenedbsd-current

Code stuff

c2k15: stsp@ on wifi and usb matters, and a peek to the UTF-8 future

c2k15: ajacoutot@ on rc.d refinements, ports churn and sysmerge's future

c2k15: Internal jump targets to help navigating big manual pages

c2k15: krw@ on softraid on 4k disks, cardbus on Dell vs Synaptics and Thinkpads

c2k15: jasper@ on puppet progress, sed(1) enhancements and more

c2k15: mpi@ on trunk(4), pf(4), wifi, routing, bridge(4) and more

c2k15: jeremy@ on ruby work, kernel and libc bugs, ports progress

ValleyView support improved

OctoPkg Version 0.2.0 is out

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/25

Interesting Articles

Docker Done Right

Using ZFS replication features in FreeBSD to improve offsite backups

Using bhyve on FreeBSD

Power statistics

NetBSD on the NVIDIA Jetson TK1

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