BSD News 13/11/2017

Last week in BSD

News: BSDSec, p2k17, LibreSSL, DragonFly BSD, BSDnow, Minix, OpenBSD
Releases: DragonFly BSD

BSDSec

LibreSSL 2.6.3 Released

Releases

DragonFly 5.0.1 released

This is a bugfix release, adding HAMMER2 support in initrd, among other cleanup commits.

News

We love the ARC | BSD Now 219

Papers we love: ARC by Bryan Cantrill, SSD caching adventures with ZFS, OpenBSD full disk encryption setup & a Perl5 Slack Syslog BSD daemon.

DragonFlyBSD: kernel ppp gone; ppp still there

The ppp kernel module has been removed. It’s still possible to run ppp(8) in userland, with tun(4), so it’s only a change in strategy, not result.

Dragonfly BSD: sys_pipe reoptimized

sys_pipe has been modified to avoid contention on DragonFly, which means better performance as tasks get handed between processors.

Interesting articles

MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/11

p2k17 Hackathon

OpenBSD is holding hackathons as an attempt to get new changes into the source tree quickly. Here are some reports from the latest: 
Jeremy Evans on ruby progress, postgresql and webdriver work

Paul Irofti (pirofti@) on hotplugd(8), math ports, xhci(4) and other kernel advancements

Herzliche grusse vom Berlin (espie@ on mandoc, misc packages progress)

Matthias Kilian on xpdf, haskell, and more

Christian Weisgerber on random devices, build failures and gettext

Jeremy Evans on ruby progress, postgresql and webdriver work

Anthony J. Bentley on firmware, games and securing pkg_add runs

Sebastian Reitenbach on Puppet progress

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