BSD News 14/03/2016

Last week in BSD

Releases:OPNsense, HardenedBSD, SoloBSD, FreeBSD
Other news:BSDnow, BSDSec, OpenSSH, OPNsense, FreeBSD, ZFS, VAX, OpenBSD, Netflix

BSDSec

OpenSSH Security Advisory: xauth command injection

Releases 

HardenedBSD-stable 10-STABLE v42.1

HardenedBSD-10-STABLE-v42.1 - https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD-stable/releases/tag/HardenedB...

 

SoloBSD 10.3-PRERELEASE-v42.1

There is a new build of SoloBSD 10.3-PRERELEASE based on the latest HardenedBSD stable branch version 42.1
- Changelog v42.1

 

FreeBSD 10.3-RC2

Marius Strobl has announced the availability of the second release candidate for the upcoming stable release of FreeBSD 10.3: "The second release candidate build of the 10.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Noteworthy changes since 10.3-RC1: under certain circumstances, 'zfs send -i', i. e. incremental ZFS send, could lead to data corruption, which has been addressed by importing an upstream fix; boot loaders and kernel have been taught to handle ELF sections of type SHT_AMD64_UNWIND just the same as SHT_PROGBITS when loading modules; while not directly relevant for 10.3-RELEASE, CLANG as of version 3.8 started to produce sections of the former type in amd64 modules and this changes will simplify upgrades from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.0-RELEASE later on; as part of closing or syncing a hash(3)-based database file, fsync(2) now is called on the latter - this ensures that changes are on disk when shutting down a machine, which previously was not always the case with soft updates in place." See the complete release announcement for further details. Download the amd64 and i386 installation DVD images from here: FreeBSD-10.3-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,636MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.3-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (2,446MB, SHA256).

OPNsense 16.1.6

This time around, DHCP and DNS have been freshened up thoroughly, removing both potential and real problems from the GUI and underneath. Additionally, the proxy server gained ICAP support and a category-based remote block list selection. Our firmware mirror support has finally been extended so that it is now possible to pull all updates from a single mirror, which will very soon make it possible to run a local mirror for your internal installations. We are also shipping the original FreeBSD OpenSSL patch, although the security issues cannot not surface on OPNsense.   

News

New Video Tutorial on the Pipelight Plugin and Netflix in PC-BSD

We recently looked at the pipelight port that recently received a patch in the ports tree and made a video for you guys.
I’ll just leave this here…
Watching Netflix in PC-BSD

The VAX platform is no more

After much internal discussion, OpenBSD has officially discontinued support for the VAX architecture. In a series of commits, Theo de Raadt puts the platform to rest. Read more... 

 

Scaling up with BSD | BSD Now 132

This week, Allan & I are away at AsiaBSDCon! (If you aren’t there, you are missing out). We will be back with a live episode next week. However, we’ve been asked for Allan to tell us about ScaleEngine’s use of BSD for a while now & we want to take this time to share it with you.
That & some Beastie Bits for your consumption, all this week on BSDNow.

View attached file (417 MB, video/mp4)

 

Code stuff 

Improvements for kqueue and per-CPU caching

Hammer not show

New CPUTYPE variables

In Other BSDs for 2016/03/12

Interesting articles

PlayOnBSD (run Windows software)

How-To: Install FreeBSD (with Gui!)

How-To: Add failed HDD back into a ZFS mirror

 

 

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BSD News 05/21/13

Last week in BSD:
NetBSD releases - Binary FreeBSD Packages - BSDTalk - DPorts - BSDMag

Releases

NetBSD 6.1 (and 6.0.2!) Released

 

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.

Simultaneously, the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, without new features.

For more details, please see the 6.1 release notes and the 6.0.2 release notes

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1 and 6.0.2 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

Other News

FreeBSD Binary Packages Are Available Again

Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored.

Read the official announcement here. 

vBSDcon Website Is Up!

 

In April 2013, Verisign announced the inaugural biennial vBSDcon event in Dulles, VA to occur October 25 – 27, 2013. In the weeks since the initial announcement, the vBSDcon website has been activated with details on the dates and location of the event. The website is available at http://www.vbsdcon.com/.

Some details have yet to be published, but will be available on the official vBSDcon website in the coming weeks. Please check back periodically for new updates!

Bsdtalk225 + bsdtalk226

Interview during BSDCan 2013 with Kris Moore from iXsystems.  We talk about some of the new features of PC-BSD.
File Info: 12Min, 6MB.
Ogg Link
http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk225.ogg

Interview during BSDCan 2013 with Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher from Netflix.
File Info: 11Min, 5MB.
Ogg link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk226.ogg

Jails Firewall with PF (BSDMag May 2013)

Issue contents

• SpiderFoot 2.0: The Open Source Footprinting Tool

• FreeBSD Jails Firewall with PF

• Improvements to Jail Management via the Warden

• msearch: MidnightBSD Search

• Useful Utilities for PF

• FreeBSD Programming Primer: Write HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL Code

• DTrace: A Deeper Approach

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DragonFlyBSD DPorts updates

New builds of dports have been uploaded and updated, for x86_64 and i386.  (x86_64 was already done; I linked the note about i386)  This means you can change PACKAGESITE in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf to point at LATEST instead of RELEASE and get newer packages.  ’pkg upgrade’ is all it takes, with dports.

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