DragonFly 4.2 is officially released! You can go to
the 4.2 release page for details, go to the
mirrors page to download, or
read my users@ post for upgrade steps.
Update: news stories and commentary seen on
lobste.rs,
Hacker News, and
linux.fr.
There’s
a minor update for DragonFly 4.2 – this covers a problem with i915 support, so it’s worth upgrading if you have an Intel video chipset.
While the summer is hot, we push forward to what now is 15.7 —
nicknamed ‘Brave Badger’ — right in front of you. A lot of effort went
into this project during the past 6 months, and we dare say it has been
worth all of it. We would like to thank our followers and friends and
feedback givers and forum lurkers and contributors and doubters and
supporters that helped to make 15.7 what it is. We wouldn’t be here
without any of you. Thank you.
In itself, 15.7 is a simple upgrade from 15.1.12 which we recommend
to everyone. What changes is that development will move to a different
branch so that from now on regressions are less likely and therefore
stability will increase further. The provided images may also be the
only ones for the next 6 months as we are confident in their longevity
and the online upgrade path. We have also bumped the LibreSSL flavour to
a production-ready state and encourage everyone to try it out. The
installer’s import configuration tool coupled with a quick and easy
installation can help you move from OpenSSL to LibreSSL and back
seamlessly.
The biggest addition is the intrusion detection integration
(suricata) as well as new local and remote blacklists options for the
proxy server (squid).
Security-wise, it has been rather quiet with only a few CVEs in
third-party tools. Please see the full patch notes for details and
references:
- kernel: borrowed a dummynet / ipnat patch from m0n0wall to enable symmetric traffic shaping when NAT is involved
- kernel: fix recurse lock panic for tmpfs in conjunction with unionfs
- kernel: applied two stable patches that prevent squid from crashing [1]
- kernel: retired ALTQ support
- base: sendmail TLS/DH Interoperability Improvement [2]
- base: improved iconv(3) UTF-7 support [3]
- base: inconsistency between locale and rune locale states [4]
- notable ports updates: phalcon 2.0.3 [5], curl 7.43.0_2 [6],
openssh 6.8p1_8, python 2.7.10 [7], perl 5.20.2_5 [8], ntp 4.2.8p3 [9],
libxml2 [10] 2.9.2_3, openldap24-server 2.4.41 [11]
- opnsense-update: will no longer try to reinstall the installed version after a fresh installation
- bsdinstaller: bring back cpdup to error out on low memory
installation (you need 1 GB of RAM, or work around installation using
the nano image)
- traffic shaper: removed legacy queues support in favour of the new traffic shaper functionality
- traffic shaper: allow direct enable/disable toggle
- proxy: fix the initial daemon start on bootup
- proxy: added LAN as the default interface configuration
- proxy: local and remote blacklists with regex support
- intrusion detection: initial release of our IDS GUI based on suricata
- gateways: monitoring mode gained IPv6 support
- captive portal: fix idle timeout bug
- captive portal: d
- not delete the wrong zone when having multiple configurations
- captive portal: removed include files from exposed web directory
- backend: always regenerate users and groups to avoid corruption after an unclean shutdown
- backend: wait for configd socket to come up to address a startup race issue
- backend: clean up configd socket on exit
- backend: fixed regression that prevented user scripts from being started via /etc/rc.conf
- gateways: only show apinger in services when monitoring is enabled for a gateway
- languages: brought Simplified Chinese to 49% completed, German to 30% completed
- universal plug and play: make page invoke static to remove exploitability of the legacy packages framework
- crash reporter: finally enabled the send button and provides human-readable feedback whether the submission was complete
- console: added non-interactive interface assignment for headless deployments
- ssh: disable password authentication on factory reset to align with the standard configuration
- diagnostics: avoid duplicated calls of gethostbyaddr() in NDP table view
- users: prompt for old password on password change to prevent account hijacking
- users: stripped the impossible scponly user privileges since said utility has never been part of our ecosystem
Images can be found on any of our mirrors, but they may take a few hours to sync.
https://opnsense.org/download/
Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Jun Ebihara about some
lesser-known CPU architectures in NetBSD. He'll tell us what makes these
old (and often forgotten) machines so interesting. As usual, we've also
got answers to your emails and all this week's news on BSD Now - the
place to B.. SD.
An interview with Ken Worster who is presenting on topics which include
PFSense and FreeNAS in schools at the Technology Teacher ME conference
in Bethel Maine.
The PC-BSD project is pleased to announce the availability of two new testing images: 10.2-PRERELEASE and 11.0-CURRENTJULY2015.
WARNING: These images are considered “bleeding-edge” and should be treated as such.
The DVD/USB ISO files can now be downloaded from the following URLs:
http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/10.2-RELEASE/edge/amd64/
http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/11.0-CURRENTJULY2015/amd64/
This is a great way to test features and report bugs well before the release cycle begins for the next major releases.
To report bugs in PC-BSD, use
https://bugs.pcbsd.org.
To report FreeBSD / Port / Kernel / World bugs, use
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi.
To update from 10.1-RELEASE:
# pc-updatemanager chbranch 10.2-RELEASE
or
# pc-updatemanager chbranch 11.0-CURRENTJULY2015
This process will take a while, downloading new packages / world /
kernel for the system. When done you can reboot, and the updater will
finish up the update process.
Intel has released the beta version of their C++ compiler for FreeBSD.
Thanks to Kittur Ganesh (Intel) for informing us about this software.
Intel® System Studio (ISS) 2016 for FreeBSD* Beta provides a
comprehensive embedded tool suite solution for developing, optimizing,
tuning and deploying 64-bit system and application C, C++ code running
natively on FreeBSD*
from http://www.wallpaperdisk.com/download-free%20bsd%20devil-1463-wallpaper.html
