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BSD News 09/02/2015

Last week in BSD
Releases: OPNsense, PC-BSD
Other news: BSDSec, FreeBSD, pkg, DragonFly BSD, freeNAS, HardenedBSD, s2k15, OpenBSD

BSDSec

Reminder: FreeBSD 10.0 end-of-life approaching
Changes to the FreeBSD Support Model !!!

Releases

OPNsense version 15.1.4 Released

It has been quite calm on the ports side of things, but there have been many commits in the core adding up to an incentive to upgrade as soon as possible. And, yes, there are patches addressing CVEs in FreeBSD. Here is the change log:
* FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem — CVE-2014-8612 — https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem.asc
* FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp — CVE-2014-8613 — https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:03.sctp.asc
* time zone data updated to 2015a — http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2015-January/000028.html
* sshd now uses the correct OpenSSH version
* fixed SSL certificate generation issue
* interfaces, unbound, certificates and NAT GUI fixes
* captive portal voucher key regeneration and OpenSSL usage fixed
The images can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opnsense/files/15.1.4/
The advised upgrade method is to boot from install media, recover your device configuration using the import configuration option, then do a quick/easy install (or a custom one if you did that previously).
Please note that the current firmware upgrade does *not* update the kernel and base system to fix the FreeBSD security advisories.

PC-BSD 10.1.1-Release

notable Changes
———————————————
* Brand new system updater which supports automatic background updating
of the system
* Many improvements to boot-environments and GRUB support for a wider
variety of setups
* Support for installation to a specific GPT partition and GPT
dual-booting improvements
* Conversion to Qt5 for all desktop utilities
* Fixes to using dtrace when booted from GRUB
* Re-write of Mount Tray utility, improves mounting of external media
* Support for full-disk encryption (without an unencrypted /boot) using
GELI v7
* More packages available for installation from DVD/USB/CD images via
“PC-BSD roles“
* New OVA files for virtual machines
* Misc bugfixes and improvements to utilities
* GNOME 3.14.1
* Cinnamon 2.4.2
* Lumina desktop 0.8.1
* Chromium 39.0.2171.95
* Firefox 35.0
* NVIDIA Driver 340.65
* Pkg 1.4.4
Getting media
———————————————
10.1.1-RELEASE DVD/USB media can be downloaded from the following URL via
HTTP or Torrent.
http://www.pcbsd.org/en/download.html

News

From the Foundation (Part 1) | BSD Now 75

This week on the show, we'll be starting a two-part series detailing the activities of various BSD foundations. Ed Maste from the FreeBSD foundation will be joining us this time, and we'll talk about what all they've been up to lately. All this week's news and answers to viewer-submitted questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Encryption and Signing of HardenedBSD's main site and package repository

Word got out that we didn't support SSL/TLS on our site due to lack of funding. A couple companies reached out to us to offer us free SSL/TLS certificates. Thanks to DigiCert, as of today, HardenedBSD's main site and package repository is now running SSL/TLS! We will update our Jenkins server with SSL/TLS over the next week. We've also started signing all the release media in our nightly builds with a GPG key created for the dev team. The GPG key's Key ID is 4BB5228E and its fingerprint is 2FB0 10E7 4676 C06C 23C5 7687 E57D 5B65 4BB5 228E.

Code stuff
More i915 upgrades
Many wireless updates
Removal of ChaCha20 Import
DragonFly and Git
In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07
Update to the i915 kernel driver
On the OpenCL front

Interesting articles
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part I: Purpose and Best Practices
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part II: Hardware Specifics
pkg(8) passes coverity scans
Why ZIL Size Matters (or Doesn't)
s2k15: warming up

BSD News 08/09/2014

JH 1:11 AM Add Comment

Last week in BSD
Releases: GhostBSD, PC-BSD
Other news: Unix, pkg, GhostBSD, DragonFly BSD, mksh, MirOS, Lumina Desktop, FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, NetBSD, OpenSSD, BSDnow

Releases

GhostBSD 4.0 RC 2 now available

The GhostBSD team is pleased to announce the availability the Second RC build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle which is available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

FreeBSD 10 RELEASE p6 back to 10 RELEASE(This fix problem with default src file) at any time user can update to the latest freebsd-update.
SpiderOak was not compilable and it is missing in the system.
VlC as been replace by Gnome MPlayer(active user have ask for it).
I386 is now using new xorg build and KMS users will benefit of 3D acceleration like GhostBSD x64.

Updating software using "pkg upgrade" will corrupt xorg and might corrupt GDM too. The solution is to use update the software that you want to update with "pkg install" , you can see the list of update by doing "pkg upgrade -n", "pkg install" automatically update software dependency. Be sure to not upgrade xorg-server, xorg-drivers, and any xf86 with "pkg" use "portupgrade"

PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC2 Available for Testing

Other news

pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

The ports tree has been modified to only support pkg(8) as package management system for all supported version of FreeBSD.
if you were still using pkg_install (pkg_* tools) you will have to upgrade your system.
The simplest way is

cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
make install

then run

pkg2ng

You will have lots of warning, don’t be scared, they are expected, pkg_* databases used to get easily mangled. pkg2ng is most of the time able to deal
with it.
If however you encounter a problem then please report to pkg@FreeBSD.org
A tag has been applied to the ports tree if you need to get the latest ports tree before the EOL of pkg_install:

https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL

A branch has been created if some committers want to provides updates on the for pkg_install users:

https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/pkg_install

Please note that this branch is not officially maintained and that we strongly recommend that you do migrate to pkg(8)

DragonfFly: Full rebuild needed

Because of some structure changes made by Matthew Dillon while chasing a pf bug, you will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel on your next update – if you are running DragonFly-master. 3.8 users are unaffected by the bug or the change.

mksh R50b released

The MirBSD Korn Shell has got a new bugfix release. Thought you’d want to know.

New Lumina source repo and FreeBSD port

By popular demand, the source tree for the Lumina project has just been moved to its own repository within the main PC-BSD project tree on GitHub.
In addition to this, an official FreeBSD port for Lumina was just committed to the FreeBSD ports tree which uses the new repo.

It’s HAMMER Time | BSD Now 53

It's our one year anniversary episode, and we'll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver - why it was created and where it's going. After that, we'll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly's HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

HardenedBSD amd64 Package Repo Live

The amd64 package repo based on the hardened/current/master branch is now live! The packages are signed by us. The RSA certificate used for package signing can be found attached to this post and can additionally be found here. The repository can be found here. We will be updating the amd64 repo on a weekly basis.

Interesting articles
Unix: Better network connection insights with mtr
Persist tmux environment across system restarts
How to zero a buffer + Erratum + Zeroing buffers is insufficient
VMWorld 2014 Recap
Ghostbsd 4 preview/

Code stuff
NetBSD Security Advisory 2014-008: Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities (updated)
An easier moused start
Haswell graphics and port support
UDP improvements for DragonFly
In Other BSDs for 2014/09/06

BSD News 28/07/2014

JH 10:39 PM Add Comment

Last week in BSD
Releases: none
Other news: Unix, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, LibreSSL, FreeBSD Foundation, BSDnow, pkg, freeNAS, g2k14

Releases

seems like none

Other news

Hibernating to Encrypted softraid(4) Now Supported

With this commit, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) has added support for hibernating to encrypted softraid(4) devices. This is what he had to say when asked about it:

After RLE support (which went in in Slovenia), the next thing on the list to tackle was softraid crypto. Theo provided the initial idea on how to get the block transforms and crypto bits working over lunch one day in Slovenia and after about three or four days of on-and-off hacking this week, we had it working. Read more...

USB tethering on DragonFly

Tethering now works via the urndis(4) device, from a patch contributed by Sascha Wildner/tested by Yellow Rabbit.

LibreSSL 2.0.3 Released

Bob Beck (beck@) has announced the release of LibreSSL 2.0.3:

We have released an update, LibreSSL 2.0.3 - which should
be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of an OpenBSD mirror near
you very soon. 
                                                                                
This release includes a number of portability fixes based on the
the feedback we have received from the community. It also includes
some improvements to the fork detection support. 
                                                                                
As noted before, we welcome feedback from the broader community.                
                                                                                
Enjoy,                                                                          
                                                                                
-Bob

Minimalist HTTP Daemon Activated in Base

Reyk Flöter (reyk@) recently committed the rc(8) glue to make his forked-from-relayd http server usable:

CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: reyk@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/07/22 11:37:16

Modified files:
 usr.sbin       : Makefile 
 etc            : Makefile changelist rc.conf 
Added files:
 etc/rc.d       : httpd 

Log message:
Enable httpd(8) in the builds to get more testing, feedback and
improvements.  It is not "finished" but serves static files.

ok deraadt@

BSD News 14/07/14

JH 1:30 AM Add Comment

Last week in BSD

DragonFly x256

DragonFly now supports running on up to 256 CPUs. 256 is the initial limit on the basic interrupt controller, and it can be extended further. It’s been tested on 255 CPUs so far, since that’s the highest number of CPUs you can bring up in qemu.

New Core Team Secretary: Matthew Seaman

The FreeBSD Core Team is glad to announce that Matthew Seaman has assumed the role of Core Team Secretary.

New FreeBSD Core Team has been elected

The complete newly elected Core Team is:
Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
George Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org>
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

g2k14

g2k14 headsup: relayd(8) filtering language changed

First Release of LibreSSL Portable Available

Bob Beck (beck@) announced the release of LibreSSL-portable:

The first release of LibreSSL portable has been released. LibreSSL
can be found in the LibreSSL directory of your favorite OpenBSD mirror.

http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL has it, and other mirrors
will soon.

libressl-2.0.0.tar.gz has been tested to build on various versions of
Linux, Solaris, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD.

This is intended as an initial release to allow the community to start
using and providing feedback. We will be adding support for
other platforms as time and resources permit.

As always, donations (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html)
are appreciated to assist in our efforts.

Enjoy,

-Bob

Second Release of LibreSSL Portable Available

Bob Beck (beck@) announced the second release of LibreSSL-portable:

We have released an update, LibreSSL 2.0.1

This release includes a number of portability fixes based on the
initial feedback we have received from the community.  This includes
among other things two new configure options to set OPENSSLDIR and
ENGINESDIR. We have removed a few hardcoded compiler options that
were problematic on some systems as well as -Werror. We have also
re-synced with the latest OpenBSD sources as a number of issues
were fixed upstream. This release also includes pkg-config support.

As noted before, we welcome feedback from the broader community.

Enjoy,
-Bob

Bob also writes:

Also starting with this release the directory includes SHA256
signatures which are signed using signify.

The signify public key for libressl is:

untrusted comment: LibreSSL Portable public key
RWQg/nutTVqCUVUw8OhyHt9n51IC8mdQRd1b93dOyVrwtIXmMI+dtGFe

FreeBSD Monthly dashboard

Number of messages to portmgr@: 564 (+53%)
Number of commits on ports: 3,717 (+17%)
Number of ports PRs closed: 873 (+25%)
Active ports committers: 147 (+10%)

LDAP on DragonFly

If you’re looking to use LDAP on DragonFly, follow this thread (read the first, keep going) as people talk about implementing it, what they installed, etc.

pkg and conflicts

Some dports packages can’t be installed in combination with others. The easy way to find the conflict without doing the install? Look for CONFLICTS= in the Makefile. If you don’t have the dports tree on disk, you can always look online.

ZFS War Stories | BSD Now 45

This week Allan is at BSDCam in the UK, so we'll be back with a regular episode next week. For now though, here's an interview with Josh Paetzel about some crazy experiences he's had with ZFS.

Code stuff

PC-BSD Feature Digest 31 — Warden CLI upgrade + IRC Announcement
DragonFly ACPICA updated to 20140627
OpenBSD Heads up: changing mfi to mrsas
In Other BSDs for 2014/07/12

Interesting articles
Unix: Never go topless
iXsystems Unveils All-New TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance Line
How to choose passwords to improve your life

BSD News 10/02/14

JH 9:29 PM Add Comment

Last week in BSD
Releases: NetBSD, FreeNAS
Other News: DragonFly BSD, pkg, FreeBSD, n2k14, OpenBSD, JabirOS, NetBSD, BSDnow

Releases

NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2, and NetBSD 5.1.4 patch releases

These releases represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. Updating to one of these versions is recommended for users of all prior releases.
For more details, please see the NetBSD 6.1.3 release notes, the NetBSD 6.0.4 release notes, the NetBSD 5.2.2 release notes, or the NetBSD 5.1.4 release notes.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.1.3, NetBSD 6.0.4, NetBSD 5.2.2 and NetBSD 5.1.4 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/.

FreeNAS 9.2.1-RC2

Announcing FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE

After one BETA, two Release Candidates, and many nightly builds (which many of you tested, to our everlasting gratitude) we are, as always, proud to announce the public availability of FreeNAS 9.2.1-RELEASE.
FreeNAS 9.2.0 was a great release, and we’re pleased to say that FreeNAS 9.2.1 is even better! Since 9.2.0 was released, we have fixed over 189 bugs, added new features, polished the UI, and improved the performance of FreeNAS even further!
The documentation has also been updated for 9.2.1, though the source code (see release notes) is still a useful reference for features like the web API, which comes with several examples in the source tree.

Other news

DragonFly and Google Summer of Code 2014

Already asked this question on kernel@, but repeat it here. Who is interested in mentoring for DragonFly, for Google Summer of Code 2014? The org application period is starting today, and it would be neat to do this for a seventh year in a row.

Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools

There comes a time in the life cycle of just about every software package that it has bee re-evaluated, refreshed, deprecated or just retired.
It is time that we bid farewell to the old pkg_* software that has been part of FreeBSD since the beginning, and has served us well. After years of development, testing, and playing, pkg(8) has become a suitable replacement.

Time Signatures | BSD Now 23

We’ll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we’ve got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even… the winner of our tutorial contest! It’s a big show, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

Code Stuff
n2k14 Hackathon Report: krw@ on dhcp and disk labels
Working on Final version, What will I see in 2.0-RELEASE?
New C-state possibilities
C-state sysctl followup
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 16
In Other BSDs for 2014/02/08

Interesting articles
Unix: When to look for a new job
BSD Releases January 2014
Creating PBI’s with EasyPBI
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems Collaborate to Further the Cause of High Performance Computing on FreeBSD
httperf tuning for #FreeBSD testing

BSD News 07/01/13

JH 4:47 AM Add Comment

Last week in BSD

GhostBSD - FreeBSD - Hackathon - iXsystems - DragonFly BSD - pkg - freeNAS,

Releases

FreeNAS 9.1.0 BETA images available

The FreeNAS development team has announced the availability of FreeNAS 9.1.0-BETA images. Images can be downloaded from freenas downloads section. The best improvement, I think, is that the jail plugin for any plugins you want to download is now included in the install image and does not need to be downloaded and installed separately. FreeNAS 9.1.0-BETA has many [...]

FreeNAS 9.1.0 BETA images available was originally posted on FreeBSD News.

GhostBSD 3.1 Now Available | GhostBSD

Eric is pleased to announce that GhostBSD 3.1 is now available! This release is a respin of 3.0 including many bug fix. GhostBSD 3.1 does not include any updated package or new feature its only to fix issue that some user had find.
Changes since 3.1.

Updatec FreeBSD 9.1 to FreeBSD 9.1 p4

Improvement the auto Xorg configuration.

The Nvidia drivers as bean remove to fix issue with older card.

Numerous bug-fixes to GhostBSD related utilities.

Openbox and Lxde AMD64 ISO is fitting back on CD.

The package manager is back in function.

pkg_add is back in function.

Availability The GhostBSD 3.1 amd64 and i386 architectures is now available via torrent and download page. It can be installed from ISO images or USB images.

Other news

pkg 1.1

After almost a year of development pkg 1.1 has reached the ports tree, actually pkg 1.1.1 has 1.1 was too buggy :(

Click on title and you can read more about what happened in 1 year of development (with focus on use visible features).

Recompile needed for DragonFly 3.5 users

Because Sepherosa Ziehau changed mbstat, anyone on bleeding-edge DragonFly will need to rebuild world, or else netstat will become confused.

Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple to Become CTO at iXsystems

This press release went out this morning.
While it concentrates on FreeNAS, this is also very good news for PC-BSD, and ultimately, FreeBSD. We look forward to working with Jordan and benefiting from his experience at Apple. I see good things in PC-BSD’s future

Toronto 2013 Hackathon Report - Ingo Schwarze

Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) submitted his view of Toronto, and a few bits of the stuff he was working on there:

During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the makewhatis(8) utility, providing enhanced search capabilities for the apropos(1) manual page search utility.
In particular, it is designed to support searches for semantically annotated text in manual pages, for example to specifically search for subsection headers, utility options, file names, include files, function arguments, variable names, preprocessor macros, standard titles, author names, cross references, and much more.

USB driver for FreeBSD/Beaglebone

It took me two months but I finally got back to hacking on musb driver for FreeBSD (the one that is used in TI AM335x-based devices like Beaglebone or Beaglebone Black). Previous revision turned out not to be ready for production. Here is the new one: beaglebone-usb-20130626.diff. I adopted it to latest HEAD, fixed numerous bugs, added support for SPLIT transactions and USB suspend/resume signalling. There is some cleaning-up to do but unless something major comes up the plan is to commit it over next few days.

Wallpaper of the week

new GhostBSD logo

Did I miss some important news? Let the others know in comments!

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