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Releases: OPNsense
Other news: u2k15, BSDSec, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, clang, freeNAS, BSDnow, OPNsense,

BSDSec

New erratas released today: 5.8 errata #8, 5.7 errata #20

Release

OPNsense new images based on 15.7.18

We’re releasing new images! It’s nothing special as we recommend the weekly online updates, but in case you don’t want to go through the trouble of installing something older than it should be, the new 15.7.18 images are for you.
People sometimes wonder why we don’t provide images all the time. The answer is it’s time consuming to test images and roll a release out amounting to about a full day of work given that everything works out and we don’t have to go through another rebuild cycle. We simply can’t do this for every week’s update without full test coverage. Then again, this idiosyncrasy directly translates to more code fixes, faster releases and quicker response time, something that we can all agree on, right?
You can find the latest release announcement here:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=1600.0
The checksums are attached below and you can obtain the images from any of our mirrors listed here:
https://opnsense.org/download/

News

Running with clang

If you are using clang with DragonFly, and you want to always run the newest version, you can set options in compilers.conf, and use ‘clangnext‘.

Controlling the Transmissions | BSD Now 115

Allan is back from the latest FreeBSD Dev Summit & we’ll get to hear his recap of the event. We also have an interview with Hiren, who will be telling us about the ongoing work of improving the TCP stack in FreeBSD.

View attached file (613 MB, video/mp4)

Code stuff

Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4)

u2k15: florian@ on IPv6 hackery

u2k15: stsp@ on hackathon shirts, setup, UTF-8 and more

u2k15: mpi@ on network SMPization cleanup

u2k15: jung@ on asmc(4), ports work, EFI testing

u2k15: sebastia@ on packages progress

Realtek 8168H support in DragonFly

i915 rename in DragonFly

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/14

Interesting articles

Why I Chose FreeNAS When I Started My Own Landscape Architecture Firm

The ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified

Wallpaper of the week

rather small pic from http://www.nixp.ru/uploads/news/fullsize_image/e8f89019cdec08acabea619326761a759f11da8c.png

Last week in BSD

Releases:none
Other news:DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, pfSense, BSDnow, NextBSD, OpenBSD, BSDTalk, u2k15, BSDSec

BSDSec

End of life for NetBSD 5.x on November 9

Releases

seems to be none

News

bsdtalk258 - Chris Henschen from fP Technologies

Oct 2015 is the 20th anniversary of the OpenBSD source tree!
This episode is brought to you by the id utility, which returns the user identity. id appeared in 4.4 BSD.
An interview from vBSDCon 2015 with Chris Henschen from fP Technologies. They recently ported their filePro Plus product to FreeBSD.
File Info: 6Min, 3MB
Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk258/bsdtalk258.ogg

Developer interview roundup

Polish BSD news site beastie.pl has been conducting interviews with various OpenBSD developers for the 20th anniversary. Each one covers some background info on the interviewee, how and why they got into OpenBSD and what they're looking forward to. The series has just concluded, and you can find the complete list here: Read more...

What’s Next for BSD? | BSD Now 113

Coming up on this week’s episode, we have an interview Jordan Hubbard about the new NextBSD project & the future of BSD. Also Allan's re-cap of the OpenZFS conference & of course your latest news!

View attached file (898 MB, video/mp4)

End of life for NetBSD 5.x on November 9

In keeping with NetBSD's policy of supporting only the current (7.x) and next most recent (6.x) release majors, the release of NetBSD 7.0 marks the end of life for the 5.x branches. As in the past, a month of overlapping support is being provided in order to ease the migration to newer releases.
On November 9, the following branches will no longer be maintained:

netbsd-5-2
netbsd-5-1
netbsd-5

Furthermore:

There will be no more pullups to the branches (even for security issues)
There will be no security advisories made for any of the 5.x releases
The existing 5.x releases on ftp.NetBSD.org will be moved into /pub/NetBSD-archive/

We hope 7.0 serves you well!