GhostBSD finance report, relayd/httpd TLS updates, pkgsrc-2026Q2 branch and more
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March 2026 Finance Report: GhostBSD reports 1,364.91 CAD in March donations, lists infrastructure and hardware expenses totaling 857.68 CAD, and notes 500.00 CAD added to the server fund for a future Ampere ARM server.
relayd(8) and httpd(8) TLS settings update: Both relayd and httpd now use a “secure” list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, including TLSv1.3 and TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites, replacing the previous “HIGH:!aNULL” list which contained non-perfect-forward-security methods and may cause old clients to fail to connect.
Valuable News - 2026/06/29: This week’s roundup covers OpenBSD amd64 kernel virtual address space expanding to 512GB, a patch for missing PKGBASE in FreeBSD jails, FreeBSD Git weekly reports, a new FreeBSD Core Team election, Sylve 0.3.0 adding a PF firewall and WireGuard manager, BSD Now 669 on Poudriere speed, and more.
g2k26: Rust in CMake, and a Heartbeat for Old Daemons: Author details porting devel/corrosion and devel/cxxbridge-cmd to handle Rust dependencies in CMake-based KDE Plasma ports under OpenBSD’s PORTS_PRIVSEP, and fixes a truncation bug in httpd(8) error documents by routing them through bufferevent instead of a single write, plus a privilege-separation bounds-check fix shared by httpd, relayd, iked, and snmpd.
BSD Now 669: Poudriere Speed Run: This episode covers native inotify in FreeBSD, how poudriere.conf changes affect build time, migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and a recap of the April 2026 Frankfurt FreeBSD hackathon.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2026Q2 branch: The pkgsrc developers announce the 91st quarterly release with 29,000+ packages, 187 new additions (including bob, a parallel builder, a new wayland category, and Rust 1.96), 3072 updates, and 45 removals.
Valuable News – 2026/06/22: This week covers FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE and its release notes, upgrading instructions, updated WiFi drivers and C23 support, the AI-assisted vulnerability discovery project, graphics port upgrade to Linux 6.12, NetBSD 11.0 RC5, MidnightBSD 4.0.6, BSDCan 2026 schedule, and more.
OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB: A recent commit by jsg@ raises the OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space from 4G to 512G to allow mapping all VRAM on recent Radeon cards with large PCI BAR sizes, such as a Radeon RX 6800 with 16G of VRAM.
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected: The FreeBSD project announces the 2026 Core Team: Warner Losh, Baptiste Daroussin, Gleb Smirnoff, Kyle Evans, Adrian Chadd, Joseph Mingrone, Hiroki Sato, Adam Weinberger, and Olivier Cochard, and notes that a bylaws amendment passed and will tentatively take effect for the 2028 election.
Tutorials
GhostBSD Firewall: GhostBSD has an out-of-the-box firewall. This video shows what options there for configuration using the terminal.
FreeBSD - create a local cache for pkg: This video explores how to create a pkg cache with nginx. You can use this to serve FreeBSD packages to your (intranet) machines and to more quickly install software and perform system updates.
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