FreeBSD 14.2, HardenedBSD report and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Available: This is the third release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights: OCI container images are now available. The installer now supports downloading and installing necessary firmware packages after installing the FreeBSD base system. OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.6. OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.0.15.
BSDSec
No security announcements.
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News
Valuable News – 2024/12/02: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.
HardenedBSD November 2024 Status Report: This month saw a few improvements in HardenedBSD’s source tree. We can now boot to multi-user on the StarFive VisionFive2 riscv64 SBC dev boards. They use a 39-bit address space, so we had to tune down our ASLR deltas for this board as if we were operating on a 32-bit architecture. This is obviously far from optimal, but it’s what we have.
Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released: The initial list of 21 ‘low hanging fruit’ videos from EuroBSDcon 2024 has been released with more to follow.
OpenBSD-current now has more flexible performance policy : Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) committed a change which is likely to be welcomed by laptop users: Lets the user provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery. This is now in snapshots, so please test if you run those.
BSD Now 587: New filesystems category: FreeBSD Quarterly Report, Welcome to the new category: filesystems, BSD Misconceptions, Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024, Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind, A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3, and more.
Tutorials
Managing ZFS Full Pool Issues with Reserved Space: A simple approach to prevent ZFS pools from getting stuck due to a lack of free space.
7 Neofetch Alternatives for FreeBSD: Neofetch is still around, but it may soon disappear - so, here are 7 alternatives for all you FreeBSD ASCII system spec aficionados!
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