Issue 168
Published November 29, 2023

New releases and more.

Releases

Bastille 0.10.20231125 Release - Thanksgiving 2023 Edition: 📦 The Bastille team spent the American holiday weekend putting the final touches on Bastille 0.10.20231125! Major features and fixes include:

  • bootstrap #FreeBSD BETA and RC releases
  • bootstrap EOL #FreeBSD releases (>=9.0) * improved jail startup dependency using rcorder(8)
  • combine create options, eg: -CV, -TB, etc
  • fixes to bastille setup

pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1: This is a maintenance software release including new features and bug fixes.

BSDSec

OpenBSD Errata: November 21, 2023 (patch ospfd tmux httpd): Errata patches for patch, ospfd, tmux, and httpd have been released for OpenBSD 7.4. Errata patch for httpd has also been released for OpenBSD 7.3. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.

As always, it’s worth following BSDSec. RSS feed and Twitter account available.

News

BSD Now 543: Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos.

Tutorials

OpenBSD and Pi Zero 2w: Could you use a Pi as a DNS et DHCP server? It turns out to be really simple, with the proper hardware. Here are the notes.

FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0 - properly detailed and correct way: In this article, Özgür Konstantin Kazanççı talks about how to upgrade FreeBSD 13.2 systems to 14.0 in deep and detailed way.

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