OpenBSD’s 56th release and maybe some April Fools?
Releases
OpenBSD 7.5 released: The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.5, the project’s 56th release, with numerous improvements and support for 14 hardware platforms. See the OpenBSD 7.5 release page for a more detailed list.
BSDSec
OpenBSD Errata: April 8, 2024 (xserver): Errata patches for X11 server have been released for OpenBSD 7.5, 7.4 and 7.3. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
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News
GhostBSD review: Youtube video review of their latest release.
BSD Now 553: Terminal Latency: Using Git offline, Make your own E-mail server, quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development, Configuring openzfs for nvme databases, Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide part 1, Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev, and more.
NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts: Open source software leads the way in technology innovation, and corporate contributions to these community-driven projects significantly shape these resources. NetApp is a great example of this, as it has made strategic and multifaceted efforts to contribute to FreeBSD.
pfSense® Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel: Following in-depth evaluation and collaborative discussions, Netgate announced a significant strategic shift in the technological foundation of the pfSense project. They plan the migration of the pfSense platform from the FreeBSD operating system to a Linux kernel with a FreeBSD userland. This was on April 1st, but haven’t seen any confirmation this (not) being a joke.
Valuable News – 2024/04/01: 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.
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