FreeBSD 13.4 third Beta and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 13.4-BETA3 Available: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSDSec
OpenBSD Errata: August 19, 2024 (cron): Errata patches for cron and crontab have been released for OpenBSD 7.5 and 7.4. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
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News
FreeBSD Status Report - Second Quarter 2024: Here is the second 2024 status report, with 20 entries from project.
New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices: CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark is a comprehensive guide designed to help you configure your FreeBSD systems securely and efficiently. Developed by a team of security specialists at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), this Benchmark provides consensus-based, best-practice guidelines to safeguard your systems against evolving threats.
Valuable News – 2024/08/19: 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.
BSD Now 572: Where’s my backup?: OpenBSD Workstation for the People, Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD, Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way, Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works, Where’s my backup?, Vi and Vim: A Brief Overview, and more.
BSDCan 2024 Playlist is now complete: The BSDCan 2024 video playlist is now complete and available on both YouTube and Peertube.
Tutorials
Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG: In this blog post, you will learn how to configure your email server to encrypt all incoming emails using user’s GPG public keys (when it exists). This will prevent anyone from reading the emails, except if you own the according GPG private key. This is known as “encryption at rest”.
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