FreeBSD 13.4, GhostBSD 24.07.3 and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/13 branch. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 13.3-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software.
GhostBSD 24.07.3: This release fixes issues found in 24.07.1 and 24.07.2, bringing important enhancements, bug fixes, and new features. Key improvements include setting vital system and software packages, adding support to mark packages as vital, and including hgame in kld_list. Notably, they resolved the legacy boot issue where the live session wouldn’t start due to missing gzip in the BIOS /boot/loader. They’ve also ensured /etc/X11 is properly created during setup.
BSDSec
OpenBSD Errata: September 17, 2024 (expat nfs readdir elf): Errata patches for libexpat and kernel 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
Valuable News – 2024/09/16: 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 576: The Forever Workaround: From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, August 2024 Foundation Update, Email encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG, Workarounds are often forever (unless you work to make them otherwise), Remote Desktop using RDP and VNC, Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple, Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System, and more.
Tutorials
Moving an entire FreeBSD installation to a new host or VM: This tutorial walks you through moving an entire FreeBSD system, from a physical host to a VM or vice versa, with step-by-step instructions for ZFS and bootloader configuration.
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