NetBSD 11.0 RC6 released, Valuable News and BSD Now 671 and more
Releases
NetBSD 11.0 RC6 available!: The NetBSD project has released the sixth release candidate for 11.0, asking users to test the nearly year-old netbsd-11 branch and report issues via mailing lists or PRs, with DVD-sized ISO images recommended for full-featured installs.
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News
Valuable News – 2026/07/13: This week covers hunting memory leaks in bsnmpd with DTrace, OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 release, FreeBSD Git Weekly and Foundation laptop updates, NetBSD 11.0 RC6, a study on OpenBSD pledge and unveil, GhostBSD stability impressions, FreeBSD build scripts for Stremio, and more.
BSD Now 671: Rage Against the Machine: This episode covers ZFS vs Ceph, running Victoria Logs on FreeBSD, splitting syslogd into privileged and non-privileged binaries, and detecting dangerous secrets on dev workstations, plus more.
RedBSD: A FreeBSD-based distribution with an XFCE desktop and a curated red team and penetration testing toolkit, available as VMware-ready images.
OpenBSD’s pledge(2) and unveil(2) are developer-friendly, study finds: A recent academic paper measures the adoption of pledge and unveil in OpenBSD’s base and packages and concludes that these sandboxing features facilitate secure coding practices rather than hinder them.
Tutorials
FreeBSD - Using synth to compile ports: Synth is an alternative to poudriere - designed to be used for live systems. In this video they show the basics of synth, and how to get one port compiling.
GitLab on FreeBSD: A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring GitLab on FreeBSD 15.1 in a bhyve VM, covering PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and GitLab setup with commands and configuration details.
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