jails discussion and answers
If you’re looking to use jails, there’s been a brief discussion about them on users@, which will be useful if you want to install packages or figure out how the loopback address works.
[FreeBSD-Announce] 2020 FreeBSD Community Survey
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The FreeBSD Core Team invites you to complete the 2020 FreeBSD Community
Survey.
https://www.research.net/r/freebsd-2020-community-survey
The purpose of the …
FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey
The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey is now available. Please feel free to share the survey URL with your employer, co-workers, friends, or any other community members interested in FreeBSD. Survey closes 17:00 UTC on June 16th (Tuesday 10am PDT).
patch(1) patched
DragonFly’s patch(1) is now at 2.0-12u11. I mention this not because it’s a dramatic change but because it’s a basic tool. Also, a benefit from our new committer.
OpenBSD Errata: June 1st, 2020 (perl)
Errata patches for Perl have been released for OpenBSD 6.6 and 6.7.
Several problems in Perl’s regular expression compiler could lead to
corruption of the intermediate language state of a compiled regular
expression.
Binary updates for the amd64, i38…
LibreSSL 3.2.0 Released
We have released LibreSSL 3.2.0, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
This is the first development release from the 3.2.x series, which will
eventually be part of OpenBSD 6.8. It includes the following …
Lazy Reading for 2020/05/31
This week’s Lazy Reading supported, kindly, by Tse Gratis volunteering a bunch of links. OpenVMS: Rollout of V9.0 and Beyond. Still going? (via) Compiling for the Z-machine version 3. <blink> What sort of SSH keys our users use or have listed in their authorized keys files. An anthropological survey, in a way. Big Box Collection. …
In Other BSDs for 2020/05/30
Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via) BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via) Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis. OpenBSD …
FreeBSD 11.4-RC2 Available
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSD Now 352: Introducing Randomness
This week’s BSD Now links to a bunch of what I call ‘resource’ articles, things that tell you how to do things and use stuff. It’s good reading if you have the time.
OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs
Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
posted to misc@
a useful summary of the state of play of FFS2
in the 6.7 release (and, to some extent, -current).
In his mail, Otto clarifies some things about the latest release:
In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for ne…
xargs update in DragonFly
Updates to third-party utilities happen often in DragonFly, and I don’t often link because they may not affect users much – but I’m noting a change to xargs(1) cause given what xargs does, any mistake you make will be repeated many ti…
wpa_supplicant updated
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, wpa_supplicant(8) in DragonFly jumped from version 2.1 to 2.9. There’s a nice changelog for the curious.
OpenBSD Errata: May 25th, 2020 (smtpd_sockaddr)
Errata patches for OpenSMTPD have been released for OpenBSD 6.7.
Incorrect use of getpeername(2) storage for outgoing IPv6 connections
corrupts stack memory. The nature of the corruption and existing
mitigations appear to make this difficult to effect…
Lazy Reading for 2020/05/24
It’s rare, but I was able to collect most of these links more than 24 hours before you are reading them. Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists. Minitel! The Internet’s Many Branches. Roguelike Celebration is going to happen! (virtually) Plus there’s a call …
In Other BSDs for 2020/05/23
For once I started on these early in the week. Savaged by systemd, now available as an audiobook. OpenBSD in a laptop, part 1 and part 2. (via, via) FreeBSD and Google Season of Docs. WireGuard on FreeBSD Quick Look: Testing VPN in Jail Network. (via) Beautiful background pictures on OpenBSD. Communauté OpenBSD française. Valuable …
FreeBSD 11.4-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSD Now 351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7
BSD Now covers this week’s OpenBSD release, along with other topics. I’ll point out the “FreeNAS Spare Parts Build” since everyone does that sooner or later.
LibreSSL 3.1.2 Released
We have released LibreSSL 3.1.2, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
It includes the following fix:
* A TLS client with peer verification disabled may crash when
contacting a server that sends an …