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15 October 2024
LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released  

The LibreSSL project, a closely associated subproject of the OpenBSD project, has announced the availability of their new stable release, LibreSSL 4.0.0, which comes with a number of improvements and a sprinkling of fixes.

14 October 2024
Valuable News – 2024/10/14  

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.

OpenBSD Errata: October 14, 2024 (unbound)  

Errata patches for unbound and unwind have been released for OpenBSD 7.6 and 7.5. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.

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13 October 2024
FuguIta 7.6 prerelease  

This is the first test version for 7.6 i386 and 7.6 amd64 for this OpenBSD-based Live System.

MidnightBSD 3.20 Video Review  

MidnightBSD - A free Unix, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later FreeBSD releases. The tagline is "The BSD for everyone" - a noble aim, but often falls short. Let's have another go, and see if this OS is a BSD for everyone.

11 October 2024
BSD Now 580  

Jason is still on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community.

Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit Program  

November 7-8, 2024, at NetApp’s San Jose campus and the program will include:

  • Pawel Dawidek, Fudo Security on "FreeBSD Security Improvements"
  • Dorr Clark, NetScaler on “Using FreeBSD in Products"
  • George Neville-Neil on "OSDB: Turning the Tables on Kernel Data"
  • Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick on “History of the BSD Daemon”
  • And more!
Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT  

OpenZFS 2.2 was a milestone release that brought several long-anticipated features to everyone’s favorite filesystem. Article is talking about automatically deduplicated copy operations via the new Block Reference Table feature, also known as the BRT or File Cloning.

09 October 2024
Celebrating FreeBSD Day with Tara Stella: A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD  

In the spirit of FreeBSD Day 2024, Foundation spoke with Tara Stella, an architect with a long history in open source development. With three decades of experience, Tara’s transition from Linux to FreeBSD is inspiring and insightful. Video is available in the article.

08 October 2024
OpenBSD 7.6 Released  

OpenBSD announced the official release of OpenBSD 7.6. This is their 57th release. As in our previous releases, 7.6 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. With this release all files that existed in the first commit in the OpenBSD source repository have been updated, modified or replaced at some point in time, reaching OpenBSD of Theseus. More details in post.

Valuable News – 2024/10/07  

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.

EuroBSDcon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland: some notes after the conference  

Leonardo Taccari shares his notes after attending EuroBSDCon.

FreeBSD 13.4: What’s new, and how did we get here?  

FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE significantly enhances infrastructure, hardware compatibility, and security, further demonstrating its value to the industry. This version builds upon the strong foundation established by previous versions within the 13.x series and aligns with the development timeline that includes the FreeBSD 14 branch, introduced in November 2023.

BSD Now 579: EuroBSDcon 2024  

Jason is on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community.

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