This week's roundup covers the release of NetBSD 10.2, OpenBSD-current moving to 8.0, and OpenBSD adding multi-processor support to vmm/vmd alongside a new rtrd daemon. FreeBSD topics include launching KDE Desktop AMIs on AWS EC2, a guide to common ZFS misconfigurations, the new kldinfo utility for inspecting kernel module dependencies, and native Brave browser support.
HardenedBSD's latest status report highlights release engineering prep for quarterly builds, base OS updates including experimental -fbounds-safety support and hardened SSH defaults, and infrastructure migrations from VMs to jails. It also details restored GitHub repository mirroring and the project's stance on recent Radicle network security disclosures.
FreeBSD 15.0 reaches end-of-life on September 30, 2026, after which it will no longer receive security updates from the FreeBSD Security Team.
Theo de Raadt has moved OpenBSD -current to version 8.0, dropping the beta tag as part of the standard pre-release process, and reminds users to use "-D snap" with pkg_add and to test and report issues.
OpenBSD has imported rtrd(8) and rtrctl(8), an RPKI-To-Router protocol implementation created by Ralph Covelli. The daemon acts as a distribution layer to deliver data from rpki-client(8) to BGP routers such as bgpd(8).
Mike Larkin added multi-processor guest support to OpenBSD's vmm(4)/vmd(8), implementing the SIPI/init LAPIC state machine, MP IPI support, and new vmctl/vm.conf options, tested on various guests.
This episode covers new BSD-based NAS projects (BSDNAS, FreeCORE), a FreeBSD Foundation intern working on ROCm support, OpenSSH 10.5, and a look at the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag.
Klara Systems explains how to identify and fix common ZFS misconfigurations involving ashift, recordsize, vdev layout, dedup, and pool capacity, with practical examples and commands.
It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 10.1 in December 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 10.0. This release includes security updates for ipfilter, telnet, kernel TCP support, OpenSSL, Unbound, and X.Org. It improves the stability of the iwm(4) Wi-Fi driver, and fixes support for Olimex A64 and MIPS R5000SC systems. Newly available is the ability to boot an amd64 kernel directly with QEMU's -kernel option.
The FreeBSD Core Team formally endorses the FreeBSD Foundation as an open-source software steward for EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance, while affirming that downstream enterprise partners and contributors may also independently fulfill steward roles.
vermaden's weekly BSD digest covering Apiary (a Bhyve/Jails cluster platform), FreeBSD on Framework Laptop, NetBSD GSoC Enlightenment E26 progress, GEFS on OpenBSD, and EuroBSDCon 2026 video releases.
After more than two decades of dormancy, ekkoBSD has returned with release 2.1delivering a small, auditable 4.4BSD-derived operating system for amd64 featuring a modern build system, updated handbook, and 742 native .mom packages.
The second status report on bringing the Enlightenment desktop to NetBSD details hardware-accelerated DRM/DRI fixes in EFL, BSD socket fixes in Ecore_Con for X11 and Wayland compositing, and updated packages in pkgsrc-wip.
