This video explores how to create a pkg cache with nginx. You can use this to serve FreeBSD packages to your (intranet) machines and to more quickly install software and perform system updates.
The pkgsrc developers announce the 91st quarterly release with 29,000+ packages, 187 new additions (including bob, a parallel builder, a new wayland category, and Rust 1.96), 3072 updates, and 45 removals.
This week covers FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE and its release notes, upgrading instructions, updated WiFi drivers and C23 support, the AI-assisted vulnerability discovery project, graphics port upgrade to Linux 6.12, NetBSD 11.0 RC5, MidnightBSD 4.0.6, BSDCan 2026 schedule, and more.
A recent commit by jsg@ raises the OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space from 4G to 512G to allow mapping all VRAM on recent Radeon cards with large PCI BAR sizes, such as a Radeon RX 6800 with 16G of VRAM.
The FreeBSD project announces the 2026 Core Team: Warner Losh, Baptiste Daroussin, Gleb Smirnoff, Kyle Evans, Adrian Chadd, Joseph Mingrone, Hiroki Sato, Adam Weinberger, and Olivier Cochard, and notes that a bylaws amendment passed and will tentatively take effect for the 2028 election.
FreeBSD 14.3 reaches end-of-life on June 30, 2026 and will no longer receive security support, with users urged to upgrade to a newer release.
A terminal screensaver that mimics the freebsd-update(8) tool, released as an Easter Egg for FreeBSD Day, with details on its settings and the project's move to PKGBASE.
A step-by-step guide to expanding a GELI-encrypted ZFS disk for a FreeBSD bhyve VM, covering ZVOL resizing, gpart recovery and partition expansion, GELI auto-resize, and enabling ZFS autoexpand, with notes on FreeBSD 14.1 vs 15.0 behavior.
The NetBSD project has released the fifth release candidate for 11.0, urging users to test it before the final release, with updated third-party software like OpenSSL and unbound and split ISO images for CD/R and DVD media.
This episode covers FreeBSD to OpenBSD WireGuard setups, using object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a ZFS script for labeling drives, predictable IPv6 addresses for OpenBSD VMs, and more.
A KTLS receive path flaw allows unprivileged local users to overwrite arbitrary files by sending them over a loopback connection, potentially escalating privileges, and is corrected in all supported FreeBSD branches.
Klara Systems compares ZFS and Ceph, explaining when Ceph's distributed storage is necessary and when ZFS offers a simpler, lower-latency, and more cost-effective solution for virtualization, databases, and backups.