Episode Details

OpenBSD 6.5 has been released, mount ZFS datasets anywhere, help test upcoming NetBSD 9 branch, LibreSSL 2.9.1 is available, Bail Bond Denied Edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, and one reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days in this week’s episode.

Headlines

OpenBSD 6.5 Released

• Changelog
• Mirrors
• 6.5 Includes
  • OpenSMTPD 6.5.0
  • LibreSSL 2.9.1
  • OpenSSH 8.0
  • Mandoc 1.14.5
  • Xenocara
  • LLVM/Clang 7.0.1 (+ patches)
  • GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
• Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
  • aarch64: 9654
  • amd64: 10602
  • i386: 10535

Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want

ZFS is very flexible about mountpoints, and there are many features available to provide great flexibility. When you create zpool maintank, the default mountpoint is /maintank. You might be happy with that, but you don’t have to be content. You can do magical things.

• Some highlights are:
  • mount point can be inherited
  • not all filesystems in a zpool need to be mounted
  • each filesystem (directory) can have different ZFS characteristics
  • In my case, let’s look at this new zpool I created earlier today and I will show you some very simple alternatives. This zpool use NVMe devices which should be faster than SSDs especially when used with multiple concurrent writes. This is my plan: run all the Bacula regression tests concurrently.

News Roundup

Branch for netbsd 9 upcoming, please help and test -current

Folks, once again we are quite late for branching the next NetBSD release (NetBSD 9). Initially planned to happen early in February 2019, we are now approaching May and it is unlikely that the branch will happen before that. On the positive side, lots of good things landed in -current in between, like new Mesa, new jemalloc, lots of ZFS improvements - and some of those would be hard to pull up to the branch later. On the bad side we saw lots of churn in -current recently, and there is quite some fallout where we not even have a good overview right now. And this is where you can help:

• please test -current, on all the various machines you have
• especially interesting would be test results from uncommon architectures or strange combinations (like the sparc userland on sparc64 kernel issue I ran in yesterday) Please test, report success, and file PRs for failures! We will likely announce the real branch date on quite short notice, the likely next candidates would be mid may or end of may. We may need to do extra steps after the branch (like switch some architectures back to old jemalloc on the branch). However, the less difference between -current and the branch, the easier will the release cycle go. Our goal is to have an unprecedented short release cycle this time. But.. we always say that upfront.

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LibreSSL 2.9.1 Released

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