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Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270
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OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD.
##Headlines
###OpenBSD 6.4 released
- See a detailed log of changes between the 6.3 and 6.4 releases.
- See the information on the FTP page for a list of mirror machines.
- Have a look at the 6.4 errata page for a list of bugs and workarounds.
- signify(1) pubkeys for this release:
- base: RWQq6XmS4eDAcQW4KsT5Ka0KwTQp2JMOP9V/DR4HTVOL5Bc0D7LeuPwA
- fw: RWRoBbjnosJ/39llpve1XaNIrrQND4knG+jSBeIUYU8x4WNkxz6a2K97
- pkg: RWRF5TTY+LoN/51QD5kM2hKDtMTzycQBBPmPYhyQEb1+4pff/H6fh/kA
###GhostBSD 18.10 RC2 Announced
This second release candidate of GhostBSD 18.10 is the second official release of GhostBSD with TrueOS under the hood. The official desktop of GhostBSD is MATE. However, in the future, there might be an XFCE community release, but for now, there is no community release yet.
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What has changed since RC1
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Removed drm-stable-kmod and we will let users installed the propper drm-*-kmod
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Douglas Joachin added libva-intel-driver libva-vdpau-driver to supports accelerated some video driver for Intel
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Issues that got fixed
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Bug #70 Cannot run Octopi, missing libgksu error.
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Bug #71 LibreOffice doesn’t start because of missing libcurl.so.4
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Bug #72 libarchive is a missing dependency
Again thanks to iXsystems, TrueOS, Joe Maloney, Kris Moore, Ken Moore, Martin Wilke, Neville Goddard, Vester “Vic” Thacker, Douglas Joachim, Alex Lyakhov, Yetkin Degirmenci and many more who helped to make the transition from FreeBSD to TrueOS smoother.
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Updating from RC1 to RC2:
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sudo pkg update -f
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sudo pkg install -f libarchive curl libgksu
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sudo pkg upgrade
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Where to download:
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All images checksum, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB) and torrent are available here: https://www.ghostbsd.org/download
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[ScreenShots]
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https://www.ghostbsd.org/sites/default/files/Screenshot_at_2018-10-20_13-22-41.png
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https://www.ghostbsd.org/sites/default/files/Screenshot_at_2018-10-20_13-27-26.png
###OpenSSH 7.9 has been released and it has support for OpenSSL 1.1
Changes since OpenSSH 7.8
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This is primarily a bugfix release.
New Features
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* ssh(1), sshd(8): allow most port numbers to be specified using
service names from getservbyname(3) (typically /etc/services).
* ssh(1): allow the IdentityAgent configuration directive to accept
environment variable names. This supports the use of multiple
agent sockets without needing to use fixed paths.
* sshd(8): support signalling sessions via the SSH protocol.
A limited subset of signals is supported and only for login or
command sessions (i.e. not subsystems) that were not subject to
a forced command via authorized_keys or sshd_config. bz#1424
* ssh(1): support "ssh -Q sig" to list supported signature options.
Also "ssh -Q help" to show the full set of su