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This week on the show, we will be talking to Benedict Reushling about his role with the FreeBSD foundation and the journey that took him

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HardenedBSD introduces full PIE support

• PIE base for amd64 and i386
• Only nine applications are not compiled as PIEs
• Tested PIE base on several amd64 systems, both virtualized and bare metal
• Hoped to be to enabled it for ARM64 before or during BSDCan.
• Shawn will be bringing ten Raspberry Pi 3 devices (which are ARM64) with to BSDCan, eight of which will be given out to lucky individuals. “We want the BSD community to hack on them and get ARM64/Aarch64 fully functional on them.” ***

Lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX

• Eat your own dog food.
• By not relying on idiosyncratic features of the hardware, one makes porting to new platforms much easier.
• The Internet is like an elephant; it never forgets.
• When standards exist (such as ANSI Standard C) stick to them.
• Even after you have adopted a strategy, you should nevertheless reexamine it from time to time.
• Keep focused on your real goal, Einstein was right: Things should be as simple as possible but not simpler. ***

pfSense 2.3 released

• Rewrite of the webGUI utilizing Bootstrap
• TLS v1.0 disabled for the GUI
• Moved to a FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE base
• PHP Upgraded to 5.6
• The "Full Backup" feature has been deprecated
• Closed 760 total tickets of which 137 are fixed bugs
• Known Regressions
• OpenVPN topology change
• IP aliases with CARP IP parent lose their parent interface association post-upgrade
  
• IPsec IPComp does not work.
• IGMP Proxy does not work with VLAN interfaces.
• Many other updates and changes ***

OPNsense 16.1.10 released

• openvpn: revive windows installer binaries
• system: improved config history and backup pages layout
• system: increased backup count default from 30 to 60
• system: /var /tmp MFS awareness for crash dumps added
• trust: add “IP security IKE intermediate” to server key usage
• firmware: moved reboot, halt and defaults pages to new home
• languages: updates to Russian, French, German and Japanese
• Many other updates and changes ***

Interview - Benedict Reuschling - bcr@freebsd.org

• FreeBSD Foundation in Europe ***

News Roundup

Write opinionated workarounds

• Colin Percival has written a great blog post this past week, specifically talking about his policy of writing “opinionated workarounds”.
• The idea came about due to his working on multi-platform software, and the frustrations of dealing with POSIX violations
• The crux of the post is how he deals with these workarounds. Spec