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This week on BSDNow, we get to hear all of Allans post EuroBSDCon wrap-up and a great interview with Benno Rice from Isilon. We got to discuss some of the pain of doing major forklift upgrades, and why your business should track -CURRENT.

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EuroBSDCon Videos

• EuroBSDCon has started posting videos of the talks online already.
• The videos posted online are archives of the live stream, so some of the videos contain multiple talks
• Due to a technical complication, some videos only have 1 channel of audio
• EuroBSDCon Talk Schedule
• Red Room Videos
• Yellow Room Videos
• Blue Room Videos
• Photos of the conference courtersy of Ollivier Robert ***

A series of OpenSMTPd patches fix multiple vulnerabilities

• Qualys recently published an audit of the OpenSNMPd source code
• The fixes for these vulnerabilities were released as 5.7.2
• After its release, two additional vulnerabilities were found. One, in the portable version, newer code that was added after the audit started
• All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 5.7.3
• OpenBSD users should apply the latest errata or upgrade to the newest snapshot ***

FreeBSD updates in -CURRENT

• Looks like Xen header support has been bumped in FreeBSD from 4.2 -> 4.6
• It also enables support for ARM
• Update to Clang / LLVM to 3.7.0
• http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
• ZFS gets FRU (field replaceable unit) tracking
• OpenCL makes it way into the ports tree
• bhyve has grown UEFI support, plus a CSM module
• bhyve can now boot Windows
• Currently there is still only a serial console, so the post includes an unattended install .xml file and instructions on how to repack the ISO. Once Windows is installed, you can RDP into the machine
• bhyve can also now run IllumOS ***

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