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110: - Firmware Fights
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 ***