Episode Details

5: Stacks of Cache

Published 12 years, 5 months ago

Description

After returning from a successful EuroBSDCon in Malta, we're back to get you caught up on all the latest news! We've got stories, interviews and a special treat for OpenBSD fans later in the show. All that and more on this week's BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.

Headlines

FreeBSD 9.2 released

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is finally out
Highlights include ZFS TRIM and LZ4 support, virtio drivers, dtrace and OpenSSH updates as well as lots of driver improvements
Will be supported until 2014-09-30
Get out there and freebsd-update or buildworld! ***

Four new NetBSD releases

NetBSD 5.2 and 5.1 branches get security and bugfix updates
The 6.1 and 6.0 branches were updated soon after, also with security updates and bug fixes
Check the show notes for the full changelog ***

BIND being replaced by unbound in FreeBSD

Most FreeBSD users are familiar with BIND from the security notifications
It has has many vulnerabilities over the years, and we’ll finally be rid of it
Being replaced with unbound and ldns, everyone rejoices
As of September 24th, BIND is no longer built by default
As of September 30th, BIND was completely removed
Includes an easy to use script for local DNS
OpenBSD also has unbound in base, but it's not built by default yet ***

DragonflyBSD future plans

An announcement was posted that details some possible plans for Dragonfly
dports (their version of FreeBSD ports) will be switching to GCC 4.7
i915 support is probably going to be in version 3.6
Work is being done on HAMMER 2, but it won't make it to 3.6
3.6 is also likely going to ditch pkgsrc as the default in favor of dports, due to a hugely positive reaction from the community ***

FreeBSD ports get Stack Protector support

Some portsnap users noticed a massive sweep of every port being updated
Shortly after, stack protector support was announced by Bryan Drewery
Only works on i386 and AMD64 on FreeBSD 10 and AMD64 on 9
Hopefully will become the default, but needs to go through some testing and exp-runs ***

EuroBSDCon 2013 wrap-up chat

BSD Now is back from EuroBSDCon with lots of stories
We picked up an OpenBSD 5.4 CD set at EuroBSDCon, before the official release
We'll give a little showcase of what's inside, they put a lot of effort into it
Comes with the OS, source code, stickers, music, cool other stuff
Consider supporting the OpenBSD project ***