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5: Stacks of Cache

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 ***

Interview - Marshall Kirk McKusick - mckusick@freebsd.org

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Published on 12 years, 2 months ago