Category: FreeBSD
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“A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA5 includes:
1) A race condition in swap_pager_swapoff_object() had been fixed.
2) Various updates to the Linux KPI, 802.11, iwlwifi, and rtw88.
3) And other miscellaneous fixes.”
Direct download link of the amd64 boot only ISO: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso
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Pretty excited to be a small part of this project and would be happy to contribute more and become officially a doc/port committer
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/49ef67a9b7cf507e441809fb176dc76def40f166
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A decentralized Mastodon instance used for opinion sharing concerning BSDs, Linux and open-source software.
“At its inception, this Mastodon instance was devoid of preloaded content. Our intention is for it to grow organically, based on the interests and followers of its users. At this stage, we have refrained from preemptive blocks. We strongly encourage users to promptly report anything that they believe requires attention.”
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/bsd-cafe/
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There is currently an unmaintained port under the /usr/ports/german/dict. It contains a very old dict.cc database from 2000 with approximately 115,000 entries. The German-Englisch dict.cc version has actually over 1.260.000 translations available.
Unfortunately downloading and uploading the database as a txt file in GitHub is a violation of Terms and Conditions of the dictionary, so I decided to port this project: https://github.com/randomn4me/dictcc. It is basically a python script that searches online for the given keyword. The previous implementation was an sh script using the agrep utility to search the txt translation database.
Let’s see how it goes !
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Yes, Adobe Flash is obsolete since the end of 2020. No point being in the documentation 🙂
Firefox ended support for Adobe Flash in Firefox at the end of 2020, as announced back in 2017. Adobe and other browsers also ended support for Flash at the end of 2020.
Firefox version 84 was the final version to support Flash. Firefox version 85 (released on January 26, 2021) shipped without Flash support, improving our performance and security. There is no setting to re-enable Flash support.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flashhttps://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/279/commits/6a76c8f49f7b3cad01d52dafa5c4b605295b5ed0
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Committing a simple change in the browser section but the whole document has to be replaced with the newer pkg install command
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/279/commits/f3d580ed65573419b180891371076be6e239288d
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A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA4 includes:
- An issue preventing binary upgrades using freebsd-update on earlier
supported releases had been fixed. - Several networking-related bug fixes had been addressed.
- Experimental support for Amazon EC2 cloud-init AMIs had been added.
- Several additional miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-BETA5-amd64-bootonly.iso
- An issue preventing binary upgrades using freebsd-update on earlier
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So the official RELEASE announcement is shifted on 7 November 2023
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Vermaden shared some cool Unix wallpapers in his blog
Download link: https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/blob/master/distfiles/wallpapers-freebsd.tar.gz
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“A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc’s dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users. This affects Linux distributions of the past two years”
FreeBSD does not use glibc and has it’s own libc system that is not affected by this vulnerability.
Even the Linux Binary Compatibility package emulators/linux_base-c7 should be safe according to https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-4911
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A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA3 includes:
- A fix for a pnwerpc-related panic.
- Console output on Raspberry Pi 3B+ and 4B have been silenced at boot.
- A fix to freebsd=update(8) had been implemented to avoid restarting sshd(8) when updating the basedir.
- Support for hidraw(4) has been added.
- Several ZFS-related fixes.
- Several VFS-related fixes.
- Several miscellaneous fixes and driver updates.
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