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Changes since NetBSD 10.1
Highlights
- New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V platforms, including a range of StarFive JH71XX-based devices such as the VisionFive 2, PINE64 STAR64, as well as QEMU.
- Enhanced compliance with POSIX.1-2024 and C23 programming interface standards.
- Enhanced support for Linux system calls in compat_linux(8), including epoll (implemented around kqueue), POSIX message queues, statx, readahead, close_range, waitid, renameat2, clone3, sync_file_range, syncfs, and inotify.
- Initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform.
- Improvements to the npf(7) firewall, including layer 2 and user/group filtering.
- New MICROVM kernel for x86, supporting both i386 and amd64, NetBSD 11.0 introduces a dedicated MICROVM kernel designed for extremely fast virtual machine boot, leveraging PVH boot, VirtIO MMIO, and multiple kernel optimizations, it can boot in about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs.
- New virt68k port, for running the Motorola 68000 port in QEMU using paravirtualized devices.
Full Changelog here: https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
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FreeBSD git weekly for 2026-07-27 — 2026-08-02:
266 commits in total. Highlighted commits:
- rc.subr: Fix premature return from wait_for_pids
- netlink: Add RTA_PREFSRC support
- igbv: Split 82576 and I350 VF registration off igb
- igb: Add SR-IOV PF support for 82576 and I350
- igb(4)/igbv(4): Document SR-IOV PF and VF functionality
- igc: Add VLAN hardware filtering
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“Due to the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up
commits made via the AUR” -
TrueNAS 25.10.5 brings an updated Linux kernel version 6.12.95, which patches multiple security-related CVEs, including SharedFrag (CVE-2026-43503) and PeditCOW (CVE-2026-46331) local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, as well as six more upstream security fixes.
Beyond the kernel, this release also delivers a number of TrueNAS specific fixes:
- A console memory leak was identified that could consume excess RAM
- Corrects several smartctl parsing errors that produced inaccurate drive SMART health reports
- Resolves an error that caused TrueCloud Backup jobs to hang indefinitely when an error occurred in the underlying restic software
- Tightens SSH key handling for replication and cloud credentials
- Obtains full RFC 5322 compliance for emails to ensure reliable delivery
- Improves the robustness of Enterprise HA for block storage
- And fixes a bug that blocked share ACL editing in certain edge cases
For full details on all of the updates, check out the TrueNAS 25.10 changelog on the TrueNAS Docs site.
https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-25-10-5-resolving-security-vulnerabilities
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“A 150MB binary file was recently committed to the ports tree and, as a result, core@ made the decision to implement a temporary freeze of the ports tree in order to implement some clean up efforts. The commit in question severed our ports tree mirroring to github.com due to their filesize hard limit of 100MB, and introduced a blob of questionable licensing into the repository history.”
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000294.html
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“The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD’s base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.”
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/134a4c78d070f8c4ea43a060a7ae28d22ac39558
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What’s Changed
New Features- Update to fsrs-rs 6.6.1, bringing performance improvements. By @asukaminato0721 in #4956
- Strip FSRS parameters from deck configs on export without scheduling by @chrislongros in #4721
- An experimental rework of the editor by @abdnh in #4029 can be enabled from Preferences>Experiments. The main goal is to make it possible to integrate the editor into mobile clients. May affect addon compatibility.
- A new Experiments section has been added to the Preferences screen. This is intended to bring experimental features such as the new editor early to users for testing and feedback. By @Luc-Mcgrady in #5057
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Audio Recording in Spectacle!!!
New Features
Plasma 6.8
- Spectacle can now record audio during screen recordings — mic, system output, or both
- System Monitor can report VRAM usage as a percentage of total, matching how it handles RAM
- Added support for the 13-month Ethiopian calendar
UI Improvements
Plasma 6.6.6
- Brightness slider in the Brightness & Color widget is more responsive
Plasma 6.7.3
- Vietnamese lunar calendar now shows Vietnamese text regardless of system language
- Press-and-hold for alternative characters now requires 600 ms instead of 200 ms, reducing accidental triggers
- Drawing tablet styluses now work with the Overview and Custom Tiling overlays on Wayland
Plasma 6.8
- Combobox popups follow the active Plasma theme instead of a hardcoded Breeze look; menu highlight animations removed
- System Settings’ Remote Desktop page now lays out properly at small/narrow window sizes
- “Report a Bug in the Current Page” now works for non-KDE pages that supply a bug URL
- Auto-login works in Plasma Login Manager on older systemd versions (e.g. KDE neon)
- External monitor brightness responds faster to slider changes
Frameworks 6.29
- List and grid view highlights in QML-based apps respect the active app style (with qqc2-desktop-style); password fields no longer shift height on first keystroke
- Breeze icon theme gained an icon for Android app bundles
- Large Kirigami tab bars now respond to scrolling and standard tab-switching shortcuts
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Original Motivation
SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-512/256 are secure hash algorithms specified in FIPS 180-4, NIST’s Secure Hash Standard. ZFS uses the above as block checksums (
checksum=sha256,checksum=sha512) for data integrity and deduplication. There is currently no unit test coverage for this family of hash algorithms.What does this commit introduce?
It adds a
tests/unit/test_sha2.cwith three types of tests that follow the FIPS 180-4 standard as defined in https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/fips/nist.fips.180-4.pdf :- known answer tests (KAT) for SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-512/256, using the same NIST test messages and digests as
tests/zfs-tests/cmd/checksum/sha2_test.c - an incremental test: split updates across the 64- and 128-byte message block boundaries must produce the same digest as a single update
- a cross-implementation test via
zfs_impl_get_ops(): every supported implementation must reproduce the known answer and compute the same digest for a multi-block message
Testing perfomed:
$ make unit T=sha2UNITTEST tests/unit/test_sha2Running test suite with seed 0xcf392006...sha2.sha256_known [ OK ] [ 0.00002286 / 0.00001675 CPU ]sha2.sha512_known [ OK ] [ 0.00002044 / 0.00001995 CPU ]sha2.sha512_256_known [ OK ] [ 0.00001542 / 0.00001524 CPU ]sha2.incremental [ OK ] [ 0.00019737 / 0.00019336 CPU ]sha2.impls [ OK ] [ 0.00026169 / 0.00026171 CPU ]5 of 5 (100%) tests successful, 0 (0%) test skipped. - known answer tests (KAT) for SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-512/256, using the same NIST test messages and digests as
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This patch release addresses various bugs from v3 release and adds an additional filter to workflows
What’s Changed
🌟 Enhancements
- fix(web): add ARIA label to ServerStatisticsCard by @tjhorner in #29497
- feat(server): hls variant configuration by @mertalev in #29613
- feat: user agnostic database restore by @danieldietzler in #29512
- feat(server): date workflow filter by @benbeckford in #29040
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Survival prediction for severe limb ischaemia in R, using the prognostic model from the BASIL trial (Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg).
The model is an accelerated failure time Weibull regression.
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