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TrueNAS Proxmox Plugin

September 18th, 2026
What it does
- New TrueNAS storage plugin for Proxmox VE.
- Designed for Proxmox hosts using a separate TrueNAS server for storage.
- Improves on traditional NFS or LVM-over-iSCSI workflows.
- Provides a “one LUN per virtual disk”, VVOL-like model.
- Automates provisioning through the TrueNAS API.
Key benefits
- ZFS snapshots are offloaded to TrueNAS.
- Per-virtual-disk configuration, including volblocksize.
- Easier VM/disk migration.
- Reduces repetitive manual storage provisioning.
- Supports:
  - iSCSI
  - NVMe/TCP
Minimum versions
- TrueNAS: 25.10 or newer, because the plugin uses the versioned JSON-RPC WebSocket API.
- Proxmox VE 8.x+: required for iSCSI.
- Proxmox VE 9.x+: required for NVMe/TCP.
Licensing
- Free to use; not restricted to TrueNAS Enterprise.
- Currently distributed through GitHub.
Important limitation

The plugin does not completely replace file-based storage. Proxmox cannot store ISO images, vzdump backups, or other ordinary files on iSCSI/NVMe block storage, so an NFS or SMB share is still required for those purposes.

Bottom line

The plugin makes a dedicated TrueNAS server much more tightly integrated with a Proxmox cluster, particularly for VM disks. It combines automated per-disk ZFS zvol/LUN provisioning, snapshots, and tunability with iSCSI or NVMe/TCP, while NFS/SMB remains necessary for ISO and backup storage.

https://forums.truenas.com/t/truenas-proxmox-plugin-ready-for-community-under-testing-for-enterprise/67956
MinIO removed their DockerHub images

September 18th, 2026

RIP

https://hub.docker.com/u/minio?page=1&search=minio
Thunderbird 156.0

September 17th, 2026
What’s New
1. OpenPGP key properties can print debug information to the Error Console
2. External browser login flow enabled for Yandex
3. Custom OAuth support for issuer ID and client secret field for IMAP and POP3
4. Custom OAuth support for POP3
5. Enterprise policy DisableUpdateSettings prevents users from changing update settings
6. Enterprise policy DisableDataCollectionSettings prevents users from changing data collection setting
7. Enterprise policy DisableMessageForwardingFilters prevents message filters from automatically forwarding messages
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/156.0/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes/&locale=en-US&version=156.0&channel=release&os=WINNT&buildid=20260910221217
FreeBSD Git Weekly 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-13

September 14th, 2026
Highlighted commits:
- EC2: Add desktop flavour
- dhclient(8): Add support for IPv6-Only option (RFC 8925)
- amd64, powerpc: Enable tpm(4) in supported kernels
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-09-07.html
FreshRSS 1.30.0

September 14th, 2026
This is a security-oriented major release with several important security patches, so users are encouraged to update without delay.

From this release, we are also making it clear that our rolling-release channel (edge) is recommended for faster security patches.

Breaking change 💥:
- Disallow access to local networks such as 127.0.0.1 by default, for security reasons
Feature highlights✨:
- Filter global view feed list by state and search
- New option to hide badges showing number of unread articles (Phantom Obligation)
- Refresh only feeds in the current view
- Offer to add a prefix when re-sharing user labels
Bug fixes highlights 🐛:
- Several security attack scenarios patched
- Fix lost elements while parsing search query
- Fix “mark as read older than…” widening the active search
- Fix saving user queries
- Fix SQL errors breaking some regex searches with MySQL / MariaDB
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.30.0
Mold linker to be rewritten in Rust

September 13th, 2026
Mold linker rewrite in Rust

Release context
- Mold 2.42.1 released as a patch release; the announcement’s main news is the plan for Mold 3.0.
- Mold typically outperforms LLVM lld, GNU ld, Wild, and other linkers.
Rust rewrite
- Mold is being rewritten from C++ to Rust for Mold 3.0.
- Lead developer Rui Ueyama cites Rust’s maturity, safety guarantees, and other attractive features.
- Wild is another performance-oriented linker already written in Rust.
- Goal: Mold 3.0 should link as well and as fast as the 2.x series.
Goal: becoming /usr/bin/ld on Linux
- Despite fast linkers (gold, lld, mold) existing for 20 years, most distributions still ship GNU ld as the system linker, so links mold could finish in hundreds of milliseconds can take seconds to minutes.
- Ueyama, author of both lld and mold, says he focused on speed but not enough on compatibility needed for a drop-in system linker.
- Mold 3.x priorities:
  - Implement missing linker script features so mold can link kernels and firmware, not just user-space programs.
  - Conduct extensive compatibility testing.
  - Work with distribution developers to make adoption as /usr/bin/ld practical.
Incremental linking
- Not supported so far; the project is open to adding it if a simple design is found.
- It could significantly improve some workloads; designs preserving mold’s simplicity and reliability are being explored.
Further details
- Full information is in the Mold 2.42.1 announcement.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-In-Rust-Coming
FreeBSD Forums downtime

September 13th, 2026
1. The Forums are slow or unreachable because thousands of IPs are hammering the site (nginx 499 errors), starving resources.
2. The admin has deployed Anubis, a JavaScript-based bot check before pages load, which has brought the forums back up but with slowdowns, stalls, and timeouts until the attack subsides.
3. Browsers with JavaScript disabled can’t access the site.
https://forums.freebsd.org
KDE about to introduce an LLM policy

September 11th, 2026
Here is a draft proposed by Nate Graham.

LLM usage

KDE follows a “human in the loop” principle: when using an LLM, a human
must be making decisions beyond mere prompting. The output must express
the operator’s unique humanity in some way.

So nobody in KDE should know you used an LLM — not because you’re
concealing it, but because the results are functionally
indistinguishable from what you could produce yourself.

How can you ensure that? Here are some examples:

Acceptable LLM usage
1. Create it yourself in the first place, with no LLM.
2. Write text that you want other people to read yourself in English,
  with no LLM.
3. Have an LLM make a rough draft or something, then you rewrite or
  refine it yourself.
4. Have an LLM find a bug, and then you verify that and fix it yourself.
5. Have an LLM fix a merge conflict in your patch, then you verify and
  push the result yourself.
6. Use an LLM to debug an issue and identify a bug, then report the bug
  yourself, with your own words.
7. Write text that you want other people to read yourself in your native
  language, and then machine-translate it (with no stylistic or tonal
  changes) into English.
8. Use an LLM to explain or teach you something you don’t understand,
  then test your new knowledge in the field to verify that it was correct
  and that you now have a new skill.
Prohibited
1. Don’t ask an LLM to write some English text, and copy-paste that into
  a chat or merge request description.
2. Don’t copy someone else’s response to you into an LLM, tell it to
  reply, and then copy-paste the output as a response to the other person.
3. Don’t submit “vibe-coded” changes you don’t understand and couldn’t
  make yourself.
4. Don’t disclose LLM usage as a way of trying to excuse the potential
  errors or poor quality of a contribution.
5. Don’t add “Assisted-by: [some LLM]” tags to your commits; it’s just
  free advertising for the LLM’s provider.
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta released

September 11th, 2026
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta
- Beta released today ahead of the stable 6.8 release on 14 October 2026
- The stable date coincides with KDE’s 30th anniversary
- Downloads and details available via KDE.org
Key Improvements
- vRAM usage optimizations
- Dwell clicker support on Wayland
- Wayland commit-timing protocol support in KWin
- Union theme engine improvements
- Better remote desktop support
- Improved multi-GPU handling
- New kscreenctl tool
- Server-side drop shadow support
- Multi-monitor improvements
- General polishing throughout, with particular focus on Wayland refinement
Bundled Software
- Kup ships as the backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.90
Immich 3.2.0

September 10th, 2026
Highlights
- Docker compose builder
- Revamped search UI (web)
- Search API v2 (server)
- View own people in shared assets, cross-user clustering
- Workflow tags trigger and actions
- Dedicated memories page
- Tag renaming (web)
- View assets in map viewport (web)
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases#release-v3.2.0
What a time to be alive

September 8th, 2026

OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem!!

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
FreeBSD 14.5 Release Notes

September 8th, 2026

FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE — what changed since 14.4

FreeBSD 14.5 shipped on 8 September 2026 as the sixth release of stable/14. It is a maintenance release: security backports, contrib updates, driver fixes and a long tail of small userland corrections rather than new subsystems.

Security
The advisory table runs from SA-26:05 through SA-26:63 — roughly fifty advisories since March. The headline items are three remote code execution bugs (RPCSEC_GSS packet validation, malicious DHCP options in dhclient, and Wi-Fi scanning in the installer), several local privilege escalations (execve, a second execve TOCTOU race, setcred stack overflow, ptrace validation), and a cluster of kernel use-after-free bugs in tty, file descriptor syscalls, TCP RACK, IPv6 multicast, the device pager and sound(4). Also patched: pf silently dropping rules and overflowing on crafted SCTP, KTLS arbitrary file overwrite, a wg(4) MAC-validation gap, an ASLR bypass via procctl, Arm errata that could bypass page-table permission changes, and multiple rounds of OpenSSL, OpenZFS, unbound, ldns, iconv and libnv fixes. Ten errata notices cover tzdata, an AMD INVLPGB TLB bug, timerfd, a page-fault zeroing bug and early Intel microcode loading.

Contrib software
LLVM 21.1.8 (and clang now defaults to ld.lld), OpenSSL 3.0.21, ncurses 6.6, xz 5.8.3, libarchive 3.8.7, unbound 1.26.0, ldns 1.9.2, expat 2.8.1, file 5.47, less 704, libpcap 1.10.6, tcpdump 4.99.6, tzdata/tzcode 2026c, openresolv 3.17.4, mandoc 2025-09-26, plus refreshed root CA bundle (NSS 3.123.1), PCI and USB ID databases.

Kernel and libc
inotify arrives in 14-STABLE: inotify_init/add_watch/rm_watch syscalls plus libc wrappers, for Linux source compatibility (Klara-sponsored). A new sysctl/tunable can block unprivileged and jailed-root reads of the kernel environment. libc gains C23 sinpi/cospi-family functions, a rewritten resolv.conf sortlist parser (address sorting works again) and a stricter resolver option parser that now rejects malformed values.

Userland
pwd(1) defaults to -L (POSIX). sh(1) history minimum raised to 128. daemon(8) gets -m for output file mode. rc.firewall can read address lists from files. ipfw(8) bundles an ipfw15 fallback so rules load correctly under a 15.x kernel mid-upgrade. lpd(8) finally honours the port in /etc/printcap — broken since IPv6 support in 2000 — but the whole lpr suite is now deprecated and may be gone before 16.0 (CUPS or LPRng from ports instead). local-unbound-setup handles IPv6-only hosts. mt(1) knows LTO-10. /etc/protocols refreshed from IANA.

Drivers and hardware
acpi(4) enables the Darwin OSI by default so dual-GPU Macs run on the integrated GPU (hw.acpi.apple_darwin_osi to toggle). ahci(4) adds a Marvell 88SE9128 variant. smartpqi(4) gains new controllers and 32-bit passthrough buffers. asmc(4) drops 32-bit Intel Macs. Two new keyboard layouts (br.lenovo, us.intl.acc). msdosfs handles surrogate-pair filenames, so emoji on FAT32 work.

Boot loader
bsdinstall again creates a UEFI boot entry (regression fix). loader.efi fix for boot failures on amd64 when loading microcode or many modules. lualoader gets be-list/be-switch and a local.lua hook to filter boot environments; it also follows symlinks when hunting kernels. Nvidia modules are blacklisted from early loading to avoid panics. ZFS rc now runs before tmp, fixing read-only ZFS roots with tmpmfs. powerpc64le boots under QEMU again.

Docs
New or expanded man pages for sbintime(9), dwcotg(4), mq_getfd_np(3), libusb20 functions, GEOM unit clarifications, jail(8) from distribution sets, bhyve -c topology syntax, and a C++ section in style(9).

Upgrade
freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install, then freebsd-update -r 14.5-RELEASE upgrade; source users track releng/14.5. 14.5 is supported until 30 June 2027, 14.4 until 31 December 2026, the 14 series until 30 November 2028.

Links
Release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/relnotes/
Announcement: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-September/000316.html
Errata: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/errata/
Download: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.5/

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/relnotes
FreeBSD 14.5 Release available!!!

September 8th, 2026
FreeBSD Git Weekly 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06

September 7th, 2026
Highlighted commits:
- rtwn: add support for the RTL8723BU
- rc: add a backlight service to save/restore backlight levels
- sys/conf/options: Add WITNESS_LOCK_CHILDCOUNT
- iflib: Plumb per-packet RX hardware timestamps to mbufs
- ifconfig: Add SR-IOV VF status output
- Introduce nfsdtop(8)
https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-08-31.html
KDE dev in FreeBSD 16 CURRENT

September 6th, 2026

Running a git version of the latest KDE main with the latest main of FreeBSD 16 CURRENT. It runs smoothly like butter …