Tag: FreeBSD
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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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FreeBSD Q2 2026 Status Report — highlights
Published 27 July 2026, 41 entries. Full report · New RSS feed
- 15.1-RELEASE shipped 16 June; much of the quarter’s work landed against it.
- Foundation-sponsored commits: 638 src, 120 ports, 31 doc (up from 555/83/16 in Q1).
- DRM/graphics: port of Linux 6.12 LTS DRM drivers finished in time for 15.1; the 6.12.x patch series will be tracked going forward.
- ROCm: new effort to bring AMD’s compute stack to FreeBSD — currently unsupported at both toolchain and driver level.
- CPPC: restarted after the Halifax Hackathon — min/max/desired knobs for
hwpstate_intel(4),powerd(8)policies, a global EPP knob, and_CPC-conditional enablement forhwpstate_amd(4). - MPLS (GSoC 2026): phases 1–3 done — EtherType 0x8847 encapsulation with
netisr(9)dispatch, OpenBSD’sldpd(8)ported, and a forwarding engine with per-VNET LIB, verified end-to-end between VNET jails overepair(4). - Laptop support: Framework hackathon in Taipei — Panther Lake I2C/SMBus PCI IDs committed, work started on the RTL8159-based 10GbE adapter,
sysutils/framework-systemto 0.6.4. - Installer: subsystems, component framework and screens rewritten since EuroBSDCon 2025; TUI frontend near feature-complete.
- Also: CRA readiness and SBOM work, full CPUID control for bhyve, suspend/resume, hibernate, native S.M.A.R.T. retrieval, wireless updates, cluster refresh, Bugzilla improvements.
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Timeline of events:
- 2026-07-20 — A ~150 MB binary is committed to the ports tree in misc/github-copilot-cli (a routine version bump). It exceeds GitHub’s 100 MB object limit and carries an unresolved redistribution question.
- Shortly after — The file is removed in a later commit, but the blob remains in history, so mirroring stays broken.
- 2026-07-21 (~23:00 UTC) — core@ becomes aware that mirroring to GitHub is severed and requests suspension of pushes. The ports tree is frozen.
- 2026-07-21 → following hours — gitadm@, clusteradm@, portmgr@, and core@ deliberate. They settle on a history rewrite, constrained to be reproducible by third parties without unreasonable downstream burden.
- 2026-07-22 — Initial core@ notice (Kyle Evans) explaining the freeze.
- 2026-07-24 — The rewrite is completed and published; main tip moves forward and commits flow again. A reproduction script (with SHA256) is released for independent verification. Formal signed announcement
issued by René Ladan (portmgr@) and Kyle Evans (core@). - 2026-07-24 → coming hours — Tree thaws for regular operations.
- By 2026-07-26 — Cluster package builds resume.
- Following week — Infrastructure repairs; server-side hooks rolled out (hard file-size ceiling, approval-gated soft limits, binary-license confirmation).
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000295.html
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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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“The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code.”
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The official release announcement will be on June 16th.
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Happy to see my ZFS commits get upstream to FreeBSD 🙂
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That means the official 15.1 announcement will be delayed for one week.
