The 2024Q1 branch has been created. It means that the next update on the
quarterly packages will be on the 2024Q1 branch.

A lot of things happened in the last three months:
- pkg 1.20.9
- New USES: electronfix (Framework for quick porting of Electron apps)

- Default version of php switched to 8.2
- Default version of perl switched to 5.36
- Default version of ghostcript switched to 10
- Default version of corosync switched to 3
- Default version of samba switched to 4.16
- Default version of lazarus switched to 3.0.0

- Chromium updated to 120.0.6099.199
- Electron-25 updated to 25.9.8
- Electron-26 updated to 26.6.4
- Electron-27 updated to 27.2.1
- Firefox updated to 121.0
- Firefox-esr updated to 115.6.0
- KDE updated to Plasma 5.27.10, Gear 23.08.4, Frameworks 5.112.0
Plasma 5.91.0-beta2, Frameworks 5.247.0-beta2
- Qt5 updated to 5.15.12
- Qt6 updated to 6.6.1
- Python updated to 3.11.7
- Ruby updated to 3.3.0
- Rust updated to 1.74.1
- SDL updated to 2.28.5
- Sway updated to 1.8.1
- wlroots updated to 0.17.1
- Wine-devel updated to 9.0-rc3
- Xorg server updated to 21.1.10

Next quarterly package builds will start on Saturday, January 6th and
should be available on your closest mirrors few days later.

@freebsd

#FreeBSD #pkg

A very good article about zfs replication, by @evilham

https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/

@freebsd

#ZFS #FreeBSD #Linux

Playing Spotify in native Chromium on FreeBSD 14.0

by 'The OpenBSD guy'

youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lL_MAQm_8

alternative link:
https://jouwbuis.nl/watch?v=e3lL_MAQm_8

@freebsd

Hello, I’ve heard lots of good things about BSD on mastodon and I am considering giving it a try on my homelab.

My current approach is based on Linux, Docker containers and Terraform. I’m toying with the idea to use FreeBSD and BastilleBSD, which could cover what I am using Docker for. I tried to search around and I’m not finding any way of managing jails via Terraform (or another similar system)

What’s the recommended approach to have infrastructure as code in the BSD world? Having all my configuration managed by Terraform and under version control works really well for me and I’d like to have a similar setup also on a BSD machine.

@freebsd 14 : Découverte de l'installation
https://youtu.be/kz8YwKMFLVg?si=HJsScL_KpWoeo7Hx by @_adriend_ @YouTube

We spent the weekend putting the final touches on Bastille 0.10.20231125!

Major features and fixes include:

• bootstrap #FreeBSD BETA and RC releases
• bootstrap EOL #FreeBSD releases (>=9.0)
• improved jail startup dependency using rcorder(8)
• combine create options, eg: -CV, -TB, etc
• fixes to bastille setup
• more!

Bastille has merged support for bootstrapping end-of-life (EOL) FreeBSD releases as far back as 9.0-RELEASE. This extends support for legacy applications, testing and secure sandboxing for FreeBSD applications all the way back to 2012!

It goes without saying, any experimentation you do on ancient releases is your responsibility. We're excited to see what you do with this new feature, but please don't bring us the skeletal remains of years-old bugs in unsupported FreeBSD releases.

With gmirror (old way, ufs, very instructive) or zfs.

by Colin Percival

Main page

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/

Highlights

Announcement:

• https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/

Installation instructions:

• https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/installation/

Caution, for readers of the FreeBSD Handbook

Do not omit the fetch and install commands that should precede an upgrade command. See:

• https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/installation/#upgrade-binary

(Those steps are missing from the Handbook.)

Thanks to @dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org for sharing this link.

Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html

@freebsd
#FreeBSD #linux #OS

FreeBSD binary PKgBase soon a reality ?

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2023-October/000221.html

@freebsd

Another great video by GaryH Tech (https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@garyhtech)

• https://download.freebsd.org/
• https://download.freebsd.org/doc
• https://download.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/
• https://download.freebsd.org/ports
• https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/
• https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
• https://www.freebsd.org/ports/
• https://wiki.freebsd.org/
• https://wiki.freebsd.org/FindPage
• https://forums.freebsd.org/
• https://cgit.freebsd.org/
• https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/RELNOTES
• http://pkg.freebsd.org/
• https://people.freebsd.org/homepage.html
• https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/

Daily Driving FreeBSD

https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/daily-driving-freebsd/

@freebsd

#FreeBSD