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Action Required: Recent ports history has been rewritten https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000295.html

Ports Repository Freeze https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000294.html

FreeBSD ate my ram! Enter that rabbit hole and try to understand why reporting free or used memory in a modern operating system is more complicated than it seems.

FreeBSD introduction course (Persian) You should be able to use English auto generated from YT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDmxZx08I6Sk6YdGNDOtoDO6Pa389Rzk1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7FXntNSIw Live Streaming Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606 Day Two 08:00-09:00 Setup / Breakfast / Badges 09:00-10:00 We Don't Have to Be Afraid of the Cloud - Colin Percival and Gordon Tetlow 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Have Need Want Part 1 HackMD 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-13:15 Group Photo 13:15-14:15 Have Need Want Part 2 14:15-14:30 Break 14:30-15:15 Kernel Scheduler - Olivier Certner 15:15-15:30 Break 15:30-16:15 What Should We Do in the Network Stack - Gleb Smirnoff 16:15-16:30 Adding Extended Errors - Kirk McKusick 16:30-16:35 Closing Remarks - John Baldwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6L_ErsheVM Live Streaming Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606 Day One 08:00-09:00 Setup / Badges 09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks 09:15-10:15 LLM-driven kernel vulnerability research - Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic 10:15-10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Michael Winser - Alpha Omega 11:30-12:30 Lunch 12:30-13:30 Building A Better BSD Through Time - Vince Milum, Jr 13:30-13:45 Break 13:45-14:45 FreeBSD Foundation Update - Deb Goodkin, Joe Mingrone, Ed Maste 14:45-15:15 Break 15:15-16:00 Srcmgr Update - Mark Johnston and John Baldwin 16:00-16:15 Break 16:15-17:00 FreeBSD by the Fire with John Baldwin - moderated by Benedict Reuschling 17:00-18:00 Free Time 18:00-20:00 Pizza Dinner at the Hacker Lounge in U90

FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch 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.

FreeBSD privilege escalation out-of-the-box Are you still using sudo or doas for privilege escalation? Did you know though, that's there's a solution integrated with FreeBSD and it's going to save you oodles of typing… https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_do

FreeBSD Device Drivers: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery Free, open-source book that takes you from "I've never written kernel code" to "I can write, debug, and submit production-quality FreeBSD drivers." It is a guided course rather than a reference, structured around 38 chapters, 6 appendices, and dozens of hands-on labs that compile and load on a real FreeBSD 14.x system.

Automating FreeBSD Jails with cdist - Zero Dependencies Inside the Jail https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/

FreeBSD Forums were offline for a couple of hours https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/forum-outage.102193/

Make a Simple NAS with FreeBSD and a Raspberry Pi Running #FreeBSD on a Raspberry is so simple we realised it would make a rather boring video. So with the help of some old hardware, we take a look at how easy it is to make a Pi into a NAS. src https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFiTRYo1fk

The state of gaming on FreeBSD - Thibault Payet https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/NXP3HE-bsd-gaming/slides/266931/the_state_mwacakv.pdf

https://t.me/machinedependent/205

Installing every window manager on FreeBSD We asked you folks what window managers, or desktop environments, besides KDE you'd like us to try installing. So after sifting through over 400 comments, we arrived at a list of 10. In this video we try a neat little tool, available as a package, that makes installing them a simple job. Check the handbook for more info too

x11/xlibre officially in FreeBSD ports Some things like third-party drivers and KDE still need some work, but we are looking forward to the 2026Q1 branch. https://x.com/XLibreDev/status/1999558129235952088 https://x.com/vermaden/status/1999484591200256245 https://www.freshports.org/x11/xlibre/

BVCP Native webadmin / control panel for FreeBSD Bhyve https://bhyve.npulse.net/

FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update - Errata Notice https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-25:18.freebsd-update.asc

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE (12/2/25) Some of the highlights: - The FreeBSD "base" system can now be installed and managed using the pkg(8) package manager (see "Packaged base system" below). - The FreeBSD 15.0 release artifacts (install images, VM images, etc.) were all generated without requiring root privilege. - FreeBSD now has a native inotify implementation, simplifying directory watching and software porting. - OpenZFS has been upgraded to 2.4.0-rc4. - OpenSSL has been upgraded to the latest long-term support (LTS) version, 3.5.4, which includes support for QUIC and now standardized quantum-resistant algorithms, ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA. - OpenSSH has been upgraded to 10.0p2 which includes support for quantum-resistant key agreement by default. For a complete list of new features, supported hardware, and known problems: - https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/ - https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/15.0R/hardware/ - https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/15.0R/errata/

FreeBSD Cheat Sheet for Linux Admins https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-cheat-sheet-for-linux-admins/