This week Allan is away at a ZFS conference, so it seems fitting that we have a great interview with Adam Leventhal where we get to discuss all kinds of ZFS & DTrace history. That plus the latest news and some items we couldn’t get to last week, so stay tuned, BSDNow is coming your way right now!

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Headlines

pfsense – 2.3 alpha snapshots available

• pfsense 2.3 Features and Changes
• The entire front end has been re-written
• Upgrade of base OS to FreeBSD 10-STABLE
• The PPTP server component has been removed,
• PBIs have been replaced with pkg
• PHP upgraded to 5.6
• The web interface has been converted to Bootstrap

BSDMag October 2015 out

• A Look at the New PC-BSD 10.2 – Kris Moore
• Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment 18 – Ken Moore
• A Secure Webserver on FreeBSD with Hiawatha – David Carlier
• Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS – Michael Dexter
• Emerging Technology Has Increasingly Been a Force for Both Good and Evil – Rob Somerville
• Interviews with: Dru Lavigne, Luca Ferrari, Oleksandr Rybalko

OpnSense 15.7.14 Released

• Another update to OpnSense has landed!
• Some of the notable takeaways this time are that it isn’t a security update
• Major rework of the firewall rules sections including, rules, schedules, virtual ip, nat and aliases pages
• Latest BIND and Squid packages
• Improved configuration management, including fixes to importing an old config file. New location for configuration history / backups.

OpenBSD in Toyota Highlander – Images

• While looking through the ‘Software Information’ screen of a Toyota Highlander, Chad Dougherty of the ACM found a bunch of OpenBSD copyright notices
• At least one of which I recognize as OpenCrypto, because of the comment about “transforms”
• It is likely that the vehicle is running QNX, which contains various bits of BSD
• QNX: Third Party License Terms List version 2.17
• Some highlights
  • Robert N. M. Watson (FreeBSD)
  • TrustedBSD Project (FreeBSD)
  • NetBSD Foundation
  • NASA Ames Research Center (NetBSD)
  • Damien Miller (OpenBSD)
  • Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.
  • Bob Beck (OpenBSD)
  • Christos Zoulas (NetBSD)
  • Markus Friedl (OpenBSD)
  • Henning Brauer (OpenBSD)
  • Network Associates Technology, Inc. (FreeBSD)
  • 100s of others
• OpenSSH seems to be included
• It also seems to contain tcpdump for some reason

Interview – Adam Leventhal – adam.leventhal@delphix.com / @ahl

• ZFS and DTrace

Beastie-Bits

• isboot, an iSCSI boot driver for FreeBSD 9 and 10

• tame() is now called pledge()

• Interview with NetBSD developer Leoardo Taccari

• Fuguita releases LiveCD based on OpenBSD 5.8

• Dtrace toolkit gets an update and imported into NetBSD

• An older article about how to do failover / load-balancing in pfsense

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