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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday October 11 2016, @03:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-one-louder-innit? dept.

The FreeBSD project has announced a new stable version of the FreeBSD operating system. The announcement says that initial builds were "withdrawn" due to "several last-minute issues" and that

Users that have installed FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE from the images originally available on the mirrors or from freebsd-update(8) prior to the rebuild of the final release are urged to upgrade their systems to FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 immediately.

Among the changes are a new version of OpenSSH which no longer supports version 1 of the SSH protocol, support for 802.11n Wi-Fi, a port to 64-bit ARM processors, and graphics support in the bhyve hypervisor.

further reading:
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:40PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:40PM (#413021)

    Anyone actually try the docker support? As a host not a client?

    I'm always up for virtualization fun. Openstack never quite seems able to run. Or maybe it does now. CBSD works great for me now other than the main dev being Russian and I don't read Russian and sometimes I feel I'm the only user other than the Russian developer. It works well, though. I have used virtualbox on linux and it supposedly works well on freebsd. I've never run vagrant to babysit virtualbox on linux or freebsd although I guess I'm always up for a good time.

    At work we use openstack although I don't want to set up redhat boxes at home just to run openstack then freebsd on them. I suppose it might come to that some day... Freebsd works great on openstack BTW, or at least I've had no problems. For all intents and purposes it seems openstack can run anything (openstack?) but can only run reliably and without pulling hair out on redhat (closedstack?)

    "Secure secure shell" is about a year and a half old, folks like me who implemented that long ago are not going to notice any of the "welcome to the 2010s" ssh changes like removal of DSA or whatever in 11.0. So there's changes, then theres changes for hardware I don't own and probably never will, changes for default configs I've been replacing with hardened configs for a long time, I'm not sure whats "really new" in that big sea of changes not relevant to me. I'm used to dot-something upgrades to dot-zero to imply all manner of API and ABI changes almost requiring fresh installation, like the heroic change from a.out to elf binary format in the shaded past of linux (like '95 or something). And the biggest change for the freebsd dot-zero seems to be they upgraded ntp?

    anyway here's a gratuitous link to "Secure secure shell" if you had DSA and protocol1 enabled until today you're probably doing something wrong.

    https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html [github.io]

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