The Swift team announced on the official forum that it has launched a preview version of the Swift toolchain for FreeBSD, supporting the x86_64 architecture of FreeBSD 14.3 and above. This release includes a development compiler and execution environment that allows developers to compile and run Swift programs natively on FreeBSD systems. This announcement marks […]

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The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3, the third beta build in the 15.0-RELEASE cycle. The update brings several critical fixes, improved WiFi compatibility, and expanded image availability for VMs, containers, and cloud platforms. FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3 introduces a series of refinements and security updates aimed at improving system stability and hardware support. […]

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The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3, the third beta build in the 15.0-RELEASE cycle. The update brings several critical fixes, improved WiFi compatibility, and expanded image availability for VMs, containers, and cloud platforms. FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3 introduces a series of refinements and security updates aimed at improving system stability and hardware support. […]

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The FreeBSD Project has shipped the fifth alpha build for the upcoming 15.0-RELEASE, delivering a crucial fix for a power management regression. The update reverts a change that caused USB ports to be nonfunctional after a system resumed from S3 sleep. This release pushes the first beta back by one week, but the team remains […]

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Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or setting up mirrors. It minimizes data copied by transferring only the changed parts of files, making it faster and more bandwidth-efficient than traditional copying methods provided by tools like sftp or ftp-ssl. Rsync versions 3.3.0 and below has been found with SIX serious vulnerabilities. Attackers could exploit these to leak your data, corrupt your files, or even take over your system. There is a heap-based buffer overflow with a CVSS score of 9.8 that needs to be addressed on both the client and server sides of rsync package. Apart from that info leak via uninitialized stack contents defeats ASLR protection and rsync server can make client write files outside of destination directory using symbolic links.

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After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAID 5, which you find with hardware or Linux software raid devices. It protects your data by spreading it across multiple hard disks along with parity information. A raidz device can have single, double, or triple parity to sustain one, two, or three hard disk failures, respectively, without losing any data. Hence, expanding or adding a new HDD is a very handy feature for sysadmins in today's data-sensitive apps.

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It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to view log files. However, you may need help with so many log files. These essential Unix tools are suitable for basic text but fall short when dealing with many log files. You can get tired from sifting through endless lines of log files. The lnav utility is here to the rescue! It is a powerful log file viewer that goes beyond the basics. It understands your logs by identifying timestamps, log levels, and other vital details. You can run SQLite SQL queries against your standard log files and build reports for your needs. Let us see how to install and use the lnav tool quickly.

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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version 13.1 to 13.2 using the CLI over an ssh-based session. Here are my quick notes.

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