FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

#FreeBSD #ReproducibleBuilds #OpenSource #Security

FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/> (parts) | <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/book/> (the book)

Published today.

Thanks to @alfonsosiciliano, to @pauamma for review, and to @FreeBSDFoundation for sponsorship.

#FreeBSD #accessibility

New 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 [ZFS Boot Environments Explained] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/zfs-boot-environments-explained/

#verblog #beadm #bectl #dataset #desktop #freebsd #laptop #pool #server #zfs

@encthenet @mwl

Perfect conference fodder.

I know, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS7Ajnx9Q8

#FreeBSD

Does anyone have a complete guide to how vnodes and vnode paging works on FreeBSD?

D&I doesn't tie things together very nicely, and the man pages are lacking a lot of the interplay between the vnops and what various functions do.

I'm getting closer to understanding things, but it seems like there's a lot of interplay between _read, _bmap, _read_pgcacche, _getpages, and _strategy, and helper functions like bread/cluster_read that isn't well described (or split between all the different man pages in ways that aren't obvious to me).

#FreeBSD

The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI

For the upcoming Fosdem, we submit a common devroom titled "BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS".

Our proposal was accepted 🥳 !
The devroom will take place Saturday 31 January afternoon.

#illumos #Fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #ZFS #bhyve

The CFP will be published in the upcoming days!

Client: "I’d like to try some alternative themes for my WordPress site you’re hosting, but I’m afraid of breaking the production site."

Me: "Say no more."

I start:
- create a record for the test site

- bastille clone -l prod testing ip

- bastille console nginx → edit nginx proxy, add the new domain → certbot --nginx -d newdomain.tld

- bastille console testing → mysql → UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'https://newdomain.tld' WHERE option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'https://newdomain.tld' WHERE option_name = 'home';

- "Done. You can now connect to..."

FreeBSD, jails, ZFS. No limits.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #jails #BastilleBSD #WordPress

🎓 2025 Google Summer of Code participant Aaron Espinoza ran a project to test FreeBSD device drivers written in Rust. Here’s a short introduction to that piece of work.

Watch Aaron’s GSoC talk: https://youtu.be/y82-t1tDLWg?si=9n6X3uDZB_Hk3mDr
💻 Explore the code: https://github.com/Acesp25/rustkld

We’re grateful to Aaron, his mentors, and the FreeBSD/GSoC community for advancing this work.

👉 What are your thoughts on using Rust for FreeBSD driver development?

#FreeBSD #GSoC2025 #RustLang #OpenSource #KernelDevelopment

It's such a small gesture but it speaks volumes about the community and the love the developers put into it.

Alt...

Terminal output produced by the fortune(6) programme upon login to the FreeBSD operating system. The text says: "You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways. The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@%d To delete d and all later snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@d% To delete all dataset snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@% Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you intended. -- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>," followed by the system prompt "`u@frost ~ %`." Huge thank you to Benedict for submitting these <3