2.0.8

Includes a security fix for libradius

2.0.7

Fix two security issues:
jails - race condition with file system
memory sharing - stale mappings

2.0.6

Includes several security patches for xen and jails.

2.0.5 - Happy 15th Anniversary

Fixes a security issue with PAM.
Switches to sysrc for firstboot script rc.conf configuration
mport 2.0.5
tzdata 2021a

2.0.4 Add xinitrc to user directory

add initial xinitrc

MidnightBSD 2.0.3 RELEASE

Provides a security patch for OpenSSL and a /dev/devstat change for defaults to allow libgtop to work out of the box.

MidnightBSD 2.0.2 RELEASE

Fix a security issue in ICMPv6.

Update tzdata to 2020d to fix issues with systems telling the incorrect time in some time zones.

Remove burncd

Update and improve the built in certificate handling in 2.0 and refresh certs.

Fix a typo with the firstboot script

MidnightBSD 2.0.1 RELEASE

Fixes issues with UEFI not booting on amd64.

MidnightBSD 2.0 RELEASE

MidnightBSD 2.0
11/9/2020

I’m happy to announce the availability of MidnightBSD 2.0 for amd64 and i386. This is a massive release focusing on base system improvements.

We’ve imported many features from FreeBSD 11.x as part of the release.

LLVM updated to 8.0.1
ELF ToolChain updated
OpenSSL updated
ZFS now supports parallel mounting
Kernel logs jail IDs when a process exits
Network firmware updates

Updated DRM code is now in mports for 2.0 and later. This allows us to update it outside of a release.
Upgrade Process

Due to the nature of the release, there are a few minor build issues when upgrading from MidnightBSD 1.2.x by source. Please follow this awkward procedure:

(you can also do this with svnlite using github)

Install git if you don’t have it already
mport install git

Fetch MidnightBSD from git via github.com/midnightbsd/src.git (assumes you don’t have /usr/src populated)

git clone https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src.git

Checkout the stable/2.0 branch
git checkout stable/2.0

Using your favorite editor (ee, vi, nano, gedit, … ) open the src/usr.bin/Makefile
Comment out with #
.if defined(LINKER_FEATURES) && ${LINKER_FEATURES:Mfilter}
SUBDIR= perl
.WAIT
.endif

cd /usr/src; make clean buildworld buildkernel;
mergemaster -p
make installkernel
reboot
(if it works OK, login and go to /usr/src)
make installworld
mergemaster -iU
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/perl; make; make install;
Open src/usr.bin/Makefile again and uncomment the previous lines (in case you do a rebuild later)
Update installed mports/packages
cd /usr/src/; make check-old; then run make delete-old

When you are done, verify that perl is updated by running perl -v
You should have perl 5.32.0. If it says perl 5.28, be sure to upgrade perl!

Bug Fixes and new features
The default devd.conf(5) has been updated to prevent duplicated hostapd(8) and wpa_supplicant(8) startup via devd(8).

The cpuset(1), sockstat(1), ipfw(8), and ugidfw(8) utilities have been updated to support jail(8) names.

The newfs_msdos(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -T, which is used to specify the timestamp for build reproducibility.

The dd(1) utility has been updated to add a new statusoperand, progress, which reports the current status on a single line every second.

The last(1) utility has been updated to include libxo(3) support.

The lastlogin(8) utility has been updated to include libxo(3) support.

The traceroute(8) utility has been updated to include libcasper(3) support.

The trim(8) utility has been added, which deletes content for blocks on flash-based storage devices that use wear-leveling algorithms.

The newfs(8) and tunefs(8) utilities have been updated to allow underscores in label names.

The newfs(8) and tunefs(8) utilities have been updated to allow dashes in label names.

The fdisk(8) utility has been updated to support sectors larger than 2048 bytes.

The sh(1) utility has been updated to add the pipefail option which simplifies checking the exit status of all commands in a pipeline.

The spi(8) utility has been added, which is used to communicate with devices on an SPI bus through the userland.

An issue that could result in a system hang during ZFS vnode reclamation has been fixed.

The functionality provided by zfsloader has been added to loader(8). Once the system boot blocks have been updated, zfsloader is not needed.

The ipfw(8) firewall has been updated to include new rule options, record-state, set-limit, and defer-action.

Support for NAT64 CLAT has been added, as defined in RFC6877.

The ln(1) utility has been updated to correct the behavior of the -F flag by unlinking an existing directory before creating a symbolic link.

The crontab(1) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -f, which forces crontab(5) removal when -r is used non-interactively.

The newsyslog(8) utility has been updated to support RFC5424-compliant messages when rotating system logs.

The sesutil(8) utility has been updated to include libxo(3) support in output.

The diskinfo(8) utility has been updated to include two new flags, -s which displays the disk identity (usually the serial number), and -p which displays the physical path to the disk in a storage controller. The -s and -p flags are mutually exclusive, and cannot be used with any other flags.

The diskinfo(8) utility has also been updated to include the device model when the -s flag is used.

The top(1) utility has been updated to allow filtering on multiple user names when the -U flag is used.

The bsdgrep(1) utility has been updated to include a rgrep hard link to grep(1), which when used is equivalent to grep -r.

The bsdgrep(1) utility has been updated to address various issues with pattern matching behavior.

The umount(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -N, which is used to forcefully unmount an NFS mounted filesystem.

The pw(8) utility has been updated to properly handle empty secondary group lists as an argument to the -G flag when using the usermod subcommand.

The getconf(1) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -a, which prints the name and value of all system or path configuration values to stdout(4) or optionally a file as an argument to -a.

The ps(1) utility has been updated to reflect realtime and idle priorities in state flags.

The ps(1) utility has been updated to display if a process is running with capsicum(4) capability mode, indicated by C.
The cpucontrol(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -n, that disables the default microcode update search path when used.
The fsck_ffs(8) utility has been updated to prevent a filesystem from being reported as modified when only the timestamp in the superblock is updated.
The diskinfo(8) utility has been updated to display disk rotation rate and if TRIM/UNMAP is supported by the disk.
The rsh(1) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -N, which disables shutdown of a socket sending path when used.
The pfctl(8) utility has been updated to allow route-to to properly handle network interfaces with multiple IP addresses.
The camcontrol(8) utility has been updated to include ZAC (Zoned-device ATA command set) information when the identify subcommand is used.
The pw(8) utility has been updated to correct handling of account expiration periods.
The mdmfs(8) utility has been updated to support tmpfs(5).
The lint(1) utility is no longer built by default. The WITH_LINT src.conf(5) option has been added to enable building and installing the utility.
The cpucontrol(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -e, which is used to re-evaluate reported CPU features after applying firmware updates.
The indent(1) utility has been updated to respect the SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX environment variable if set.
The du(1) utility has been updated to include the --si long option, which is used to display output in "human-readable" output in powers of 1000.
The df(1) utility has been updated to include the --si long option, which is an alias to -H.
The service(8) utility has been updated to include a new flag, -j, which is used to interact with services running within a jail(8). The argument to -j can be either the name or numeric jail ID.
The fsck_ffs(8) utility has been updated to exit with a non-zero status when the filesystem is not repaired.
The nvmecontrol(8) utility has been updated to print the full 128 bit value for SMART data, instead of the hexadecimal value.
The nvmecontrol(8) utility has been updated to include control options for Western Digital® HGST drives. The new options are cap-diag, get-crash-dump, drive-log, purge, and purge-monitor.
The dhclient(8) utility has been updated to be more compliant with RFC2131 by setting the source address field in the IP header to 0 when sending a DHCPREQUEST message to attempt to obtain a previously-assigned IP address.
The pw(8) utility has been updated to allow the @ and ! characters in the GECOS field.
The zfsd(8) utility has been updated to work with any type of GEOM provider, including md(4), geli(8), glabel(8), and gstripe(8).
The ps(1) utility has been updated to include a jail keyword, which when used will list the name of a jail(8) instead of the numeric ID.
The mlx5tool(8) utility has been added, which is used to manage Connect-X 4 and Connect-X 5 devices supported by mlx5io(4).
The sysctl(8) utility has been updated to support setting an array of values to nodes. Prior to this change, sysctl(8) could only set one value to a node that may return multiple values when queried.
The ifconfig(8) utility has been updated to include a random option, which when used with the ether option, generates a random MAC address for an interface
The efibootmgr(8) utility has been added, which is used to manipulate the EFI boot manager.
The etdump(1) utility has been added, which is used to view El Torito boot catalog information.
The mount(8) utility has been updated to allow fallback to mount media read-only if an attempt to mount write-protected media read-write fails. This behavior is disabled by default, and can be requested with the new autoro option
The makefs(8) utility has been updated to default the block and fragment sizes to match that of newfs(8), 32K and 4K, respectively.
The pwd_mkdb(8) utility has been updated to emit a notice that legacy database support will be removed when the -l flag is used.
The dhclient(8) utility has been updated to allow the interface-mtu option to be overridden with a supersede entry in dhclient.conf(5)
The linux(4) ABI compatibility layer has been updated to include support for musl consumers.

The fdescfs(5) filesystem has been updated to support Linux®-specific fd(4) /dev/fd and /proc/self/fd behavior.
The ng_iface(4) driver has been updated to prevent a possible system crash.
The ipfw(4) packet filter has been updated to i...

MidnightBSD 1.2.10 RELEASE

udf: Validate the full file entry length Otherwise a corrupted file entry containing invalid extended attribute lengths or allocation descriptor lengths can trigger an overflow when the file entry is loaded.