Statement of the FreeBSD Core Team Regarding the EU Cyber Resilience Act

submited 22 September 2026

The FreeBSD Core Team formally endorses the FreeBSD Foundation as an open-source software steward for EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance, while affirming that downstream enterprise partners and contributors may also independently fulfill steward roles.

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24 September 2026
BSD Now 682: NAS NAS NAS  

This episode covers new BSD-based NAS projects (BSDNAS, FreeCORE), a FreeBSD Foundation intern working on ROCm support, OpenSSH 10.5, and a look at the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag.

Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1  

Klara Systems explains how to identify and fix common ZFS misconfigurations involving ashift, recordsize, vdev layout, dedup, and pool capacity, with practical examples and commands.

22 September 2026
NetBSD 10.2 released  

It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 10.1 in December 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 10.0. This release includes security updates for ipfilter, telnet, kernel TCP support, OpenSSL, Unbound, and X.Org. It improves the stability of the iwm(4) Wi-Fi driver, and fixes support for Olimex A64 and MIPS R5000SC systems. Newly available is the ability to boot an amd64 kernel directly with QEMU's -kernel option.

Statement of the FreeBSD Core Team Regarding the EU Cyber Resilience Act  

The FreeBSD Core Team formally endorses the FreeBSD Foundation as an open-source software steward for EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance, while affirming that downstream enterprise partners and contributors may also independently fulfill steward roles.

Valuable News – 2026/09/21  

vermaden's weekly BSD digest covering Apiary (a Bhyve/Jails cluster platform), FreeBSD on Framework Laptop, NetBSD GSoC Enlightenment E26 progress, GEFS on OpenBSD, and EuroBSDCon 2026 video releases.

ekkoBSD 2.1 Released  

After more than two decades of dormancy, ekkoBSD has returned with release 2.1delivering a small, auditable 4.4BSD-derived operating system for amd64 featuring a modern build system, updated handbook, and 742 native .mom packages.

NetBSD GSoC 2026: Enlightenment Progress Update 2  

The second status report on bringing the Enlightenment desktop to NetBSD details hardware-accelerated DRM/DRI fixes in EFL, BSD socket fixes in Ecore_Con for X11 and Wayland compositing, and updated packages in pkgsrc-wip.

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18 September 2026
BSD Now 681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure  

Episode 681 of BSD Now discusses where Unix runs today, WebZFS updates, NetBSD 11 support, Sylve for FreeBSD bhyve virtualization with Ansible, a remote filesystem for 2.11BSD, and more.

FreeBSD: The Hidden Cost of Upgrading in Production  

Klara Systems breaks down the hidden costs of upgrading FreeBSD in production, covering engineering time, testing, package changes, and compliance risks. It outlines practical strategies to minimize friction, including ZFS boot environments, staged canary rollouts, and poudriere package builds.

EuroBSDCon 2026 Talks Online  

Video recordings from EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels are now available, featuring OpenBSD presentations on pkg_add updates, the errata process, routing domains for VPNs, input device handling, and more.

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