Further releases ...

... on this surprising hot autumn here in the emerald island.

Today, no real surprise, OpenBSD 6.4 is out, so before the 1st of November, here the "changelog". I think from now we can start to forget the old 1st May/1st November hardcoded dates :-)

radare2 finally got to 3.0.0 but there is a quick 3.0.1 "hotfix" version already scheduled (today or tomorrow). Also autumn is the sign of life coming down :-) so FreeBSD 10.4 End of Life is soon-ish albeit the date is not hardcoded yet. FreeBSD 11 and soon FreeBSD 12 have sufficiently new features and stability to be interesting, I personally appreciate the shorter lifetime of FreeBSD releases between major branches, compared to how it used to be ...

Months ago mentioned couple of times people reporting issues with Intel components. In a personal level, I started to move towards AMD and its Ryzen branding as a new OpenBSD machine. Some people might be more interested by ARM laptops instead. No disappointment so far, the extra power will serve me right for LLVM builds as well. You can find people who tested this sort of combo like qbit here. Also pypy will finally have a major bump version resulted from a patch I did quite a time ago (and which I almost forgot :-)).

FreeBSD 11

Hi folks,

Real followers of FreeBSD know already that despite FreeBSD 11 is not yet officially released, it is somehow available already for the impatients ;-) Well, speaking on this, due to the difference of pace with OpenBSD, the impression is pretty different. Indeed, I contributed in quite small amount back then circa 2014/2015 especially when I was into HardenedBSD (which I wish very good luck, no doubt they are successful), the difference with the now previous branch is quite enormous as you can see. In my side, I already look forward FreeBSD 12 :-) ...

For OpenBSD, a lot of work are done to push clang in base, mainly modifying the codebase to make it compilable with both gcc and clang, that might be all ready for 6.1 ? We ll see ... Apart of this, I continue my usual work, I plan to update jack(audio) and openal although other OpenBSD folks are very busy right now that might not happen too soon ;-) Ah and a small bunch of fixes were pushed to the next release of xserver, which I honestly did not expect to happen :-)