Call to undefined function filter_var() on FreeBSD https://www.rubenerd.au/call-to-undefined-function-filter-var/

Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD: I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour. Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF. If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload: … Question for this sub What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD? I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has. Yesterday from the same author: The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Two Systems on My Desk | The FreeBSD Forums

Thanks. Less formally: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t7mzw1/comment/okqt36w/?context=1 …

No problem with the vote @grahamperrin said: For what it's worth, I think: don't delete it from BSD Cafe Billboard. It's good to raise awareness of the reputation. I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting!

FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update: https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2026-04 or https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-04.md Cross-post: https://redd.it/1tc70zr

morning, alll. i have meet problem in freebsd15 bridge ... i have create a bridge as below content #for ipv4 only LAN 21 │ ifconfig_re0="up" 22 │ create_args_bridge5="addm re0 name re0lan" 28 │ cloned_interfaces="bridge5" 29 │ 30 │ #for home.. 31 │ ifconfig_re0lan="inet 10.8.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="10.8.1.253" ok. #vm switch create -t manual -b re0lan public ... #vm switch list NAME TYPE IFACE ADDRESS PRIVATE MTU VLAN PORTS public manual re0lan n/a no n/a n/a n/a #vm create -t freebsd-zvol -s 10gb -m 2gb fb15 #vm start fb15 ok. when fb15 start or stop , the bridge ping defaultrouter 10.8.1.253 will lost packages. why ? please help me .thanks..... when i start or stop jail attach this bridge .. the problem will appear again... thanks. [image: 1778640610890-image_2026-05-13_01-59-37.png]

@grahamperrin said: I guess, you're quoting vermaden. "Y, sir, Y!" I changed on my first post!

“The server feels slow.” It is the most common ticket text in the world, and the least useful. Before you can fix anything you need to know whether the box is CPU bound, memory pressured, waiting on disk, saturating a NIC, or simply running a runaway process in one jail that is starving everyone else. On jail hosts, the second half of the problem is attribution: not just what is overloaded, but which jail is responsible… https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@Larvitz@burningboard.net/116560508989633469

See: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/freebsd-after-install/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org/116530466697991937

Spun off from (Linux) Fedora Verified: Help Shape a New Way to Recognize Fedora Contributors | BSD Cafe Billboard FreeBSD Project https://framapiaf.org/@tubsta@bsdlab.au/116478621827645455 – redirects to https://social.bsdlab.au/notice/B5jMI1FY3WtTTWqvNA: Something the #FreeBSD core team could consider. This is something that has probably been needed for a while @dch@bsd.network My initial thoughts: it's an awful lot to think about for a project, or team (Core, for example), that already has, I think, too much to think about. Fedora Project From the Proposal: Unanswered Questions for the Fedora Community While we have a framework, there are several major questions we need the community to answer before we move forward. Specifically, we want to know: Validation: Should applicants be approved by grassroots peer vouches, or an elected committee? Fairness: Does this model truly value non-code contributions equally? Progression: How strictly structured should the path to becoming “Verified” be? Maintenance: Should the status expire after 12 months of inactivity? Of those four questions, the first two are huge. https://mastodon.social/@mxenbionix/116478348932821730: … I do have to echo some of the concerns people seem to be raising about being unclear to what this is actually solving. … Also, the commentary at and under https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/188603/3.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@allaboutsecurity/116516280099667572CHERI memory safety mitigates LLM-discovered vulnerability in FreeBSD – CHERI Alliance<https://cheri-alliance.org/cheri-memory-safety-mitigates-llm-discovered-vulnerability-in-freebsd/>＂… CHERI trivially blocks this attack and likely many others. As LLM-driven discovery accelerates, the case for memory safety by design becomes stronger.＂@freebsd #FreeBSD @FreeBSDFoundation

Install xteddy! And sl!

Why the Best Systems Are the Ones You Don't Notice FreeBSD, from philosophy to practice. https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design From Integrated by Design — Launch Day (23rd April): … Five months of writing. Three weeks of final proofs. Then the last 72 hours, dedicated entirely to problems one does not anticipate. In the interest of transparency, and in the hope that it spares somebody else a week of the same, here are the four of them. … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928554 – please note the author's comments. Vivian Voss — System Architect & Software Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoss/ Also in Reddit: https://redd.it/1t1u1os

No response to https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/04/22/anthropic_mythos_hype_nothingburger/#c_5266893 after five days (and no correction to the article); that's disappointing. I'll respectfully request a correction. I refrained from sending an email, because @bigsneakyduck had already done so (mentioned in Reddit: "… I've tried reducing this to the bare minimum and sent an email to corrections at theregister dot com.").

See: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Embed-Crates-LTS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-On-FreeBSD ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jbz@indieweb.social/116498971896054525

The FreeBSD User Groups page has got quite outdated so crowdsourcing some replies has helped update a few things. Mostly group closures unfortunately but also some changes of contact details. For people who don't have a Reddit user account, I also started a FreeBSD Forums thread that found a few more updates, including a change to a long-standing venue. So feel free to reply there too: forums.freebsd.org/threads/102512/ I don't check for replies quite so regularly here - but if you don't have a FreeBSD Forums or Reddit account then leave a reply here and I'll get back to you at some point.

A key component for FreeBSD becoming NIST FIPS 140-3 compliant was completed when FreeBSD upgraded from OpenSSL 3.0 to 3.5. One of the other requirements for FIPS 140-3 (and post-quantum cryptography) is having sufficient random entropy in the system to generate sufficiently random numbers. NIST SP800-90B provides some guidelines on how to achieve that… https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-April/006201.html PS: This strikes me as a significant development, which is why I am posting it here

This post provides a guide for how to launch a FreeBSD 15 VPS server from Rad Web Hosting. https://blog.radwebhosting.com/launch-a-freebsd-15-vps-server/ PS: I dont know if it's good idea to post this information… If this is a problem, because it comes from a hosting company, then please feel free to moderate or even delete it