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[dataswamp.org/~solene] Full-featured email server running OpenBSD -
AI Agents Could Get Verified Identities, Courtesy of DNSThe open standard would tie every agent's identity to certificates and a public transparency log nobody can edit.
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[dataswamp.org/~solene] Full-featured email server running OpenBSDHi. "Love" Solene!
Just as a reminder, Peter N. Hansteen wrote an equally comprehensive article on this topic on May 15, 2026!
(article that I translated into French)PS: I had the pleasure of "working" with Solene, for many years, when we were both managing the OpenBSD(.fr) (obsd4a: "OpenBSD pour tous"—openbsd.fr.eu.org) community, which is now on its last legs. I own the domain name, and the simply actual website.
Today, Solene is no longer active in the OpenBSD community—neither the French nor the English one. She has moved on to other areas of IT, since few years. (NixOS inside) -
[ Dan Langille ]06/30
⇒ Did VictoriaLogs miss any logs during the reboot?
Yesterday, I modified r730-01 by Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 – as a consequence, my log collecting jail was offline. Did it miss any logs?
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[Undeadly.org] OpenBSD logs06/29
⇒ relayd(8) and httpd(8) TLS settings update.
Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the "secure" list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites. The previous list was "HIGH:!aNULL" which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect.
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[ Dan Langille ]06/29
⇒ Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.1
At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase”).
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About 7.2 Changes/Features…06/29
⇒ Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions
I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper.
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Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats -
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'Linux creator calls OpenBSD crowd a bunch of "monkeys" and criticizes those who publicize security flaws to gain notoriety.
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Stéphane HUC :: Echoes Weekly ITWeekly Echoes #2026W26: IT news, round-up, week 26; from 06/22 to 06/28.
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About 7.3 changes/features06/28
⇒ Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.
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About 7.2 Changes/Features…06/28
⇒ Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines.
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSDOT
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSDTrue enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an opinion on Richard Stallman personally, likewise let none claim he does not practice what he preaches. Why, the very laptop in front of him was selected deliberately because it can operate with no binary blobs and no firmware you couldn't examine or replace with your own, and runs his choice of fully libre operating systems. The fact it has a Chinese MIPS64 derivative in it was undoubtedly just more compound on the heat spreader.
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About 7.2 Changes/Features…26/06/26
⇒ Linux 7.2 Adds New Driver For Wacom W9000 Pen-Enabled Touchscreens
The input subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.2, which is seeing its merge window wrap up on Sunday. Most notable with the input updates is the introduction of the "wacom_w9000" for supporting newer, pen-enabled touchscreens.
⇒ Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s
The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window.
The PCI code has lifted a 2.5GT/s speed restriction in the PCIe failed-link retraining code to avoid a situation where a link could be restricted to 2.5GT/s after hot-plug changes to the PCIe device.
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Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber ThreatsAmazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft and GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone and Zscaler join coordinated effort to find, fix and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source software the world runs on
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The CRA Readiness Reality: What Changed (and What Didn’t) Between 2025 and 2026?In 2025, Linux Foundation Research, Linux Foundation Europe, and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) published Unaware and Uncertain: The Stark Realities of Cyber Resilience Act Readiness in Open Source. It took a survey-based look at how prepared the open source ecosystem was for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA). The headline finding was blunt: 62% of respondents had little to no familiarity with a regulation that would reshape how software gets built, shipped, and maintained across global supply chains. The hope was that with a year to go before the CRA enters into force, community education initiatives and a growing body of guidance would move the readiness needle.
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SUSE and Openchip Partner to Develop Sovereign European RISC-V Hardware and Open Source Software StackThe companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to optimize enterprise Linux and Kubernetes software for European-designed RISC-V processors.
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About 7.2 Changes/Features…(06/25)
⇒ KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2
Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support.
⇒ Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"
Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver.
⇒ Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL
Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements.
⇒ Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years
Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree.
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BSD Now(06/25)
⇒ BSD Now—669: Poudriere Speed Run
inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more...
