MidnightBSD: The BSD For Everyone

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:36

dnssd nss module

In our master branch, we now have a new dns module for unicast traffic. It will cache dns lookups using the base system mDNSresponder app from apple. Apple does this on macOS and now we do it on MidnightBSD. caveat is that it only supports ipv4 resolvers....

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:35

OpenSSH 10.6 and expat 2.10.0 imported

We've imported OpenSSH 4.6 into master, stable/4.1 and stable/4.0 branches. This includes several security fixes. We've also updated expat to 2.10.0...

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00

brotli ports

We've tried to update some of the mports impacted by the new brotli security issues. Not all the apps have been updated yet. We've attempted to patch some. go based apps have been the hardest to deal with so far....

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:48

MidnightBSD Workspace (midnight-wm)

We have a new window manager in mports and on our github page. It's partially written by AI, but has been improving at a steady clip. We have a search app to use the locate database to find things, a system monitor to track usage with midnightbsd native integrations, a chat app for AI use, and we are working on integrating better with free desktop standards....

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:46

Midnight Chat App (AI LLM use)

We now have a very simplistic AI chat app that can connect to local ollama or llama.cpp instances. This is included in the window manager repo, but we will NOT be automatically installing models or ollama. OpenAI compatible endpoints...

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:45

mports changes

A lot of mports activity. We're trying to patch in light of this week's security issues and our backlog. highlights: nss firefox firefox-esr thunderbird go127 added node22 / 24, added 26. removed 20, 23 php (of course) tailscale python stuff: pip, uv, sphinx, certify, ......

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:44

Midori removed from mports

We removed the www/midori port. This version has been long EOL and was kept for xfce. Modern xfce doesn't require it. We recommend www/raphael, the MidnightBSD midori fork if you like this browser. You can also use firefox, firefox-esr, linux brave, chromium, etc...

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:43

Daemon ports

Daemon ports includes MidnightBSD as well as all the other BSDs. One stop searching of ports. Check it out"daemonports.org/midnightbsd/" (https://t.co/RbyYyOQwjt)...

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:16

CVE list

We've reformatted all the CVE data and imported it into github as well as updated our website as well. You can now see CVEs in both places. We've been publishing to github first this year due to the volume....

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:15

Release plans

4.0.7 will be coming once more testing of the zfs fix is done. so far it's stable. 4.1.0 is getting closer. We just set up the first package build for amd64. We're building an i386 magus node right now....

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:14

new ai mports category

Based on poll results, we decided to create the ai category in mports. 42 ports are moving into it...

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:14

openntpd

We updated openntpd in 4.0 stable too. There were a few security issues fixed so it seemed like a safe choice. It has a few useful features.. dns retry when a host can't be contacted, ntpctl to check status, etc....

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:43

Using Google Chrome on MidnightBSD

The Linux version of Google Chrome is now in mports. It requres 4.0 AMD64 or higher to run. You will need to use the linux emulation feature with the rl9 base libraries. This will handle all the mounts and loading linuxolator sysrc linux_enable="YES" Install the port from /usr/mports/www/linux-chrome Running it: google-chrome --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-software-rasterizer --remote-debugging-port=0 NOTE: it seems to crash if you try to use the sync feature within chrome....

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:27

Package build in progress

We've got a new amd64 package build in progress with updates to qt5 and 6...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:39

4.0 release update

The 4.0 release went out and there are a number of important bug fixes in git post release. (4.0.1 will include these) Packages have been built for amd64 and i386 now but there are a few critical ports that were broken on both runs. Major updates to the ports tree are in progress to resolve the issues....