MidnightBSD: The BSD For Everyone

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....

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:24

4.0 current update

We did our first package build run and there are a few areas we need to work on before a release can happen. rust and binutils are broken. This is holding up a lot of things....

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:20

Funding update

The MidnightBSD project does get some funding from Patreon users, and it's greatly appreciated. Our current infra spending breaks down like this (monthly): OVH: $180 (UK mirror) AWS: $250 Business cable connection for hosting the project: $430 Additionally, we have hardware and electricity costs. Our rack idles around 300 watts these days. We're currently running on: ryzen 5700x 64GB (to be retired soon) HPE DL360 gen 10 (2x20 core xeon) 256GB RAM HPE DL360 gen9 (2x18 core xeon) 160GB RAM HPE DL20 gen9 (quad core Xeon) 32GB RAM (firewall) Aruba Instant on 1960xt (10G copper and fiber switch) Engenius 2.5G 8-port switch cable modem/router HPE microserver Gen10 plus (xeon) HPE microserver Gen8 (opteron)...

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:09

Project Update June 2025

An update on hardware upgrades: I've migrated two of the three servers to the new HPE DL360 GEN10 server. This should result in a little less power consumption and a lot more compute power. We're still waiting on a drive that had to be RMA'd for the remaining server. So far, we've migrated our database and one of our virtualization servers over to the new hardware. The virtualization server runs Jenkins, magus build nodes, logging infrastructure, and a few other things. We've also taken the opportunity to migrate a number of services on the database server into their own jails using Bastille. Packages We've refreshed packages for i386 and amd64 3.2 systems. This included a number of security updates and a large jump in total packages available. 4.0 CURRENT progress Current work has been progressing slowly, in part because I'm recovering from COVID. I also wanted to get the new hardware in place to help with builds. The kernel is working, but there are a few things in userland broken at the moment. I'm working through those as I find them. The original plan was to release in May but that's obviously been delayed. I don't have an ETA on the release right now. AWS & MidnightBSD Amazon recently took down our AWS marketplace listing because the software was old and had a security issue. The last attempt we made to update it resulted in a rejection. They wouldn't test it manually and their automated tools can't handle the alternate partition and file system to scan it. I've been working on a different approach to build images for AWS in hopes of refreshing them more often. The project does use them and the current approach was to install and then update manually. This is a big hassle. It would also be nice if we could support newer instance types as we are currently limited to old hardware (like t2 instances) We do publish image ids for aws us-east-1 on the midnightbsd download page for folks who want to run them manually without marketplace....

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:07

Partial service restoration

Our hardware upgrade is still in progress. We've managed to migrate almost 2 physical servers infra to a new box. There is one more server to migrate, but we're going to wait on that. One service is left from the second server and it's lower priority....

Thu, 22 May 2025 14:05

New packages in ravenports

* Firefox 138.0.3
* Thunderbird 138.0.1
* LibreOffice 25.2.2
* TeXLive 20250308
* Darktable 5.0.1
* Okular 25.04.1
* VLC 3.0.21
* Mesa 25.05
* Qemu 10.0
* GCC 14.2.0
* LLVM 20.1.4
* Go 1.24.3
* Rust 1.86.0
* Rvn 1.0.2

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Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:26

Sensors script

added sensors script by Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak & Trix Farrar v3 from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vermaden/scripts/master/sensors.sh" (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vermaden/scripts/master/sensors.sh) Similar to the sensors output on linux, but limited. There is overlap with batt(1) but still useful....

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:01

MidnightBSD 3.2.3

MidnightBSD 3.2.3 ISOs are uploading to mirrors. Changes in this version are mostly third-party dependencies: OpenSSH 9.9p2 tcpdump 4.99.5 expat 2.7.1 fix for xz CVE-2025-31115 unbound 1.22.0 And the MidnightBSD package manager, mport, was updated to 2.6.8. Important notes: 1. An issue with the firstboot script was fixed after this release. It won't hurt anything per se, but there was still code in there to start hald. It will be included in the next release. (thanks ykla) 2. mport 2.6.8 does have a few bugs, particularly with removing a lot of packages at once. This was fixed in later versions, but mport 2.7.x isn't ready for broad release yet. (3.2.0 shipped with mport 2.6.0 and 3.2.2 had mport 2.6.4) 3. There are a number of CVEs fixed in this release related to OpenSSH, unbound, expat, xz, and tcpdump....

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:19

mport-manager 0.23

A new mport-manager, graphical package manager release, 0.23 is now available in mports and on github....