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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
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The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the
availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4 Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: - FreeBSD 8.0-Release
- KDE 4.3.4
- Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD
- Run in Live mode directly from DVD
- Updated Software Manager, allows browsing and installing applications directly
- Support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64
Version 8.0-BETA of PC-BSD is available for download from our mirrors, and will be available shortly as bittorrent from www.gotbsd.net. Also, our Pootle Translation page has been updated with the latest strings, translators should now be able to finish localizing PC-BSD into their language. In order to prepare for 8.0-Release, please report any and all bugs to our Trac Database!
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Security Advisory: SSL, RTLD & FreeBSD Update |
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
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PC-BSD Security Advisory
Name: SSL, RTLD and freebsd-update security fixes
Date: 12-03-2009 Size: 1MB Description: This online update addresses a series of security issues in PC-BSD version 7.1.1, as detailed in the following FreeBSD SA's:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl.asc
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc
Application:
Simply apply the update on your PC-BSD system via the Online Update Utility , then reboot for the fix to take effect. |
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PC-BSD security update (devfs) |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
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A security update for PC-BSD 7.1.1 has been released today. This update fixes a potential privilege escalation attack with
devfs / vfs in the default kernel.
This security update effects users of both i386 and amd64 versions of PC-BSD.
To install the update, simply log into your desktop, and run:
Start -> System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Run in Administrator Mode
Once the Online Update Manager is running, select the "Security update - devfs" patch, and click "Install selected updates". After the update has finished downloading / installing, you will need to reboot the system to complete the process.
For more details about the specifics of this vulnerability, please refer to FreeBSD SA 09-14.devfs. |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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A small update to the PBI Builder software, version 2.4, has been released today. This version adds a few new variables to the module creation process, which allows developers to pick "target" ports they wish to have autopopulated and added to the resulting PBI file. For full details, please take a look at the changelog, and the wiki page. |
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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Version 2.3 of the PBI Builder software has been released for FreeBSD 7.x / PC-BSD 7.x. This update adds functionality to specify the version of FreeBSD you wish a target port to be compiled under. Also updated is the PBI Auto-Populate feature, which copies port files into the respective PBI automatically. For more details please refer to the changelog and wiki. |
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Monday, 09 March 2009 |
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The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the
immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1.1 Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Users who wish to upgrade from PC-BSD 7.0.x / 7.1 are able to do so via the upgrade / repair option during the installation.
Version 7.1.1 of PC-BSD for i386 and amd64 based platforms is available for download from our mirrors, for purchase from The FreeBSD Mall, as well as via torrent from www.gotbsd.net.
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