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PC-BSD 8.0-RC Released
Wednesday, 27 January 2010

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.4

PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

  • FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
  • 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-RC of PC-BSD is available for download from our mirrors, and will be available shortly as bittorrent from www.gotbsd.net.  Translators are highly encouraged to test this release and ensure that all translation strings in our Pootle 2 server are up to date & working properly in the software.

In order to prepare for 8.0-Release, please report any and all bugs to our Trac Database!
 
Release: PBI Builder 2.5
Tuesday, 05 January 2010

The PBI Builder software has been updated to version 2.5 for both the 7.x and 8.x series. This release contains some improvements to how PBIs work with 3D support via libGL, fixes bugs with apps not correctly using the system's available fonts, and changes in how FreeBSD ports are included. For more details please refer to the changelog and the wiki.

 
 
PC-BSD 8.0-BETA Released
Friday, 01 January 2010

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!
 
Security Advisory: SSL, RTLD & FreeBSD Update
Thursday, 03 December 2009

 

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. 
 
PC-BSD security update (devfs)
Tuesday, 06 October 2009

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.
 
Release: PBI Builder 2.4
Tuesday, 02 June 2009

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.