Introduction to the alternative RACK TCP stack in FreeBSD.

Amongst other news, the report for Q2 contains information on:

• A new, web-based installer.
• LLDB Debugger Improvements.
• Update of the Linux compatibility layer.
• pf syncookie support.
• The RAIDZ expansion update
• helloSystem

This podcast episode from The Changelog gives Insights into the release process of RabbitMQ and FreeBSD.

Only some of the highlights:

• ZFS now provided by OpenZFS
• in-kernel framing and encryption of TLS
• arm64 is promoted to Tier-1 status
• rewritten routing stack
• clang, lld, llvm, libc++ update to 11.0.1
• bhyve improvements
• removed obsolete GDB

»FreeBSD will promote arm64 to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD 13.«

runj, is a new experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.

»FreeBSD 13.0 comes out at the end of March. Take a look at what's new in the upcoming release.«

In this tutorial, the author shows how to get GlusterFS 8 running on FreeBSD 13.

In this talk, Jonathan Looney from Netflix describes the Open Connect Appliance and the optimizations that make it possible to serve over 180 GB/s of TLS-encrypted connections with less than 50% CPU on a single 32-core 2.5-GHz CPU in 2 RU.

»Free memory is wasted memory or how to make the best use of swap. «

With this commit, WireGuard supports lands in the FreeBSD kernel.

Add kernel-side support for in-kernel TLS.

Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.

AsiaBSDCon 2019 Keynote.

Simple, reliable messaging. It takes a lot to support this statement. For 10 years WhatsApp demonstrated unprecedented reliability and availability, serving over 1.5B users. There is absolutely no way to reproduce interactions between all of them, within the cluster spanning over 10,000 nodes and multiple data centers. Investigations must be done on a live system without disturbing connected users. If there are repairs needed, it has to be done on the fly.

Netflix has built a CDN to distribute streaming media through most of the world. The content caches run a lightly customized version of the FreeBSD operating system. This presentation will describe how Netflix uses FreeBSD, and the benefits to both FreeBSD and Netflix.

The OneFS file system is a parallel distributed networked file system designed by Isilon Systems for use in its Isilon IQ storage appliances.

bhyve is a hypervisor/virtual machine manager developed on FreeBSD.

xhyve is port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies.