This status report covers both June and July 2026. It has been a rather chaotic couple of months for me. I am going to use quite the number of backticks (`) in this status report. I apologize in advance. Think of then as used in Markdown to…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Mon, 06/01/2026 - 11:16 These past two months have been incredibly busy. I didn't publish a status report for April 2026, so this status report will cover that, too. We have mostly completed the migration from our…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sun, 03/29/2026 - 19:15 Before I get into the bulk of the status report, I want to give a heads up about ISP changes coming in April 2026. On 23 Apr 2026, I will disconnect internet service at our home and on 24 A…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sun, 03/01/2026 - 15:37 February saw a few changes in HardenedBSD. The majority of my time was spent chasing down the kernel crash in HardenedBSD 15-STABLE that has been plaguing our users. I worked on narrowing d…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Mon, 02/02/2026 - 10:44 January was a busy month with regards to infrastructure. With both OpenSSL and FreeBSD announcing security fixes, we published new builds just weeks after our new quarterlies dropped. :-) N…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Wed, 01/21/2026 - 11:24 Multi-year HardenedBSD community member 0x1eef (Robert) has been sending in good quality patches over the past few years. I reached out on behalf of the HardenedBSD Core Team to 0x1eef, ask…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sun, 12/28/2025 - 15:58 This status report is going to be a lengthy one. Due to scheduling conflicts, I was unable to get out the November status report, this one will cover the two months November - December 2025…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sat, 11/01/2025 - 20:19 This status report covers both September and October 2025. The majority of September was spent on creating the new 15-STABLE branch (hardened/15-stable/main) along with the associated bits
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Sat, 08/30/2025 - 17:58 This status report pertains to both July and August 2025. It has been a busy summer here in Colorado. We will conclude this report with a discussion on FreeBSD's 15.0 release engineering cy…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Tue, 07/01/2025 - 15:05 Due to scheduling conflicts, I didn't get the May 2025 status report out. This status report will cover both May and June 2025. A large portion of both May and June was spent on two things:…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Tue, 05/20/2025 - 14:31 As I mentioned in the April 2025 HardenedBSD Status Report, I had attended a small hackathon with a few FreeBSD developers. This hackathon was focused on providing basic support for optiona…
Submitted by Shawn Webb on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 19:50 April was a busy month! There's a lot to get into, so here we go. Nothing of note happened in the ports tree. As discussed previously in the HardenedBSD Users mailing list, HardenedBSD will…