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643: Unwrapping gifts

643: Unwrapping gifts

Update: 2025-12-25
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Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.



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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon



Headlines



Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community






Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?






News Roundup



We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem






The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector






Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back






All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train!






Beastie Bits





- OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released



Tarsnap



This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.



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