On December 13th, 2021, FreeBSD 13.0 was released. This is the first release of the 13.x branch, which has been in testing for quite some time. Don’t worry if your system is still running on the 12.x branch – the FreeBSD organization estimates that it’ll be supported until June 30th 2024. However, FreeBSD 11.x is…
On June 16th, 2020, FreeBSD 11.4 was released. This is the final release in the 11.x branch. If the system is running any release older than 11.4 you should upgrade immediately because security and bug fixes are no longer being released. FreeBSD 11.3 went end-of-life around August 2020 and FreeBSD 10.x has been end-of-life since…
On October 27th, 2020, FreeBSD 12.2 was released. This is the second point release for the 12.x branch. It is important to upgrade in a timely manner because security and bugfixes will stop being released for 12.1 approximately 3 months after the release of 12.2. If you want your system to continue to receive patches,…
DISA has released a draft STIG for RHEL 8 and it’s already been incorporated into the SCAP Security Guide (SSG), the open source tool for scanning systems against SCAP definitions. I can’t find the source document but the content was added to the SSG GitHub repo by an official Red Hat account. The file states:…
On November 4th, 2019, FreeBSD 12.1 was released. This is the first point release for the 12.x branch. It is important to upgrade in a timely manner because security and bugfixes will stop being released for 12.0 approximately 3 months after the release of 12.1, which brings us to early February 2020. If your system…
On December 11th, 2018, FreeBSD 12.0 was released. This is the first release of the 12.x branch, which has been in testing for well over a year. Don’t fret if your system is still running on the 11 branch – the FreeBSD organization estimates that it’ll be supported until September 2021. However, FreeBSD 10.x has…
On July 27th, 2018, FreeBSD 11.2 was released. This is the second point release for the 11.x branch. If your system is running 11.0 or 11.1 it is important to upgrade in the near future. 11.0 stopped receiving patches on November 30th, 2017 and 11.1 will stop receiving patches on September 30th, 2018. The legacy…
Secure SHell, abbreviated SSH, is a versatile and secure tool. The most popular implementation, OpenSSH, was created by the OpenSSH project which is a cousin of FreeBSD. This guide uses FreeBSD as an OS because it’s a bit more user friendly. Although FreeBSD isn’t known to be as secure as OpenBSD, it’s still a very…
FreeBSD 11.1 was officially released on July 26th, 2017. It’s highly recommended to update to the new version when you can. FreeBSD 11.0 is expected to hit its end-of-life (EoL) on October 26th, 2017. FreeBSD 10.3 is expected to hit its EoL on April 30th, 2018. When a release hits EoL that means no more…
Overview iocage is one of the most popular jail managers for FreeBSD. Jails are very useful but also difficult to manage. Check out FreeBSD’s documentation for a short primer on jails. In January 2017 iocage was rewritten in Python and released as a beta. It is in very active development and is shaping up to…
