to all people running #Mastodon on #FreeBSD. After my Jail Update from 14.3 to 15 my mastodon instance stopped working with some strange ssl cert verification error in sidekick. I couldnt solve it so i rolled back the snapshot. Any one who saw similar stuff and could solve it? @stefano @Larvitz maybe?
Happy Friday #FreeBSD

Keep in mind, you need to be root on #FreeBSD to download the list of packages. That's why the first command show nothing to upgrade.

[13:32 dbclone dvl ~] % pkg upgrade -n
Checking for upgrades (90 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (90 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.

[13:32 dbclone dvl ~] % sudo pkg upgrade -n
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
[dbclone.int.unixathome.org] Fetching data: 100% 36 KiB 36.8 k/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-kmods repository update completed. 245 packages processed.
Updating local repository catalogue...
[dbclone.int.unixathome.org] Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 k/s 00:01
[dbclone.int.unixathome.org] Fetching data: 100% 110 KiB 112.5 k/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
local repository update completed. 337 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (90 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (90 candidates): 100%
The following 5 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
libuv: 1.51.0 -> 1.52.0 [local]
postgresql18-client: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-contrib: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-plperl: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-server: 18.1_1 -> 18.2 [local]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 5

20 MiB to be downloaded.

[13:33 dbclone dvl ~] % pkg upgrade -n
Checking for upgrades (90 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (90 candidates): 100%
The following 5 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
libuv: 1.51.0 -> 1.52.0 [local]
postgresql18-client: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-contrib: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-plperl: 18.1_1 -> 18.2_1 [local]
postgresql18-server: 18.1_1 -> 18.2 [local]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 5

20 MiB to be downloaded.
[13:33 dbclone dvl ~] %

FreeBSD lacks so much in terms of usability. It's incredible obvious coming from OpenBSD. FreeBSD has all the features but is missing a lot of comfort.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD

Went onto a small donation spree today to thank the developers of applications I use daily or quite often.

#FreeBSD - The base that keeps all the rest running smoothly

#Navidrome - My personal Spotify. I want to own my music and don't pay a subscription!

#CoMaps - Offline maps for for all my travels. Powered by #OpenStreetMap

#Vaultwarden - The password manager accessible from everywhere.

#ElDiario.es - Not IT related. Independent news site in Spain.

In which our hero spends two hours banging her head against a ZFS-shaped wall:

https://kat5.dev/blog/2026/zfs

#freebsd #zfs

ZFS on NVME woes

Apparently setting up an NVME drive on FreeBSD with ZFS is such a new idea that I can't find a guide for it.

kat5.dev

Is there an automated way to remove expired ports from the bulk list when using poudriere?

Since it's a hard failure and poudriere will not build anything else I'd like to automatically remove the port from the package list.

#freebsd

The fresh 4th edition of The Book of PF in physical form has reached Europe (Ireland), https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomsmythconnect_thebookofpf-openbsd-packetfilter-activity-7427686906349555713-7s4w - so my stack of author copies are hopefully on the way too.

The book home page is at https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

Some background https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html @nostarch #bookofpf #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #security

#thebookofpf #openbsd #packetfilter #runbsd | Tom Smyth

Peter Hansteen thank you for all your work in authoring the book of pf 4th edition ( and all the other additions) my New copy of #TheBookOfPF arrived today if you want to understand firwalls and want to run a very reliable opensource firewall that supports clustering with session state failover this book is for you #OpenBSD #PacketFilter #RunBSD

The recording of the February 12th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/hf4tNsDoLas

We discussed EDK2 at length and other firmware options, a PCI Pass-Through (PPT) issue on #illumos that probably applies to #FreeBSD, bhyve test suites, Windows VirtIO drivers, SR-IOV behavior and desired features, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

2026-02-12 bhyve Production User Call

YouTube

The February 10th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/Cg3Tr4wOTKo

We discussed a universal jail.conf, encryption key unlocking via SSH for co-located servers, #FreeBSD packaged base, 'bsdinstall jail --noninteractive', SR-IOV virtual functions and IPv6 multicast traffic, quBSD, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

2026-02-10 Jail/Zones Production User Call

YouTube