HardenedBSD is growing, thanks to our donors. We've built a new server and thanks to a generous donation, we have a hosted second server. One server is generating nightly builds (our Jenkins instance) and the other is a development workhorse and is responsible for our package building. Our old server took 3.5 hours to do a buildworld+buildkernel just for amd64 and around 75-80 hours for a package build for amd64. Our new server takes 3.5 hours to do a buildworld+buildkernel+release for amd64, i386. and beaglebone black and does a package build in around 50 hours. The core team and the developers at HardenedBSD would like to thank all who have donated (and those who will donate in the future). Read on to learn our plans for our package repos.

We're working hard to bring the FreeBSD community (and the Internet community as a whole) many security enhancements. We're looking to build an automated infrastructure along with providing our developers a system to do dedicated development on. We're paying everything out of pocket and our expenses are quite high, even as a new project. As such, we've started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a dedicated development server.

A new amd64 build of the hardened/current/master branch has been uploaded here. In that directory, you'll find a file called HASHES. I've included all the distsets and even the memstick images. You can verify a successful download of your media by validating with that file. I've started a new amd64 package run as of 12:00 EST today.

In two days, I will be headed out to Sofia, Bulgaria with my wife to attend and speak at EuroBSDCon. I will be speaking on Sunday the 28th of September regarding ASLR in FreeBSD/HardenedBSD. My wife and I will arrive a few days early to do tourist stuff and to attend the FreeBSD dev summit. If you're there, feel free to come talk to me. I'm really excited as this will be my first time to Europe and my wife's first time outside the country at all. I've been to Canada a few times, but Canada doesn't really count.

The amd64 package repo based on the hardened/current/master branch is now live! The packages are signed by us. The RSA certificate used for package signing can be found attached to this post and can additionally be found here. The repository can be found here. We will be updating the amd64 repo on a weekly basis.