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 Apr 2026, internet service will be restored. This is to migrate the account from my personal finances to being under the HardenedBSD Foundation umbrella. This switch will save us $30 USD/month with no changes in bandwidth capacity (symmetric and uncapped 940Mbps).
In March 2026, I focused on Reticulum. I started studying its code and started work on the BackboneInterface code, porting it to HardenedBSD. I'm almost complete with my initial work-in-progress patch.
I also fixed the build issues for both 15-STABLE and 16-CURRENT. pkgbase support is still broken in our installers, so that will be a topic for this coming quarter.
As I write this report on the 29th of March, I am preparing the next quarterly branches and build.
In src:
- Disable retpolines for the bootloader
- Make sure the kinfo_file struct always gets zeroed
In ports:
- 0x1eef's hardenedbsd/sourcezap and hardenedbsd/portzap were updated to 2.3.0.
- Fix the build of security/snowflake-tor
- ports-mgmt/pkg was updated to 2.6.2_1
