Security-oriented derivative of FreeBSD. Primary goal is a clean-room reimplementation of the grsecurity patchset for the BSD community.
Due to lack of resources, #HardenedBSD will be delegating 14-STABLE support to the community at the end of 2025Q4: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/51IARO8noYo/m/UN5gVfq-CwAJ
We're also hinting at an upcoming call for donations (either monetary or shipment of hardware) for a new (or refurbished) build server.
Donations are eligible for tax deduction in the USA.
We will be creating new builds of #HardenedBSD this week to mitigate expiring cryptographic key material. For more information: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/l-UivSvXK5c/m/6hX7SknqBAAJ
@HardenedBSD I've started building my laptop packages locally and have fixed a few
ports (preferring fixing over disabling the new feature.) Some ports will have HARDCFLAGS disabled until I can get more time to fix them. I'm only disabling HARDCFLAGS for more complex cases.
I've kicked off a new 14-STABLE package build. This package build will be weird. You may see a number of missing packages once the repo is published. I will be working through that queue while the package build is taking place.
(Originally posted on the HardenedBSD Users mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/_IuBY7Obw6I/m/0BX8AxtYAgAJ)
#HardenedBSD HEADS UP:
We just introduced a commit[1] that has the potential to cause a large number of ports to fail to build. Please be patient as we work through the breakages.
Please reach out and let us know of any ports that fail to build for you due to this commit.
We sent a notice a few minutes ago to the HardenedBSD Users mailing list[2]. We will monitor replies to both this Fediverse post and the mailing list post.
[1]: https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/ports/-/commit/f3737f1d999bdfb5b2a0a4320232393b8adb31a9
[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/_IuBY7Obw6I
The #HardenedBSD October 2025 Status Report is out! This report covers both September and October 2025.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-11-01/hardenedbsd-october-2025-status-report
The #HardenedBSD quarterly branches were updated yesterday to take into account the recent #FreeBSD security advisory for CVE-2025-24934.
I also brought in a couple extra commits that seemed fitting.
The new builds have been published.
The #HardenedBSD #Vaultwarden instance has been updated.
This bug is mitigated in #HardenedBSD when the hardening.kmalloc_zero sysctl tunable is set to 1.
https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=6535e9308a26e17023831fe68fb71d2febf2a002
Do #HardenedBSD users pay attention to #FreeBSD on a commit-by-commit basis?
The server is back online and should be stable. We have made a large number of changes, so please let us know if we screwed something up.
We're starting on the main website maintenance now. #HardenedBSD package repositories and binary updates will be unavailable over the next few hours.
HEADS UP: On 06 Sep 2025, we will be performing maintenance on our main web server. Downtime will likely be a few hours. The #HardenedBSD package repositories will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
We will keep everyone informed.
The #FreeBSD main development branch is now at version 16, in preparation for the 15.0 release. How this impacts #HardenedBSD users is discussed here: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/15ReG6jFRmQ/m/5lEdgRzAAAAJ
The #HardenedBSD August 2025 Status Report is out!
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-08-30/hardenedbsd-august-2025-status-report
We would like to thank Stygian for providing a mirror of the #HardenedBSD builds in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!
The #HardenedBSD June 2025 Status Report is out! https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-07-01/hardenedbsd-june-2025-status-report
#HardenedBSD is now a part of the #GitHub Sponsors program: https://github.com/sponsors/HardenedBSD
As #HardenedBSD switches to quarterly releases for the base OS, we have now formalized the names of the branches and tags.
@lattera is currently working this weekend on updating our build scripts to handle quarterly releases.
Eleven years after we started this project, we are gaining our first formalized release process. Perhaps #FreeBSD might finally add us to the BSD family tree file. :-)
For more detailed information: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/QJ5DyxsnFrw/m/s6J6EmNjCQAJ
We are performing emergency network maintenance on our development/build infrastructure. Service will be periodically interrupted.
Official announcement: https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/NCfgYng9nVQ/m/eYcJmK0-AQAJ
