HardenedBSD March 2026 Status Report

[Shawn Webb]

Hey all,

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:

1. Disable retpolines for the bootloader
2. Make sure the kinfo_file struct always gets zeroed

In ports:

1. hardenedbsd/sourcezap and hardenedbsd/portzap were updated to 2.3.0.
2. Fix the build of security/snowflake-tor
3. ports-mgmt/pkg was updated to 2.6.2_1

Thanks,

--
Shawn Webb
Cofounder / Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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