Welcome to MidnightBSD

MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.

With a small community of dedicated developers, MidnightBSD strives to create an easy-to-use operating system everyone can use, freely. Available for x86, AMD64 and as Virtual Machines.

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Latest Release - 2.2.7

Release Notes

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Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:27

First, the 3.0 release has been blocked for some time due to a few key mports that just refused to b

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Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:39

We released a minor update to MidnightBSD which contains the following changes: tzdata 2022g less 55

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Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:53

The 3.0 stable branch is pretty much ready.  We may update sqlite3 yet.  The delay in the release

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Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:13

We have our first snapshot available on the FTP. it has a lot of problems and we're working on squas

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Security »

April 4, 2022

MidnightBSD 2.1.7
zlib 1.2.12
Fix a deflate bug when using the Z_FIXED strategy that can result in out-of-bound accesses. Fix a deflate bug when the window is full in deflate_stored(). Speed up CRC-32 computations by a factor of 1.5 to 3. Use the hardware CRC-32 instruction on ARMv8 processors. Speed up crc32_combine() with powers of x tables. Add crc32_combine_gen() and crc32_combine_op() for fast combines.

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March 20, 2022

MidnightBSD 1.2.6
Fix security vulnerability in OpenSSL and WiFi.
Update tzdata to 2022a

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