[Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD 0.8.6 RELEASE

[Lucas Holt]

MidnightBSD 0.8.6 is now available in SVN. In includes the following changes:

1. Heimdal KDC-REP service name validation vulnerability patch
2. Updated USB stack from FreeBSD 9-stable.
3. em(4) update which includes support for newer NICs included on Intel Skylake and Kabylake motherboards.

USB update includes support for:
ASMedia ASM1042A USB 3.0 controller
Intel BayTrail USB 3.0 controller
Intel Wildcat Point USB 3.0 controller
Fresco Logic FL1000G USB 3.0 
Broadwell Integrated PCH-LP chipset USB 3.0
Cavium ThunderX USB 3.0 controller
Logitech Unifying Receiver
CMEDIA CM6206
MELCO WLIUCG300HP
NETGEAR WG111V1_2 
SIERRA MC7354
SIERRA MC7355
Sierra Wireless MC7430

The USB update also fixes bugs on Skylake and Kabylake era motherboards with USB initialization!

This update does not yet include any AMD Ryzen patches so users should avoid trying to use Ryzen CPUs for now. On my test ryzen system, the kernel is not even booting do to a bug in the system timer detection logic. 


Lucas Holt
Luke at FoolishGames.com
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