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Our favorite BGP daemon, OpenBGPD, has a new version 7.5 out. The announcement reads,

We have released OpenBGPD 7.5, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

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Microsoft Validation OS is a lightweight, fast, and customizable Windows 11-based operating system that you can use on the factory floor to diagnose, mitigate and repair hardware defects during Windows device manufacturing. Validation OS boots into a Command Line environment to increase reliability on the factory floor and supports running Win32 apps, smoothing the transition from early hardware bring-up to retail OS and apps development. This is an intriguing Windows variant I’d never heard of before. Validation OS boots to a command line and sports a basic UI framework, and is supposedly capable to run Win32 applications, but if the early reports on forums are anything to go by, it’s currently quite broken and effectively useless since Win32 applications do not actually run. As such, I’m not entirely sure who or what this is for, or if this is a very early release that needs a lot more work. In any event, it’s free, so no harm done in giving it a go.

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A fairly critical component of routing security infrastructure, rpki-client, has a new release out, version 7.9.

The announcement leads in,

rpki-client 7.9 has just been released and will be available in the
rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.

rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource
Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for Relying Parties (RP) to
facilitate validation of BGP announcements. The program queries the
global RPKI repository system and validates untrusted network inputs.
The program outputs validated ROA payloads and BGPsec Router
keys in configuration formats suitable for OpenBGPD and BIRD, and
supports emitting CSV and JSON for consumption by other routing stacks.

Read the whole thing here and grab the new release at your favorite OpenBSD mirror.

if pacman gives an error message like:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: removing wxgtk-common breaks dependency ‘wxgtk-common’ required by wxgtk2

you will need to uninstall ‘wxgtk2’ and it’s dependents first (the only such parabola packages are ‘freefilesync’ and ‘odamex’)

# pacman -Rc wxgtk2