@midnightbsd

The official MidnightBSD twitter feed for the open source operating system.

 Ypsilanti, MI
MidnightBSD.org/
Joined November 2011
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We now have our own System Monitor app that's part of the midnight-wm distribution.
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midnightbsd-wm: added partial session restore feature. added file/folder size calculations to file manager added minimize button to file manager windows The core executable uses about 60MB of RAM when running. the search and settings are separate apps.
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if the compositor feature is enabled, that's an extra 10MB with a separate process.
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We now have a basic search feature using the locate database
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Here is a slightly updated version of our window manager. This shows dark mode, battery indicator, desktop backgrounds work, etc
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Just for fun, I've been vibe coding an X11 window manager. github.com/MidnightBSD/midni…
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We've made some improvements since last night: randr / multimonitor fixes. scaling to display res xdg/free desktop folder awareness desktop background image support dark mode browser & terminal launcher near lock dbus session starter gnome keyring / ssh agent support
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elasticsearch 8 and 9 ports have been changed. 8.x is now updated to an 8.19.x build and 9.x is on the same version but with a bunch of midnightbsd fixes. Also kibana, logstash updates
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Our waf was overly aggressive and blocking some searches on sec.midnightbsd.org for CVE search. This was loosened a bit to allow searching
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4.2 current (master) has several updates backported from FreeBSD 14 stable for bin and usr.bin less, nvi, byacc, bmake, one true awk vendor branches updated and merged too.
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Just merged a number of xorg related updates to fix CVEs.
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claude code port update to 2.1.302. this version requres a very recent kernel build. (like 4.0.9 in stable/4.0 or recent stable/4.1 or master)
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We've received $59.58 net from Patreon donations since May. Thanks to folks donating.
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A bit of a summary for 2026 up to this point: patreon.com/midnightbsd/post…

MidnightBSD Progress Report October 2026 | Lucas Holt

MidnightBSD 4.0.8 recently shipped with a number of security fixes. This year, we've focused on fixing a number of longstanding bugs in ou

patreon.com
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We added wordcraft, gridcraft and effectcraft to mports. working on soundcraft
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claude code has been problematic lately. On current 2.1.288 works ok and 2.1.295 seems to work. On stable/4.0, versions newer than 2.1.281 have issues. We applied the same fix to both branches, which is odd. (kernel changes from oct 3 &4)
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It seems to be sensitive to what terminal you are using also. xfce terminal seems to trigger it more than others.
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The domain lists.midnightbsd.org/ has the mailing list subscriptions and archives for both mailing list software packages.
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We dropped gnu mailman for mlmmj
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We added artcraft and now are working on pdfcraft to mports.
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