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The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade
(Apr 2, 2026)
It’s taken a lot of time, but we have finally made the big step to upgrade our Gentoo Forums
to phpBB3. You will notice a few differences between phpBB2 and today:
It’s definitely
not Discourse
Everyone must change their password at first login, just to freshen them up.
Reports are more private-like now, but we may get the old public reporting topic back later.
Discussion and feedback are welcome on the
‘The Gentoo Big Forum Upgrade’ discussion thread
Gentoo GNU/Hurd
(Apr 1, 2026)
We are proud to announce a new port of Gentoo to
GNU Hurd
Our
crack team
has been working hard to port Gentoo to the Hurd and can now share that
they’ve succeeded, though it remains still in a heavily experimental stage.
You can try Gentoo GNU/Hurd using a pre-prepared disk image. The easiest way to do this is with QEMU:
$ wget https://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/hurd/hurd-i686-preview.qcow2.sig
$ wget https://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/hurd/hurd-i686-preview.qcow2
$ gpg --verify hurd-i686-preview.qcow2.sig hurd-i686-preview.qcow2
$ qemu-system-i386 -drive file=hurd-i686-preview.qcow2,format=qcow2 -m 2G -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:2222 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci --enable-kvm -M q35
To log in, input
login root
, then use
gnuhurdrox
as the password. Upon logging in,
you can run
./setup-net.sh
and
/etc/init.d/sshd restart
to get SSH. Connect
via
ssh -p 2222 root@127.0.0.1
on your host.
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Security advisories
from our
Security database
GLSA 202604-04
DTrace: Arbitrary file creation via dtprobed
normal
GLSA 202604-03
FUSE: Multiple Vulnerabilities
normal
GLSA 202603-01
Exiv2: Multiple Vulnerabilities
low
GLSA 202601-05
Commons-BeanUtils: Arbitary Code Execution
high
GLSA 202601-04
Asterisk: Multiple Vulnerabilities
high
New packages
at the
Gentoo packages database
mail-client/thunderbird-l10n
Thunderbird mail client's translation files
media-libs/glycin
Sandboxed and extendable image loading library
dev-python/joserfc
A Python library for JOSE RFCs: JWS, JWE, JWK, JWA, JWT
sec-keys/openpgp-keys-roymarples
OpenPGP key used by Roy Marples
sec-keys/openpgp-keys-erwinwaterlander
OpenPGP key used by Erwin Waterlander
Fresh documentation
on the
Gentoo wiki
Virt-viewer
started by Egberts
PPC/FAQ/it
started by Fra.sa
FrOSCon 2026
started by Jstein
S6/examples
started by Flexibeast
LTO/LTO profile
started by Ris