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BSD: Patching PHP and Introducing Daemonarchy
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Dan Langille ☛ building a patched lang/php81
Recent events made patching many things PHP-related rather urgent. Case in point: I know of a host running php81-8.1.20 on FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p10 – this was from the 2023Q3 ports tree. This host could not be updated, for reasons. Earlier in the day, I had built php83 on both 2025Q2 and 2025Q3 for FreeBSD 14.2 and 14.3 respectively. Again, for hosts which would not be upgraded.
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The Register UK ☛ FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Omarchy has already taken up plenty of our column inches, but a new tentacle is reaching into the hitherto untouched FreeBSD.
Daemonarchy brings Omarchy's Wayland-based desktop to the BSD world. It's an independent effort by Jordan Hubbard, one of the original founders of the FreeBSD project, and it's unaffiliated with the original Linux-based Omarchy.
