Johnathan Corgan
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The closing code fence in the release notes carried an info string, so under CommonMark it was not a closer and the block ran to the end of the file. Rendered through GitHub's own markdown endpoint the published body stopped emitting headings after "Upgrade notes" and ended inside a code block, so the download section, the changelog and security links and the contributor credits all became preformatted text. Rendering the corrected file the same way returns all seven headings and a working release link. A lint fix had rewritten both fences rather than only the opening one. The post-upgrade instruction named a subcommand that does not exist: it said to run fipsctl status, which exits 2, where the command is fipsctl show status. That instruction is aimed at exactly the users this release exists for. Several claims were broader than the tree supports, and each is narrowed to what is true. The two discovery fixes carry no platform gating, so the notes no longer tell macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenWrt users that nothing changed for them, and no longer say the release contains no behavioral change. The supported-distribution paragraph now covers the .deb and the tarball rather than all Linux artifacts, since Arch and NixOS build from source and OpenWrt is a musl target that does not depend on the glibc floor. The install-test sentence says x86_64, because the arm64 package is install-tested by nothing. The changelog no longer claims every producer runs the floor check, since the deprecated host-build targets do not. The counter guidance was wrong about which counter moves, the objdump line prints the symbol beside the version, and the two relative links in the notes resolve inside the repository but 404 in a release body, so they are absolute now. That last change also makes the root mirror byte-identical to the versioned copy for the first time. The FreeBSD install line takes a concrete filename again: a placeholder is not pasteable, which is the whole point of an install instruction.
FIPS FreeBSD packaging
Builds a native FreeBSD .pkg shipping fips, fipsctl, fipstop,
rc.d services, and .fips DNS integration. fips-gateway is excluded
(its NAT backend is nftables, Linux-only).
Platform notes: the Ethernet and BLE transports are not available on
FreeBSD (UDP, TCP, Tor, and Nym are). The UDP datapath deliberately
uses the portable single-packet receive loop — FreeBSD's recvmmsg(2)
is a libc loop over recvmsg, not a kernel batch, so the Linux/macOS
batched arm would gain nothing — and the connected-UDP fast path is
not compiled pending FreeBSD-specific SO_REUSEPORT validation.
Build
./packaging/freebsd/build-pkg.sh # cargo build --release + pkg create
./packaging/freebsd/build-pkg.sh --no-build # package existing release binaries
Output: deploy/fips-<version>-freebsd-<arch>.pkg (e.g.
fips-0.5.1.dev-freebsd-amd64.pkg — pkg versions cannot contain -).
Install
pkg add ./deploy/fips-0.5.1-freebsd-amd64.pkg
# post-install seeds this from the sample if absent, at mode 0600
vi /usr/local/etc/fips/fips.yaml
sysrc fips_enable=YES fips_dns_enable=YES
service fips start
service fips_dns start
fipsctl show status
Config installs sample-style (@sample semantics via manifest
scripts), so an edited fips.yaml survives upgrade/removal.
fips.yaml is installed 0600 — it may hold the node's private key
(nsec:). The daemon runs under daemon(8) with pidfile
/var/run/fips/fips.pid and logs to /var/log/fips.log (rc.conf
knobs: fips_config, fips_flags, fips_logfile).
The package creates a fips group; members can run fipsctl and
fipstop without root (pw groupmod fips -m <user>, then re-login).
On pkg upgrade the services are stopped before the binaries are
replaced and started again afterwards if enabled; on pkg delete they
are stopped and the .fips resolver drop-in is removed.
.fips DNS integration
The daemon answers .fips queries on [::1]:5354. fips_dns points
the system resolver's fips. zone there; backends tried in order:
base local_unbound (drop-in /var/unbound/conf.d/fips.conf), pkg
unbound, pkg dnsmasq. The unbound drop-in must (and does) set:
do-not-query-localhost: no— unbound's default silently refuses loopback forwarders, SERVFAILing every.fipsquery.do-ip6: yes— the daemon binds::1only.domain-insecure: "fips."— the zone is unsigned.
One-time host resolver setup (NOT automated)
The package configures the fips. zone only; making the local
resolver the system resolver is an operator decision. On a typical
box:
sysrc local_unbound_enable=YES
local-unbound-setup 1.1.1.1 9.9.9.9 # explicit upstreams — see below
service local_unbound restart
Field-tested caveats (fips-dns-setup detects and warns about each):
/etc/resolv.confmust list a loopback nameserver (ideally only127.0.0.1), or nothing ever queries unbound and.fipscannot resolve.- Do not use a home-router DNS proxy as unbound's upstream. Many CPE forwarders are EDNS-broken; unbound always sends EDNS, so every public query SERVFAILs. Forward to real resolvers (ISP or public).
- Remove
options edns0from/etc/resolv.confif present, and setresolv_conf_options=""in/etc/resolvconf.confso resolvconf(8) does not re-add it — against an EDNS-broken router it breaks libc resolution outright. - Never run
local-unbound-setupwith no arguments while resolv.conf already points at 127.0.0.1 — it snapshots that as upstream and forwards unbound to itself.
Debugging
drill -p 5354 <npub>.fips @::1 AAAA # daemon directly (bypasses unbound)
drill <npub>.fips AAAA # full chain; SERVER: must be 127.0.0.1
cat /var/run/fips/dns-backend # which backend fips_dns configured
The TUN interface gets a kernel-assigned name (tun0, tun1, ...),
like utun on macOS, and is destroyed automatically when the daemon
exits. ifconfig <name> prints Opened by PID <n> for the process
holding a tun device.