MidnightBSD Developer Journal

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Sun, 25 Oct 2026

11:44 PM - Midori removed from mports

We removed the www/midori port. This version has been long EOL and was kept for xfce. Modern xfce doesn't require it. We recommend www/raphael, the MidnightBSD midori fork if you like this browser. You can also use firefox, firefox-esr, linux brave, chromium, etc

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11:45 PM - mports changes

A lot of mports activity. We're trying to patch in light of this week's security issues and our backlog. highlights: nss firefox firefox-esr thunderbird go127 added node22 / 24, added 26. removed 20, 23 php (of course) tailscale python stuff: pip, uv, sphinx, certify, ...

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11:46 PM - Midnight Chat App (AI LLM use)

We now have a very simplistic AI chat app that can connect to local ollama or llama.cpp instances. This is included in the window manager repo, but we will NOT be automatically installing models or ollama. OpenAI compatible endpoints

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11:48 PM - MidnightBSD Workspace (midnight-wm)

We have a new window manager in mports and on our github page. It's partially written by AI, but has been improving at a steady clip.

We have a search app to use the locate database to find things, a system monitor to track usage with midnightbsd native integrations, a chat app for AI use, and we are working on integrating better with free desktop standards.

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