May 2024 was pretty quiet overall. In FreeBSD land, The FreeBSD Foundation and Stormshield both sponsored a port of NetBSD's _FORTIFY_SOURCE implementation. Within twenty-four hours, we set _FORTIFY_SOURCE to 2 for the entirety of the base userland and the ports tree. June will see the first 15-CURRENT/amd64 package build with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 set by default. I'm sure there will be a lot of fallout to address in ports. I'm making final preparations to give the HardenedBSD talk at BSDCan. That is the reason I'm writing this status report early. I will post my slides after the conclusion of my presentation. In ports: 0x1eef updated hardenedbsd/portzap to v0.12.0 Shawn disabled fortify source on a few select ports: lang/gcc10 lang/gcc11 lang/gcc12 lang/gcc13 multimedia/libv4l devel/libepoll-shim ports-mgmt/poudriere-hbsd was updated to 3.4.1. sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel build was fixed. ports-mgmt/pkg was updated to 1.21.3...