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greater resistance to attacks. The i386 architecture also maps libraries

into somewhat randomized addresses. Together with W^X and

<a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/">ProPolice</a>,

these changes increase the difficulty of successfully exploiting an application

these changes increase the difficulty of successfully exploiting an

error, such as a buffer overflow.

application error, such as a buffer overflow.

<li>A static bounds checker has been added to the compiler to perform basic

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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asprintf">asprintf(3)</a>.

<li>Many improvements to and bugs fixed in the

ProPolice</a> stack protecter. Several other code generation bugs

for RISC architectures fixed.

ProPolice</a> stack protection has been enabled in the kernel as well.

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to work again.

<li>Import of

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=growfs">growfs(8)</a>

utility, allowing expansion of existing file systems.

<li>Improvements to

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_linux">linux emulation</a>

enabling more applications to run.

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or dynamic allocation.

<li>ANSIfication and stricter prototypes for a large portion of the source tree.

<li>Legacy KerberosIV support has been removed, and the remaining KerberosV

codebase has been restructured for easier management.

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<li>Improved hardware support, including:

<ul>

<li>Kauai ATA controllers (Apple ATA100 wdc) enabling support for

<li>Kauai ATA controllers (Apple ATA100 wdc)

Powerbook 12" and 17" models.

kauaiata(4)</a> enabling support for Powerbook 12" and 17" models.

<li>Support for controlling LongRun registers on Transmeta CPUs.

<li>Many fixes to

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac">aac(4)</a>,

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SCSI drivers.

<li>New

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=it">it(4)</a>,

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lm">lm(4)</a>,

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lm">lm(4)</a>, and

and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viaenv">viaenv(4)</a>

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viaenv">viaenv(4)</a>

hardware monitor drivers.

<li>New

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driver for Myson Technologies network cards.

<li>More ethernet cards supported by

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk">sk(4)</a>,

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">wi(4)</a>,

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fxp">fxp(4)</a>,

and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4">dc(4)</a>.

<li>Massive overhaul and sync with NetBSD of the entire

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<li>New and better support for various controllers in

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide">pciide(4)</a>,

including experimental support for Serial ATA.

<li>New drivers to support

mgx</a> and

pninek</a> SPARC framebuffers. The

vigra</a> driver also supports more models.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia">pcmcia(4)</a>

support for Tadpole SPARCBooks and SPARCs with pcmcia-sbus bridges.

</ul>