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<li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.

<li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for

a list of mirror machines.

<li>Go to the pub/OpenBSD/3.4/ directory on

one of the mirror sites.

<li>Briefly read the rest of this document.

<li>Have a look at <a href="errata.html">The 3.4 Errata page</a> for a list

of bugs and workarounds.

<li>See a <a href="plus.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the

3.3 and 3.4 releases.

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

checks on functions which accept buffers and sizes. The checker aims to

find common mistakes in the use of library functions such as

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

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

without emitting any false positives. Running it over the source and ports

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<li>Many unsafe string functions have been removed from the kernel and userland

utilities. This audit is one of the most comprehensive OpenBSD has ever

done, with thousands of occurrences of

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

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

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

and

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

being replaced with safer, bounded alternatives such as

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

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

strlcpy(3)</a> and

strlcat(3)</a>.

<li>Support for

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<li>Manual pages have been greatly cleaned up and improved.

<li>The ports tree now supports building programs under

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace">systrace(1)</a>,

preventing the possibility of applications harming the system at

systrace(1)</a>, preventing the possibility of applications harming the

compile-time via trojaned configuration scripts or otherwise.

system at compile-time via trojaned configuration scripts or otherwise.

<li>More licenses fixes, including the removal of the advertising clause

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extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.4 on your machine:

<ul>

<li> CD1:3.4/i386/INSTALL.i386

<li>CD1:3.4/i386/INSTALL.i386

<li> CD2:3.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc

<li>CD2:3.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc

<li> CD2:3.4/vax/INSTALL.vax

<li>CD2:3.4/vax/INSTALL.vax

<li> CD3:3.4/sparc/INSTALL.sparc

<li>CD3:3.4/sparc/INSTALL.sparc

<li> CD3:3.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64

<li>CD3:3.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64

<li> FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha

<li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha

<li> FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hp300/INSTALL.hp300

<li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hp300/INSTALL.hp300

<li> FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa

<li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa

<li> FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k

<li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k

<li> FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k

<li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k

</ul>

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ROM.

> boot cdrom 3.4/sparc/bsd.rd

> b sd(0,6,0)3.4/sparc/bsd.rd

> boot sd(0,6,0)3.4/sparc/bsd.rd

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your ROM.

> boot floppy

> boot fd()

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