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                     24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 3.5 Release:</font></h2>
                     25: <p>
                     26: Released May 1, 2004<br>
                     27: Copyright 1997-2004, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 0-9731791-1-9</font>
                     29: <p>
                     30:
                     31: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
                     32: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
                     33: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
                     34: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
                     35:
                     36: <p>
                     37: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     38: To get the files for this release:
                     39: <ul>
                     40: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
                     41: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
                     42:     a list of mirror machines.
                     43: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/3.5/</font> directory on
                     44:     one of the mirror sites.
                     45: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
                     46: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata.html">The 3.5 Errata page</a> for a list
                     47:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     48: <li>See a <a href="plus.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
                     49:     3.4 and 3.5 releases.
                     50: </ul>
                     51: </font></h3>
                     52: <br clear=all>
                     53:
                     54: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
                     55: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
                     56: XF4.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz.  The distribution
                     57: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
                     58: the CDROM because of lack of space.
                     59: <p>
                     60:
                     61: <a name="new"></a>
                     62: <hr>
                     63: <p>
                     64: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
                     65: <p>
                     66: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.2       deraadt    67: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1       deraadt    68: to 3.5.
                     69: <p>
                     70:
                     71: <ul>
                     72:
1.14      deraadt    73: <li> New platforms:
                     74: <ul>
                     75: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>
                     76: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a>
                     77: </ul>
                     78: <p>
                     79:
1.4       deraadt    80: <li>...
1.1       deraadt    81: <p>
                     82:
1.3       mickey     83: <li>The HPPA architecture gets support for many
                     84:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pci">PCI</a>
                     85:     based machines.
                     86: <p>
                     87:
1.1       deraadt    88: <li>Replacement of GNU
1.12      otto       89: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bc">bc(1)</a>,
                     90: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc">dc(1)</a>,
1.4       deraadt    91: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm">nm(1)</a> and
                     92: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=size">size(1)</a>
1.1       deraadt    93: commands with BSD licensed equivalents.
                     94: <p>
                     95:
1.5       mcbride    96: <li>A large number of bug fixes, changes, and optimizations to our packet filter
                     97:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>
                     98:     including:
                     99: <ul>
1.19      otto      100: <li>Atomic commits of ruleset changes (reduce the chance of ending up in an
                    101:     inconsistent state).
                    102: <li>A 30 percent reduction in the size of state table entries.
                    103: <li>Source-tracking (limit number of clients and states per client).
                    104: <li>Sticky-address (the flexibility of round-robin with the benefits of
                    105:     source-hash).
                    106: <li>Invert the specific/general socket match order when redirecting to
1.5       mcbride   107:     localhost (Prevents the potential security problem of remote connections
1.19      otto      108:     being identified as local).
1.5       mcbride   109: <li>Significant improvements to interface handling.
                    110: </ul>
                    111: <p>
                    112:
                    113: <li>New tools for high availability and load balancing:
                    114: <ul>
                    115: <li>CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
                    116:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp">carp(4)</a>
                    117:     allows multiple machines to share responsibility for a given IP address or
                    118:     addresses. If the owner of the address fails, another member of the group
                    119:     will take over for it. A discussion of the history of CARP can be found
                    120:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html">here</a>.
                    121: <li>Additions to the
                    122:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync">pfsync(4)</a>
                    123:     interface allow it to synchronise state table entries between two or more
                    124:     firewalls which are operating in parallel, allowing stateful connections
                    125:     to cross any of the firewalls regardless of where the state was initially
                    126:     created.
                    127: </ul>
                    128: <p>
                    129:
1.6       todd      130: <li> XFree86 4.4 unencumbered
1.9       deraadt   131: <p>
1.6       todd      132:
                    133: <li> New functionality:
                    134: <ul>
                    135: <li>New ptm device (see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&sektion=4">pty(4)</a>)
                    136: that allows non-privileged processes to allocate a properly-permissioned pty. No more setuid(root)
                    137: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xterm&sektion=1">xterm(1)</a>!
1.17      otto      138: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=closefrom&sektion=2">closefrom(2)</a>
                    139: system call has been added.
1.6       todd      140: <li>TCP MD5 signatures (used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a>
1.17      otto      141: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>).
                    142: <li>i386 and amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxeboot&sektion=8">pxeboot(8)</a>.
1.19      otto      143: <li>The i386 8GB boot loader limitation has been removed.
1.6       todd      144: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&sektion=8">spamd(8)</a>
1.16      todd      145: gains <a href="http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/">greylisting</a> support.
1.6       todd      146: <li>Interface 'cloning,' accessed by
                    147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.19      otto      148: commands <em>create</em> and <em>destroy</em>. E.g. `ifconfig vlan100 create'.
1.17      otto      149: <li>The MAKEDEV(8) manual pages are now generated.
1.18      sturm     150: <li>Complete rewrite of package tools in perl.
1.6       todd      151: </ul>
                    152: <p>
                    153:
1.19      otto      154: <li> New Privilege Separation Functionality:
1.6       todd      155: <ul>
                    156: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
                    157: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8">named(8)</a>
1.13      todd      158: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflogd&sektion=8">pflogd(8)</a>
1.6       todd      159: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
                    160: </ul>
                    161: <p>
                    162:
                    163: <li> New tools:
                    164: <ul>
                    165: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sensorsd&sektion=8">sensorsd(8)</a>
1.18      sturm     166: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=procmap&sektion=1">procmap(1)</a>
1.6       todd      167: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
1.10      deraadt   168: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1">pkill(1)</a> and
                    169: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1">pgrep(1)</a>
1.6       todd      170: </ul>
                    171: <p>
                    172:
1.20    ! otto      173: <li> <a href="http://www.openssh.org">OpenSSH 3.8</a>.
        !           174: <p>
        !           175:
        !           176: <li> gcc 3.2.2, including local additions like ProPolice support for the
        !           177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>,
        !           178: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> and
        !           179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>
        !           180: platforms.
        !           181: <p>
        !           182:
        !           183: <li> New and improved drivers, like:
        !           184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">ahc(4)</a>,
        !           185: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4">bce(4)</a>,
        !           186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpt&sektion=4">mpt(4)</a>,
        !           187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">sis(4)</a>
        !           188: and
        !           189: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a>.
        !           190: <p>
        !           191:
1.18      sturm     192: <li> Over 2500 ports, 2300 pre-built packages.
                    193: <p>
                    194:
1.7       todd      195: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
                    196: print in the <a href="plus.html">complete changelog</a>).
                    197: <p>
                    198:
1.19      otto      199: <li>Many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    200: <p>
                    201:
1.20    ! otto      202: <li> And much more.
1.1       deraadt   203:
                    204: </ul>
                    205:
                    206: <a name="install"></a>
                    207: <hr>
                    208: <p>
                    209: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
                    210: <p>
                    211: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    212: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    213: form of install.  The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
                    214: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    215: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    216: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    217: <p>
                    218:
                    219: <hr>
                    220: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
                    221: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.5 on your machine:
                    222: <p>
                    223: <ul>
                    224: <li>CD1:3.5/i386/INSTALL.i386
1.2       deraadt   225: <li>CD1:3.5/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.1       deraadt   226: <p>
1.2       deraadt   227: <li>CD2:3.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
1.1       deraadt   228: <li>CD2:3.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    229: <p>
                    230: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    231: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    232: <p>
                    233: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    234: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    235: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
1.2       deraadt   236: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/cats/INSTALL.cats
1.1       deraadt   237: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
                    238: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
1.2       deraadt   239: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
1.1       deraadt   240: </ul>
                    241: <hr>
                    242:
                    243: <p>
                    244: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    245: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    246: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    247: <p>
                    248:
                    249: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
                    250: <ul>
                    251: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    252: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    253: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
1.2       deraadt   254: <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
1.1       deraadt   255:
                    256: <p>
1.2       deraadt   257: Use <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyB35.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
                    258: support, or <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyC35.fs</i> for better laptop support.
1.1       deraadt   259:
                    260: <p>
                    261: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    262: read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    263:
                    264: <p>
                    265: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    266: at <i>CD:/3.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
                    267: use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=
                    268: dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of
                    269: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)
                    270: </a>, where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    271: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    272:
                    273: <ul><pre>
                    274: # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
                    275: </pre></ul>
                    276:
                    277: <p>
                    278: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    279: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    280: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
                    281: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>.
                    282: </ul>
                    283:
                    284: <p>
                    285: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
                    286: <ul>
                    287: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    288: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    289:
                    290: <p>
                    291: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    292: /3.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    293: </ul>
                    294:
                    295: <p>
1.2       deraadt   296: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
                    297: <ul>
                    298: [write a chunk here]
                    299: </ul>
                    300:
                    301: <p>
1.1       deraadt   302: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
                    303: <ul>
                    304: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    305: </ul>
                    306:
                    307: <p>
                    308: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
                    309: <ul>
                    310: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
                    311: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
                    312: ROM.
                    313:
                    314: <ul><pre>
                    315: &gt; <strong>boot cdrom 3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    316: or
                    317: &gt; <strong>boot sd(0,6,0)3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    318: </pre></ul>
                    319:
                    320: <p>
                    321: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.2       deraadt   322: To do so you need to write &quot;CD3:3.5/sparc/floppy35.fs&quot; to a floppy.
1.1       deraadt   323: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from
                    324: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
                    325: your ROM.
                    326:
                    327: <ul><pre>
                    328: &gt; <strong>boot floppy</strong>
                    329: or
                    330: &gt; <strong>boot fd()</strong>
                    331: </pre></ul>
                    332:
                    333: <p>
                    334: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    335: will most likely fail.
                    336:
                    337: <p>
                    338: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
                    339: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
                    340: INSTALL.sparc file.
                    341: </ul>
                    342:
                    343: <p>
                    344: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
                    345: <ul>
                    346: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    347:
                    348: <p>
                    349: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1.2       deraadt   350: <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1.1       deraadt   351: floppy</i>.<br>
                    352: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    353: will most likely fail.
                    354:
                    355: <p>
1.2       deraadt   356: You can also write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/miniroot35.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1.1       deraadt   357: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    358:
                    359: <p>
                    360: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
                    361: </ul>
                    362:
                    363: <p>
                    364: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
                    365: <ul>
1.2       deraadt   366: <p>Write <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppy35.fs</i> or
                    367: <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppyB35.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1.1       deraadt   368: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    369:
                    370: <p>
                    371: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    372: will most likely fail.
                    373:
                    374: </ul>
                    375:
                    376: <p>
                    377: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
                    378: <ul>
                    379: <p>
                    380: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
                    381: </ul>
                    382:
                    383: <p>
                    384: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
                    385: <ul>
                    386: <p>
                    387: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    388: <a href="hppa.html#netboot">hppa platform page</a>.
                    389: </ul>
                    390:
                    391: <p>
                    392: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
                    393: <ul>
                    394: <p>
                    395: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
                    396: configurations.  Then, extract the Macside utilities from
                    397: <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk.  Run Mkfs to create your
                    398: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made.  Then, use the
                    399: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/</i> onto your
                    400: partitions.  Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
                    401: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
                    402: </ul>
                    403:
                    404: <p>
                    405: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
                    406: <ul>
                    407: <p>
                    408: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    409: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    410: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    411: for more details.
                    412: </ul>
                    413:
                    414: <p>
1.2       deraadt   415: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
                    416: <ul>
                    417: <p>
                    418: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    419: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    420: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    421: for more details.
                    422: </ul>
                    423:
                    424: <p>
1.1       deraadt   425: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
                    426: <ul>
                    427: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    428: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    429: in a separate archive.  To extract:
                    430: <p>
                    431: <ul><pre>
                    432: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
                    433: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    434: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
                    435: </pre></ul>
                    436: <p>
                    437: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    438: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    439: To extract:
                    440: <p>
                    441: <ul><pre>
                    442: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
                    443: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    444: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
                    445: </pre></ul>
                    446: <p>
                    447: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    448: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    449: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    450: Using these files
                    451: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    452: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    453: <p>
                    454: </ul>
                    455: <a name="ports"></a>
                    456: <hr>
                    457: <p>
                    458: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
                    459: <p>
                    460: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    461: <p>
                    462: <ul><pre>
                    463: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
                    464: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
                    465: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
                    466: </pre></ul>
                    467: <p>
                    468: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
                    469: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
                    470: if you know nothing about ports
                    471: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    472: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    473: OpenBSD ports system.
                    474: <p>
                    475: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
                    476: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&amp;apropos=0&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=OpenBSD+Current&amp;arch=i386&amp;format=html">
                    477: cvs(1)</a> if
                    478: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    479: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    480: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    481: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    482: like:
                    483: <p>
                    484: <ul><pre>
1.2       deraadt   485: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_5</strong>
1.1       deraadt   486: </pre></ul>
                    487: <p>
                    488: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    489: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    490: server.]
                    491: <p>
                    492: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
                    493: packages for the 3.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    494: <p>
                    495: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    496: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    497: place to know.
                    498: <p>
                    499:
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