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New USB client controller support:
- Support for the USB client functionality in the
-pxaudc(4) driver on the Zaurus.
-
- New usbf(4) midlayer for USB Client controllers.
-
- New cdcef(4) driver for providing a CDCE function on USB client controllers.
+pxaudc(4) driver on the Zaurus.
+
- New usbf(4) midlayer for USB Client controllers.
+
- New cdcef(4) driver for providing a CDCE function on USB client controllers.
-New cas(4) driver for Sun Cassini 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
-New uow(4) driver for Maxim/Dallas DS2490 USB 1-Wire devices.
-New owsbm(4) driver for 1-Wire smart battery monitor devices.
-New zyd(4) driver for ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices.
-New moscom(4) driver for MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703 based USB serial adapters.
-New glxsb(4) driver for hardware random numbers and AES acceleration on the AMD Geode LX processor.
-New vic(4) driver for VMware VMXnet Virtual Interface Controllers.
-New malo(4) driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices.
-New pwdog(4) driver for Quancom PWDOG1 watchdog timer devices.
-New uberry(4) driver for Research In Motion Blackberry devices.
-New mbg(4) driver for Meinberg Funkuhren radio clocks.
-New mesh(4) driver for the on-board SCSI controller of old world Apple Power Macintosh systems.
-New mc(4) driver for the on-board Ethernet of many old world Apple Power Macintosh systems
-Improved msk(4) driver now supports many more Marvell Yukon-2 variants including dual port cards and fiber cards.
-The gem(4) driver now supports fiber cards.
+New cas(4) driver for Sun Cassini 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
+New uow(4) driver for Maxim/Dallas DS2490 USB 1-Wire devices.
+New owsbm(4) driver for 1-Wire smart battery monitor devices.
+New zyd(4) driver for ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices.
+New moscom(4) driver for MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703 based USB serial adapters.
+New glxsb(4) driver for hardware random numbers and AES acceleration on the AMD Geode LX processor.
+New vic(4) driver for VMware VMXnet Virtual Interface Controllers.
+New malo(4) driver for Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network devices.
+New pwdog(4) driver for Quancom PWDOG1 watchdog timer devices.
+New uberry(4) driver for Research In Motion Blackberry devices.
+New mbg(4) driver for Meinberg Funkuhren radio clocks.
+New mesh(4) driver for the on-board SCSI controller of old world Apple Power Macintosh systems.
+New mc(4) driver for the on-board Ethernet of many old world Apple Power Macintosh systems
+Improved msk(4) driver now supports many more Marvell Yukon-2 variants including dual port cards and fiber cards.
+The gem(4) driver now supports fiber cards.
The OpenBSD/amd64
platform now has more accurate and robust time keeping.
The OpenBSD/i386
-boot(8)
+boot(8)
program now works properly on Intel-based Macs.
-The pciide(4) driver has had support added for newer chipsets, including:
+The pciide(4) driver has had support added for newer chipsets, including:
- AMD CS5536 IDE;
- Intel i31244;
- NVIDIA MCP67 PATA, MCP67 SATA.
-The com(4) driver now supports ST16C654 devices.
-The adt(4) driver supports some newer chipsets, such as the ADT7475.
+The com(4) driver now supports ST16C654 devices.
+The adt(4) driver supports some newer chipsets, such as the ADT7475.
The OpenBSD/macppc platform now automatically turns the machine back on following an unexpected loss of power.
boot.mac an XCOFF formated boot loader for OpenBSD/macppc capable of booting on many old world macs.
@@ -119,106 +119,106 @@
New tools:
-- BSD-licensed pkg-config(1), a complete rewrite of the GNU tool of
+
- BSD-licensed pkg-config(1), a complete rewrite of the GNU tool of
the same name, significantly smaller and more maintainable.
-
- hoststated(8), a layer 3 and layer 7 server load balancing daemon with host monitoring capacities.
-
- new BSD-licensed ripd(8).
-
- bgplg(8), a CGI looking glass for OpenBGPD, is now available for use with the system httpd.
-
- bgplgsh(8), a looking glass shell for OpenBGPD, is now available for use as a restricted read-only command line interface.
+
- hoststated(8), a layer 3 and layer 7 server load balancing daemon with host monitoring capacities.
+
- new BSD-licensed ripd(8).
+
- bgplg(8), a CGI looking glass for OpenBGPD, is now available for use with the system httpd.
+
- bgplgsh(8), a looking glass shell for OpenBGPD, is now available for use as a restricted read-only command line interface.
New functionality:
-- syslogd(8)
+
- syslogd(8)
can now pipe logs directly to other programs, making real-time log analysis easier.
- The IP_RECVTTL
-ip(4)
+ip(4)
socket option allows programs to receive the incoming ttl on raw and udp sockets.
- The IP_MINTTL
-ip(4)
+ip(4)
socket option allows programs to ask the kernel to discard any packets with a ttl
smaller than the given one, for implementing the IP TTL security hack aka the Generalized
TTL Security Mechanism specified in RFC 3682.
- Multiple, independent routing tables, with
-pf(4)
+pf(4)
acting as selector.
-route(8)
+route(8)
can be told which table to work with now, and routing daemons have been modified to
cope as well.
- The
-pflog(4)
+pflog(4)
interface is now clonable.
-pf(4)
+pf(4)
can log to multiple pflog interfaces now, each rule can specify which pflog interface
to log to.
-pflogd(8) and
-spamlogd(8)
+pflogd(8) and
+spamlogd(8)
can now be told which pflog interface to work with.
- The
-pfsync(4)
+pfsync(4)
interface is now clonable as well, thus only there when actually needed.
-
-pfctl(8)
+pfctl(8)
can now expire table entries.
-
- keep state is now the default for pf.conf(5) rules, as is the flags S/SA option on TCP connections. no state and flags any can be used to disable stateful filtering or TCP flags checking.
-
- The pfctl(8) ruleset optimiser can be enabled in pf.conf(5).
-
- pf(4) anchors can now be loaded inline in the main pf.conf(5) and can be printed recursively.
+
- keep state is now the default for pf.conf(5) rules, as is the flags S/SA option on TCP connections. no state and flags any can be used to disable stateful filtering or TCP flags checking.
+
- The pfctl(8) ruleset optimiser can be enabled in pf.conf(5).
+
- pf(4) anchors can now be loaded inline in the main pf.conf(5) and can be printed recursively.
- Allow
-pf(4)
+pf(4)
rules inside anchors to have their counters reset, and make counter read
& reset an atomic operation.
-
-sensorsd(8)
+sensorsd(8)
dampens status changes now, thus not alerting for a single wrong sensor read, since many
sensors lie once in a while.
-
-spamd(8) and
-spamlogd(8) now support synchronisation of the greylist database across multiple hosts. The greytrapping mechanism now allows for whole domain traps, and noticing out of order MX use.
+spamd(8) and
+spamlogd(8) now support synchronisation of the greylist database across multiple hosts. The greytrapping mechanism now allows for whole domain traps, and noticing out of order MX use.
-
-spamd(8) database format has changed from DB_BTREE to DB_HASH for much better performance on large installations with big databases.
+spamd(8) database format has changed from DB_BTREE to DB_HASH for much better performance on large installations with big databases.
-
The
-bridge(4) driver and the
-brconfig(8) tool now support
+bridge(4) driver and the
+brconfig(8) tool now support
the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP).
The new RSTP mode is now used by default when enabled with the stp option.
-
- cd(4) now supports reading from region protected DVDs.
+
- cd(4) now supports reading from region protected DVDs.
- Detect
-MS-DOS filesystems
+MS-DOS filesystems
and spoof disklabel partitions for them even when there is no MBR, e.g. on some newer iPods.
Assorted improvements and code cleanup:
-- The fsck_ffs(8)
+
- The fsck_ffs(8)
command has been improved to be more robust to various forms of inode and
superblock corruption.
-
- The top(1)
+
- The top(1)
command got some new ways of filtering the display.
-
- pthreads(3)
+
- pthreads(3)
file descriptor handling has been improved to eliminate several race and deadlock conditions and improve performance.
-
- The MS-DOS filesystem
+
- The MS-DOS filesystem
has had a potential corruption issue fixed, and is more reliable when given
a corrupted filesystem to mount.
-
- The MS-DOS filesystem
+
- The MS-DOS filesystem
and the
-fdisk(8)
+fdisk(8)
command have been enhanced to work on devices with 2048 byte sectors,
e.g. newer iPods.
-
- The OpenRCS tools
+
- The OpenRCS tools
are smarter at handling files, especially when dealing with binary files.
GNU RCS compatibility has also been improved.
-
- The mg(1)
+
- The mg(1)
editor now displays column numbers in the status bar. It has also
received several improvements which make it more reliable: line
numbers, file insertions, and search wrapping all now work as
expected.
-
- The systat(1)
+
- The systat(1)
command has a cleaner look, and a display was added for hardware sensors.
- The OpenBSD/alpha platform now uses gcc3.
- Improved support for usb attached cd drives and ever more odd
-umass(4)
+umass(4)
devices.
- Don't treat NetBSD or FreeBSD MBR partitions as substitutes for an OpenBSD partition. i.e. don't try to boot from them or use them to store OpenBSD disklabels.
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
OpenNTPD 4.1:
- Greatly improved support for timedelta sensors.
-
- ntpd
+
- ntpd
now uses a strictly monotonically increasing time (uptime, basically)
for its internal timers, so setting the system clock doesn't influence
query rates, trust levels, etc. any more.
@@ -270,11 +270,11 @@
- OpenSSH 4.6:
-- sshd
+
- sshd
now allows the enabling and disabling of authentication
methods on a per user, group, host and network basis via the
Match directive in
- sshd_config(5).
+ sshd_config(5).
@@ -301,9 +301,9 @@
- X.Org 6.9.0 (+ patches, and i386 contains XFree86 3.3.6 servers
(+ patches) for legacy chipsets not supported by X.Org)
- Gcc 2.95.3
-(+ patches)
+(+ patches)
and 3.3.5
-(+ patches)
+(+ patches)
- Perl 5.8.8 (+ patches)
- our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS and DSO support
- OpenSSL 0.9.7j (+ patches)
@@ -394,9 +394,9 @@
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
at CD1:4.1/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
use the
-dd(1)
+dd(1)
utility. The following is an example usage of
-dd(1),
+dd(1),
where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
"rfd0a".
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@
OpenBSD ports system.
The ports/ directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
-
+
cvs(1) if
you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in