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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.8 Release:</font></h2>
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26: To be released Nov 1, 2010<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2010, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-6-4</font>
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30: <a href="lyrics.html#48">4.8 Song: "El Puffiachi"</a>
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33: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
34: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
35: <a href="#upgrade">How to upgrade</a><br>
36: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
37: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
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41: To get the files for this release:
42: <ul>
43: <li>Pre-order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
45: a list of mirror machines.
46: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/4.8/</font> directory on
47: one of the mirror sites.
48: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
49: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata48.html">The 4.8 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus48.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.7 and 4.8 releases.
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57: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
58: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
59: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
60: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
61: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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66: <p>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
68: <p>
69: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.8.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus48.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.8.
72: <p>
73:
74: <ul>
75:
76: <li>New/extended platforms:
77: <ul>
1.21 deraadt 78: <li>i386 and amd64:
79: <ul>
80: <li>ACPI-based suspend/resume works on most machines with Intel/ATI video.
1.28 stsp 81: Machines using NVidia graphics will not resume the graphics. cardbus(4) and
1.21 deraadt 82: pcmcia(4) will still have some problems, too.
83: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 84: </ul>
85: <p>
86:
87: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
88: <ul>
1.6 jsg 89: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpisony&sektion=4&format=html">acpisony(4)</a>
90: driver for Sony ACPI control.
91: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=itherm&sektion=4&format=html">itherm(4)</a>
92: driver for Intel 3400 temperature sensor.
93: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4&format=html">se(4)</a>
94: driver for SiS 190 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
95: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uguru&sektion=4&format=html">uguru(4)</a>
96: driver for ABIT temperature, voltage and fan sensors.
97: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=owctr&sektion=4&format=html">owctr(4)</a>
98: driver for 1-Wire counter devices.
1.14 jasper 99: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pgs&arch=macppc&secktion=4">pgs(4)</a>
100: driver for Programmers Switch found on some macppc machines.
1.7 jsg 101: <li>Support for 82576 fiber and 82577/82578 (PCH) based devices
102: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
103: <li>Support for 24-bit encodings and USB 2.0 playback
104: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uaudio&sektion=4">uaudio(4)</a>.
105: <li>Support for Winbond/Nuvoton W83627DHG-P
106: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wbsio&sektion=4">wbsio(4)</a>.
107: <li>Support for RTL8168E
108: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4">re(4)</a>.
109: <li>Support for 800x480
110: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=udl&sektion=4">udl(4)</a>.
111: <li>Support for M-audio Audiophile 192k
112: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=envy&sektion=4">envy(4)</a>.
113: <li>Support for Intel Core i3/i5 internal graphics (Ironlake)
114: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a>
115: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4">agp(4)</a>.
1.14 jasper 116: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ss&sektion=4&format=html">ss(4)</a> and
117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uscanner&sektion=4&format=html">uscanner(4)</a>
118: drivers have been removed.
1.22 mikeb 119: <li>Improved robustness of several SCSI/SAS/RAID HBA drivers, including
120: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4&format=html">mpi(4)</a>,
121: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4&format=html">mpii(4)</a> and
122: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4&format=html">ciss(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 123: </ul>
124: <p>
125:
126: <li>New tools:
127: <ul>
1.11 jsg 128: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>,
129: an Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) daemon.
130: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd&sektion=8">ldapd(8)</a>,
131: a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) daemon.
1.1 deraadt 132: </ul>
133: <p>
134:
135: <li>Filesystem midlayer improvements:
136: <ul>
1.30 ! stsp 137: <li>fix internal locking in (still experimental!) NTFS.
1.1 deraadt 138: </ul>
139: <p>
140:
141: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
142: <ul>
1.24 claudio 143: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> control sockets are now specified in the config file. This removes the -s and -r arguments to bgpd.
144: <li>Extended the BGP MPLS VPN support to allow Layer-3 MPLS VPNs to be
145: terminated on OpenBSD with the help of
146: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpe&sektion=4">mpe(4)</a>,
147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>, and
148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>.
149: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
150: supports multiple FIBs and it is possible to assign them to RIBs for
151: redistribution.
152: <li>bgpd now supports to use neighbor-as in AS filter statements and added
1.25 deraadt 153: two new filters -- max-as-seq and max-as-len -- to limit the length of
1.24 claudio 154: a sequence of a single AS or the total length of an AS path.
155: <li>Added softreconfig support in bgpd for peers changing the RIB.
156: <li>Fixed multiprotocol MRT dumps and added 4-byte AS-Number support in
157: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>.
158: <li>Added support for ping6 and traceroute6 in
159: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgplg&sektion=8">bgplg(8)</a>
160: and
161: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgplgsh&sektion=8">bgplgsh(8)</a>
162: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
163: has better LSA pruning and config reload support.
1.20 stsp 164: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospf6d&sektion=8">ospf6d(8)</a>
1.26 stsp 165: now supports LSAs larger than the link MTU, has improved interoperability
1.20 stsp 166: with other OSPFv3 implementations, can redistribute the default route,
167: and will correctly handle IPv6 prefixes advertised by neighbours on
168: the same link but not configured on the router itself.
1.24 claudio 169: <li>Various improvements in
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>
171: including correct penultimate hop popping, better session handling,
172: and a imporved config file parser.
1.1 deraadt 173: </ul>
174: <p>
175:
176: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
177: <ul>
1.17 schwarze 178: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sekti
179: on=8">ifconfig(8)</a> and
1.24 claudio 180: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=route&sektion=8">route(8)</a>
181: get better Multiprotocol Label Switching support.
182: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8">traceroute(8)</a>
183: now supports extended ICMP headers which allows printing of MPLS
184: labels.
1.8 stsp 185: <li>Support for RFC 4941 privacy extensions for stateless address
186: autoconfiguration has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inet6&sektion=4">inet6(4)</a> and can be enabled via
187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
1.16 schwarze 188: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
189: now supports random selection of MAC addresses.
190: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.17 schwarze 191: now decodes Multicast Listener Discovery version 2 and
192: Internet Key Exchange version 2 traffic.
1.11 jsg 193: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=enc&sektion=4">enc(4)</a> and
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">ipsec(4)</a> are now
195: aware of routing domains.
1.24 claudio 196: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> and
197: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> and
198: are now capable of running in different routing domains.
199: <li>Added MPLS support and a simple keepalive mechanism to
200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gre&sektion=4">gre(4)</a>.
201: <li>Added MPLS support to
202: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4">gif(4)</a>.
203: <li>Support for 802.1ad-style QinQ nested VLANs with the addition of
204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=svlan&sektion=4">svlan(4)</a> (service VLAN) interfaces.
205: <li>Added a RTM_DESYNC routing message as indicator that route messages
206: got dropped because of insufficent buffer space.
207: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
208: uses this message to keep the internal view of the routing table in sync.
1.1 deraadt 209: </ul>
210: <p>
211:
1.29 krw 212: <li>SCSI improvements:
213: <ul>
214: <li>better <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a> detaching.
215: <li>better <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> sense data and buf handling.
216: <li>eliminate excessive delays when starting DVD playing.
217: <li>ask only for minimal (i.e. 18 bytes) sense data, fixing usb devices.
218: <li>migrate to using bufq.
219: <li>always try READ CAPACITY 16 on devices claiming to be SCSI-3.
220: <li>many performance and reliability improvements as a result of new SCSI midlayer:
221: <ul>
222: <li>eliminate many unnecessary splbio/splx calls in SCSI drivers.
223: <li>eliminate many use after free's exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
224: <li>eliminate scsi_scsi_cmd(), simplifying calling inside SCSI midlayer.
225: <li>eliminate struct scsi_device.
226: <li>eliminate many uninitialized data references and invalid scsi_done() calls exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
227: <li>eliminate use of EAGAIN.
228: <li>eliminate almost all uses of NO_CCB and XS_NO_CCB.
229: </ul>
230: </ul>
231: <p>
232:
1.1 deraadt 233: <li>Assorted improvements:
234: <ul>
1.17 schwarze 235: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mbtowc&sektion=3">mbtowc(3)</a> multi-byte/wide-character conversion functions
236: have been added to the C library, and
237: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setlocale&sektion=3">setlocale(3)</a>
238: now supports the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_madvise&sektion=2">posix_madvise(2)</a>,
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_memalign&sektion=3">posix_memalign(3)</a>,
241: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strndup&sektion=3">strndup(3)</a>, and
242: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strnlen&sektion=3">strnlen(3)</a>
243: have been added to the C library.
1.16 schwarze 244: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">event(3)</a> library
1.17 schwarze 245: was updated to version 1.4.14b.
1.16 schwarze 246: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">pthreads(3)</a> library
247: now implements the <tt>pthread_rwlock_timed{rd,wr}lock</tt> interfaces.
1.17 schwarze 248: <li>AES-NI support has been integrated into the OpenSSL
249: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3">crypto(3)</a> library.
1.12 ratchov 250: <li>MIDI control in non-server mode was added to
251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>,
252: including seeking within .wav files
253: <li>A new record-what-you-hear feature was added to
254: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>.
255: <li>The minimum extra latency of the
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>
257: server was lowered to a single block, improving
258: usability of low-latency programs without stability compromise.
1.16 schwarze 259: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
260: now supports unique disk identifiers.
1.17 schwarze 261: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>
262: now handles redirection to relative URLs in the Location: header
263: of HTTP responses.
264: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lint&sektion=1">lint(1)</a>
265: now recognizes the C99 data types _Bool and _Complex
266: and some related gcc extensions.
267: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1">make(1)</a>
268: now allows variables in SysV modifiers,
269: and implements the :QL (quote list) modifier.
1.16 schwarze 270: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a> now allows to combine the -s option with -m or -M.
1.17 schwarze 271: <li>Improved directory editing in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg&sektion=1">mg(1)</a>.
1.16 schwarze 272: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8">newfs(8)</a> has been tweaked to better support large file systems.
273: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=od&sektion=1">od(1)</a>
274: now supports the POSIX -A option to select an input address base.
275: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sendbug&sektion=1">sendbug(1)</a>
276: now includes the output of <tt>usbdevs -v</tt> into the template.
277: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&sektion=8">smtpd(8)</a>
278: now supports the SIZE and ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES extensions
1.17 schwarze 279: and the "plain" backend for maps, and performance was improved when handling large amounts of mail.
1.24 claudio 280: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>
281: now supports the IP-FORWARD-MIB.
1.17 schwarze 282: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wsconsctl&sektion=8">wsconsctl(8)</a> now handles more than one keyboard, mouse and display.
1.14 jasper 283: <li>Many memory leaks have been fixed in various userland utilities.
1.23 mikeb 284: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a>,
285: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">i386</a>,
286: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">hppa</a>,
287: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">sparc64</a>,
288: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/socppc.html">socppc</a> and
289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html">macppc</a>
290: platforms were switched over to gcc4.
1.29 krw 291: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8">newfs(8)</a> now makes FFS2 the default for partitions larger than INT_MAX blocks.
292: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> now includes the server id in NAK messages, as required by some
293: relays.
294: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> now aligns the start and end of FFS partitions on bsize boundaries where it can, to improve performance on 4096-byte block devices.
295: <li>by default, read and write caching is now turned on for non-USB scsi disks.
296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getdirentries&sektion=2">getdirentries(2)</a> now checks to ensure that it doesn't wrap or truncate directory information on architectures where LONG is a different size from LONG LONG.
297: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> now ensures correct physical bounds and disk size are used when building a disklabel from saved ascii disklabel.
298: <li>it is again possible to build a bsd.rd that has DDB.
299: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a> now works much better with various trackpads and over suspend/resume cycles.
300: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now aligns the OpenBSD partition on a power of 2 block boundary to improve performance on 4096-byte block devices.
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nfsd&sektion=8">nfsd(8)</a> now logs start up errors to the system log as well as the console.
302: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nfsd&sektion=8">nfsd(8)</a> now errors out if given an invalid number of servers to run.
1.1 deraadt 303: </ul>
304: <p>
305:
306: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
307: <ul>
1.13 jasper 308: <li>If the system time is off by more than 120 seconds, ask if the user
309: wants to set it accordingly.
1.16 schwarze 310: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
311: now allows to customize auto allocated labels using the -R option.
1.13 jasper 312: <li>Default network install method changed from FTP to HTTP.
313: <li>Automatically set
314: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5">/etc/pkg.conf</a>
315: `installfrom' entry to the public mirror used while installing or upgrading.
1.17 schwarze 316: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysmerge&sektion=8">sysmerge(8)</a> now automatically installs missing users and groups.
1.29 krw 317: <li>Eliminate more excessively chatty remarks during install.
318: <li>Handle disk UID partitions better.
1.1 deraadt 319: </ul>
320: <p>
321:
1.7 jsg 322: <li>OpenSSH 5.6:
1.1 deraadt 323: <ul>
324: <li>New features:
1.14 jasper 325: <ul>
326: <li>Added a <em>ControlPersist</em> option to
327: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
328: <li>Hostbased authentication may now use certificate host keys.
329: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
330: now supports signing certificate using a CA key that has been stored
331: in a PKCS#11 token.
332: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
333: will now log the hostname and address that we connected to at
334: LogLevel=verbose after authentication is successful to mitigate
335: "phishing" attacks.
336: <li>Expand %h to the hostname in ssh_config Hostname options.
337: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
338: to import and export of PEM and PKCS#8 keys.
339: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
340: will now queue debug messages for bad ownership or permissions on
341: the user's keyfiles encountered during authentication.
342: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
343: connection multiplexing now supports remote forwarding with
344: dynamic port allocation and can report the allocated port back to
345: the user.
346: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
347: now supports indirection in matching of principal names listed in
348: certificates.
349: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
350: now has a new <em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em> option.
351: <li>Additional <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
352: options are now valid inside Match blocks:
353: <ul>
354: <li><em>AuthorizedKeysFile</em>
355: <li><em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em>
356: <li><em>HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly</em>
357: <li><em>PermitTunnel</em>
358: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 359: </ul>
360: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
361: <ul>
1.14 jasper 362: <li>The PKCS#11 code now retries a lookup for a private key if there is
363: no matching key with <em>CKA_SIGN</em> attribute enabled (bz#1736).
364: <li>Unbreak strdelim() skipping past quoted strings.
365: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
366: fix swapped args in upload_dir_internal() (bz#1797).
367: <li>Fix a longstanding problem where if you suspend
368: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
369: at the password/passphrase prompt the terminal mode is not restored.
370: <li>Fix a PKCS#11 crash on some smartcards by validating the length
371: returned for C_GetAttributValue (bz#1773).
372: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
373: fix ls in working directories that contain globbing
374: characters in their pathnames (bz#1655).
375: <li>Print warning for missing home directory when
376: <em>ChrootDirectory=none.</em> (bz#1564).
377: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
378: fix a memory leak in do_realpath() error path (bz#1771).
379: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
380: Standardise error messages when attempting to open
381: private key files to include "progname: filename: error reason" (bz#1783).
382: <li>Replace verbose and overflow-prone Linebuf code with
383: read_keyfile_line() (bz#1565).
384: <li>Include the user name on "subsystem request for ..." log messages.
385: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
386: and
387: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
388: remove hardcoded limit of 100 permitopen clauses and port forwards
389: per direction (bz#1327).
390: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
391: ignore stderr output from subsystems to avoid hangs if a subsystem
392: or shell initialisation writes to stderr (bz#1750).
393: <li>Skip the initial check for access with an empty password when
394: <em>PermitEmptyPasswords=no</em> (bz#1638).
395: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
396: fix logspam when key options (from="..." especially) deny
397: non-matching keys (bz#1765).
398: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
399: display a more helpful error message when $HOME is
400: inaccessible while trying to create .ssh directory (bz#1740).
401: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
402: fix hang when terminating a mux slave using ~ (bz#1758).
403: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
404: refuse to generate keys longer than
405: <em>OPENSSL_[RD]SA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS</em> (bz#1516).
406: <li>Suppress spurious tty warning when using -O and stdin is not a tty
407: (bz#1746).
408: <li>Kill channel when pty allocation requests fail (bz#1698).
1.1 deraadt 409: </ul>
410: </ul>
411: <p>
412:
1.15 schwarze 413: <li>Mandoc 1.10.5:
414: <ul>
415: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
416: utility is now used to build all manuals in the base system
417: and in Xenocara from
418: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a> and
419: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a>
420: sources.
421: <li>New integrated roff preprocessor with minimal support for conditional
422: requests, nested roff requests, string definitions, roff registers,
423: also parsing and ignoring macro definitions.
424: <li>Improved support for manual pages generated by
425: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a>.
426: <li>Many parser improvements, in particular
427: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a>
428: support for word keeps, synopsis mode in arbitrary sections,
429: graceful handling of badly nested blocks, and improved parsing
430: of column displays.
431: <li>New PostScript and PDF output frontends.
432: <li>Many ASCII and HTML output formatting improvements, for example
433: proper synopsis indentation and improved end-of-sentence detection.
434: <li>Considerably improved syntax checking and error reporting.
435: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 436: <p>
437:
438: <li>Over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
439: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
440: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
441: <tr>
442: <td valign="top" width="25%">
443: <ul>
444: <li>i386: 6218
445: <li>sparc64: 5950
446: <li>alpha: 5827
447: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.18 deraadt 448: <li>sh: 1100
1.1 deraadt 449: <li>amd64: 6166
450: <li>powerpc: 5996
451: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
452: <li>sparc: 4130
1.19 deraadt 453: <li>arm: 5628
1.1 deraadt 454: <li>hppa: 5632
455: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
456: <li>vax: 1528
457: <li>mips64: 3632
458: <li>mips64el: 4486
459: </ul></td></tr></table>
460: Some highlights:
461: <ul>
1.3 landry 462: <li>Gnome 2.30.2.
1.1 deraadt 463: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
1.3 landry 464: <li>Xfce 4.6.2.
1.5 jasper 465: <li>MySQL 5.1.48.
1.3 landry 466: <li>PostgreSQL 8.4.4.
467: <li>Postfix 2.7.1.
1.1 deraadt 468: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
1.3 landry 469: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11.
470: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1.
471: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.
1.1 deraadt 472: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
1.3 landry 473: <li>Vim 7.2.444.
474: <li>PHP 5.2.13.
475: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.5.
1.1 deraadt 476: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
1.13 jasper 477: <li>Mono 2.6.4.
1.1 deraadt 478: </ul>
479: <p>
480:
481: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
485: <ul>
1.9 matthieu 486: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.5 with xserver 1.8 + patches,
1.4 jasper 487: freetype 2.3.12,
488: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 258 and more)
489: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 490: <li>Perl 5.10.1 (+ patches)
491: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
492: and DSO support
493: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
494: <li>Groff 1.15
495: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
496: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
497: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
498: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
499: <li>Ncurses 5.7
500: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
501: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
502: <li>Arla 0.35.7
503: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
504: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
505: </ul>
506: <p>
507:
508: </ul>
509:
510: <a name="install"></a>
511: <hr>
512: <p>
513: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
514: <p>
515: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
516: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
517: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
518: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
519: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
520: purchased a CDROM instead.
521: <p>
522:
523: <hr>
524: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
525: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.8 on your machine:
526: <p>
527: <ul>
528: <li>CD1:4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386
529: <p>
530: <li>CD2:4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
531: <li>CD2:4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
532: <p>
533: <li>CD3:4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
534: <p>
535: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
536: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish
537: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
538: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
539: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
540: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
541: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
542: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
543: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
544: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
545: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
546: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax
547: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
548: </ul>
549: <hr>
550:
551: <p>
552: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
553: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
554: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
555: <p>
556:
557: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
558: <ul>
559: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
560: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
561: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
562: <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
563:
564: <p>
565: Use <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyB48.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
566: support, or <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyC48.fs</i> for better laptop support.
567:
568: <p>
569: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
570: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
571: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
572:
573: <p>
574: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
575: read INSTALL.i386.
576:
577: <p>
578: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
579: at <i>CD1:4.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
580: use the
581: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
582: utility. The following is an example usage of
583: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
584: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
585: "rfd0a".
586:
587: <ul><pre>
588: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
589: </pre></ul>
590:
591: <p>
592: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
593: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
594: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.10 lum 595: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
1.1 deraadt 596: </ul>
597:
598: <p>
599: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
600: <ul>
601: The 4.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
602: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
603: your BIOS options first.
604: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
605: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.8/amd64/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy, then
606: boot from the floppy drive.
607:
608: <p>
609: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
610: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
611: INSTALL.amd64 document.
612:
613: <p>
614: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
615: read INSTALL.amd64.
616: </ul>
617:
618: <p>
619: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
620: <ul>
621: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
622: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
623:
624: <p>
625: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
626: /4.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
627: </ul>
628:
629: <p>
630: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
631: <ul>
632: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
633:
634: <p>
635: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
636: <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppy48.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppyB48.fs</i>
637: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
638: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
639:
640: <p>
641: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
642: will most likely fail.
643:
644: <p>
645: You can also write <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/miniroot48.fs</i> to the swap partition on
646: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
647:
648: <p>
649: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
650: </ul>
651:
652: <p>
653: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
654: <ul>
655: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppy48.fs</i> or
656: <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppyB48.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
657: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
658:
659: <p>
660: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
661: will most likely fail.
662:
663: </ul>
664:
665: <p>
666: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
667: <ul>
668: <p>
669: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
670: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
671: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
672: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
673: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
674: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
675: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
676: </ul>
677:
678: <p>
679: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
680: <ul>
681: <p>
682: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
683: </ul>
684:
685: <p>
686: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
687: <ul>
688: <p>
689: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
690: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
691: </ul>
692:
693: <p>
694: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
695: <ul>
696: <p>
697: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to the start of the CF
698: or disk, and boot normally.
699: </ul>
700:
701: <p>
702: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
703: <ul>
704: <p>
705: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
706: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
707: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
708: </ul>
709: <p>
710:
711: <p>
712: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
713: <ul>
714: <p>
715: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
716: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
717: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
718: for more details.
719: </ul>
720:
721: <p>
722: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
723: <ul>
724: <p>
725: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
726: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
727: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
728: for more details.
729: </ul>
730:
731: <p>
732: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
733: <ul>
734: <p>
735: To install on an O2, burn cd48.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
736: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
737: menu.
738:
739: <p>
740: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
741: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
742: the kernel matching your system type.
743: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
744: </ul>
745:
746: <p>
747: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
748: <ul>
749: <p>
750: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
751: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
752: </ul>
753:
754: <p>
755: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
756: <ul>
757: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
758: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
759:
760: <ul><pre>
761: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
762: or
763: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
764: </pre></ul>
765:
766: <p>
767: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
768: To do so you need to write <i>floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy.
769: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
770: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
771: depending on the version of your ROM.
772:
773: <ul><pre>
774: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
775: or
776: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
777: </pre></ul>
778:
779: <p>
780: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
781: will most likely fail.
782:
783: <p>
784: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
785: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
786: INSTALL.sparc file.
787: </ul>
788:
789: <p>
790: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
791: <ul>
792: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
793: </ul>
794:
795: <p>
796: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
797: <ul>
798: <p>
799: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
800: openbsd48_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
801: for a few important details.
802: </ul>
803:
804: <p>
805: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
806: <ul>
807: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
808: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
809: in a separate archive. To extract:
810: <p>
811: <ul><pre>
812: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
813: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
814: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
815: </pre></ul>
816: <p>
817: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
818: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
819: To extract:
820: <p>
821: <ul><pre>
822: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
823: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
824: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
825: </pre></ul>
826: <p>
827: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
828: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
829: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
830: Using these files
831: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
832: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
833: <p>
834: </ul>
835:
836: <a name="upgrade"></a>
837: <hr>
838: <p>
839: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
840: <p>
841: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
842: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
843: <a href="faq/upgrade48.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
844:
845: <a name="ports"></a>
846: <hr>
847: <p>
848: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
849: <p>
850: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
851: <p>
852: <ul><pre>
853: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
854: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
855: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
856: </pre></ul>
857: <p>
858: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
859: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
860: if you know nothing about ports
861: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
862: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
863: OpenBSD ports system.
864: <p>
865: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
866: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
867: cvs(1)</a> if
868: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
869: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
870: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
871: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
872: like:
873: <p>
874: <ul><pre>
875: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_8</strong>
876: </pre></ul>
877: <p>
878: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
879: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
880: server.]
881: <p>
882: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
883: packages for the 4.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
884: <p>
885: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
886: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
887: place to know.
888: <p>
889:
890: <hr>
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