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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:
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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
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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,
1.32 ! jj 172: and a improved 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>
1.31 dlg 222: <li>introduce round-robin scheduling of resources for outstanding device commands to prevent a single device from monopolising the bus.
223: <li>significant reduction in memory consumption used for tracking devices attached to buses.
1.29 krw 224: <li>eliminate many unnecessary splbio/splx calls in SCSI drivers.
225: <li>eliminate many use after free's exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
226: <li>eliminate scsi_scsi_cmd(), simplifying calling inside SCSI midlayer.
227: <li>eliminate struct scsi_device.
228: <li>eliminate many uninitialized data references and invalid scsi_done() calls exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
229: <li>eliminate use of EAGAIN.
230: <li>eliminate almost all uses of NO_CCB and XS_NO_CCB.
231: </ul>
232: </ul>
233: <p>
234:
1.1 deraadt 235: <li>Assorted improvements:
236: <ul>
1.17 schwarze 237: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mbtowc&sektion=3">mbtowc(3)</a> multi-byte/wide-character conversion functions
238: have been added to the C library, and
239: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setlocale&sektion=3">setlocale(3)</a>
240: now supports the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
241: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_madvise&sektion=2">posix_madvise(2)</a>,
242: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_memalign&sektion=3">posix_memalign(3)</a>,
243: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strndup&sektion=3">strndup(3)</a>, and
244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strnlen&sektion=3">strnlen(3)</a>
245: have been added to the C library.
1.16 schwarze 246: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">event(3)</a> library
1.17 schwarze 247: was updated to version 1.4.14b.
1.16 schwarze 248: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">pthreads(3)</a> library
249: now implements the <tt>pthread_rwlock_timed{rd,wr}lock</tt> interfaces.
1.17 schwarze 250: <li>AES-NI support has been integrated into the OpenSSL
251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3">crypto(3)</a> library.
1.12 ratchov 252: <li>MIDI control in non-server mode was added to
253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>,
254: including seeking within .wav files
255: <li>A new record-what-you-hear feature was added to
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>.
257: <li>The minimum extra latency of the
258: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>
259: server was lowered to a single block, improving
260: usability of low-latency programs without stability compromise.
1.16 schwarze 261: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
262: now supports unique disk identifiers.
1.17 schwarze 263: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>
264: now handles redirection to relative URLs in the Location: header
265: of HTTP responses.
266: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lint&sektion=1">lint(1)</a>
267: now recognizes the C99 data types _Bool and _Complex
268: and some related gcc extensions.
269: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1">make(1)</a>
270: now allows variables in SysV modifiers,
271: and implements the :QL (quote list) modifier.
1.16 schwarze 272: <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 273: <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 274: <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.
275: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=od&sektion=1">od(1)</a>
276: now supports the POSIX -A option to select an input address base.
277: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sendbug&sektion=1">sendbug(1)</a>
278: now includes the output of <tt>usbdevs -v</tt> into the template.
279: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&sektion=8">smtpd(8)</a>
280: now supports the SIZE and ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES extensions
1.17 schwarze 281: and the "plain" backend for maps, and performance was improved when handling large amounts of mail.
1.24 claudio 282: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>
283: now supports the IP-FORWARD-MIB.
1.17 schwarze 284: <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 285: <li>Many memory leaks have been fixed in various userland utilities.
1.23 mikeb 286: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a>,
287: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">i386</a>,
288: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">hppa</a>,
289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">sparc64</a>,
290: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/socppc.html">socppc</a> and
291: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html">macppc</a>
292: platforms were switched over to gcc4.
1.29 krw 293: <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.
294: <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
295: relays.
296: <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.
297: <li>by default, read and write caching is now turned on for non-USB scsi disks.
298: <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.
299: <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.
300: <li>it is again possible to build a bsd.rd that has DDB.
301: <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.
302: <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.
303: <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.
304: <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 305: </ul>
306: <p>
307:
308: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
309: <ul>
1.13 jasper 310: <li>If the system time is off by more than 120 seconds, ask if the user
311: wants to set it accordingly.
1.16 schwarze 312: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
313: now allows to customize auto allocated labels using the -R option.
1.13 jasper 314: <li>Default network install method changed from FTP to HTTP.
315: <li>Automatically set
316: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5">/etc/pkg.conf</a>
317: `installfrom' entry to the public mirror used while installing or upgrading.
1.17 schwarze 318: <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 319: <li>Eliminate more excessively chatty remarks during install.
320: <li>Handle disk UID partitions better.
1.1 deraadt 321: </ul>
322: <p>
323:
1.7 jsg 324: <li>OpenSSH 5.6:
1.1 deraadt 325: <ul>
326: <li>New features:
1.14 jasper 327: <ul>
328: <li>Added a <em>ControlPersist</em> option to
329: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
330: <li>Hostbased authentication may now use certificate host keys.
331: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
332: now supports signing certificate using a CA key that has been stored
333: in a PKCS#11 token.
334: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
335: will now log the hostname and address that we connected to at
336: LogLevel=verbose after authentication is successful to mitigate
337: "phishing" attacks.
338: <li>Expand %h to the hostname in ssh_config Hostname options.
339: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
340: to import and export of PEM and PKCS#8 keys.
341: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
342: will now queue debug messages for bad ownership or permissions on
343: the user's keyfiles encountered during authentication.
344: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
345: connection multiplexing now supports remote forwarding with
346: dynamic port allocation and can report the allocated port back to
347: the user.
348: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
349: now supports indirection in matching of principal names listed in
350: certificates.
351: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
352: now has a new <em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em> option.
353: <li>Additional <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
354: options are now valid inside Match blocks:
355: <ul>
356: <li><em>AuthorizedKeysFile</em>
357: <li><em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em>
358: <li><em>HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly</em>
359: <li><em>PermitTunnel</em>
360: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 361: </ul>
362: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
363: <ul>
1.14 jasper 364: <li>The PKCS#11 code now retries a lookup for a private key if there is
365: no matching key with <em>CKA_SIGN</em> attribute enabled (bz#1736).
366: <li>Unbreak strdelim() skipping past quoted strings.
367: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
368: fix swapped args in upload_dir_internal() (bz#1797).
369: <li>Fix a longstanding problem where if you suspend
370: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
371: at the password/passphrase prompt the terminal mode is not restored.
372: <li>Fix a PKCS#11 crash on some smartcards by validating the length
373: returned for C_GetAttributValue (bz#1773).
374: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
375: fix ls in working directories that contain globbing
376: characters in their pathnames (bz#1655).
377: <li>Print warning for missing home directory when
378: <em>ChrootDirectory=none.</em> (bz#1564).
379: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
380: fix a memory leak in do_realpath() error path (bz#1771).
381: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
382: Standardise error messages when attempting to open
383: private key files to include "progname: filename: error reason" (bz#1783).
384: <li>Replace verbose and overflow-prone Linebuf code with
385: read_keyfile_line() (bz#1565).
386: <li>Include the user name on "subsystem request for ..." log messages.
387: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
388: and
389: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
390: remove hardcoded limit of 100 permitopen clauses and port forwards
391: per direction (bz#1327).
392: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
393: ignore stderr output from subsystems to avoid hangs if a subsystem
394: or shell initialisation writes to stderr (bz#1750).
395: <li>Skip the initial check for access with an empty password when
396: <em>PermitEmptyPasswords=no</em> (bz#1638).
397: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
398: fix logspam when key options (from="..." especially) deny
399: non-matching keys (bz#1765).
400: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
401: display a more helpful error message when $HOME is
402: inaccessible while trying to create .ssh directory (bz#1740).
403: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
404: fix hang when terminating a mux slave using ~ (bz#1758).
405: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
406: refuse to generate keys longer than
407: <em>OPENSSL_[RD]SA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS</em> (bz#1516).
408: <li>Suppress spurious tty warning when using -O and stdin is not a tty
409: (bz#1746).
410: <li>Kill channel when pty allocation requests fail (bz#1698).
1.1 deraadt 411: </ul>
412: </ul>
413: <p>
414:
1.15 schwarze 415: <li>Mandoc 1.10.5:
416: <ul>
417: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
418: utility is now used to build all manuals in the base system
419: and in Xenocara from
420: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a> and
421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a>
422: sources.
423: <li>New integrated roff preprocessor with minimal support for conditional
424: requests, nested roff requests, string definitions, roff registers,
425: also parsing and ignoring macro definitions.
426: <li>Improved support for manual pages generated by
427: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a>.
428: <li>Many parser improvements, in particular
429: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a>
430: support for word keeps, synopsis mode in arbitrary sections,
431: graceful handling of badly nested blocks, and improved parsing
432: of column displays.
433: <li>New PostScript and PDF output frontends.
434: <li>Many ASCII and HTML output formatting improvements, for example
435: proper synopsis indentation and improved end-of-sentence detection.
436: <li>Considerably improved syntax checking and error reporting.
437: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 438: <p>
439:
440: <li>Over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
441: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
442: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
443: <tr>
444: <td valign="top" width="25%">
445: <ul>
446: <li>i386: 6218
447: <li>sparc64: 5950
448: <li>alpha: 5827
449: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.18 deraadt 450: <li>sh: 1100
1.1 deraadt 451: <li>amd64: 6166
452: <li>powerpc: 5996
453: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
454: <li>sparc: 4130
1.19 deraadt 455: <li>arm: 5628
1.1 deraadt 456: <li>hppa: 5632
457: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
458: <li>vax: 1528
459: <li>mips64: 3632
460: <li>mips64el: 4486
461: </ul></td></tr></table>
462: Some highlights:
463: <ul>
1.3 landry 464: <li>Gnome 2.30.2.
1.1 deraadt 465: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
1.3 landry 466: <li>Xfce 4.6.2.
1.5 jasper 467: <li>MySQL 5.1.48.
1.3 landry 468: <li>PostgreSQL 8.4.4.
469: <li>Postfix 2.7.1.
1.1 deraadt 470: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
1.3 landry 471: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11.
472: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1.
473: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.
1.1 deraadt 474: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
1.3 landry 475: <li>Vim 7.2.444.
476: <li>PHP 5.2.13.
477: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.5.
1.1 deraadt 478: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
1.13 jasper 479: <li>Mono 2.6.4.
1.1 deraadt 480: </ul>
481: <p>
482:
483: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
484: <p>
485:
486: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
487: <ul>
1.9 matthieu 488: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.5 with xserver 1.8 + patches,
1.4 jasper 489: freetype 2.3.12,
490: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 258 and more)
491: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 492: <li>Perl 5.10.1 (+ patches)
493: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
494: and DSO support
495: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
496: <li>Groff 1.15
497: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
498: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
499: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
500: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
501: <li>Ncurses 5.7
502: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
503: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
504: <li>Arla 0.35.7
505: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
506: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
507: </ul>
508: <p>
509:
510: </ul>
511:
512: <a name="install"></a>
513: <hr>
514: <p>
515: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
516: <p>
517: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
518: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
519: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
520: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
521: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
522: purchased a CDROM instead.
523: <p>
524:
525: <hr>
526: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
527: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.8 on your machine:
528: <p>
529: <ul>
530: <li>CD1:4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386
531: <p>
532: <li>CD2:4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
533: <li>CD2:4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
534: <p>
535: <li>CD3:4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
536: <p>
537: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
538: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish
539: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
540: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
541: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
542: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
543: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
544: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
545: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
546: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
547: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
548: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax
549: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
550: </ul>
551: <hr>
552:
553: <p>
554: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
555: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
556: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
557: <p>
558:
559: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
560: <ul>
561: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
562: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
563: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
564: <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
565:
566: <p>
567: Use <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyB48.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
568: support, or <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyC48.fs</i> for better laptop support.
569:
570: <p>
571: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
572: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
573: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
574:
575: <p>
576: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
577: read INSTALL.i386.
578:
579: <p>
580: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
581: at <i>CD1:4.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
582: use the
583: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
584: utility. The following is an example usage of
585: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
586: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
587: "rfd0a".
588:
589: <ul><pre>
590: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
591: </pre></ul>
592:
593: <p>
594: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
595: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
596: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.10 lum 597: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
1.1 deraadt 598: </ul>
599:
600: <p>
601: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
602: <ul>
603: The 4.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
604: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
605: your BIOS options first.
606: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
607: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.8/amd64/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy, then
608: boot from the floppy drive.
609:
610: <p>
611: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
612: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
613: INSTALL.amd64 document.
614:
615: <p>
616: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
617: read INSTALL.amd64.
618: </ul>
619:
620: <p>
621: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
622: <ul>
623: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
624: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
625:
626: <p>
627: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
628: /4.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
629: </ul>
630:
631: <p>
632: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
633: <ul>
634: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
635:
636: <p>
637: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
638: <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppy48.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppyB48.fs</i>
639: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
640: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
641:
642: <p>
643: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
644: will most likely fail.
645:
646: <p>
647: You can also write <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/miniroot48.fs</i> to the swap partition on
648: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
649:
650: <p>
651: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
652: </ul>
653:
654: <p>
655: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
656: <ul>
657: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppy48.fs</i> or
658: <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppyB48.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
659: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
660:
661: <p>
662: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
663: will most likely fail.
664:
665: </ul>
666:
667: <p>
668: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
669: <ul>
670: <p>
671: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
672: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
673: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
674: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
675: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
676: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
677: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
678: </ul>
679:
680: <p>
681: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
682: <ul>
683: <p>
684: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
685: </ul>
686:
687: <p>
688: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
689: <ul>
690: <p>
691: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
692: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
693: </ul>
694:
695: <p>
696: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
697: <ul>
698: <p>
699: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to the start of the CF
700: or disk, and boot normally.
701: </ul>
702:
703: <p>
704: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
705: <ul>
706: <p>
707: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
708: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
709: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
710: </ul>
711: <p>
712:
713: <p>
714: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
715: <ul>
716: <p>
717: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
718: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
719: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
720: for more details.
721: </ul>
722:
723: <p>
724: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
725: <ul>
726: <p>
727: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
728: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
729: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
730: for more details.
731: </ul>
732:
733: <p>
734: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
735: <ul>
736: <p>
737: To install on an O2, burn cd48.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
738: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
739: menu.
740:
741: <p>
742: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
743: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
744: the kernel matching your system type.
745: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
746: </ul>
747:
748: <p>
749: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
750: <ul>
751: <p>
752: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
753: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
754: </ul>
755:
756: <p>
757: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
758: <ul>
759: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
760: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
761:
762: <ul><pre>
763: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
764: or
765: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
766: </pre></ul>
767:
768: <p>
769: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
770: To do so you need to write <i>floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy.
771: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
772: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
773: depending on the version of your ROM.
774:
775: <ul><pre>
776: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
777: or
778: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
779: </pre></ul>
780:
781: <p>
782: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
783: will most likely fail.
784:
785: <p>
786: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
787: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
788: INSTALL.sparc file.
789: </ul>
790:
791: <p>
792: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
793: <ul>
794: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
795: </ul>
796:
797: <p>
798: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
799: <ul>
800: <p>
801: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
802: openbsd48_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
803: for a few important details.
804: </ul>
805:
806: <p>
807: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
808: <ul>
809: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
810: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
811: in a separate archive. To extract:
812: <p>
813: <ul><pre>
814: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
815: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
816: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
817: </pre></ul>
818: <p>
819: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
820: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
821: To extract:
822: <p>
823: <ul><pre>
824: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
825: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
826: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
827: </pre></ul>
828: <p>
829: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
830: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
831: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
832: Using these files
833: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
834: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
835: <p>
836: </ul>
837:
838: <a name="upgrade"></a>
839: <hr>
840: <p>
841: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
842: <p>
843: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
844: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
845: <a href="faq/upgrade48.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
846:
847: <a name="ports"></a>
848: <hr>
849: <p>
850: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
851: <p>
852: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
853: <p>
854: <ul><pre>
855: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
856: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
857: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
858: </pre></ul>
859: <p>
860: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
861: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
862: if you know nothing about ports
863: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
864: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
865: OpenBSD ports system.
866: <p>
867: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
868: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
869: cvs(1)</a> if
870: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
871: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
872: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
873: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
874: like:
875: <p>
876: <ul><pre>
877: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_8</strong>
878: </pre></ul>
879: <p>
880: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
881: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
882: server.]
883: <p>
884: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
885: packages for the 4.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
886: <p>
887: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
888: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
889: place to know.
890: <p>
891:
892: <hr>
893: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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