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22: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 4.8</font></h2>
1.1 deraadt 23: <p>
1.33 deraadt 24: Released Nov 1, 2010<br>
1.1 deraadt 25: Copyright 1997-2010, Theo de Raadt.<br>
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1.36 dcoppa 31: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
1.1 deraadt 32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
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37: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata48.html">The 4.8 Errata page</a> for a list
38: of bugs and workarounds.
39: <li>See a <a href="plus48.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
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54: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
55: <p>
56: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.8.
57: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus48.html">changelog</a> leading
58: to 4.8.
59: <p>
60:
61: <ul>
62:
63: <li>New/extended platforms:
64: <ul>
1.21 deraadt 65: <li>i386 and amd64:
66: <ul>
67: <li>ACPI-based suspend/resume works on most machines with Intel/ATI video.
1.28 stsp 68: Machines using NVidia graphics will not resume the graphics. cardbus(4) and
1.21 deraadt 69: pcmcia(4) will still have some problems, too.
70: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 71: </ul>
72: <p>
73:
74: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
75: <ul>
1.6 jsg 76: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpisony&sektion=4&format=html">acpisony(4)</a>
77: driver for Sony ACPI control.
78: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=itherm&sektion=4&format=html">itherm(4)</a>
79: driver for Intel 3400 temperature sensor.
80: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4&format=html">se(4)</a>
81: driver for SiS 190 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
82: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uguru&sektion=4&format=html">uguru(4)</a>
83: driver for ABIT temperature, voltage and fan sensors.
84: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=owctr&sektion=4&format=html">owctr(4)</a>
85: driver for 1-Wire counter devices.
1.14 jasper 86: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pgs&arch=macppc&secktion=4">pgs(4)</a>
87: driver for Programmers Switch found on some macppc machines.
1.7 jsg 88: <li>Support for 82576 fiber and 82577/82578 (PCH) based devices
89: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
90: <li>Support for 24-bit encodings and USB 2.0 playback
91: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uaudio&sektion=4">uaudio(4)</a>.
92: <li>Support for Winbond/Nuvoton W83627DHG-P
93: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wbsio&sektion=4">wbsio(4)</a>.
94: <li>Support for RTL8168E
95: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4">re(4)</a>.
96: <li>Support for 800x480
97: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=udl&sektion=4">udl(4)</a>.
98: <li>Support for M-audio Audiophile 192k
99: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=envy&sektion=4">envy(4)</a>.
100: <li>Support for Intel Core i3/i5 internal graphics (Ironlake)
101: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a>
102: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4">agp(4)</a>.
1.34 damien 103: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ss&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+4.7&format=html">ss(4)</a> and
104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usscanner&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+4.7&format=html">usscanner(4)</a>
1.14 jasper 105: drivers have been removed.
1.22 mikeb 106: <li>Improved robustness of several SCSI/SAS/RAID HBA drivers, including
107: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4&format=html">mpi(4)</a>,
108: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4&format=html">mpii(4)</a> and
109: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4&format=html">ciss(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 110: </ul>
111: <p>
112:
113: <li>New tools:
114: <ul>
1.11 jsg 115: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>,
116: an Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) daemon.
117: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd&sektion=8">ldapd(8)</a>,
118: a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) daemon.
1.1 deraadt 119: </ul>
120: <p>
121:
122: <li>Filesystem midlayer improvements:
123: <ul>
1.30 stsp 124: <li>fix internal locking in (still experimental!) NTFS.
1.1 deraadt 125: </ul>
126: <p>
127:
128: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
129: <ul>
1.24 claudio 130: <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.
131: <li>Extended the BGP MPLS VPN support to allow Layer-3 MPLS VPNs to be
132: terminated on OpenBSD with the help of
133: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpe&sektion=4">mpe(4)</a>,
134: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>, and
135: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>.
136: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
137: supports multiple FIBs and it is possible to assign them to RIBs for
138: redistribution.
139: <li>bgpd now supports to use neighbor-as in AS filter statements and added
1.25 deraadt 140: two new filters -- max-as-seq and max-as-len -- to limit the length of
1.24 claudio 141: a sequence of a single AS or the total length of an AS path.
142: <li>Added softreconfig support in bgpd for peers changing the RIB.
143: <li>Fixed multiprotocol MRT dumps and added 4-byte AS-Number support in
144: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>.
145: <li>Added support for ping6 and traceroute6 in
146: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgplg&sektion=8">bgplg(8)</a>
147: and
148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgplgsh&sektion=8">bgplgsh(8)</a>
149: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
150: has better LSA pruning and config reload support.
1.20 stsp 151: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospf6d&sektion=8">ospf6d(8)</a>
1.26 stsp 152: now supports LSAs larger than the link MTU, has improved interoperability
1.20 stsp 153: with other OSPFv3 implementations, can redistribute the default route,
154: and will correctly handle IPv6 prefixes advertised by neighbours on
155: the same link but not configured on the router itself.
1.24 claudio 156: <li>Various improvements in
157: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>
158: including correct penultimate hop popping, better session handling,
1.32 jj 159: and a improved config file parser.
1.1 deraadt 160: </ul>
161: <p>
162:
163: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
164: <ul>
1.17 schwarze 165: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sekti
166: on=8">ifconfig(8)</a> and
1.24 claudio 167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=route&sektion=8">route(8)</a>
168: get better Multiprotocol Label Switching support.
169: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8">traceroute(8)</a>
170: now supports extended ICMP headers which allows printing of MPLS
171: labels.
1.8 stsp 172: <li>Support for RFC 4941 privacy extensions for stateless address
173: 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
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
1.16 schwarze 175: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
176: now supports random selection of MAC addresses.
177: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.17 schwarze 178: now decodes Multicast Listener Discovery version 2 and
179: Internet Key Exchange version 2 traffic.
1.11 jsg 180: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=enc&sektion=4">enc(4)</a> and
181: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">ipsec(4)</a> are now
182: aware of routing domains.
1.24 claudio 183: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> and
184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> and
185: are now capable of running in different routing domains.
186: <li>Added MPLS support and a simple keepalive mechanism to
187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gre&sektion=4">gre(4)</a>.
188: <li>Added MPLS support to
189: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4">gif(4)</a>.
190: <li>Support for 802.1ad-style QinQ nested VLANs with the addition of
191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=svlan&sektion=4">svlan(4)</a> (service VLAN) interfaces.
192: <li>Added a RTM_DESYNC routing message as indicator that route messages
193: got dropped because of insufficent buffer space.
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
195: uses this message to keep the internal view of the routing table in sync.
1.1 deraadt 196: </ul>
197: <p>
198:
1.29 krw 199: <li>SCSI improvements:
200: <ul>
201: <li>better <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a> detaching.
202: <li>better <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> sense data and buf handling.
203: <li>eliminate excessive delays when starting DVD playing.
204: <li>ask only for minimal (i.e. 18 bytes) sense data, fixing usb devices.
205: <li>migrate to using bufq.
206: <li>always try READ CAPACITY 16 on devices claiming to be SCSI-3.
207: <li>many performance and reliability improvements as a result of new SCSI midlayer:
208: <ul>
1.31 dlg 209: <li>introduce round-robin scheduling of resources for outstanding device commands to prevent a single device from monopolising the bus.
210: <li>significant reduction in memory consumption used for tracking devices attached to buses.
1.29 krw 211: <li>eliminate many unnecessary splbio/splx calls in SCSI drivers.
212: <li>eliminate many use after free's exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
213: <li>eliminate scsi_scsi_cmd(), simplifying calling inside SCSI midlayer.
214: <li>eliminate struct scsi_device.
215: <li>eliminate many uninitialized data references and invalid scsi_done() calls exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
216: <li>eliminate use of EAGAIN.
217: <li>eliminate almost all uses of NO_CCB and XS_NO_CCB.
218: </ul>
219: </ul>
220: <p>
221:
1.1 deraadt 222: <li>Assorted improvements:
223: <ul>
1.17 schwarze 224: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mbtowc&sektion=3">mbtowc(3)</a> multi-byte/wide-character conversion functions
225: have been added to the C library, and
226: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setlocale&sektion=3">setlocale(3)</a>
227: now supports the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
228: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_madvise&sektion=2">posix_madvise(2)</a>,
229: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_memalign&sektion=3">posix_memalign(3)</a>,
230: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strndup&sektion=3">strndup(3)</a>, and
231: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strnlen&sektion=3">strnlen(3)</a>
232: have been added to the C library.
1.16 schwarze 233: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">event(3)</a> library
1.17 schwarze 234: was updated to version 1.4.14b.
1.16 schwarze 235: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">pthreads(3)</a> library
236: now implements the <tt>pthread_rwlock_timed{rd,wr}lock</tt> interfaces.
1.17 schwarze 237: <li>AES-NI support has been integrated into the OpenSSL
238: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3">crypto(3)</a> library.
1.12 ratchov 239: <li>MIDI control in non-server mode was added to
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>,
241: including seeking within .wav files
242: <li>A new record-what-you-hear feature was added to
243: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>.
244: <li>The minimum extra latency of the
245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>
246: server was lowered to a single block, improving
247: usability of low-latency programs without stability compromise.
1.16 schwarze 248: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
249: now supports unique disk identifiers.
1.17 schwarze 250: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>
251: now handles redirection to relative URLs in the Location: header
252: of HTTP responses.
253: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lint&sektion=1">lint(1)</a>
254: now recognizes the C99 data types _Bool and _Complex
255: and some related gcc extensions.
256: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1">make(1)</a>
257: now allows variables in SysV modifiers,
258: and implements the :QL (quote list) modifier.
1.16 schwarze 259: <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 260: <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 261: <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.
262: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=od&sektion=1">od(1)</a>
263: now supports the POSIX -A option to select an input address base.
264: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sendbug&sektion=1">sendbug(1)</a>
265: now includes the output of <tt>usbdevs -v</tt> into the template.
266: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&sektion=8">smtpd(8)</a>
267: now supports the SIZE and ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES extensions
1.17 schwarze 268: and the "plain" backend for maps, and performance was improved when handling large amounts of mail.
1.24 claudio 269: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>
270: now supports the IP-FORWARD-MIB.
1.17 schwarze 271: <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 272: <li>Many memory leaks have been fixed in various userland utilities.
1.23 mikeb 273: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a>,
274: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">i386</a>,
275: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">hppa</a>,
276: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">sparc64</a>,
277: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/socppc.html">socppc</a> and
278: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html">macppc</a>
279: platforms were switched over to gcc4.
1.29 krw 280: <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.
281: <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
282: relays.
283: <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.
284: <li>by default, read and write caching is now turned on for non-USB scsi disks.
285: <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.
286: <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.
287: <li>it is again possible to build a bsd.rd that has DDB.
288: <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.
289: <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.
290: <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.
291: <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 292: </ul>
293: <p>
294:
295: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
296: <ul>
1.13 jasper 297: <li>If the system time is off by more than 120 seconds, ask if the user
298: wants to set it accordingly.
1.16 schwarze 299: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>
300: now allows to customize auto allocated labels using the -R option.
1.13 jasper 301: <li>Default network install method changed from FTP to HTTP.
302: <li>Automatically set
303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg.conf&sektion=5">/etc/pkg.conf</a>
304: `installfrom' entry to the public mirror used while installing or upgrading.
1.17 schwarze 305: <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 306: <li>Eliminate more excessively chatty remarks during install.
307: <li>Handle disk UID partitions better.
1.1 deraadt 308: </ul>
309: <p>
310:
1.7 jsg 311: <li>OpenSSH 5.6:
1.1 deraadt 312: <ul>
313: <li>New features:
1.14 jasper 314: <ul>
315: <li>Added a <em>ControlPersist</em> option to
316: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
317: <li>Hostbased authentication may now use certificate host keys.
318: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
319: now supports signing certificate using a CA key that has been stored
320: in a PKCS#11 token.
321: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
322: will now log the hostname and address that we connected to at
323: LogLevel=verbose after authentication is successful to mitigate
324: "phishing" attacks.
325: <li>Expand %h to the hostname in ssh_config Hostname options.
326: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
327: to import and export of PEM and PKCS#8 keys.
328: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
329: will now queue debug messages for bad ownership or permissions on
330: the user's keyfiles encountered during authentication.
331: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
332: connection multiplexing now supports remote forwarding with
333: dynamic port allocation and can report the allocated port back to
334: the user.
335: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
336: now supports indirection in matching of principal names listed in
337: certificates.
338: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
339: now has a new <em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em> option.
340: <li>Additional <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
341: options are now valid inside Match blocks:
342: <ul>
343: <li><em>AuthorizedKeysFile</em>
344: <li><em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em>
345: <li><em>HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly</em>
346: <li><em>PermitTunnel</em>
347: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 348: </ul>
349: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
350: <ul>
1.14 jasper 351: <li>The PKCS#11 code now retries a lookup for a private key if there is
352: no matching key with <em>CKA_SIGN</em> attribute enabled (bz#1736).
353: <li>Unbreak strdelim() skipping past quoted strings.
354: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
355: fix swapped args in upload_dir_internal() (bz#1797).
356: <li>Fix a longstanding problem where if you suspend
357: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
358: at the password/passphrase prompt the terminal mode is not restored.
359: <li>Fix a PKCS#11 crash on some smartcards by validating the length
360: returned for C_GetAttributValue (bz#1773).
361: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
362: fix ls in working directories that contain globbing
363: characters in their pathnames (bz#1655).
364: <li>Print warning for missing home directory when
365: <em>ChrootDirectory=none.</em> (bz#1564).
366: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
367: fix a memory leak in do_realpath() error path (bz#1771).
368: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
369: Standardise error messages when attempting to open
370: private key files to include "progname: filename: error reason" (bz#1783).
371: <li>Replace verbose and overflow-prone Linebuf code with
372: read_keyfile_line() (bz#1565).
373: <li>Include the user name on "subsystem request for ..." log messages.
374: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
375: and
376: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
377: remove hardcoded limit of 100 permitopen clauses and port forwards
378: per direction (bz#1327).
379: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
380: ignore stderr output from subsystems to avoid hangs if a subsystem
381: or shell initialisation writes to stderr (bz#1750).
382: <li>Skip the initial check for access with an empty password when
383: <em>PermitEmptyPasswords=no</em> (bz#1638).
384: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
385: fix logspam when key options (from="..." especially) deny
386: non-matching keys (bz#1765).
387: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
388: display a more helpful error message when $HOME is
389: inaccessible while trying to create .ssh directory (bz#1740).
390: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
391: fix hang when terminating a mux slave using ~ (bz#1758).
392: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
393: refuse to generate keys longer than
394: <em>OPENSSL_[RD]SA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS</em> (bz#1516).
395: <li>Suppress spurious tty warning when using -O and stdin is not a tty
396: (bz#1746).
397: <li>Kill channel when pty allocation requests fail (bz#1698).
1.1 deraadt 398: </ul>
399: </ul>
400: <p>
401:
1.15 schwarze 402: <li>Mandoc 1.10.5:
403: <ul>
404: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
405: utility is now used to build all manuals in the base system
406: and in Xenocara from
407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a> and
408: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a>
409: sources.
410: <li>New integrated roff preprocessor with minimal support for conditional
411: requests, nested roff requests, string definitions, roff registers,
412: also parsing and ignoring macro definitions.
413: <li>Improved support for manual pages generated by
414: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a>.
415: <li>Many parser improvements, in particular
416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a>
417: support for word keeps, synopsis mode in arbitrary sections,
418: graceful handling of badly nested blocks, and improved parsing
419: of column displays.
420: <li>New PostScript and PDF output frontends.
421: <li>Many ASCII and HTML output formatting improvements, for example
422: proper synopsis indentation and improved end-of-sentence detection.
423: <li>Considerably improved syntax checking and error reporting.
424: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 425: <p>
426:
427: <li>Over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
428: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
429: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
430: <tr>
431: <td valign="top" width="25%">
432: <ul>
433: <li>i386: 6218
434: <li>sparc64: 5950
435: <li>alpha: 5827
436: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.18 deraadt 437: <li>sh: 1100
1.1 deraadt 438: <li>amd64: 6166
439: <li>powerpc: 5996
440: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
441: <li>sparc: 4130
1.19 deraadt 442: <li>arm: 5628
1.1 deraadt 443: <li>hppa: 5632
444: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
445: <li>vax: 1528
446: <li>mips64: 3632
447: <li>mips64el: 4486
448: </ul></td></tr></table>
449: Some highlights:
450: <ul>
1.3 landry 451: <li>Gnome 2.30.2.
1.1 deraadt 452: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
1.3 landry 453: <li>Xfce 4.6.2.
1.5 jasper 454: <li>MySQL 5.1.48.
1.3 landry 455: <li>PostgreSQL 8.4.4.
456: <li>Postfix 2.7.1.
1.1 deraadt 457: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
1.3 landry 458: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11.
459: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1.
460: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.
1.1 deraadt 461: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
1.3 landry 462: <li>Vim 7.2.444.
463: <li>PHP 5.2.13.
464: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.5.
1.1 deraadt 465: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
1.13 jasper 466: <li>Mono 2.6.4.
1.1 deraadt 467: </ul>
468: <p>
469:
470: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
471: <p>
472:
473: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
474: <ul>
1.9 matthieu 475: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.5 with xserver 1.8 + patches,
1.4 jasper 476: freetype 2.3.12,
477: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 258 and more)
478: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 479: <li>Perl 5.10.1 (+ patches)
480: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
481: and DSO support
482: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
483: <li>Groff 1.15
484: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
485: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
486: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
487: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
488: <li>Ncurses 5.7
489: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
490: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
491: <li>Arla 0.35.7
492: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
493: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
494: </ul>
495: <p>
496:
497: </ul>
498:
499: <a name="install"></a>
500: <hr>
501: <p>
502: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
503: <p>
504: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
505: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
506: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
507: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
508: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
509: purchased a CDROM instead.
510: <p>
511:
512: <hr>
513: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
514: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.8 on your machine:
515: <p>
516: <ul>
517: <li>CD1:4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386
518: <p>
519: <li>CD2:4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
520: <li>CD2:4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
521: <p>
522: <li>CD3:4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
523: <p>
524: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
525: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish
526: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
527: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
528: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
529: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
530: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
531: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
532: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
533: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
534: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
535: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax
536: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
537: </ul>
538: <hr>
539:
540: <p>
541: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
542: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
543: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
544: <p>
545:
546: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
547: <ul>
548: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
549: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
550: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
551: <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
552:
553: <p>
554: Use <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyB48.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
555: support, or <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyC48.fs</i> for better laptop support.
556:
557: <p>
558: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
559: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
560: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
561:
562: <p>
563: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
564: read INSTALL.i386.
565:
566: <p>
567: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
568: at <i>CD1:4.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
569: use the
570: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
571: utility. The following is an example usage of
572: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
573: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
574: "rfd0a".
575:
576: <ul><pre>
577: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
578: </pre></ul>
579:
580: <p>
581: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
582: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
583: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.10 lum 584: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
1.1 deraadt 585: </ul>
586:
587: <p>
588: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
589: <ul>
590: The 4.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
591: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
592: your BIOS options first.
593: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
594: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.8/amd64/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy, then
595: boot from the floppy drive.
596:
597: <p>
598: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
599: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
600: INSTALL.amd64 document.
601:
602: <p>
603: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
604: read INSTALL.amd64.
605: </ul>
606:
607: <p>
608: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
609: <ul>
610: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
611: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
612:
613: <p>
614: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
615: /4.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
616: </ul>
617:
618: <p>
619: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
620: <ul>
621: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
622:
623: <p>
624: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
625: <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppy48.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppyB48.fs</i>
626: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
627: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
628:
629: <p>
630: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
631: will most likely fail.
632:
633: <p>
634: You can also write <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/miniroot48.fs</i> to the swap partition on
635: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
636:
637: <p>
638: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
639: </ul>
640:
641: <p>
642: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
643: <ul>
644: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppy48.fs</i> or
645: <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppyB48.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
646: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
647:
648: <p>
649: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
650: will most likely fail.
651:
652: </ul>
653:
654: <p>
655: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
656: <ul>
657: <p>
658: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
659: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
660: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
661: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
662: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
663: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
664: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
665: </ul>
666:
667: <p>
668: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
669: <ul>
670: <p>
671: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
672: </ul>
673:
674: <p>
675: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
676: <ul>
677: <p>
678: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
679: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
680: </ul>
681:
682: <p>
683: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
684: <ul>
685: <p>
686: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to the start of the CF
687: or disk, and boot normally.
688: </ul>
689:
690: <p>
691: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
692: <ul>
693: <p>
694: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
695: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
696: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
697: </ul>
698: <p>
699:
700: <p>
701: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
702: <ul>
703: <p>
704: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
705: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
706: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
707: for more details.
708: </ul>
709:
710: <p>
711: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
712: <ul>
713: <p>
714: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
715: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
716: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
717: for more details.
718: </ul>
719:
720: <p>
721: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
722: <ul>
723: <p>
724: To install on an O2, burn cd48.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
725: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
726: menu.
727:
728: <p>
729: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
730: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
731: the kernel matching your system type.
732: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
733: </ul>
734:
735: <p>
736: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
737: <ul>
738: <p>
739: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
740: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
741: </ul>
742:
743: <p>
744: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
745: <ul>
746: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
747: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
748:
749: <ul><pre>
750: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
751: or
752: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
753: </pre></ul>
754:
755: <p>
756: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
757: To do so you need to write <i>floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.35 lum 758: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
1.1 deraadt 759: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
760: depending on the version of your ROM.
761:
762: <ul><pre>
763: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
764: or
765: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
766: </pre></ul>
767:
768: <p>
769: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
770: will most likely fail.
771:
772: <p>
773: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
774: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
775: INSTALL.sparc file.
776: </ul>
777:
778: <p>
779: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
780: <ul>
781: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
782: </ul>
783:
784: <p>
785: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
786: <ul>
787: <p>
788: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
789: openbsd48_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
790: for a few important details.
791: </ul>
792:
793: <p>
794: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
795: <ul>
796: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
797: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
798: in a separate archive. To extract:
799: <p>
800: <ul><pre>
801: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
802: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
803: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
804: </pre></ul>
805: <p>
806: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
807: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
808: To extract:
809: <p>
810: <ul><pre>
811: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
812: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
813: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
814: </pre></ul>
815: <p>
816: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
817: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
818: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
819: Using these files
820: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
821: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
822: <p>
823: </ul>
824:
825: <a name="upgrade"></a>
826: <hr>
827: <p>
828: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
829: <p>
830: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
831: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
832: <a href="faq/upgrade48.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
833:
834: <a name="ports"></a>
835: <hr>
836: <p>
837: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
838: <p>
839: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
840: <p>
841: <ul><pre>
842: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
843: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
844: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
845: </pre></ul>
846: <p>
847: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
848: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
849: if you know nothing about ports
850: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
851: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
852: OpenBSD ports system.
853: <p>
854: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
855: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
856: cvs(1)</a> if
857: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
858: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
859: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
860: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
861: like:
862: <p>
863: <ul><pre>
864: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_8</strong>
865: </pre></ul>
866: <p>
867: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
868: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
869: server.]
870: <p>
871: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
872: packages for the 4.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
873: <p>
874: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
875: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
876: place to know.
877: <p>
878:
879: </body>
880: </html>
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