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1.33 deraadt 23: Released Nov 1, 2010<br>
1.1 deraadt 24: Copyright 1997-2010, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.54 bentley 25: <cite class=isbn>ISBN 978-0-9784475-6-4</cite>
1.1 deraadt 26: <br>
1.45 deraadt 27: 4.8 Song: <a href="lyrics.html#48">"El Puffiachi"</a>
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29: <br>
1.1 deraadt 30: <ul>
31: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
32: a list of mirror machines.
1.54 bentley 33: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/4.8/</code> directory on
1.1 deraadt 34: one of the mirror sites.
35: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata48.html">The 4.8 Errata page</a> for a list
36: of bugs and workarounds.
37: <li>See a <a href="plus48.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
38: 4.7 and 4.8 releases.
39: </ul>
1.48 tj 40: <p>
41: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
42: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
43: files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
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1.54 bentley 48: <section id=new>
49: <h3>What's New</h3>
1.1 deraadt 50: <p>
51: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.8.
52: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus48.html">changelog</a> leading
53: to 4.8.
54: <p>
55:
56: <ul>
57:
58: <li>New/extended platforms:
59: <ul>
1.21 deraadt 60: <li>i386 and amd64:
61: <ul>
62: <li>ACPI-based suspend/resume works on most machines with Intel/ATI video.
1.28 stsp 63: Machines using NVidia graphics will not resume the graphics. cardbus(4) and
1.21 deraadt 64: pcmcia(4) will still have some problems, too.
65: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 66: </ul>
67: <p>
68:
69: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
70: <ul>
1.54 bentley 71: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpisony.4">acpisony(4)</a>
1.6 jsg 72: driver for Sony ACPI control.
1.54 bentley 73: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/itherm.4">itherm(4)</a>
1.6 jsg 74: driver for Intel 3400 temperature sensor.
1.54 bentley 75: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/se.4">se(4)</a>
1.6 jsg 76: driver for SiS 190 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
1.54 bentley 77: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uguru.4">uguru(4)</a>
1.6 jsg 78: driver for ABIT temperature, voltage and fan sensors.
1.54 bentley 79: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/owctr.4">owctr(4)</a>
1.6 jsg 80: driver for 1-Wire counter devices.
1.54 bentley 81: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pgs&arch=macppc&secktion=4">pgs(4)</a>
1.14 jasper 82: driver for Programmers Switch found on some macppc machines.
1.7 jsg 83: <li>Support for 82576 fiber and 82577/82578 (PCH) based devices
1.54 bentley 84: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/em.4">em(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 85: <li>Support for 24-bit encodings and USB 2.0 playback
1.54 bentley 86: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uaudio.4">uaudio(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 87: <li>Support for Winbond/Nuvoton W83627DHG-P
1.54 bentley 88: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wbsio.4">wbsio(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 89: <li>Support for RTL8168E
1.54 bentley 90: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/re.4">re(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 91: <li>Support for 800x480
1.54 bentley 92: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/udl.4">udl(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 93: <li>Support for M-audio Audiophile 192k
1.54 bentley 94: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/envy.4">envy(4)</a>.
1.7 jsg 95: <li>Support for Intel Core i3/i5 internal graphics (Ironlake)
1.54 bentley 96: has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>
97: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/agp.4">agp(4)</a>.
98: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.7/ss.4">ss(4)</a> and
99: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.7/usscanner.4">usscanner(4)</a>
1.14 jasper 100: drivers have been removed.
1.22 mikeb 101: <li>Improved robustness of several SCSI/SAS/RAID HBA drivers, including
1.54 bentley 102: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpi.4">mpi(4)</a>,
103: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a> and
104: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ciss.4">ciss(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 105: </ul>
106: <p>
107:
108: <li>New tools:
109: <ul>
1.54 bentley 110: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
1.11 jsg 111: an Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) daemon.
1.54 bentley 112: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldapd.8">ldapd(8)</a>,
1.11 jsg 113: a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) daemon.
1.1 deraadt 114: </ul>
115: <p>
116:
117: <li>Filesystem midlayer improvements:
118: <ul>
1.30 stsp 119: <li>fix internal locking in (still experimental!) NTFS.
1.1 deraadt 120: </ul>
121: <p>
122:
123: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
124: <ul>
1.54 bentley 125: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> control sockets are now specified in the config file. This removes the -s and -r arguments to bgpd.
1.24 claudio 126: <li>Extended the BGP MPLS VPN support to allow Layer-3 MPLS VPNs to be
127: terminated on OpenBSD with the help of
1.55 deraadt 128: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpe.4">mpe(4)</a>,
1.54 bentley 129: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldpd.8">ldpd(8)</a>, and
130: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>.
131: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 132: supports multiple FIBs and it is possible to assign them to RIBs for
133: redistribution.
134: <li>bgpd now supports to use neighbor-as in AS filter statements and added
1.54 bentley 135: two new filters – max-as-seq and max-as-len – to limit the length of
1.24 claudio 136: a sequence of a single AS or the total length of an AS path.
137: <li>Added softreconfig support in bgpd for peers changing the RIB.
138: <li>Fixed multiprotocol MRT dumps and added 4-byte AS-Number support in
1.54 bentley 139: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>.
1.24 claudio 140: <li>Added support for ping6 and traceroute6 in
1.54 bentley 141: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplg.8">bgplg(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 142: and
1.54 bentley 143: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplgsh.8">bgplgsh(8)</a>
144: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 145: has better LSA pruning and config reload support.
1.54 bentley 146: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a>
1.26 stsp 147: now supports LSAs larger than the link MTU, has improved interoperability
1.20 stsp 148: with other OSPFv3 implementations, can redistribute the default route,
149: and will correctly handle IPv6 prefixes advertised by neighbours on
150: the same link but not configured on the router itself.
1.24 claudio 151: <li>Various improvements in
1.54 bentley 152: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldpd.8">ldpd(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 153: including correct penultimate hop popping, better session handling,
1.32 jj 154: and a improved config file parser.
1.1 deraadt 155: </ul>
156: <p>
157:
158: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
159: <ul>
1.55 deraadt 160: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a> and
1.54 bentley 161: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 162: get better Multiprotocol Label Switching support.
1.54 bentley 163: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/traceroute.8">traceroute(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 164: now supports extended ICMP headers which allows printing of MPLS
165: labels.
1.8 stsp 166: <li>Support for RFC 4941 privacy extensions for stateless address
1.54 bentley 167: autoconfiguration has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inet6.4">inet6(4)</a> and can be enabled via
168: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
169: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.16 schwarze 170: now supports random selection of MAC addresses.
1.54 bentley 171: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.17 schwarze 172: now decodes Multicast Listener Discovery version 2 and
173: Internet Key Exchange version 2 traffic.
1.54 bentley 174: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/enc.4">enc(4)</a> and
175: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipsec.4">ipsec(4)</a> are now
1.11 jsg 176: aware of routing domains.
1.55 deraadt 177: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a> and
178: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a> and
1.24 claudio 179: are now capable of running in different routing domains.
180: <li>Added MPLS support and a simple keepalive mechanism to
1.54 bentley 181: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gre.4">gre(4)</a>.
1.24 claudio 182: <li>Added MPLS support to
1.54 bentley 183: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gif.4">gif(4)</a>.
1.24 claudio 184: <li>Support for 802.1ad-style QinQ nested VLANs with the addition of
1.54 bentley 185: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/svlan.4">svlan(4)</a> (service VLAN) interfaces.
1.24 claudio 186: <li>Added a RTM_DESYNC routing message as indicator that route messages
187: got dropped because of insufficent buffer space.
1.54 bentley 188: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 189: uses this message to keep the internal view of the routing table in sync.
1.1 deraadt 190: </ul>
191: <p>
192:
1.29 krw 193: <li>SCSI improvements:
194: <ul>
1.54 bentley 195: <li>better <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cd.4">cd(4)</a> detaching.
196: <li>better <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/st.4">st(4)</a> sense data and buf handling.
1.29 krw 197: <li>eliminate excessive delays when starting DVD playing.
198: <li>ask only for minimal (i.e. 18 bytes) sense data, fixing usb devices.
199: <li>migrate to using bufq.
200: <li>always try READ CAPACITY 16 on devices claiming to be SCSI-3.
201: <li>many performance and reliability improvements as a result of new SCSI midlayer:
202: <ul>
1.31 dlg 203: <li>introduce round-robin scheduling of resources for outstanding device commands to prevent a single device from monopolising the bus.
204: <li>significant reduction in memory consumption used for tracking devices attached to buses.
1.29 krw 205: <li>eliminate many unnecessary splbio/splx calls in SCSI drivers.
206: <li>eliminate many use after free's exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
207: <li>eliminate scsi_scsi_cmd(), simplifying calling inside SCSI midlayer.
208: <li>eliminate struct scsi_device.
209: <li>eliminate many uninitialized data references and invalid scsi_done() calls exposed by new SCSI midlayer.
210: <li>eliminate use of EAGAIN.
211: <li>eliminate almost all uses of NO_CCB and XS_NO_CCB.
212: </ul>
213: </ul>
214: <p>
215:
1.1 deraadt 216: <li>Assorted improvements:
217: <ul>
1.54 bentley 218: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mbtowc.3">mbtowc(3)</a> multi-byte/wide-character conversion functions
1.17 schwarze 219: have been added to the C library, and
1.54 bentley 220: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/setlocale.3">setlocale(3)</a>
1.17 schwarze 221: now supports the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
1.54 bentley 222: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/posix_madvise.2">posix_madvise(2)</a>,
223: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/posix_memalign.3">posix_memalign(3)</a>,
224: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/strndup.3">strndup(3)</a>, and
225: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/strnlen.3">strnlen(3)</a>
1.17 schwarze 226: have been added to the C library.
1.54 bentley 227: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/event.3">event(3)</a> library
1.17 schwarze 228: was updated to version 1.4.14b.
1.54 bentley 229: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pthreads.3">pthreads(3)</a> library
230: now implements the <code>pthread_rwlock_timed{rd,wr}lock</code> interfaces.
1.17 schwarze 231: <li>AES-NI support has been integrated into the OpenSSL
1.54 bentley 232: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/crypto.3">crypto(3)</a> library.
1.55 deraadt 233: <li>MIDI control in non-server mode was added to
1.54 bentley 234: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>,
1.12 ratchov 235: including seeking within .wav files
236: <li>A new record-what-you-hear feature was added to
1.54 bentley 237: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>.
1.12 ratchov 238: <li>The minimum extra latency of the
1.54 bentley 239: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>
1.12 ratchov 240: server was lowered to a single block, improving
241: usability of low-latency programs without stability compromise.
1.54 bentley 242: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
1.16 schwarze 243: now supports unique disk identifiers.
1.54 bentley 244: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ftp.1">ftp(1)</a>
1.17 schwarze 245: now handles redirection to relative URLs in the Location: header
246: of HTTP responses.
1.54 bentley 247: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lint.1">lint(1)</a>
1.17 schwarze 248: now recognizes the C99 data types _Bool and _Complex
249: and some related gcc extensions.
1.54 bentley 250: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/make.1">make(1)</a>
1.17 schwarze 251: now allows variables in SysV modifiers,
252: and implements the :QL (quote list) modifier.
1.54 bentley 253: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man.1">man(1)</a> now allows to combine the -s option with -m or -M.
254: <li>Improved directory editing in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>.
255: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/newfs.8">newfs(8)</a> has been tweaked to better support large file systems.
256: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/od.1">od(1)</a>
1.16 schwarze 257: now supports the POSIX -A option to select an input address base.
1.54 bentley 258: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendbug.1">sendbug(1)</a>
259: now includes the output of <code>usbdevs -v</code> into the template.
260: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>
1.16 schwarze 261: now supports the SIZE and ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES extensions
1.17 schwarze 262: and the "plain" backend for maps, and performance was improved when handling large amounts of mail.
1.54 bentley 263: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a>
1.24 claudio 264: now supports the IP-FORWARD-MIB.
1.54 bentley 265: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wsconsctl.8">wsconsctl(8)</a> now handles more than one keyboard, mouse and display.
1.14 jasper 266: <li>Many memory leaks have been fixed in various userland utilities.
1.50 tb 267: <li><a href="amd64.html">amd64</a>,
268: <a href="i386.html">i386</a>,
269: <a href="hppa.html">hppa</a>,
270: <a href="sparc64.html">sparc64</a>,
1.55 deraadt 271: <a href="socppc.html">socppc</a> and
1.50 tb 272: <a href="macppc.html">macppc</a>
1.23 mikeb 273: platforms were switched over to gcc4.
1.54 bentley 274: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/newfs.8">newfs(8)</a> now makes FFS2 the default for partitions larger than INT_MAX blocks.
275: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a> now includes the server id in NAK messages, as required by some
1.29 krw 276: relays.
1.54 bentley 277: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.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.
1.29 krw 278: <li>by default, read and write caching is now turned on for non-USB scsi disks.
1.54 bentley 279: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getdirentries.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.
280: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a> now ensures correct physical bounds and disk size are used when building a disklabel from saved ascii disklabel.
1.29 krw 281: <li>it is again possible to build a bsd.rd that has DDB.
1.54 bentley 282: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pms.4">pms(4)</a> now works much better with various trackpads and over suspend/resume cycles.
283: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> now aligns the OpenBSD partition on a power of 2 block boundary to improve performance on 4096-byte block devices.
284: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nfsd.8">nfsd(8)</a> now logs start up errors to the system log as well as the console.
285: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nfsd.8">nfsd(8)</a> now errors out if given an invalid number of servers to run.
1.1 deraadt 286: </ul>
287: <p>
288:
289: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
290: <ul>
1.13 jasper 291: <li>If the system time is off by more than 120 seconds, ask if the user
292: wants to set it accordingly.
1.54 bentley 293: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
1.16 schwarze 294: now allows to customize auto allocated labels using the -R option.
1.13 jasper 295: <li>Default network install method changed from FTP to HTTP.
296: <li>Automatically set
1.54 bentley 297: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg.conf.5">/etc/pkg.conf</a>
298: 'installfrom' entry to the public mirror used while installing or upgrading.
299: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysmerge.8">sysmerge(8)</a> now automatically installs missing users and groups.
1.29 krw 300: <li>Eliminate more excessively chatty remarks during install.
301: <li>Handle disk UID partitions better.
1.1 deraadt 302: </ul>
303: <p>
304:
1.7 jsg 305: <li>OpenSSH 5.6:
1.1 deraadt 306: <ul>
307: <li>New features:
1.14 jasper 308: <ul>
309: <li>Added a <em>ControlPersist</em> option to
1.54 bentley 310: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh_config.5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.14 jasper 311: <li>Hostbased authentication may now use certificate host keys.
1.54 bentley 312: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 313: now supports signing certificate using a CA key that has been stored
314: in a PKCS#11 token.
1.54 bentley 315: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 316: will now log the hostname and address that we connected to at
317: LogLevel=verbose after authentication is successful to mitigate
318: "phishing" attacks.
319: <li>Expand %h to the hostname in ssh_config Hostname options.
1.54 bentley 320: <li>Allow <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 321: to import and export of PEM and PKCS#8 keys.
1.54 bentley 322: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.14 jasper 323: will now queue debug messages for bad ownership or permissions on
324: the user's keyfiles encountered during authentication.
1.54 bentley 325: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 326: connection multiplexing now supports remote forwarding with
327: dynamic port allocation and can report the allocated port back to
328: the user.
1.54 bentley 329: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.14 jasper 330: now supports indirection in matching of principal names listed in
331: certificates.
1.54 bentley 332: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.14 jasper 333: now has a new <em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em> option.
1.54 bentley 334: <li>Additional <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config.5">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.14 jasper 335: options are now valid inside Match blocks:
336: <ul>
337: <li><em>AuthorizedKeysFile</em>
338: <li><em>AuthorizedPrincipalsFile</em>
339: <li><em>HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly</em>
340: <li><em>PermitTunnel</em>
341: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 342: </ul>
343: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
344: <ul>
1.14 jasper 345: <li>The PKCS#11 code now retries a lookup for a private key if there is
346: no matching key with <em>CKA_SIGN</em> attribute enabled (bz#1736).
347: <li>Unbreak strdelim() skipping past quoted strings.
1.54 bentley 348: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 349: fix swapped args in upload_dir_internal() (bz#1797).
350: <li>Fix a longstanding problem where if you suspend
1.54 bentley 351: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 352: at the password/passphrase prompt the terminal mode is not restored.
353: <li>Fix a PKCS#11 crash on some smartcards by validating the length
354: returned for C_GetAttributValue (bz#1773).
1.54 bentley 355: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 356: fix ls in working directories that contain globbing
357: characters in their pathnames (bz#1655).
358: <li>Print warning for missing home directory when
359: <em>ChrootDirectory=none.</em> (bz#1564).
1.54 bentley 360: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 361: fix a memory leak in do_realpath() error path (bz#1771).
1.54 bentley 362: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 363: Standardise error messages when attempting to open
364: private key files to include "progname: filename: error reason" (bz#1783).
365: <li>Replace verbose and overflow-prone Linebuf code with
366: read_keyfile_line() (bz#1565).
367: <li>Include the user name on "subsystem request for ..." log messages.
1.54 bentley 368: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.14 jasper 369: and
1.54 bentley 370: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.14 jasper 371: remove hardcoded limit of 100 permitopen clauses and port forwards
372: per direction (bz#1327).
1.54 bentley 373: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.14 jasper 374: ignore stderr output from subsystems to avoid hangs if a subsystem
375: or shell initialisation writes to stderr (bz#1750).
376: <li>Skip the initial check for access with an empty password when
377: <em>PermitEmptyPasswords=no</em> (bz#1638).
1.54 bentley 378: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.14 jasper 379: fix logspam when key options (from="..." especially) deny
380: non-matching keys (bz#1765).
1.54 bentley 381: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 382: display a more helpful error message when $HOME is
383: inaccessible while trying to create .ssh directory (bz#1740).
1.54 bentley 384: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 385: fix hang when terminating a mux slave using ~ (bz#1758).
1.54 bentley 386: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.14 jasper 387: refuse to generate keys longer than
388: <em>OPENSSL_[RD]SA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS</em> (bz#1516).
389: <li>Suppress spurious tty warning when using -O and stdin is not a tty
390: (bz#1746).
391: <li>Kill channel when pty allocation requests fail (bz#1698).
1.1 deraadt 392: </ul>
393: </ul>
394: <p>
395:
1.15 schwarze 396: <li>Mandoc 1.10.5:
397: <ul>
1.54 bentley 398: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.15 schwarze 399: utility is now used to build all manuals in the base system
400: and in Xenocara from
1.54 bentley 401: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> and
402: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man.7">man(7)</a>
1.15 schwarze 403: sources.
404: <li>New integrated roff preprocessor with minimal support for conditional
405: requests, nested roff requests, string definitions, roff registers,
406: also parsing and ignoring macro definitions.
407: <li>Improved support for manual pages generated by
1.54 bentley 408: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pod2man.1">pod2man(1)</a>.
1.15 schwarze 409: <li>Many parser improvements, in particular
1.54 bentley 410: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a>
1.15 schwarze 411: support for word keeps, synopsis mode in arbitrary sections,
412: graceful handling of badly nested blocks, and improved parsing
413: of column displays.
414: <li>New PostScript and PDF output frontends.
415: <li>Many ASCII and HTML output formatting improvements, for example
416: proper synopsis indentation and improved end-of-sentence detection.
417: <li>Considerably improved syntax checking and error reporting.
418: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 419: <p>
420:
421: <li>Over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
422: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.54 bentley 423: <ul style="column-count: 4">
1.1 deraadt 424: <li>i386: 6218
425: <li>sparc64: 5950
426: <li>alpha: 5827
1.18 deraadt 427: <li>sh: 1100
1.1 deraadt 428: <li>amd64: 6166
429: <li>powerpc: 5996
430: <li>sparc: 4130
1.19 deraadt 431: <li>arm: 5628
1.1 deraadt 432: <li>hppa: 5632
433: <li>vax: 1528
434: <li>mips64: 3632
435: <li>mips64el: 4486
1.54 bentley 436: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 437: Some highlights:
438: <ul>
1.3 landry 439: <li>Gnome 2.30.2.
1.1 deraadt 440: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
1.3 landry 441: <li>Xfce 4.6.2.
1.5 jasper 442: <li>MySQL 5.1.48.
1.3 landry 443: <li>PostgreSQL 8.4.4.
444: <li>Postfix 2.7.1.
1.1 deraadt 445: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
1.3 landry 446: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11.
447: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1.
448: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.
1.1 deraadt 449: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
1.3 landry 450: <li>Vim 7.2.444.
451: <li>PHP 5.2.13.
452: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.5.
1.1 deraadt 453: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
1.13 jasper 454: <li>Mono 2.6.4.
1.1 deraadt 455: </ul>
456: <p>
457:
458: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
459: <p>
460:
461: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
462: <ul>
1.9 matthieu 463: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.5 with xserver 1.8 + patches,
1.4 jasper 464: freetype 2.3.12,
465: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 258 and more)
466: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 467: <li>Perl 5.10.1 (+ patches)
468: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
469: and DSO support
470: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
471: <li>Groff 1.15
472: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
473: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
474: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
475: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
476: <li>Ncurses 5.7
477: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
478: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
479: <li>Arla 0.35.7
480: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
481: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
482: </ul>
483: </ul>
1.54 bentley 484: </section>
1.1 deraadt 485:
486: <hr>
1.54 bentley 487:
488: <section id=install>
489: <h3>How to install</h3>
1.1 deraadt 490: <p>
491: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
492: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
493: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
494: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
495: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
496: purchased a CDROM instead.
497: <p>
498:
499: <hr>
500: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
501: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.8 on your machine:
502: <p>
503: <ul>
1.56 ! deraadt 504: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386">
! 505: .../OpenBSD/4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 506: <p>
1.56 ! deraadt 507: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
! 508: .../OpenBSD/4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
! 509: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
! 510: .../OpenBSD/4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
! 511: <p>
! 512: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
! 513: .../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
! 514: <p>
! 515: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
! 516: .../OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
! 517: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish">
! 518: .../OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
! 519: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300">
! 520: .../OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300</a>
! 521: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
! 522: .../OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
! 523: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
! 524: .../OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
! 525: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
! 526: .../OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
! 527: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
! 528: .../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k</a>
! 529: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
! 530: .../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k</a>
! 531: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
! 532: .../OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
! 533: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
! 534: .../OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
! 535: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
! 536: .../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
! 537: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax">
! 538: .../OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
! 539: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
! 540: .../OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
1.1 deraadt 541: </ul>
1.56 ! deraadt 542: </section>
! 543:
1.1 deraadt 544: <hr>
545:
1.54 bentley 546: <section id=quickinstall>
547:
1.1 deraadt 548: <p>
549: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
550: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
551: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
1.54 bentley 552:
553: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
554:
1.1 deraadt 555: <p>
556: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
557: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
558: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
559: <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
560:
561: <p>
562: Use <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyB48.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
563: support, or <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyC48.fs</i> for better laptop support.
564:
565: <p>
566: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
567: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
568: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
569:
570: <p>
571: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
572: read INSTALL.i386.
573:
574: <p>
575: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
576: at <i>CD1:4.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
577: use the
1.54 bentley 578: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 579: utility. The following is an example usage of
1.54 bentley 580: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>,
1.1 deraadt 581: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
582: "rfd0a".
583:
1.54 bentley 584: <blockquote><pre>
1.56 ! deraadt 585: # <kbd>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</kbd>
1.54 bentley 586: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 587:
588: <p>
589: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
590: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
591: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.49 tj 592: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.54 bentley 593:
594: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 595:
596: <p>
597: The 4.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
598: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
599: your BIOS options first.
600: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
601: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.8/amd64/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy, then
602: boot from the floppy drive.
603:
604: <p>
605: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
606: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
607: INSTALL.amd64 document.
608:
609: <p>
610: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
611: read INSTALL.amd64.
1.54 bentley 612:
613: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 614:
615: <p>
616: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
617: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
618:
619: <p>
620: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
621: /4.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.54 bentley 622:
623: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 624:
625: <p>
626: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
627:
628: <p>
629: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
630: <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppy48.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppyB48.fs</i>
631: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
632: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
633:
634: <p>
635: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
636: will most likely fail.
637:
638: <p>
639: You can also write <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/miniroot48.fs</i> to the swap partition on
640: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
641:
642: <p>
643: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1.54 bentley 644:
645: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 646:
647: <p>
1.56 ! deraadt 648: Write <i>4.8/alpha/floppy48.fs</i> or
! 649: <i>4.8/alpha/floppyB48.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1.1 deraadt 650: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
651:
652: <p>
653: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
654: will most likely fail.
655:
1.54 bentley 656: <h3>OpenBSD/armish:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 657:
658: <p>
659: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
660: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
661: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
662: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
663: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
664: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
665: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
666:
1.54 bentley 667: <h3>OpenBSD/hp300:</h3>
668:
1.1 deraadt 669: <p>
670: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
671:
1.54 bentley 672: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
673:
1.1 deraadt 674: <p>
675: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
676: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1.54 bentley 677:
678: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 679:
680: <p>
681: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to the start of the CF
682: or disk, and boot normally.
683:
1.54 bentley 684: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
685:
1.1 deraadt 686: <p>
687: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
688: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
689: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
690:
1.54 bentley 691: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme68k:</h3>
692:
1.1 deraadt 693: <p>
694: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
695: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
696: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
697: for more details.
698:
1.54 bentley 699: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme88k:</h3>
700:
1.1 deraadt 701: <p>
702: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
703: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
704: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
705: for more details.
1.54 bentley 706:
707: <h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 708:
709: <p>
710: To install on an O2, burn cd48.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
711: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
712: menu.
713:
714: <p>
715: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
716: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
717: the kernel matching your system type.
718: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
719:
1.54 bentley 720: <h3>OpenBSD/socppc:</h3>
721:
1.1 deraadt 722: <p>
723: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
724: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
1.54 bentley 725:
726: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 727:
728: <p>
729: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
730: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
731:
1.54 bentley 732: <blockquote><pre>
733: ok <kbd>boot cdrom 4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
1.1 deraadt 734: or
1.54 bentley 735: > <kbd>b sd(0,6,0)4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
736: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 737:
738: <p>
739: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
740: To do so you need to write <i>floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.49 tj 741: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.1 deraadt 742: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
743: depending on the version of your ROM.
744:
1.54 bentley 745: <blockquote><pre>
746: ok <kbd>boot floppy</kbd>
1.1 deraadt 747: or
1.54 bentley 748: > <kbd>b fd()</kbd>
749: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 750:
751: <p>
752: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
753: will most likely fail.
754:
755: <p>
756: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
757: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
758: INSTALL.sparc file.
1.54 bentley 759:
760: <h3>OpenBSD/vax:</h3>
1.1 deraadt 761:
762: <p>
763: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
764:
1.54 bentley 765: <h3>OpenBSD/zaurus:</h3>
766:
1.1 deraadt 767: <p>
768: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
769: openbsd48_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
770: for a few important details.
1.56 ! deraadt 771: </section>
1.54 bentley 772:
1.56 ! deraadt 773: <hr>
1.54 bentley 774:
775: <section id=sourcecode>
1.56 ! deraadt 776: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
1.1 deraadt 777: <p>
778: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
779: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
780: in a separate archive. To extract:
1.54 bentley 781:
782: <blockquote><pre>
783: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
784: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
785: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
786: </pre></blockquote>
787:
1.1 deraadt 788: <p>
789: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
790: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
791: To extract:
1.54 bentley 792:
793: <blockquote><pre>
794: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
795: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
1.56 ! deraadt 796: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
1.54 bentley 797: </pre></blockquote>
798:
1.1 deraadt 799: <p>
800: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
801: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
802: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
803: Using these files
804: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
805: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1.54 bentley 806: </section>
807:
1.1 deraadt 808: <hr>
1.54 bentley 809:
810: <section id=upgrade>
811: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
1.1 deraadt 812: <p>
813: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
814: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
815: <a href="faq/upgrade48.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1.54 bentley 816: </section>
1.1 deraadt 817:
818: <hr>
1.54 bentley 819:
820: <section id=ports>
821: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1.1 deraadt 822: <p>
823: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
824: <p>
1.54 bentley 825: <blockquote><pre>
826: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
827: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
828: # <kbd>cd ports</kbd>
829: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 830: <p>
831: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
832: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
833: if you know nothing about ports
834: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
835: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
836: OpenBSD ports system.
837: <p>
838: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.54 bentley 839: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1">
1.1 deraadt 840: cvs(1)</a> if
841: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
842: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
843: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
844: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
845: like:
846: <p>
1.54 bentley 847: <blockquote><pre>
1.56 ! deraadt 848: # <kbd>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_8</kbd>
1.54 bentley 849: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 850: <p>
851: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
852: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
853: server.]
854: <p>
1.56 ! deraadt 855: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.1 deraadt 856: packages for the 4.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
857: <p>
858: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1.56 ! deraadt 859: would like to know more, the mailing list
! 860: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1.54 bentley 861: </section>