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version 1.30, 2011/04/25 21:55:35

version 1.31, 2011/04/26 01:15:07

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<li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.

<li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.

<li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found on recent Intel cores.

<li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.

<li>Processes are now switched to TSS per cpu on the

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,

resulting in removal of the old limit of ~4000 processes.

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<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:

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<li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve

forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>

<li>Added support for socket splicing.

<li>Added support for socket splicing; sockets can be temporarily connected so that the kernel moves data without userland intervention. This will be used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> in the next release.

<li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.

<li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.

<li>Added wpakey option to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> replacing wpa-psk(8).

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<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now correctly handles 'net' primitives when processing <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a> traffic.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now respects failure to read the MBR.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> will no longer infinitely loop when encountering an improperly constructed EBR.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer uses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer reuses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.

<li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.

<li>Fixed X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.

<li>Enabled X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.

<li>Implement attribute syntax from RFC4517 and support bsdauth in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd&sektion=8">ldapd(8)</a>.

<li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=video&sektion=1">video(1)</a> utility which can record or display images from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=video&sektion=4">video(4)</a>.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a> mod_headers now handles apache2 style RequestHeader directives.

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daemon

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>.

<li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.

CAST-128 implementation was also removed from the libc.

CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.

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<li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.

<li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.

<li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this

had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).

had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).

<li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.

Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.

<li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the