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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.9 Release:</font></h2>
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26: Released May 1, 2011<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2011, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-7-1</font>
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30: <a href="lyrics.html#49">4.9 Song: "The Answer"</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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40: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
41: To get the files for this release:
42: <ul>
43: <li>Pre-order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
45: a list of mirror machines.
46: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/4.9/</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="errata49.html">The 4.9 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus49.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.8 and 4.9 releases.
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57: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
58: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
59: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
60: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
61: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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66: <p>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
68: <p>
69: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.9.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus49.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.9.
72: <p>
73:
74: <ul>
75:
1.3 deraadt 76: <li>New/extended platforms:
77: <ul>
78: <li>i386 and amd64:
79: <ul>
1.20 ! deraadt 80: <li>Enabled <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8&format=html">NTFS</a> by default on GENERIC kernels.
1.11 jj 81: <li>Added a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vmt&sektion=4&format=html">vmt(4)</a> driver for VMWare tools support as a guest.
82: <li>SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores.
83: <li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.
1.19 stsp 84: <li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.20 ! deraadt 85: <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found on recent Intel cores.
! 86: <li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
1.3 deraadt 87: </ul>
88: <li>sparc64:
89: <ul>
90: <li>Support the virtual disk procotol on sun4v machines well enough
91: to install them from from virtual cdroms.
1.11 jj 92: <li>Added support for the XVR-300 graphics card.
1.3 deraadt 93: </ul>
94: <li>hppa:
95: <ul>
96: <li>Multiprocessor support.
97: </ul>
98: <li>...
99: <ul>
100: <li>...
101: </ul>
102: <li>...
103: <ul>
104: <li>...
105: </ul>
106: </ul>
107: <p>
108:
109: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
110: <ul>
1.9 kevlo 111: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vte&sektion=4&format=html">vte(4)</a>
112: driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.</li>
1.10 jsg 113: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdcphy&sektion=4&format=html">rdcphy(4)</a>
114: driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
115: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsu&sektion=4&format=html">rsu(4)</a>
116: driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
117: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html">urtwn(4)</a>
118: driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
119: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utwitch&sektion=4&format=html">utwitch(4)</a>
120: driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
121: <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n
122: adapters has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&sektion=4&format=html">athn(4)</a>.
123: <li>Support for 82583V
124: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
125: <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
126: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4">msk(4)</a>.
127: <li>Support for SiS191
128: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4">se(4)</a>.
129: <li>Support for SAS2004
130: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.
131: <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
132: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>.
133: <li>Suppport for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
134: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18 krw 135: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a> support has been significantly reworked and expanded.
1.20 ! deraadt 136: <li>MCLGETI support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4">xl(4)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 137: </ul>
138: <p>
139:
140: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
141: <ul>
1.7 dlg 142: <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
143: forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.11 jj 144: <li>Added support for socket splicing.
145: <li>Added AES-GMAC support for IPSec.
1.19 stsp 146: <li>Added TCP send and receive buffer scaling.
1.20 ! deraadt 147: <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).
1.3 deraadt 148: </ul>
149: <p>
150:
151: <li>SCSI improvements:
152: <ul>
1.6 dlg 153: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20 ! deraadt 154: the completion of pending commands.</li>
! 155: <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
! 156: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6 dlg 157: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20 ! deraadt 158: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
! 159: reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
! 160: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
! 161: userland handling of scsi device commands.
! 162: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iscsid&sektion=8">iscsid(8)</a>, an iSCSI initiator.
1.16 krw 163: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged i/o to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 164: <li>Discover and honour read-only status of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices.
165: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> handling of i/o residual information.
166: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices that can only execute one command at a time (e.g. USB) will now be allowed to spin up if necessary.
167: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a> will now attach CDROM devices identified as non-removable.
1.3 deraadt 168: </ul>
169: <p>
170:
171: <li>Assorted improvements:
172: <ul>
1.16 krw 173: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
174: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
175: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
176: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rarpd&sektion=8">rarpd(8)</a> now accepts a list of interfaces to listen on.
177: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now accepts 'egress' as an interface name, meaning whichever interface is marked as being in the 'egress' group.
178: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> no longer listens on interfaces without a broadcast address (e.g. <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>).
179: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=who&sektion=1">who(1)</a> now displays as much of the hostname as fits on the line.
180: <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.
1.17 krw 181: <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.
182: <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.
183: <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.
184: <li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.
1.19 stsp 185: <li>Fixed X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.
1.20 ! deraadt 186: <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>.
! 187: <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>.
1.3 deraadt 188: </ul>
189: <p>
190:
191: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
192: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 193: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
194: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
195: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
196: had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).
197: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
198: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
199: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
200: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 201: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
202: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
203: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
204: <li>Installer now configures <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8">ntpd(8)</a> to use all provided time source IPs.
1.3 deraadt 205: </ul>
206: <p>
207:
1.12 ajacouto 208: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
209: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
210: <ul>
211: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
212: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
213: This framework is still evolving.
214: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
215: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
216: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
219:
1.4 sobrado 220: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 221: <ul>
222: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 223: <ul>
224: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
225: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
226: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
227: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
228: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
229: and
230: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
231: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
232: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
233: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
234: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
235: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
236: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
237: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
238: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
240: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
241: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
242: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
243: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
244: time.</li>
245: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
246: and
247: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
248: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
249: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
250: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
251: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
252: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
253: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
254: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
255: afterwards.</li>
256: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
257: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
258: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
259: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
260: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
261: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
262: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
263: and
264: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
265: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
266: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
267: used by
268: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
269: and
270: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
271: and their order of preference.</li>
272: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
273: and
274: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
275: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
276: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
277: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
278: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
279: limit option to
280: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
281: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 282: </ul>
283: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
284: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 285: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
286: and
287: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
288: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
289: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
290: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
291: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
292: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
293: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
294: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
295: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
297: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
298: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
299: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
300: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
301: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
302: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 303: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 304: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
305: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
307: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
308: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
309: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 310: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 311: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
312: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
313: clean exit).</li>
314: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 315: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 316: (bz#1812)</li>
317: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
318: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
319: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 320: </ul>
321: </ul>
322: <p>
323:
324: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
325: <ul>
326: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
327: <li>Support the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=roff&sektion=7">roff(7)</a> .de, .rm, and .so requests.
328: <li>Support all roff code used in the standard <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a> preamble.
329: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
330: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
331: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
332: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
333: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
334: to render manuals.
335: </ul>
336: <p>
337:
1.14 deraadt 338: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 339: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
340: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
341: <tr>
342: <td valign="top" width="25%">
343: <ul>
344: <li>i386: 6620
345: <li>sparc64: 6225
346: <li>alpha: 6000
347: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20 ! deraadt 348: <li>sh: 3656
1.3 deraadt 349: <li>amd64: 6570
350: <li>powerpc: 6272
351: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
352: <li>sparc: 4184
1.20 ! deraadt 353: <li>arm: 5679
1.8 deraadt 354: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 355: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
356: <li>vax: 1068
357: <li>mips64: 5492
358: <li>mips64el: 5499
359: </ul></td></tr></table>
360: Some highlights:
361: <ul>
362: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
363: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
364: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
365: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
366: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
367: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
368: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
369: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
370: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
371: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
372: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4
373: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
374: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
375: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
376: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
377: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
378: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
379: </ul>
380: <p>
381:
382: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
383: <p>
384:
385: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
386: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 387: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
388: freetype 2.4.4,
1.19 stsp 389: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20 ! deraadt 390: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
! 391: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 392: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20 ! deraadt 393: and DSO support
! 394: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
! 395: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
! 396: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
! 397: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
! 398: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
! 399: <li>Ncurses 5.7
! 400: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
! 401: <li>Arla 0.35.7
! 402: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
! 403: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 404: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 405: <p>
406:
407: </ul>
408:
409: <a name="install"></a>
410: <hr>
411: <p>
412: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
413: <p>
414: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
415: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
416: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
417: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
418: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
419: purchased a CDROM instead.
420: <p>
421:
422: <hr>
423: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
424: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
425: <p>
426: <ul>
427: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
428: <p>
429: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
430: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
431: <p>
432: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
433: <p>
434: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
435: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
436: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
437: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
438: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
439: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
440: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
441: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
442: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
443: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
444: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
445: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
446: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
447: </ul>
448: <hr>
449:
450: <p>
451: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
452: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
453: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
454: <p>
455:
456: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
457: <ul>
458: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
459: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
460: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
461: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
462:
463: <p>
464: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
465: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
466:
467: <p>
468: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
469: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
470: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
471:
472: <p>
473: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
474: read INSTALL.i386.
475:
476: <p>
477: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
478: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
479: use the
480: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
481: utility. The following is an example usage of
482: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
483: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
484: "rfd0a".
485:
486: <ul><pre>
487: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
488: </pre></ul>
489:
490: <p>
491: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
492: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
493: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
494: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
495: </ul>
496:
497: <p>
498: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
499: <ul>
500: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
501: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
502: your BIOS options first.
503: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
504: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
505: boot from the floppy drive.
506:
507: <p>
508: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
509: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
510: INSTALL.amd64 document.
511:
512: <p>
513: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
514: read INSTALL.amd64.
515: </ul>
516:
517: <p>
518: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
519: <ul>
520: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
521: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
522:
523: <p>
524: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
525: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
526: </ul>
527:
528: <p>
529: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
530: <ul>
531: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
532:
533: <p>
534: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
535: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
536: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
537: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
538:
539: <p>
540: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
541: will most likely fail.
542:
543: <p>
544: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
545: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
546:
547: <p>
548: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
549: </ul>
550:
551: <p>
552: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
553: <ul>
554: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
555: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
556: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
557:
558: <p>
559: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
560: will most likely fail.
561:
562: </ul>
563:
564: <p>
565: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
566: <ul>
567: <p>
568: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
569: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
570: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
571: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
572: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
573: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
574: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
575: </ul>
576:
577: <p>
578: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
579: <ul>
580: <p>
581: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
582: </ul>
583:
584: <p>
585: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
586: <ul>
587: <p>
588: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
589: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
590: </ul>
591:
592: <p>
593: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
594: <ul>
595: <p>
596: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
597: or disk, and boot normally.
598: </ul>
599:
600: <p>
601: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
602: <ul>
603: <p>
604: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
605: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
606: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
607: </ul>
608: <p>
609:
610: <p>
611: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
612: <ul>
613: <p>
614: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
615: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
616: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
617: for more details.
618: </ul>
619:
620: <p>
621: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
622: <ul>
623: <p>
624: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
625: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
626: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
627: for more details.
628: </ul>
629:
630: <p>
631: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
632: <ul>
633: <p>
634: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
635: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
636: menu.
637:
638: <p>
639: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
640: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
641: the kernel matching your system type.
642: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
643: </ul>
644:
645: <p>
646: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
647: <ul>
648: <p>
649: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
650: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
651: </ul>
652:
653: <p>
654: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
655: <ul>
656: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
657: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
658:
659: <ul><pre>
660: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
661: or
662: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
663: </pre></ul>
664:
665: <p>
666: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
667: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
668: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
669: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
670: depending on the version of your ROM.
671:
672: <ul><pre>
673: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
674: or
675: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
676: </pre></ul>
677:
678: <p>
679: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
680: will most likely fail.
681:
682: <p>
683: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
684: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
685: INSTALL.sparc file.
686: </ul>
687:
688: <p>
689: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
690: <ul>
691: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
692: </ul>
693:
694: <p>
695: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
696: <ul>
697: <p>
698: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
699: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
700: for a few important details.
701: </ul>
702:
703: <p>
704: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
705: <ul>
706: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
707: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
708: in a separate archive. To extract:
709: <p>
710: <ul><pre>
711: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
712: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
713: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
714: </pre></ul>
715: <p>
716: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
717: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
718: To extract:
719: <p>
720: <ul><pre>
721: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
722: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
723: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
724: </pre></ul>
725: <p>
726: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
727: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
728: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
729: Using these files
730: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
731: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
732: <p>
733: </ul>
734:
735: <a name="upgrade"></a>
736: <hr>
737: <p>
738: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
739: <p>
1.2 deraadt 740: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 741: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
742: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
743:
744: <a name="ports"></a>
745: <hr>
746: <p>
747: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
748: <p>
749: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
750: <p>
751: <ul><pre>
752: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
753: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
754: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
755: </pre></ul>
756: <p>
757: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
758: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
759: if you know nothing about ports
760: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
761: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
762: OpenBSD ports system.
763: <p>
764: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
765: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
766: cvs(1)</a> if
767: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
768: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
769: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
770: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
771: like:
772: <p>
773: <ul><pre>
774: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
775: </pre></ul>
776: <p>
777: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
778: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
779: server.]
780: <p>
781: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
782: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
783: <p>
784: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
785: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
786: place to know.
787: <p>
788:
789: <hr>
790: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
791: alt="OpenBSD"></a>
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