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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>
1.21 jsing 78: <li>amd64 and i386:
1.3 deraadt 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>
1.21 jsing 88: <li>hppa:
89: <ul>
90: <li>Multiprocessor support.
91: </ul>
1.3 deraadt 92: <li>sparc64:
93: <ul>
1.21 jsing 94: <li>Support the virtual disk protocol on sun4v machines well enough
95: to install them from virtual cdroms.
1.11 jj 96: <li>Added support for the XVR-300 graphics card.
1.3 deraadt 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.
1.22 ! jsing 146: <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
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).
1.22 ! jsing 148: <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
! 149: <li>Network livelock counters are now exported via <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=3">sysctl(3)</a>.
! 150: <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
! 151: improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.3 deraadt 152: </ul>
153: <p>
154:
155: <li>SCSI improvements:
156: <ul>
1.6 dlg 157: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20 deraadt 158: the completion of pending commands.</li>
159: <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
160: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6 dlg 161: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20 deraadt 162: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
163: reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
164: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
165: userland handling of scsi device commands.
166: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iscsid&sektion=8">iscsid(8)</a>, an iSCSI initiator.
1.21 jsing 167: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 168: <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.
1.21 jsing 169: <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.
1.17 krw 170: <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.
171: <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 172: </ul>
173: <p>
174:
175: <li>Assorted improvements:
176: <ul>
1.16 krw 177: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
178: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
179: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
180: <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.
181: <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.
182: <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>).
183: <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.
184: <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 185: <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.
186: <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.
187: <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.
188: <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 189: <li>Fixed X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.
1.20 deraadt 190: <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>.
191: <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 192: </ul>
193: <p>
194:
195: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
196: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 197: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
198: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
199: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
200: had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).
201: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
202: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
203: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
204: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 205: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
206: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
207: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
208: <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 209: </ul>
210: <p>
211:
1.12 ajacouto 212: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
213: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
214: <ul>
215: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
216: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
217: This framework is still evolving.
218: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
219: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
220: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
221: </ul>
222: <p>
223:
1.4 sobrado 224: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 225: <ul>
226: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 227: <ul>
228: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
229: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
230: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
231: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
232: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
233: and
234: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
235: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
236: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
237: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
238: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
240: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
241: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
242: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
243: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
244: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
245: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
246: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
247: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
248: time.</li>
249: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
250: and
251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
252: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
253: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
254: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
255: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
256: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
257: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
258: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
259: afterwards.</li>
260: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
261: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
262: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
263: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
264: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
265: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
266: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
267: and
268: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
269: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
270: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
271: used by
272: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
273: and
274: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
275: and their order of preference.</li>
276: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
277: and
278: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
279: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
280: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
281: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
282: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
283: limit option to
284: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
285: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 286: </ul>
287: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
288: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 289: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
290: and
291: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
292: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
293: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
294: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
295: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
296: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
297: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
298: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
299: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
300: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
301: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
302: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
303: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
304: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
305: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 307: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 308: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
309: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
310: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
311: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
312: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
313: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 314: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 315: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
316: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
317: clean exit).</li>
318: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 319: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 320: (bz#1812)</li>
321: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
322: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
323: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 324: </ul>
325: </ul>
326: <p>
327:
328: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
329: <ul>
330: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
331: <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.
332: <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.
333: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
334: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
335: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
336: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
337: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
338: to render manuals.
339: </ul>
340: <p>
341:
1.14 deraadt 342: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 343: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
344: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
345: <tr>
346: <td valign="top" width="25%">
347: <ul>
348: <li>i386: 6620
349: <li>sparc64: 6225
350: <li>alpha: 6000
351: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20 deraadt 352: <li>sh: 3656
1.3 deraadt 353: <li>amd64: 6570
354: <li>powerpc: 6272
355: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
356: <li>sparc: 4184
1.20 deraadt 357: <li>arm: 5679
1.8 deraadt 358: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 359: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
360: <li>vax: 1068
361: <li>mips64: 5492
362: <li>mips64el: 5499
363: </ul></td></tr></table>
364: Some highlights:
365: <ul>
366: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
367: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
368: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
369: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
370: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
371: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
372: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
373: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
374: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
375: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
376: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4
377: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
378: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
379: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
380: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
381: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
382: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
383: </ul>
384: <p>
385:
386: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
390: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 391: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
392: freetype 2.4.4,
1.19 stsp 393: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20 deraadt 394: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
395: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 396: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20 deraadt 397: and DSO support
398: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
399: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
400: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
401: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
402: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
403: <li>Ncurses 5.7
404: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
405: <li>Arla 0.35.7
406: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
407: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 408: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 409: <p>
410:
411: </ul>
412:
413: <a name="install"></a>
414: <hr>
415: <p>
416: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
417: <p>
418: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
419: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
420: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
421: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
422: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
423: purchased a CDROM instead.
424: <p>
425:
426: <hr>
427: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
428: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
429: <p>
430: <ul>
431: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
432: <p>
433: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
434: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
435: <p>
436: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
437: <p>
438: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
439: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
440: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
441: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
442: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
443: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
444: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
445: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
446: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
447: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
448: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
449: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
450: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
451: </ul>
452: <hr>
453:
454: <p>
455: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
456: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
457: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
458: <p>
459:
460: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
461: <ul>
462: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
463: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
464: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
465: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
466:
467: <p>
468: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
469: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
470:
471: <p>
472: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
473: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
474: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
475:
476: <p>
477: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
478: read INSTALL.i386.
479:
480: <p>
481: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
482: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
483: use the
484: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
485: utility. The following is an example usage of
486: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
487: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
488: "rfd0a".
489:
490: <ul><pre>
491: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
492: </pre></ul>
493:
494: <p>
495: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
496: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
497: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
498: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
499: </ul>
500:
501: <p>
502: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
503: <ul>
504: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
505: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
506: your BIOS options first.
507: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
508: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
509: boot from the floppy drive.
510:
511: <p>
512: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
513: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
514: INSTALL.amd64 document.
515:
516: <p>
517: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
518: read INSTALL.amd64.
519: </ul>
520:
521: <p>
522: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
523: <ul>
524: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
525: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
526:
527: <p>
528: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
529: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
530: </ul>
531:
532: <p>
533: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
534: <ul>
535: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
536:
537: <p>
538: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
539: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
540: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
541: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
542:
543: <p>
544: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
545: will most likely fail.
546:
547: <p>
548: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
549: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
550:
551: <p>
552: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
553: </ul>
554:
555: <p>
556: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
557: <ul>
558: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
559: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
560: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
561:
562: <p>
563: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
564: will most likely fail.
565:
566: </ul>
567:
568: <p>
569: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
570: <ul>
571: <p>
572: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
573: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
574: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
575: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
576: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
577: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
578: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
579: </ul>
580:
581: <p>
582: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
583: <ul>
584: <p>
585: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
586: </ul>
587:
588: <p>
589: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
590: <ul>
591: <p>
592: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
593: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
594: </ul>
595:
596: <p>
597: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
598: <ul>
599: <p>
600: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
601: or disk, and boot normally.
602: </ul>
603:
604: <p>
605: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
606: <ul>
607: <p>
608: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
609: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
610: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
611: </ul>
612: <p>
613:
614: <p>
615: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
616: <ul>
617: <p>
618: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
619: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
620: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
621: for more details.
622: </ul>
623:
624: <p>
625: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
626: <ul>
627: <p>
628: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
629: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
630: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
631: for more details.
632: </ul>
633:
634: <p>
635: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
636: <ul>
637: <p>
638: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
639: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
640: menu.
641:
642: <p>
643: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
644: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
645: the kernel matching your system type.
646: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
647: </ul>
648:
649: <p>
650: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
651: <ul>
652: <p>
653: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
654: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
655: </ul>
656:
657: <p>
658: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
659: <ul>
660: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
661: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
662:
663: <ul><pre>
664: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
665: or
666: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
667: </pre></ul>
668:
669: <p>
670: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
671: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
672: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
673: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
674: depending on the version of your ROM.
675:
676: <ul><pre>
677: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
678: or
679: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
680: </pre></ul>
681:
682: <p>
683: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
684: will most likely fail.
685:
686: <p>
687: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
688: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
689: INSTALL.sparc file.
690: </ul>
691:
692: <p>
693: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
694: <ul>
695: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
696: </ul>
697:
698: <p>
699: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
700: <ul>
701: <p>
702: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
703: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
704: for a few important details.
705: </ul>
706:
707: <p>
708: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
709: <ul>
710: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
711: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
712: in a separate archive. To extract:
713: <p>
714: <ul><pre>
715: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
716: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
717: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
718: </pre></ul>
719: <p>
720: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
721: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
722: To extract:
723: <p>
724: <ul><pre>
725: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
726: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
727: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
728: </pre></ul>
729: <p>
730: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
731: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
732: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
733: Using these files
734: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
735: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
736: <p>
737: </ul>
738:
739: <a name="upgrade"></a>
740: <hr>
741: <p>
742: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
743: <p>
1.2 deraadt 744: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 745: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
746: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
747:
748: <a name="ports"></a>
749: <hr>
750: <p>
751: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
752: <p>
753: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
754: <p>
755: <ul><pre>
756: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
757: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
758: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
759: </pre></ul>
760: <p>
761: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
762: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
763: if you know nothing about ports
764: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
765: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
766: OpenBSD ports system.
767: <p>
768: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
769: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
770: cvs(1)</a> if
771: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
772: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
773: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
774: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
775: like:
776: <p>
777: <ul><pre>
778: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
779: </pre></ul>
780: <p>
781: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
782: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
783: server.]
784: <p>
785: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
786: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
787: <p>
788: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
789: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
790: place to know.
791: <p>
792:
793: <hr>
794: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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