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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
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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>
1.25 ! jsing 78: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>
! 79: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a>:
1.3 deraadt 80: <ul>
1.20 deraadt 81: <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 82: <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.
83: <li>SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores.
84: <li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.
1.19 stsp 85: <li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.20 deraadt 86: <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found on recent Intel cores.
87: <li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
1.3 deraadt 88: </ul>
1.25 ! jsing 89: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:
1.21 jsing 90: <ul>
91: <li>Multiprocessor support.
92: </ul>
1.25 ! jsing 93: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">OpenBSD/loongson</a>
! 94: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">OpenBSD/sgi</a>:
1.3 deraadt 95: <ul>
1.25 ! jsing 96: <li>All MIPS64 based platforms now use MI softfloat code, which
! 97: implements all MIPS IV specified floating point operations.
1.3 deraadt 98: </ul>
1.25 ! jsing 99: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>:
1.3 deraadt 100: <ul>
1.25 ! jsing 101: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vdsp&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">vdsp(4)</a> driver now supports the vDisk 1.1
! 102: protocol, allowing Solaris to run on top of an OpenBSD
! 103: control domain.
1.3 deraadt 104: </ul>
105: </ul>
106: <p>
107:
108: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
109: <ul>
1.25 ! jsing 110: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vte&sektion=4&format=html">vte(4)</a>
1.9 kevlo 111: driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.</li>
1.25 ! jsing 112: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdcphy&sektion=4&format=html">rdcphy(4)</a>
1.10 jsg 113: driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
1.25 ! jsing 114: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsu&sektion=4&format=html">rsu(4)</a>
1.24 jsing 115: driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
1.25 ! jsing 116: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html">urtwn(4)</a>
1.10 jsg 117: driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
1.25 ! jsing 118: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utwitch&sektion=4&format=html">utwitch(4)</a>
1.10 jsg 119: driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
120: <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n
1.25 ! jsing 121: adapters has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&sektion=4&format=html">athn(4)</a>.
1.10 jsg 122: <li>Support for 82583V
123: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
124: <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
125: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4">msk(4)</a>.
126: <li>Support for SiS191
127: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4">se(4)</a>.
128: <li>Support for SAS2004
129: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.
130: <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
131: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>.
132: <li>Suppport for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
133: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18 krw 134: <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 135: <li>MCLGETI support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xl&sektion=4">xl(4)</a>.
1.24 jsing 136: <li>Support for low latency interrupt modulation has been added to
137: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>.
138: <li>Port multiplier support has been added to
139: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and
140: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sili&sektion=4">sili(4)</a>.
141: <li>Support for Sun XVR-300 graphics has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeonfb&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">radeonfb(4)</a>.
142: <li>Added workaround for BCM5906 A0/1/2 controller silicon bug in
143: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 144: </ul>
145: <p>
146:
147: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
148: <ul>
1.7 dlg 149: <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
150: forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.11 jj 151: <li>Added support for socket splicing.
152: <li>Added AES-GMAC support for IPSec.
1.22 jsing 153: <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
1.20 deraadt 154: <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 155: <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
156: <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>.
157: <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
158: improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.25 ! jsing 159: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now decodes Multicast DNS (MDNS) traffic.
! 160: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>
! 161: now includes the original addresses and ports for packets that have been
! 162: rewritten. This is also displayed by
! 163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 164: </ul>
165: <p>
166:
167: <li>SCSI improvements:
168: <ul>
1.6 dlg 169: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20 deraadt 170: the completion of pending commands.</li>
171: <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6 dlg 173: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20 deraadt 174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
175: reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
176: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
177: userland handling of scsi device commands.
178: <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 179: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 180: <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 181: <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 182: <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.
183: <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 184: </ul>
185: <p>
186:
187: <li>Assorted improvements:
188: <ul>
1.16 krw 189: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
190: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
191: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
192: <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.
193: <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.
194: <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>).
195: <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.
196: <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 197: <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.
198: <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.
199: <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.
200: <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 201: <li>Fixed X11 autoconfiguration on sparc and sparc64.
1.20 deraadt 202: <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>.
203: <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>.
1.23 jsing 204: <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.
205: <li>UNIX-domain socket support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a> (-u option).
206: <li>Added support for terabyte units in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>.
207: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">loongson</a> and
208: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platforms have been
209: switched over to gcc4.
210: <li><code>ddb cpu</code> support was added to the
211: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platform.
212: <li>Fast path TLB miss handling was added to the
213: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html">landisk</a> platform,
214: resulting in a 44-50% gain in performance.
215: <li>PCIe extended configuration space can now be viewed using
216: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcidump&sektion=8">pcidump</a> (-xxx option).
217: <li>The number of spurious IPIs has been decreased on the
218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
219: resulting in improved performance.
1.25 ! jsing 220: <li>Numerous improvements and bug fixes to
! 221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1">tmux(1)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 222: </ul>
223: <p>
224:
225: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
226: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 227: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
228: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
229: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
230: had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).
231: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
232: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
233: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
234: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 235: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
236: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
237: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
238: <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 239: </ul>
240: <p>
241:
1.12 ajacouto 242: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
243: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
244: <ul>
245: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
246: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
247: This framework is still evolving.
248: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
249: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
250: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
251: </ul>
252: <p>
253:
1.4 sobrado 254: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 255: <ul>
256: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 257: <ul>
258: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
259: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
260: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
261: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
262: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
263: and
264: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
265: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
266: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
267: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
268: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
269: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
270: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
271: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
272: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
273: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
274: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
275: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
276: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
277: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
278: time.</li>
279: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
280: and
281: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
282: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
283: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
284: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
285: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
286: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
287: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
288: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
289: afterwards.</li>
290: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
291: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
292: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
293: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
294: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
295: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
297: and
298: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
299: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
300: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
301: used by
302: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
303: and
304: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
305: and their order of preference.</li>
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
307: and
308: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
309: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
310: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
311: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
312: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
313: limit option to
314: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
315: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 316: </ul>
317: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
318: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 319: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
320: and
321: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
322: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
323: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
324: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
325: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
326: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
327: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
328: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
329: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
330: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
331: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
332: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
333: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
334: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
335: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
336: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 337: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 338: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
339: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
340: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
341: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
342: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
343: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 344: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 345: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
346: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
347: clean exit).</li>
348: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 349: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 350: (bz#1812)</li>
351: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
352: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
353: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 354: </ul>
355: </ul>
356: <p>
357:
358: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
359: <ul>
360: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
361: <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.
362: <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.
363: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
364: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
365: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
366: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
367: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
368: to render manuals.
369: </ul>
370: <p>
371:
1.14 deraadt 372: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 373: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
374: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
375: <tr>
376: <td valign="top" width="25%">
377: <ul>
378: <li>i386: 6620
379: <li>sparc64: 6225
380: <li>alpha: 6000
381: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20 deraadt 382: <li>sh: 3656
1.3 deraadt 383: <li>amd64: 6570
384: <li>powerpc: 6272
385: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
386: <li>sparc: 4184
1.20 deraadt 387: <li>arm: 5679
1.8 deraadt 388: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 389: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
390: <li>vax: 1068
391: <li>mips64: 5492
392: <li>mips64el: 5499
393: </ul></td></tr></table>
394: Some highlights:
395: <ul>
396: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
397: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
398: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
399: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
400: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
401: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
402: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
403: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
404: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
405: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
406: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4
407: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
408: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
409: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
410: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
411: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
412: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
413: </ul>
414: <p>
415:
416: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
417: <p>
418:
419: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
420: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 421: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
422: freetype 2.4.4,
1.19 stsp 423: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20 deraadt 424: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
425: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 426: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20 deraadt 427: and DSO support
428: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
429: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
430: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
431: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
432: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
433: <li>Ncurses 5.7
434: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
435: <li>Arla 0.35.7
436: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
437: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 438: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 439: <p>
440:
441: </ul>
442:
443: <a name="install"></a>
444: <hr>
445: <p>
446: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
447: <p>
448: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
449: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
450: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
451: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
452: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
453: purchased a CDROM instead.
454: <p>
455:
456: <hr>
457: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
458: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
459: <p>
460: <ul>
461: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
462: <p>
463: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
464: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
465: <p>
466: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
467: <p>
468: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
469: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
470: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
471: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
472: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
473: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
474: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
475: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
476: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
477: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
478: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
479: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
480: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
481: </ul>
482: <hr>
483:
484: <p>
485: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
486: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
487: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
488: <p>
489:
490: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
491: <ul>
492: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
493: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
494: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
495: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
496:
497: <p>
498: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
499: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
500:
501: <p>
502: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
503: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
504: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
505:
506: <p>
507: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
508: read INSTALL.i386.
509:
510: <p>
511: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
512: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
513: use the
514: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
515: utility. The following is an example usage of
516: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
517: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
518: "rfd0a".
519:
520: <ul><pre>
521: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
522: </pre></ul>
523:
524: <p>
525: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
526: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
527: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
528: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
529: </ul>
530:
531: <p>
532: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
533: <ul>
534: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
535: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
536: your BIOS options first.
537: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
538: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
539: boot from the floppy drive.
540:
541: <p>
542: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
543: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
544: INSTALL.amd64 document.
545:
546: <p>
547: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
548: read INSTALL.amd64.
549: </ul>
550:
551: <p>
552: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
553: <ul>
554: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
555: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
556:
557: <p>
558: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
559: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
560: </ul>
561:
562: <p>
563: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
564: <ul>
565: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
566:
567: <p>
568: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
569: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
570: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
571: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
572:
573: <p>
574: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
575: will most likely fail.
576:
577: <p>
578: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
579: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
580:
581: <p>
582: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
583: </ul>
584:
585: <p>
586: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
587: <ul>
588: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
589: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
590: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
591:
592: <p>
593: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
594: will most likely fail.
595:
596: </ul>
597:
598: <p>
599: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
600: <ul>
601: <p>
602: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
603: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
604: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
605: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
606: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
607: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
608: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
609: </ul>
610:
611: <p>
612: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
613: <ul>
614: <p>
615: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
616: </ul>
617:
618: <p>
619: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
620: <ul>
621: <p>
622: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
623: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
624: </ul>
625:
626: <p>
627: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
628: <ul>
629: <p>
630: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
631: or disk, and boot normally.
632: </ul>
633:
634: <p>
635: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
636: <ul>
637: <p>
638: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
639: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
640: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
641: </ul>
642: <p>
643:
644: <p>
645: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
646: <ul>
647: <p>
648: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
649: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
650: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
651: for more details.
652: </ul>
653:
654: <p>
655: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
656: <ul>
657: <p>
658: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
659: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
660: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
661: for more details.
662: </ul>
663:
664: <p>
665: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
666: <ul>
667: <p>
668: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
669: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
670: menu.
671:
672: <p>
673: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
674: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
675: the kernel matching your system type.
676: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
677: </ul>
678:
679: <p>
680: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
681: <ul>
682: <p>
683: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
684: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
685: </ul>
686:
687: <p>
688: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
689: <ul>
690: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
691: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
692:
693: <ul><pre>
694: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
695: or
696: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
697: </pre></ul>
698:
699: <p>
700: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
701: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
702: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
703: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
704: depending on the version of your ROM.
705:
706: <ul><pre>
707: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
708: or
709: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
710: </pre></ul>
711:
712: <p>
713: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
714: will most likely fail.
715:
716: <p>
717: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
718: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
719: INSTALL.sparc file.
720: </ul>
721:
722: <p>
723: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
724: <ul>
725: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
726: </ul>
727:
728: <p>
729: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
730: <ul>
731: <p>
732: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
733: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
734: for a few important details.
735: </ul>
736:
737: <p>
738: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
739: <ul>
740: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
741: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
742: in a separate archive. To extract:
743: <p>
744: <ul><pre>
745: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
746: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
747: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
748: </pre></ul>
749: <p>
750: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
751: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
752: To extract:
753: <p>
754: <ul><pre>
755: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
756: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
757: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
758: </pre></ul>
759: <p>
760: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
761: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
762: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
763: Using these files
764: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
765: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
766: <p>
767: </ul>
768:
769: <a name="upgrade"></a>
770: <hr>
771: <p>
772: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
773: <p>
1.2 deraadt 774: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 775: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
776: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
777:
778: <a name="ports"></a>
779: <hr>
780: <p>
781: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
782: <p>
783: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
784: <p>
785: <ul><pre>
786: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
787: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
788: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
789: </pre></ul>
790: <p>
791: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
792: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
793: if you know nothing about ports
794: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
795: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
796: OpenBSD ports system.
797: <p>
798: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
799: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
800: cvs(1)</a> if
801: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
802: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
803: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
804: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
805: like:
806: <p>
807: <ul><pre>
808: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
809: </pre></ul>
810: <p>
811: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
812: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
813: server.]
814: <p>
815: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
816: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
817: <p>
818: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
819: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
820: place to know.
821: <p>
822:
823: <hr>
824: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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