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                     24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.9 Release:</font></h2>
                     25: <p>
                     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>
                     29: <br>
                     30: <a href="lyrics.html#49">4.9 Song: "The Answer"</a>
                     31: <p>
                     32:
                     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>
                     38:
                     39: <p>
                     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.
                     53: </ul>
                     54: </font></h3>
                     55: <br clear=all>
                     56:
                     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.
                     62: <p>
                     63:
                     64: <a name="new"></a>
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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.
1.33      jcs        82:        <li>Enabled the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vmt&sektion=4&format=html">vmt(4)</a> driver by default for VMWare tools support as a guest.
1.11      jj         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 &gt;16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.20      deraadt    86:        <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found on recent Intel cores.
1.31      deraadt    87:        <li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
                     88:        <li>Processes are now switched to TSS per cpu on the
                     89:            <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
                     90:            resulting in removal of the old limit of ~4000 processes.
1.3       deraadt    91:         </ul>
1.25      jsing      92:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:
1.21      jsing      93:         <ul>
                     94:         <li>Multiprocessor support.
                     95:         </ul>
1.25      jsing      96:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">OpenBSD/loongson</a>
                     97:         and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">OpenBSD/sgi</a>:
1.3       deraadt    98:         <ul>
1.25      jsing      99:         <li>All MIPS64 based platforms now use MI softfloat code, which
                    100:             implements all MIPS IV specified floating point operations.
1.3       deraadt   101:         </ul>
1.25      jsing     102:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>:
1.3       deraadt   103:         <ul>
1.25      jsing     104:         <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vdsp&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc64">vdsp(4)</a> driver now supports the vDisk 1.1
                    105:             protocol, allowing Solaris to run on top of an OpenBSD
                    106:             control domain.
1.3       deraadt   107:         </ul>
                    108:     </ul>
                    109: <p>
                    110:
                    111: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
                    112:     <ul>
1.25      jsing     113:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vte&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">vte(4)</a>
1.9       kevlo     114:     driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.</li>
1.25      jsing     115:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdcphy&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">rdcphy(4)</a>
1.10      jsg       116:     driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
1.25      jsing     117:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsu&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">rsu(4)</a>
1.33      jcs       118:     driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.25      jsing     119:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">urtwn(4)</a>
1.33      jcs       120:     driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.25      jsing     121:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utwitch&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">utwitch(4)</a>
1.10      jsg       122:     driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
1.33      jcs       123:     <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless
1.25      jsing     124:         adapters has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&amp;sektion=4&amp;format=html">athn(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       125:     <li>Support for 82583V
                    126:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&amp;sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
                    127:     <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
                    128:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&amp;sektion=4">msk(4)</a>.
                    129:     <li>Support for SiS191
                    130:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&amp;sektion=4">se(4)</a>.
                    131:     <li>Support for SAS2004
                    132:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&amp;sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.
                    133:     <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
                    134:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&amp;sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>.
1.30      deraadt   135:     <li>Support for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
1.10      jsg       136:         has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&amp;sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18      krw       137:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&amp;sektion=4">pms(4)</a> support has been significantly reworked and expanded.
1.20      deraadt   138:     <li>MCLGETI support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xl&amp;sektion=4">xl(4)</a>.
1.24      jsing     139:     <li>Support for low latency interrupt modulation has been added to
                    140:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&amp;sektion=4">ix(4)</a>.
                    141:     <li>Port multiplier support has been added to
                    142:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&amp;sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and
                    143:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sili&amp;sektion=4">sili(4)</a>.
                    144:     <li>Support for Sun XVR-300 graphics has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeonfb&amp;sektion=4&amp;arch=sparc64">radeonfb(4)</a>.
                    145:     <li>Added workaround for BCM5906 A0/1/2 controller silicon bug in
                    146:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&amp;sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
1.34    ! jakemsr   147:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ugen&amp;sektion=4">ugen(4)</a>
        !           148:     can now be attached along with other drivers to multifunction devices.
        !           149:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodem&amp;sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>
        !           150:     now supports more devices.
        !           151:     <li>Support for more image processing controls was added to
        !           152:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvideo&amp;sektion=4">uvideo(4)</a>.
1.3       deraadt   153:     </ul>
                    154: <p>
                    155:
                    156: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
                    157:     <ul>
1.7       dlg       158:     <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
                    159:     forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.31      deraadt   160:     <li>Added support for socket splicing; sockets can be temporarily connected so that the kernel moves data without userland intervention.  This will be used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&amp;sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> in the next release.
1.29      mikeb     161:     <li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.
1.22      jsing     162:     <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
1.20      deraadt   163:     <li>Added wpakey option to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&amp;sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> replacing wpa-psk(8).
1.22      jsing     164:     <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
                    165:     <li>Network livelock counters are now exported via <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=3">sysctl(3)</a>.
                    166:     <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
                    167:     improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.33      jcs       168:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&amp;sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now decodes Multicast DNS (mDNS) traffic.
1.25      jsing     169:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&amp;sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>
                    170:     now includes the original addresses and ports for packets that have been
                    171:     rewritten. This is also displayed by
                    172:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&amp;sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.3       deraadt   173:     </ul>
                    174: <p>
                    175:
1.33      jcs       176: <li>IPsec stack audit was performed, resulting in:
1.29      mikeb     177:     <ul>
                    178:     <li>Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed.
                    179:     <li>ARC4 based PRNG code was audited and revamped.
                    180:     <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent a compiler
                    181:     from optimizing
                    182:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&amp;sektion=3">bzero</a>
                    183:     calls away.
                    184:     </ul>
                    185: <p>
                    186:
1.3       deraadt   187: <li>SCSI improvements:
                    188:     <ul>
1.6       dlg       189:     <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20      deraadt   190:         the completion of pending commands.</li>
                    191:     <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&amp;sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
                    192:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&amp;sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6       dlg       193:     <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20      deraadt   194:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&amp;sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
                    195:         reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
                    196:     <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&amp;sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
1.33      jcs       197:         userland handling of SCSI device commands.
1.20      deraadt   198:     <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iscsid&amp;sektion=8">iscsid(8)</a>, an iSCSI initiator.
1.21      jsing     199:     <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.17      krw       200:     <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     201:     <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       202:     <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.
                    203:     <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   204:     </ul>
                    205: <p>
                    206:
                    207: <li>Assorted improvements:
                    208:     <ul>
1.16      krw       209:     <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
                    210:     <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
                    211:     <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
                    212:     <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.
                    213:     <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.
                    214:     <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>).
                    215:     <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.
                    216:     <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       217:     <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.
                    218:     <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.
1.31      deraadt   219:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer reuses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.
1.17      krw       220:     <li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.
1.33      jcs       221:     <li>Enabled X11 autoconfiguration on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html">sparc</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">sparc64</a>.
1.20      deraadt   222:     <li>Implement attribute syntax from RFC4517 and support bsdauth in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldapd&amp;sektion=8">ldapd(8)</a>.
                    223:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=video&amp;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&amp;sektion=4">video(4)</a>.
1.23      jsing     224:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&amp;sektion=8">httpd(8)</a> mod_headers now handles apache2 style RequestHeader directives.
1.32      jeremy    225:     <li>UNIX-domain datagram socket support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&amp;sektion=1">nc(1)</a> (-uU option).
1.23      jsing     226:     <li>Added support for terabyte units in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&amp;sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>.
                    227:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">loongson</a> and
                    228:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platforms have been
                    229:     switched over to gcc4.
                    230:     <li><code>ddb cpu</code> support was added to the
                    231:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platform.
                    232:     <li>Fast path TLB miss handling was added to the
                    233:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html">landisk</a> platform,
                    234:     resulting in a 44-50% gain in performance.
                    235:     <li>PCIe extended configuration space can now be viewed using
                    236:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcidump&amp;sektion=8">pcidump</a> (-xxx option).
                    237:     <li>The number of spurious IPIs has been decreased on the
                    238:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
                    239:     resulting in improved performance.
1.25      jsing     240:     <li>Numerous improvements and bug fixes to
                    241:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&amp;sektion=1">tmux(1)</a>.
1.27      mikeb     242:     <li>Considerable robustness and interoperability improvements in the IKEv2
                    243:     daemon
                    244:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&amp;sektion=8">iked(8)</a>.
1.28      mikeb     245:     <li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.
1.31      deraadt   246:     CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.
1.34    ! jakemsr   247:     <li>Removed some races in the USB subsystem, substantially increasing
        !           248:     reliability.
1.3       deraadt   249:     </ul>
                    250: <p>
                    251:
                    252: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
                    253:     <ul>
1.8       deraadt   254:     <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
                    255:     <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
                    256:     <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
1.31      deraadt   257:         had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).
1.8       deraadt   258:     <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
                    259:         Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
                    260:     <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
                    261:         system which is booted next.
1.15      krw       262:     <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
                    263:     <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
                    264:     <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
                    265:     <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   266:     </ul>
                    267: <p>
                    268:
1.12      ajacouto  269: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
                    270:     for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
                    271:     <ul>
                    272:     <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
                    273:         framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
                    274:         This framework is still evolving.
                    275:     <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
                    276:     <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
                    277:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
                    278:     </ul>
                    279: <p>
                    280:
1.4       sobrado   281: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3       deraadt   282:     <ul>
                    283:     <li>New features:
1.4       sobrado   284:         <ul>
                    285:         <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
                    286:             and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
                    287:             offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
                    288:             equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
                    289:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
                    290:             and
                    291:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
                    292:             add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
                    293:             available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
                    294:             behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
                    295:             or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
                    296:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
                    297:             Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
                    298:             transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
                    299:             copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
                    300:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
                    301:             automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
                    302:             which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
                    303:             hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
                    304:             since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
                    305:             time.</li>
                    306:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    307:             and
                    308:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
                    309:             add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
                    310:             instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
                    311:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
                    312:             the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
                    313:             listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
                    314:             of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
                    315:             rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
                    316:             afterwards.</li>
                    317:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
                    318:             "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
                    319:             temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
                    320:             succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
                    321:             socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
                    322:             are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
                    323:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    324:             and
                    325:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
                    326:             add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
                    327:             configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
                    328:             used by
                    329:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    330:             and
                    331:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
                    332:             and their order of preference.</li>
                    333:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
                    334:             and
                    335:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
                    336:             factor out bandwidth limiting code from
                    337:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
                    338:             into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
                    339:             <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
                    340:             limit option to
                    341:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
                    342:             (bz#1147)</li>
1.3       deraadt   343:         </ul>
                    344:     <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
                    345:         <ul>
1.4       sobrado   346:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    347:             and
                    348:             <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
                    349:             honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
                    350:             directories. (bz#1809)</li>
                    351:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
                    352:             avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
                    353:             unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
                    354:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
                    355:             remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
                    356:             to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
                    357:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
                    358:             pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
                    359:             remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
                    360:             particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
                    361:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
                    362:             <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
                    363:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5       sobrado   364:             escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4       sobrado   365:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
                    366:             Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
                    367:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
                    368:             prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
                    369:             overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
                    370:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5       sobrado   371:             Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4       sobrado   372:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
                    373:             kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
                    374:             clean exit).</li>
                    375:         <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5       sobrado   376:             install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4       sobrado   377:             (bz#1812)</li>
                    378:         <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
                    379:         <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
                    380:             OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3       deraadt   381:         </ul>
                    382:     </ul>
                    383: <p>
                    384:
                    385: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
                    386:     <ul>
                    387:     <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&amp;sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
                    388:     <li>Support the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=roff&amp;sektion=7">roff(7)</a> .de, .rm, and .so requests.
                    389:     <li>Support all roff code used in the standard <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&amp;sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a> preamble.
                    390:     <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&amp;sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
                    391:     <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
                    392:     <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
                    393:     <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
                    394:     <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
                    395:       to render manuals.
                    396:     </ul>
                    397: <p>
                    398:
1.14      deraadt   399: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3       deraadt   400: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    401:     <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
                    402:     <tr>
                    403:     <td valign="top" width="25%">
                    404:     <ul>
                    405:     <li>i386:       6620
                    406:     <li>sparc64:    6225
                    407:     <li>alpha:      6000
                    408: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20      deraadt   409:     <li>sh:         3656
1.3       deraadt   410:     <li>amd64:      6570
                    411:     <li>powerpc:    6272
                    412: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    413:     <li>sparc:      4184
1.20      deraadt   414:     <li>arm:        5679
1.8       deraadt   415:     <li>hppa:       5838
1.3       deraadt   416: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    417:     <li>vax:        1068
                    418:     <li>mips64:     5492
                    419:     <li>mips64el:   5499
                    420: </ul></td></tr></table>
                    421: Some highlights:
                    422:     <ul>
                    423:     <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
                    424:     <li>KDE 3.5.10.
                    425:     <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
                    426:     <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
                    427:     <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
                    428:     <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
                    429:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
                    430:     <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
                    431:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
                    432:     <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
1.26      jasper    433:     <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4.
1.3       deraadt   434:     <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
                    435:     <li>Vim 7.3.3.
                    436:     <li>PHP 5.2.16.
                    437:     <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
                    438:     <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
                    439:     <li>Mono 2.8.2.
1.26      jasper    440:     <li>Chromium 9.0.597.94.
1.3       deraadt   441:     </ul>
                    442: <p>
                    443:
                    444: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    445: <p>
                    446:
                    447: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    448:     <ul>
1.13      matthieu  449:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
                    450:        freetype 2.4.4,
1.19      stsp      451:         fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20      deraadt   452:     <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
                    453:     <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3       deraadt   454:     <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20      deraadt   455:         and DSO support
                    456:     <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
                    457:     <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
                    458:     <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
                    459:     <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
                    460:     <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
                    461:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    462:     <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
                    463:     <li>Arla 0.35.7
                    464:     <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
                    465:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3       deraadt   466:     </ul>
1.1       deraadt   467: <p>
                    468:
                    469: </ul>
                    470:
                    471: <a name="install"></a>
                    472: <hr>
                    473: <p>
                    474: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
                    475: <p>
                    476: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    477: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    478: form of install.  The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
                    479: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    480: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    481: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    482: <p>
                    483:
                    484: <hr>
                    485: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
                    486: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
                    487: <p>
                    488: <ul>
                    489: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
                    490: <p>
                    491: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
                    492: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    493: <p>
                    494: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    495: <p>
                    496: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    497: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
                    498: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    499: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
                    500: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
                    501: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
                    502: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
                    503: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
                    504: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
                    505: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
                    506: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    507: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
                    508: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
                    509: </ul>
                    510: <hr>
                    511:
                    512: <p>
                    513: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    514: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    515: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    516: <p>
                    517:
                    518: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
                    519: <ul>
                    520: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    521: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    522: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
                    523: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
                    524:
                    525: <p>
                    526: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
                    527: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
                    528:
                    529: <p>
                    530: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    531: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    532: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    533:
                    534: <p>
                    535: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    536: read INSTALL.i386.
                    537:
                    538: <p>
                    539: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    540: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
                    541: use the
                    542: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
                    543: utility. The following is an example usage of
                    544: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
                    545: where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    546: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    547:
                    548: <ul><pre>
                    549: # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
                    550: </pre></ul>
                    551:
                    552: <p>
                    553: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    554: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    555: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
                    556: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
                    557: </ul>
                    558:
                    559: <p>
                    560: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
                    561: <ul>
                    562: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
                    563: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    564: your BIOS options first.
                    565: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
                    566: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
                    567: boot from the floppy drive.
                    568:
                    569: <p>
                    570: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    571: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    572: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    573:
                    574: <p>
                    575: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    576: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    577: </ul>
                    578:
                    579: <p>
                    580: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
                    581: <ul>
                    582: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    583: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    584:
                    585: <p>
                    586: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    587: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    588: </ul>
                    589:
                    590: <p>
                    591: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
                    592: <ul>
                    593: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    594:
                    595: <p>
                    596: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    597: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
                    598: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    599: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    600:
                    601: <p>
                    602: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    603: will most likely fail.
                    604:
                    605: <p>
                    606: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
                    607: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    608:
                    609: <p>
                    610: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    611: </ul>
                    612:
                    613: <p>
                    614: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
                    615: <ul>
                    616: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
                    617: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
                    618: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    619:
                    620: <p>
                    621: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    622: will most likely fail.
                    623:
                    624: </ul>
                    625:
                    626: <p>
                    627: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
                    628: <ul>
                    629: <p>
                    630: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
                    631: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
                    632: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
                    633: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
                    634: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
                    635: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
                    636: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
                    637: </ul>
                    638:
                    639: <p>
                    640: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
                    641: <ul>
                    642: <p>
                    643: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
                    644: </ul>
                    645:
                    646: <p>
                    647: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
                    648: <ul>
                    649: <p>
                    650: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    651: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    652: </ul>
                    653:
                    654: <p>
                    655: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
                    656: <ul>
                    657: <p>
                    658: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
                    659: or disk, and boot normally.
                    660: </ul>
                    661:
                    662: <p>
                    663: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
                    664: <ul>
                    665: <p>
                    666: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    667: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    668: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    669: </ul>
                    670: <p>
                    671:
                    672: <p>
                    673: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
                    674: <ul>
                    675: <p>
                    676: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    677: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    678: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    679: for more details.
                    680: </ul>
                    681:
                    682: <p>
                    683: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
                    684: <ul>
                    685: <p>
                    686: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    687: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    688: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    689: for more details.
                    690: </ul>
                    691:
                    692: <p>
                    693: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
                    694: <ul>
                    695: <p>
                    696: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
                    697: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
                    698: menu.
                    699:
                    700: <p>
                    701: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
                    702: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
                    703: the kernel matching your system type.
                    704: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
                    705: </ul>
                    706:
                    707: <p>
                    708: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
                    709: <ul>
                    710: <p>
                    711: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    712: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
                    713: </ul>
                    714:
                    715: <p>
                    716: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
                    717: <ul>
                    718: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
                    719: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
                    720:
                    721: <ul><pre>
                    722: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    723: or
                    724: &gt; <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    725: </pre></ul>
                    726:
                    727: <p>
                    728: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
                    729: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
                    730: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
                    731: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
                    732: depending on the version of your ROM.
                    733:
                    734: <ul><pre>
                    735: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
                    736: or
                    737: &gt; <strong>b fd()</strong>
                    738: </pre></ul>
                    739:
                    740: <p>
                    741: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    742: will most likely fail.
                    743:
                    744: <p>
                    745: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
                    746: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
                    747: INSTALL.sparc file.
                    748: </ul>
                    749:
                    750: <p>
                    751: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
                    752: <ul>
                    753: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    754: </ul>
                    755:
                    756: <p>
                    757: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
                    758: <ul>
                    759: <p>
                    760: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
                    761: openbsd49_arm.ipk package.  Reboot, then run it.  Read INSTALL.zaurus
                    762: for a few important details.
                    763: </ul>
                    764:
                    765: <p>
                    766: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
                    767: <ul>
                    768: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    769: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    770: in a separate archive.  To extract:
                    771: <p>
                    772: <ul><pre>
                    773: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
                    774: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    775: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
                    776: </pre></ul>
                    777: <p>
                    778: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    779: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    780: To extract:
                    781: <p>
                    782: <ul><pre>
                    783: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
                    784: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    785: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
                    786: </pre></ul>
                    787: <p>
                    788: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    789: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    790: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    791: Using these files
                    792: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    793: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    794: <p>
                    795: </ul>
                    796:
                    797: <a name="upgrade"></a>
                    798: <hr>
                    799: <p>
                    800: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
                    801: <p>
1.2       deraadt   802: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       deraadt   803: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    804: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    805:
                    806: <a name="ports"></a>
                    807: <hr>
                    808: <p>
                    809: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
                    810: <p>
                    811: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    812: <p>
                    813: <ul><pre>
                    814: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
                    815: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
                    816: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
                    817: </pre></ul>
                    818: <p>
                    819: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
                    820: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    821: if you know nothing about ports
                    822: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    823: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    824: OpenBSD ports system.
                    825: <p>
                    826: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
                    827: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&amp;apropos=0&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=OpenBSD+Current&amp;arch=i386">
                    828: cvs(1)</a> if
                    829: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    830: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    831: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    832: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    833: like:
                    834: <p>
                    835: <ul><pre>
                    836: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
                    837: </pre></ul>
                    838: <p>
                    839: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    840: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    841: server.]
                    842: <p>
                    843: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
                    844: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    845: <p>
                    846: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    847: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    848: place to know.
                    849: <p>
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