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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.9 Release:</font></h2>
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26: Released May 1, 2011<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2011, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-7-1</font>
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30: <a href="lyrics.html#49">4.9 Song: "The Answer"</a>
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33: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
34: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
35: <a href="#upgrade">How to upgrade</a><br>
36: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
37: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
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40: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
41: To get the files for this release:
42: <ul>
43: <li>Pre-order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
45: a list of mirror machines.
46: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/4.9/</font> directory on
47: one of the mirror sites.
48: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
49: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata49.html">The 4.9 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus49.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.8 and 4.9 releases.
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57: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
58: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
59: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
60: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
61: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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66: <p>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
68: <p>
69: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.9.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus49.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.9.
72: <p>
73:
74: <ul>
75:
1.3 deraadt 76: <li>New/extended platforms:
77: <ul>
1.25 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>
1.36 sthen 81: <li>Enabled <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8&format=html">NTFS</a> by default (read-only) 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 >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.37 ! jsg 86: <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel
! 87: processors.
1.31 deraadt 88: <li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
89: <li>Processes are now switched to TSS per cpu on the
90: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
91: resulting in removal of the old limit of ~4000 processes.
1.3 deraadt 92: </ul>
1.25 jsing 93: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:
1.21 jsing 94: <ul>
95: <li>Multiprocessor support.
96: </ul>
1.25 jsing 97: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">OpenBSD/loongson</a>
98: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">OpenBSD/sgi</a>:
1.3 deraadt 99: <ul>
1.25 jsing 100: <li>All MIPS64 based platforms now use MI softfloat code, which
101: implements all MIPS IV specified floating point operations.
1.3 deraadt 102: </ul>
1.25 jsing 103: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>:
1.3 deraadt 104: <ul>
1.25 jsing 105: <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
106: protocol, allowing Solaris to run on top of an OpenBSD
107: control domain.
1.3 deraadt 108: </ul>
109: </ul>
110: <p>
111:
112: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
113: <ul>
1.25 jsing 114: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vte&sektion=4&format=html">vte(4)</a>
1.9 kevlo 115: driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.</li>
1.25 jsing 116: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdcphy&sektion=4&format=html">rdcphy(4)</a>
1.10 jsg 117: driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
1.25 jsing 118: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsu&sektion=4&format=html">rsu(4)</a>
1.33 jcs 119: driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.25 jsing 120: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html">urtwn(4)</a>
1.33 jcs 121: driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.25 jsing 122: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utwitch&sektion=4&format=html">utwitch(4)</a>
1.10 jsg 123: driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
1.33 jcs 124: <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless
1.25 jsing 125: 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 126: <li>Support for 82583V
127: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
128: <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
129: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4">msk(4)</a>.
130: <li>Support for SiS191
131: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4">se(4)</a>.
132: <li>Support for SAS2004
133: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.
134: <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
135: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>.
1.30 deraadt 136: <li>Support for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
1.10 jsg 137: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18 krw 138: <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 139: <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 140: <li>Support for low latency interrupt modulation has been added to
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>.
142: <li>Port multiplier support has been added to
143: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and
144: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sili&sektion=4">sili(4)</a>.
145: <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>.
146: <li>Added workaround for BCM5906 A0/1/2 controller silicon bug in
147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
1.34 jakemsr 148: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ugen&sektion=4">ugen(4)</a>
149: can now be attached along with other drivers to multifunction devices.
150: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodem&sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>
151: now supports more devices.
152: <li>Support for more image processing controls was added to
153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvideo&sektion=4">uvideo(4)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 154: </ul>
155: <p>
156:
157: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
158: <ul>
1.7 dlg 159: <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
160: forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.31 deraadt 161: <li>Added support for socket splicing; sockets can be temporarily connected so that the kernel moves data without userland intervention. This will be used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> in the next release.
1.29 mikeb 162: <li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.
1.22 jsing 163: <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
1.20 deraadt 164: <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 165: <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
166: <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>.
167: <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
168: improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.33 jcs 169: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now decodes Multicast DNS (mDNS) traffic.
1.35 henning 170: </ul>
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
174: <ul>
175: <li>the logging subsystem has been largely rewritten, now logging the
176: translated addresses again instead of the original ones
177: <li>match log rules cause a log on the fly, showing the packet exactly
178: as pf sees it at the moment of evaluating that rule. a packet can also
179: be logged more than once now.
180: <li>match log(matches) rules allow the further rule matching to be traced
1.25 jsing 181: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>
182: now includes the original addresses and ports for packets that have been
183: rewritten. This is also displayed by
184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 185: </ul>
186: <p>
187:
1.33 jcs 188: <li>IPsec stack audit was performed, resulting in:
1.29 mikeb 189: <ul>
190: <li>Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed.
191: <li>ARC4 based PRNG code was audited and revamped.
192: <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent a compiler
193: from optimizing
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&sektion=3">bzero</a>
195: calls away.
196: </ul>
197: <p>
198:
1.3 deraadt 199: <li>SCSI improvements:
200: <ul>
1.6 dlg 201: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20 deraadt 202: the completion of pending commands.</li>
203: <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6 dlg 205: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20 deraadt 206: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
207: reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
208: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vscsi&sektion=4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
1.33 jcs 209: userland handling of SCSI device commands.
1.20 deraadt 210: <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 211: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 212: <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 213: <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 214: <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.
215: <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 216: </ul>
217: <p>
218:
219: <li>Assorted improvements:
220: <ul>
1.16 krw 221: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
222: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
223: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
224: <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.
225: <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.
226: <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>).
227: <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.
228: <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 229: <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.
230: <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 231: <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 232: <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 233: <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 234: <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>.
235: <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 236: <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.
1.32 jeremy 237: <li>UNIX-domain datagram socket support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a> (-uU option).
1.23 jsing 238: <li>Added support for terabyte units in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>.
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">loongson</a> and
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platforms have been
241: switched over to gcc4.
242: <li><code>ddb cpu</code> support was added to the
243: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platform.
244: <li>Fast path TLB miss handling was added to the
245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html">landisk</a> platform,
246: resulting in a 44-50% gain in performance.
247: <li>PCIe extended configuration space can now be viewed using
248: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcidump&sektion=8">pcidump</a> (-xxx option).
249: <li>The number of spurious IPIs has been decreased on the
250: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
251: resulting in improved performance.
1.25 jsing 252: <li>Numerous improvements and bug fixes to
253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1">tmux(1)</a>.
1.27 mikeb 254: <li>Considerable robustness and interoperability improvements in the IKEv2
255: daemon
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>.
1.28 mikeb 257: <li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.
1.31 deraadt 258: CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.
1.34 jakemsr 259: <li>Removed some races in the USB subsystem, substantially increasing
260: reliability.
1.3 deraadt 261: </ul>
262: <p>
263:
264: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
265: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 266: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
267: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
268: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
1.31 deraadt 269: had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).
1.8 deraadt 270: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
271: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
272: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
273: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 274: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
275: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
276: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
277: <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 278: </ul>
279: <p>
280:
1.12 ajacouto 281: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
282: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
283: <ul>
284: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
285: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
286: This framework is still evolving.
287: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
288: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
290: </ul>
291: <p>
292:
1.4 sobrado 293: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 294: <ul>
295: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 296: <ul>
297: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
298: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
299: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
300: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
302: and
303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
304: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
305: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
306: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
307: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
308: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
309: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
310: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
311: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
312: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
313: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
314: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
315: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
316: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
317: time.</li>
318: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
319: and
320: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
321: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
322: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
323: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
324: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
325: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
326: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
327: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
328: afterwards.</li>
329: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
330: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
331: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
332: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
333: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
334: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
335: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
336: and
337: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
338: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
339: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
340: used by
341: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
342: and
343: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
344: and their order of preference.</li>
345: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
346: and
347: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
348: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
349: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
350: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
351: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
352: limit option to
353: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
354: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 355: </ul>
356: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
357: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 358: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
359: and
360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
361: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
362: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
363: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
364: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
365: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
366: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
367: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
368: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
369: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
370: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
371: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
372: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
373: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
374: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
375: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 376: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 377: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
378: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
379: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
380: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
381: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
382: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 383: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 384: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
385: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
386: clean exit).</li>
387: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 388: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 389: (bz#1812)</li>
390: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
391: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
392: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 393: </ul>
394: </ul>
395: <p>
396:
397: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
398: <ul>
399: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
400: <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.
401: <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.
402: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
403: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
404: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
405: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
406: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
407: to render manuals.
408: </ul>
409: <p>
410:
1.14 deraadt 411: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 412: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
413: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
414: <tr>
415: <td valign="top" width="25%">
416: <ul>
417: <li>i386: 6620
418: <li>sparc64: 6225
419: <li>alpha: 6000
420: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20 deraadt 421: <li>sh: 3656
1.3 deraadt 422: <li>amd64: 6570
423: <li>powerpc: 6272
424: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
425: <li>sparc: 4184
1.20 deraadt 426: <li>arm: 5679
1.8 deraadt 427: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 428: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
429: <li>vax: 1068
430: <li>mips64: 5492
431: <li>mips64el: 5499
432: </ul></td></tr></table>
433: Some highlights:
434: <ul>
435: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
436: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
437: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
438: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
439: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
440: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
441: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
442: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
443: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
444: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
1.26 jasper 445: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4.
1.3 deraadt 446: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
447: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
448: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
449: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
450: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
451: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
1.26 jasper 452: <li>Chromium 9.0.597.94.
1.3 deraadt 453: </ul>
454: <p>
455:
456: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
457: <p>
458:
459: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
460: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 461: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
462: freetype 2.4.4,
1.19 stsp 463: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20 deraadt 464: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
465: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 466: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20 deraadt 467: and DSO support
468: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
469: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
470: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
471: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
472: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
473: <li>Ncurses 5.7
474: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
475: <li>Arla 0.35.7
476: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
477: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 478: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 479: <p>
480:
481: </ul>
482:
483: <a name="install"></a>
484: <hr>
485: <p>
486: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
487: <p>
488: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
489: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
490: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
491: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
492: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
493: purchased a CDROM instead.
494: <p>
495:
496: <hr>
497: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
498: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
499: <p>
500: <ul>
501: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
502: <p>
503: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
504: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
505: <p>
506: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
507: <p>
508: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
509: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
510: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
511: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
512: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
513: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
514: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
515: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
516: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
517: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
518: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
519: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
520: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
521: </ul>
522: <hr>
523:
524: <p>
525: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
526: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
527: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
528: <p>
529:
530: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
531: <ul>
532: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
533: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
534: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
535: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
536:
537: <p>
538: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
539: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
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
544: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
545:
546: <p>
547: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
548: read INSTALL.i386.
549:
550: <p>
551: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
552: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
553: use the
554: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
555: utility. The following is an example usage of
556: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
557: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
558: "rfd0a".
559:
560: <ul><pre>
561: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
562: </pre></ul>
563:
564: <p>
565: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
566: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
567: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
568: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
569: </ul>
570:
571: <p>
572: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
573: <ul>
574: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
575: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
576: your BIOS options first.
577: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
578: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
579: boot from the floppy drive.
580:
581: <p>
582: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
583: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
584: INSTALL.amd64 document.
585:
586: <p>
587: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
588: read INSTALL.amd64.
589: </ul>
590:
591: <p>
592: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
593: <ul>
594: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
595: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
596:
597: <p>
598: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
599: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
600: </ul>
601:
602: <p>
603: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
604: <ul>
605: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
606:
607: <p>
608: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
609: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
610: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
611: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
612:
613: <p>
614: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
615: will most likely fail.
616:
617: <p>
618: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
619: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
620:
621: <p>
622: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
623: </ul>
624:
625: <p>
626: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
627: <ul>
628: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
629: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
630: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
631:
632: <p>
633: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
634: will most likely fail.
635:
636: </ul>
637:
638: <p>
639: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
640: <ul>
641: <p>
642: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
643: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
644: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
645: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
646: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
647: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
648: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
649: </ul>
650:
651: <p>
652: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
653: <ul>
654: <p>
655: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
656: </ul>
657:
658: <p>
659: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
660: <ul>
661: <p>
662: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
663: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
664: </ul>
665:
666: <p>
667: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
668: <ul>
669: <p>
670: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
671: or disk, and boot normally.
672: </ul>
673:
674: <p>
675: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
676: <ul>
677: <p>
678: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
679: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
680: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
681: </ul>
682: <p>
683:
684: <p>
685: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
686: <ul>
687: <p>
688: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
689: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
690: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
691: for more details.
692: </ul>
693:
694: <p>
695: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
696: <ul>
697: <p>
698: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
699: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
700: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
701: for more details.
702: </ul>
703:
704: <p>
705: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
706: <ul>
707: <p>
708: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
709: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
710: menu.
711:
712: <p>
713: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
714: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
715: the kernel matching your system type.
716: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
717: </ul>
718:
719: <p>
720: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
721: <ul>
722: <p>
723: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
724: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
725: </ul>
726:
727: <p>
728: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
729: <ul>
730: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
731: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
732:
733: <ul><pre>
734: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
735: or
736: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
737: </pre></ul>
738:
739: <p>
740: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
741: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
742: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
743: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
744: depending on the version of your ROM.
745:
746: <ul><pre>
747: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
748: or
749: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
750: </pre></ul>
751:
752: <p>
753: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
754: will most likely fail.
755:
756: <p>
757: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
758: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
759: INSTALL.sparc file.
760: </ul>
761:
762: <p>
763: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
764: <ul>
765: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
766: </ul>
767:
768: <p>
769: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
770: <ul>
771: <p>
772: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
773: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
774: for a few important details.
775: </ul>
776:
777: <p>
778: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
779: <ul>
780: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
781: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
782: in a separate archive. To extract:
783: <p>
784: <ul><pre>
785: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
786: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
787: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
788: </pre></ul>
789: <p>
790: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
791: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
792: To extract:
793: <p>
794: <ul><pre>
795: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
796: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
797: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
798: </pre></ul>
799: <p>
800: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
801: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
802: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
803: Using these files
804: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
805: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
806: <p>
807: </ul>
808:
809: <a name="upgrade"></a>
810: <hr>
811: <p>
812: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
813: <p>
1.2 deraadt 814: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 815: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
816: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
817:
818: <a name="ports"></a>
819: <hr>
820: <p>
821: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
822: <p>
823: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
824: <p>
825: <ul><pre>
826: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
827: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
828: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
829: </pre></ul>
830: <p>
831: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
832: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
833: if you know nothing about ports
834: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
835: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
836: OpenBSD ports system.
837: <p>
838: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
839: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
840: cvs(1)</a> if
841: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
842: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
843: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
844: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
845: like:
846: <p>
847: <ul><pre>
848: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
849: </pre></ul>
850: <p>
851: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
852: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
853: server.]
854: <p>
855: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
856: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
857: <p>
858: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
859: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
860: place to know.
861: <p>
862:
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