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23: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.9 Release:</font></h2>
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25: Released May 1, 2011<br>
26: Copyright 1997-2011, Theo de Raadt.<br>
27: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-7-1</font>
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29: <a href="lyrics.html#49">4.9 Song: "The Answer"</a>
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32: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
33: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
34: <a href="#upgrade">How to upgrade</a><br>
35: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
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40: To get the files for this release:
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1.46 dcoppa 42: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
1.1 deraadt 43: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
44: a list of mirror machines.
45: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/4.9/</font> directory on
46: one of the mirror sites.
47: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
48: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata49.html">The 4.9 Errata page</a> for a list
49: of bugs and workarounds.
50: <li>See a <a href="plus49.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
51: 4.8 and 4.9 releases.
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56: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
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58: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
59: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
60: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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66: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
67: <p>
68: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.9.
69: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus49.html">changelog</a> leading
70: to 4.9.
71: <p>
72:
73: <ul>
74:
1.3 deraadt 75: <li>New/extended platforms:
76: <ul>
1.25 jsing 77: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>
78: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a>:
1.3 deraadt 79: <ul>
1.36 sthen 80: <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 81: <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 82: <li>SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores.
83: <li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.
1.19 stsp 84: <li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.37 jsg 85: <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel
86: processors.
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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4&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&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&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&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&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&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&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18 krw 137: <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 138: <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 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&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&sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and
143: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sili&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&sektion=4&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&sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
1.34 jakemsr 147: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ugen&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&sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>
150: now supports more devices.
1.40 sthen 151: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umsm&sektion=4">umsm(4)</a>
152: now supports more mobile broadband devices.
1.34 jakemsr 153: <li>Support for more image processing controls was added to
154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvideo&sektion=4">uvideo(4)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 155: </ul>
156: <p>
157:
158: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
159: <ul>
1.7 dlg 160: <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
161: forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.31 deraadt 162: <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 163: <li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.
1.22 jsing 164: <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
1.20 deraadt 165: <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 166: <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
167: <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>.
168: <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
169: improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.33 jcs 170: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now decodes Multicast DNS (mDNS) traffic.
1.42 jasper 171: <li>Wake on Lan support has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arp&sektion=8">arp(8)</a>.
1.45 claudio 172: <li>Enabled MPLS and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpe&sektion=4">mpe(4)</a> by default on GENERIC kernels.</li>
173: <li>Added a mpls option to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> to enable MPLS on a per interface basis replacing the global sysctl knob.</li>
1.35 henning 174: </ul>
175: <p>
176:
1.45 claudio 177: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
178: <ul>
179: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> handles various message encoding errors more gracefully now.</li>
180: <li>Notification messages are now logged in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>.</li>
181: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a> will now correctly redistribute overlapping routes.</li>
182: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfctl&sektion=8">ospfctl(8)</a> now prints the LSDB checksum in the show summary output for quick verification that two LSDBs are in sync.</li>
183: <li>Fixed <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>'s message parser to work on all architectures and more LDP messages are now implemented.</li>
184: <li>Various improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospf6d&sektion=8">ospf6d(8)</a>.</li>
185: </ul>
186: <p>
1.35 henning 187: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
188: <ul>
1.43 deraadt 189: <li>The logging subsystem has been largely rewritten, now logging the
1.44 deraadt 190: translated addresses again instead of the original ones.
1.35 henning 191: <li>match log rules cause a log on the fly, showing the packet exactly
1.44 deraadt 192: as <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> sees it at the moment of evaluating that rule. A packet can also
1.35 henning 193: be logged more than once now.
1.44 deraadt 194: <li>match log(matches) rules allow the further rule matching to be traced.
1.25 jsing 195: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>
196: now includes the original addresses and ports for packets that have been
197: rewritten. This is also displayed by
198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.3 deraadt 199: </ul>
200: <p>
201:
1.33 jcs 202: <li>IPsec stack audit was performed, resulting in:
1.29 mikeb 203: <ul>
204: <li>Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed.
205: <li>ARC4 based PRNG code was audited and revamped.
206: <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent a compiler
207: from optimizing
208: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&sektion=3">bzero</a>
209: calls away.
210: </ul>
211: <p>
212:
1.3 deraadt 213: <li>SCSI improvements:
214: <ul>
1.6 dlg 215: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.20 deraadt 216: the completion of pending commands.</li>
217: <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a> and
218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.</li>
1.6 dlg 219: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.20 deraadt 220: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
221: reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.</li>
222: <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 223: userland handling of SCSI device commands.
1.20 deraadt 224: <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 225: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 226: <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 227: <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 228: <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.
229: <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 230: </ul>
231: <p>
232:
233: <li>Assorted improvements:
234: <ul>
1.16 krw 235: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
236: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
237: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
238: <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.
239: <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.
240: <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>).
241: <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.
242: <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 243: <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.
244: <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 245: <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 246: <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 247: <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 248: <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>.
249: <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 250: <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 251: <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 252: <li>Added support for terabyte units in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>.
253: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html">loongson</a> and
254: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platforms have been
255: switched over to gcc4.
256: <li><code>ddb cpu</code> support was added to the
257: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html">sgi</a> platform.
258: <li>Fast path TLB miss handling was added to the
259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html">landisk</a> platform,
260: resulting in a 44-50% gain in performance.
261: <li>PCIe extended configuration space can now be viewed using
1.44 deraadt 262: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcidump&sektion=8">pcidump(8)</a> (-xxx option).
1.23 jsing 263: <li>The number of spurious IPIs has been decreased on the
264: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
265: resulting in improved performance.
1.25 jsing 266: <li>Numerous improvements and bug fixes to
267: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1">tmux(1)</a>.
1.27 mikeb 268: <li>Considerable robustness and interoperability improvements in the IKEv2
269: daemon
270: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked&sektion=8">iked(8)</a>.
1.28 mikeb 271: <li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.
1.31 deraadt 272: CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.
1.34 jakemsr 273: <li>Removed some races in the USB subsystem, substantially increasing
274: reliability.
1.41 pirofti 275: <li>Added a few more
276: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_linux&sektion=8&format=html">compat_linux(8)</a>
277: system calls to make it possible for newer versions of applications,
278: such as Skype, to execute.
1.39 sthen 279: <li>OpenBSD-specific package documentation is now centralised in
280: /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes.
1.3 deraadt 281: </ul>
282: <p>
283:
284: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
285: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 286: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
287: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
288: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
1.31 deraadt 289: had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).
1.8 deraadt 290: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
291: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
292: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
293: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 294: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
295: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
296: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
297: <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 298: </ul>
299: <p>
300:
1.12 ajacouto 301: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
302: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
303: <ul>
304: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
305: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
306: This framework is still evolving.
307: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
308: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
309: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
310: </ul>
311: <p>
312:
1.4 sobrado 313: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 314: <ul>
315: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 316: <ul>
317: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
318: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
319: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
320: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
321: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
322: and
323: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
324: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
325: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
326: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
327: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
328: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
329: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
330: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
331: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
332: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
333: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
334: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
335: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
336: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
337: time.</li>
338: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
339: and
340: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
341: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
342: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
343: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
344: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
345: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
346: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
347: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
348: afterwards.</li>
349: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
350: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
351: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
352: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
353: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
354: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
355: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
356: and
357: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
358: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
359: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
360: used by
361: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
362: and
363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
364: and their order of preference.</li>
365: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
366: and
367: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
368: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
369: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
370: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
371: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
372: limit option to
373: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
374: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 375: </ul>
376: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
377: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 378: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
379: and
380: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
381: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
382: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
383: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
384: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
385: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
386: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
387: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
388: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
389: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
390: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
391: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
392: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
393: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
394: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
395: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 396: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 397: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
398: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
399: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
400: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
401: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
402: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 403: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 404: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
405: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
406: clean exit).</li>
407: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 408: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 409: (bz#1812)</li>
410: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
411: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
412: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 413: </ul>
414: </ul>
415: <p>
416:
417: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
418: <ul>
419: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
420: <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.
421: <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.
422: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
423: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
424: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
425: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
426: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
427: to render manuals.
428: </ul>
429: <p>
430:
1.14 deraadt 431: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 432: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
433: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
434: <tr>
435: <td valign="top" width="25%">
436: <ul>
437: <li>i386: 6620
438: <li>sparc64: 6225
439: <li>alpha: 6000
440: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.20 deraadt 441: <li>sh: 3656
1.3 deraadt 442: <li>amd64: 6570
443: <li>powerpc: 6272
444: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
445: <li>sparc: 4184
1.20 deraadt 446: <li>arm: 5679
1.8 deraadt 447: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 448: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
449: <li>vax: 1068
450: <li>mips64: 5492
451: <li>mips64el: 5499
452: </ul></td></tr></table>
453: Some highlights:
454: <ul>
455: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
456: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
457: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
458: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
459: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
460: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
461: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
462: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
463: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
464: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
1.26 jasper 465: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4.
1.3 deraadt 466: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
467: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
468: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
469: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
470: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
471: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
1.26 jasper 472: <li>Chromium 9.0.597.94.
1.3 deraadt 473: </ul>
474: <p>
475:
476: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
480: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 481: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
482: freetype 2.4.4,
1.19 stsp 483: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20 deraadt 484: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
485: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 486: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20 deraadt 487: and DSO support
488: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
489: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
490: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
491: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
492: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
493: <li>Ncurses 5.7
494: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
495: <li>Arla 0.35.7
496: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
497: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3 deraadt 498: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 499: <p>
500:
501: </ul>
502:
503: <a name="install"></a>
504: <hr>
505: <p>
506: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
507: <p>
508: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
509: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
510: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
511: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
512: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
513: purchased a CDROM instead.
514: <p>
515:
516: <hr>
517: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
518: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
519: <p>
520: <ul>
521: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
522: <p>
523: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
524: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
525: <p>
526: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
527: <p>
528: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
529: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
530: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
531: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
532: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
533: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
534: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
535: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
536: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
537: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
538: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
539: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
540: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
541: </ul>
542: <hr>
543:
544: <p>
545: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
546: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
547: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
548: <p>
549:
550: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
551: <ul>
552: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
553: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
554: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
555: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
556:
557: <p>
558: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
559: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
560:
561: <p>
562: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
563: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
564: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
565:
566: <p>
567: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
568: read INSTALL.i386.
569:
570: <p>
571: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
572: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
573: use the
574: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
575: utility. The following is an example usage of
576: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
577: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
578: "rfd0a".
579:
580: <ul><pre>
581: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
582: </pre></ul>
583:
584: <p>
585: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
586: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
587: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
588: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
589: </ul>
590:
591: <p>
592: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
593: <ul>
594: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
595: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
596: your BIOS options first.
597: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
598: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
599: boot from the floppy drive.
600:
601: <p>
602: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
603: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
604: INSTALL.amd64 document.
605:
606: <p>
607: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
608: read INSTALL.amd64.
609: </ul>
610:
611: <p>
612: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
613: <ul>
614: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
615: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
616:
617: <p>
618: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
619: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
620: </ul>
621:
622: <p>
623: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
624: <ul>
625: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
626:
627: <p>
628: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
629: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
630: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
631: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
632:
633: <p>
634: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
635: will most likely fail.
636:
637: <p>
638: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
639: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
640:
641: <p>
642: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
643: </ul>
644:
645: <p>
646: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
647: <ul>
648: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
649: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
650: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
651:
652: <p>
653: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
654: will most likely fail.
655:
656: </ul>
657:
658: <p>
659: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
660: <ul>
661: <p>
662: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
663: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
664: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
665: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
666: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
667: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
668: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
669: </ul>
670:
671: <p>
672: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
673: <ul>
674: <p>
675: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
676: </ul>
677:
678: <p>
679: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
680: <ul>
681: <p>
682: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
683: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
684: </ul>
685:
686: <p>
687: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
688: <ul>
689: <p>
690: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
691: or disk, and boot normally.
692: </ul>
693:
694: <p>
695: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
696: <ul>
697: <p>
698: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
699: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
700: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
701: </ul>
702: <p>
703:
704: <p>
705: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
706: <ul>
707: <p>
708: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
709: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
710: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
711: for more details.
712: </ul>
713:
714: <p>
715: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
716: <ul>
717: <p>
718: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
719: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
720: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
721: for more details.
722: </ul>
723:
724: <p>
725: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
726: <ul>
727: <p>
728: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
729: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
730: menu.
731:
732: <p>
733: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
734: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
735: the kernel matching your system type.
736: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
737: </ul>
738:
739: <p>
740: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
741: <ul>
742: <p>
743: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
744: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
745: </ul>
746:
747: <p>
748: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
749: <ul>
750: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
751: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
752:
753: <ul><pre>
754: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
755: or
756: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
757: </pre></ul>
758:
759: <p>
760: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
761: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
762: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
763: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
764: depending on the version of your ROM.
765:
766: <ul><pre>
767: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
768: or
769: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
770: </pre></ul>
771:
772: <p>
773: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
774: will most likely fail.
775:
776: <p>
777: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
778: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
779: INSTALL.sparc file.
780: </ul>
781:
782: <p>
783: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
784: <ul>
785: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
786: </ul>
787:
788: <p>
789: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
790: <ul>
791: <p>
792: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
793: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
794: for a few important details.
795: </ul>
796:
797: <p>
798: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
799: <ul>
800: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
801: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
802: in a separate archive. To extract:
803: <p>
804: <ul><pre>
805: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
806: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
807: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
808: </pre></ul>
809: <p>
810: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
811: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
812: To extract:
813: <p>
814: <ul><pre>
815: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
816: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
817: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
818: </pre></ul>
819: <p>
820: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
821: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
822: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
823: Using these files
824: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
825: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
826: <p>
827: </ul>
828:
829: <a name="upgrade"></a>
830: <hr>
831: <p>
832: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
833: <p>
1.2 deraadt 834: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 835: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
836: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
837:
838: <a name="ports"></a>
839: <hr>
840: <p>
841: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
842: <p>
843: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
844: <p>
845: <ul><pre>
846: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
847: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
848: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
849: </pre></ul>
850: <p>
851: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
852: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
853: if you know nothing about ports
854: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
855: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
856: OpenBSD ports system.
857: <p>
858: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
859: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
860: cvs(1)</a> if
861: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
862: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
863: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
864: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
865: like:
866: <p>
867: <ul><pre>
868: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
869: </pre></ul>
870: <p>
871: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
872: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
873: server.]
874: <p>
875: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
876: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
877: <p>
878: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
879: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
880: place to know.
881: <p>
882:
883: </body>
884: </html>
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