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1.48      deraadt     5: <title>OpenBSD 4.9</title>
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1.64      bentley    24: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.1       deraadt    25: <a href="index.html">
1.64      bentley    26: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     27: 4.9
1.58      tj         28: </h2>
1.1       deraadt    29:
1.64      bentley    30: <table>
                     31: <tr>
                     32: <td>
1.1       deraadt    33: <a href="images/Hitchhiker.jpg">
1.64      bentley    34: <img width="227" height="343" src="images/Hitchhiker.jpg" alt="Hitchhiker"></a>
                     35: <td>
1.1       deraadt    36: Released May 1, 2011<br>
                     37: Copyright 1997-2011, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.64      bentley    38: <cite class=isbn>ISBN 978-0-9784475-7-1</cite>
1.1       deraadt    39: <br>
1.55      deraadt    40: 4.9 Song: <a href="lyrics.html#49">"The Answer"</a>
1.63      deraadt    41: <br>
                     42: <br>
1.1       deraadt    43: <ul>
                     44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
                     45:     a list of mirror machines.
1.64      bentley    46: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/4.9/</code> directory on
1.1       deraadt    47:     one of the mirror sites.
                     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.
                     52: </ul>
1.58      tj         53: <p>
                     54: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
                     55: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
                     56: files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
1.64      bentley    57: </table>
1.58      tj         58:
                     59: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    60:
1.64      bentley    61: <section id=new>
                     62: <h3>What's New</h3>
                     63:
1.1       deraadt    64: <p>
                     65: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.9.
                     66: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus49.html">changelog</a> leading
                     67: to 4.9.
                     68: <p>
                     69:
                     70: <ul>
                     71:
1.3       deraadt    72: <li>New/extended platforms:
                     73:     <ul>
1.60      tb         74:     <li><a href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>
                     75:         and <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a>:
1.3       deraadt    76:         <ul>
1.64      bentley    77:         <li>Enabled <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mount_ntfs.8">NTFS</a> by default (read-only) on GENERIC kernels.
                     78:        <li>Enabled the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmt.4">vmt(4)</a> driver by default for VMWare tools support as a guest.
1.11      jj         79:        <li>SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores.
                     80:        <li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.
1.19      stsp       81:        <li>Handle &gt;16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.37      jsg        82:        <li>Added support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel
                     83:             processors.
1.31      deraadt    84:        <li>Further improvements in suspend and resume.
                     85:        <li>Processes are now switched to TSS per cpu on the
1.60      tb         86:            <a href="amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
1.31      deraadt    87:            resulting in removal of the old limit of ~4000 processes.
1.3       deraadt    88:         </ul>
1.60      tb         89:     <li><a href="hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>:
1.21      jsing      90:         <ul>
                     91:         <li>Multiprocessor support.
                     92:         </ul>
1.60      tb         93:     <li><a href="loongson.html">OpenBSD/loongson</a>
                     94:         and <a href="sgi.html">OpenBSD/sgi</a>:
1.3       deraadt    95:         <ul>
1.25      jsing      96:         <li>All MIPS64 based platforms now use MI softfloat code, which
                     97:             implements all MIPS IV specified floating point operations.
1.3       deraadt    98:         </ul>
1.60      tb         99:     <li><a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>:
1.3       deraadt   100:         <ul>
1.64      bentley   101:         <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sparc64/vdsp.4">vdsp(4)</a> driver now supports the vDisk 1.1
1.25      jsing     102:             protocol, allowing Solaris to run on top of an OpenBSD
                    103:             control domain.
1.3       deraadt   104:         </ul>
                    105:     </ul>
                    106: <p>
                    107:
                    108: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
                    109:     <ul>
1.64      bentley   110:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vte.4">vte(4)</a>
1.65    ! deraadt   111:     driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.
1.64      bentley   112:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rdcphy.4">rdcphy(4)</a>
1.10      jsg       113:     driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
1.64      bentley   114:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rsu.4">rsu(4)</a>
1.33      jcs       115:     driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.64      bentley   116:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/urtwn.4">urtwn(4)</a>
1.33      jcs       117:     driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless devices.
1.64      bentley   118:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/utwitch.4">utwitch(4)</a>
1.10      jsg       119:     driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
1.33      jcs       120:     <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless
1.64      bentley   121:         adapters has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/athn.4">athn(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       122:     <li>Support for 82583V
1.64      bentley   123:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/em.4">em(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       124:     <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
1.64      bentley   125:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/msk.4">msk(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       126:     <li>Support for SiS191
1.64      bentley   127:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/se.4">se(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       128:     <li>Support for SAS2004
1.64      bentley   129:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
1.10      jsg       130:     <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
1.64      bentley   131:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pciide.4">pciide(4)</a>.
1.30      deraadt   132:     <li>Support for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
1.64      bentley   133:         has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
                    134:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pms.4">pms(4)</a> support has been significantly reworked and expanded.
                    135:     <li>MCLGETI support has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xl.4">xl(4)</a>.
1.24      jsing     136:     <li>Support for low latency interrupt modulation has been added to
1.64      bentley   137:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ix.4">ix(4)</a>.
1.24      jsing     138:     <li>Port multiplier support has been added to
1.64      bentley   139:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ahci.4">ahci(4)</a> and
                    140:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sili.4">sili(4)</a>.
                    141:     <li>Support for Sun XVR-300 graphics has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sparc64/radeonfb.4">radeonfb(4)</a>.
1.24      jsing     142:     <li>Added workaround for BCM5906 A0/1/2 controller silicon bug in
1.64      bentley   143:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bge.4">bge(4)</a>.
                    144:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ugen.4">ugen(4)</a>
1.34      jakemsr   145:     can now be attached along with other drivers to multifunction devices.
1.64      bentley   146:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umodem.4">umodem(4)</a>
1.34      jakemsr   147:     now supports more devices.
1.64      bentley   148:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umsm.4">umsm(4)</a>
1.40      sthen     149:     now supports more mobile broadband devices.
1.34      jakemsr   150:     <li>Support for more image processing controls was added to
1.64      bentley   151:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uvideo.4">uvideo(4)</a>.
1.3       deraadt   152:     </ul>
                    153: <p>
                    154:
                    155: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
                    156:     <ul>
1.7       dlg       157:     <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
1.65    ! deraadt   158:     forwarding and host performance under high network load.
1.64      bentley   159:     <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="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a> in the next release.
1.29      mikeb     160:     <li>Added AES-GCM support for IPsec.
1.22      jsing     161:     <li>Added automatic send and receive buffer scaling for TCP.
1.64      bentley   162:     <li>Added wpakey option to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a> replacing wpa-psk(8).
1.22      jsing     163:     <li>TCP acknowledgments are no longer delayed on the loopback interface.
1.64      bentley   164:     <li>Network livelock counters are now exported via <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.3">sysctl(3)</a>.
1.22      jsing     165:     <li>A radix tree sorting bug was fixed, which results in significant
                    166:     improvements to IPsec performance under certain conditions.
1.64      bentley   167:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a> now decodes Multicast DNS (mDNS) traffic.
                    168:     <li>Wake on Lan support has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arp.8">arp(8)</a>.
1.65    ! deraadt   169:     <li>Enabled MPLS and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpe.4">mpe(4)</a> by default on GENERIC kernels.
        !           170:     <li>Added a mpls option to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a> to enable MPLS on a per interface basis replacing the global sysctl knob.
1.35      henning   171:     </ul>
                    172: <p>
                    173:
1.45      claudio   174: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
                    175:     <ul>
1.65    ! deraadt   176:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> handles various message encoding errors more gracefully now.
        !           177:     <li>Notification messages are now logged in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>.
        !           178:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a> will now correctly redistribute overlapping routes.
        !           179:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfctl.8">ospfctl(8)</a> now prints the LSDB checksum in the show summary output for quick verification that two LSDBs are in sync.
        !           180:     <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldpd.8">ldpd(8)</a>'s message parser to work on all architectures and more LDP messages are now implemented.
        !           181:     <li>Various improvements in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a>.
1.45      claudio   182:     </ul>
                    183: <p>
1.64      bentley   184: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
1.35      henning   185:     <ul>
1.43      deraadt   186:     <li>The logging subsystem has been largely rewritten, now logging the
1.44      deraadt   187:         translated addresses again instead of the original ones.
1.35      henning   188:     <li>match log rules cause a log on the fly, showing the packet exactly
1.64      bentley   189:         as <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> sees it at the moment of evaluating that rule. A packet can also
1.35      henning   190:        be logged more than once now.
1.44      deraadt   191:     <li>match log(matches) rules allow the further rule matching to be traced.
1.64      bentley   192:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pflog.4">pflog(4)</a>
1.25      jsing     193:     now includes the original addresses and ports for packets that have been
                    194:     rewritten. This is also displayed by
1.64      bentley   195:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.3       deraadt   196:     </ul>
                    197: <p>
                    198:
1.33      jcs       199: <li>IPsec stack audit was performed, resulting in:
1.29      mikeb     200:     <ul>
                    201:     <li>Several potential security problems have been identified and fixed.
                    202:     <li>ARC4 based PRNG code was audited and revamped.
                    203:     <li>New explicit_bzero kernel function was introduced to prevent a compiler
                    204:     from optimizing
1.64      bentley   205:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bzero.3">bzero</a>
1.29      mikeb     206:     calls away.
                    207:     </ul>
                    208: <p>
                    209:
1.3       deraadt   210: <li>SCSI improvements:
                    211:     <ul>
1.6       dlg       212:     <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
1.65    ! deraadt   213:         the completion of pending commands.
1.64      bentley   214:     <li>Improved hotplug support on <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpi.4">mpi(4)</a> and
1.65    ! deraadt   215:         <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
1.6       dlg       216:     <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
1.64      bentley   217:         <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umass.4">umass(4)</a> which improves the
1.65    ! deraadt   218:         reliability and performance of multi-LUN devices.
1.64      bentley   219:     <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vscsi.4">vscsi(4)</a>, a driver for
1.33      jcs       220:         userland handling of SCSI device commands.
1.64      bentley   221:     <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iscsid.8">iscsid(8)</a>, an iSCSI initiator.
1.21      jsing     222:     <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged I/O to executing one command at a time.
1.64      bentley   223:     <li>Discover and honour read-only status of <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sd.4">sd(4)</a> devices.
                    224:     <li>Improve <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/st.4">st(4)</a> handling of I/O residual information.
                    225:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sd.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.
                    226:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cd.4">cd(4)</a> will now attach CDROM devices identified as non-removable.
1.3       deraadt   227:     </ul>
                    228: <p>
                    229:
                    230: <li>Assorted improvements:
                    231:     <ul>
1.64      bentley   232:     <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ncurses.3">ncurses(3)</a>.
                    233:     <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nsd.8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
1.16      krw       234:     <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
1.64      bentley   235:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rarpd.8">rarpd(8)</a> now accepts a list of interfaces to listen on.
                    236:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a> now accepts 'egress' as an interface name, meaning whichever interface is marked as being in the 'egress' group.
                    237:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a> no longer listens on interfaces without a broadcast address (e.g. <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pflog.4">pflog(4)</a>).
                    238:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/who.1">who(1)</a> now displays as much of the hostname as fits on the line.
                    239:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a> now correctly handles 'net' primitives when processing <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pflog.4">pflog(4)</a> traffic.
                    240:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> now respects failure to read the MBR.
                    241:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> will no longer infinitely loop when encountering an improperly constructed EBR.
                    242:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer reuses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.
                    243:     <li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disktab.5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.
1.60      tb        244:     <li>Enabled X11 autoconfiguration on <a href="sparc.html">sparc</a> and <a href="sparc64.html">sparc64</a>.
1.64      bentley   245:     <li>Implement attribute syntax from RFC4517 and support bsdauth in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldapd.8">ldapd(8)</a>.
                    246:     <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/video.1">video(1)</a> utility which can record or display images from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/video.4">video(4)</a>.
                    247:     <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> mod_headers now handles apache2 style RequestHeader directives.
                    248:     <li>UNIX-domain datagram socket support has been added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nc.1">nc(1)</a> (-uU option).
                    249:     <li>Added support for terabyte units in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>.
1.60      tb        250:     <li><a href="loongson.html">loongson</a> and
                    251:     <a href="sgi.html">sgi</a> platforms have been
1.23      jsing     252:     switched over to gcc4.
                    253:     <li><code>ddb cpu</code> support was added to the
1.60      tb        254:     <a href="sgi.html">sgi</a> platform.
1.23      jsing     255:     <li>Fast path TLB miss handling was added to the
1.60      tb        256:     <a href="landisk.html">landisk</a> platform,
1.23      jsing     257:     resulting in a 44-50% gain in performance.
                    258:     <li>PCIe extended configuration space can now be viewed using
1.64      bentley   259:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcidump.8">pcidump(8)</a> (-xxx option).
1.23      jsing     260:     <li>The number of spurious IPIs has been decreased on the
1.60      tb        261:     <a href="amd64.html">amd64</a> platform,
1.23      jsing     262:     resulting in improved performance.
1.25      jsing     263:     <li>Numerous improvements and bug fixes to
1.64      bentley   264:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>.
1.27      mikeb     265:     <li>Considerable robustness and interoperability improvements in the IKEv2
                    266:     daemon
1.64      bentley   267:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>.
1.28      mikeb     268:     <li>Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system.
1.31      deraadt   269:     CAST-128 implementation was also removed from libc.
1.34      jakemsr   270:     <li>Removed some races in the USB subsystem, substantially increasing
                    271:     reliability.
1.41      pirofti   272:     <li>Added a few more
1.64      bentley   273:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/compat_linux.8">compat_linux(8)</a>
1.41      pirofti   274:     system calls to make it possible for newer versions of applications,
                    275:     such as Skype, to execute.
1.39      sthen     276:     <li>OpenBSD-specific package documentation is now centralised in
                    277:     /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes.
1.3       deraadt   278:     </ul>
                    279: <p>
                    280:
                    281: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
                    282:     <ul>
1.8       deraadt   283:     <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
                    284:     <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
                    285:     <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
1.31      deraadt   286:         had been broken a very long time and no one noticed).
1.8       deraadt   287:     <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
                    288:         Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
                    289:     <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
                    290:         system which is booted next.
1.15      krw       291:     <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
                    292:     <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
                    293:     <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
1.64      bentley   294:     <li>Installer now configures <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd.8">ntpd(8)</a> to use all provided time source IPs.
1.3       deraadt   295:     </ul>
                    296: <p>
                    297:
1.64      bentley   298: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.d.8">rc.d(8)</a>
1.12      ajacouto  299:     for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
                    300:     <ul>
1.64      bentley   301:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.subr.8">rc.subr(8)</a>
1.12      ajacouto  302:         framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
                    303:         This framework is still evolving.
                    304:     <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
                    305:     <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
1.64      bentley   306:         <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.d.8">rc.d(8)</a>.
1.12      ajacouto  307:     </ul>
                    308: <p>
                    309:
1.4       sobrado   310: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3       deraadt   311:     <ul>
                    312:     <li>New features:
1.4       sobrado   313:         <ul>
                    314:         <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
                    315:             and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
                    316:             offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
1.65    ! deraadt   317:             equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.
1.64      bentley   318:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   319:             and
1.64      bentley   320:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp-server.8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   321:             add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
                    322:             available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
                    323:             behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
1.65    ! deraadt   324:             or through the preexisting "symlink" command.
1.64      bentley   325:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   326:             Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
                    327:             transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
1.65    ! deraadt   328:             copied directly between the two remote hosts.
1.64      bentley   329:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   330:             automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
                    331:             which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
                    332:             hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
                    333:             since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
1.65    ! deraadt   334:             time.
1.64      bentley   335:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   336:             and
1.64      bentley   337:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   338:             add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
1.65    ! deraadt   339:             instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)
1.64      bentley   340:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   341:             the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
                    342:             listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
                    343:             of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
                    344:             rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
1.65    ! deraadt   345:             afterwards.
1.64      bentley   346:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   347:             "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
                    348:             temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
                    349:             succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
                    350:             socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
1.65    ! deraadt   351:             are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)
1.64      bentley   352:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   353:             and
1.64      bentley   354:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   355:             add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
                    356:             configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
                    357:             used by
1.64      bentley   358:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   359:             and
1.64      bentley   360:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.65    ! deraadt   361:             and their order of preference.
1.64      bentley   362:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   363:             and
1.64      bentley   364:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   365:             factor out bandwidth limiting code from
1.64      bentley   366:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   367:             into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
                    368:             <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
                    369:             limit option to
1.64      bentley   370:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>.
1.65    ! deraadt   371:             (bz#1147)
1.3       deraadt   372:         </ul>
                    373:     <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
                    374:         <ul>
1.64      bentley   375:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
1.4       sobrado   376:             and
1.64      bentley   377:             <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   378:             honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
1.65    ! deraadt   379:             directories. (bz#1809)
1.64      bentley   380:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   381:             avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
1.65    ! deraadt   382:             unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)
1.64      bentley   383:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   384:             remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
1.65    ! deraadt   385:             to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)
1.64      bentley   386:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   387:             pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
                    388:             remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
1.65    ! deraadt   389:             particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)
1.64      bentley   390:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp-server.8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
1.65    ! deraadt   391:             <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.
1.64      bentley   392:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.65    ! deraadt   393:             escape '[' in filename tab-completion.
1.64      bentley   394:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.65    ! deraadt   395:             Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)
1.64      bentley   396:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   397:             prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
1.65    ! deraadt   398:             overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.
1.64      bentley   399:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.65    ! deraadt   400:             Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".
1.64      bentley   401:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.4       sobrado   402:             kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
1.65    ! deraadt   403:             clean exit).
1.64      bentley   404:         <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5       sobrado   405:             install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.65    ! deraadt   406:             (bz#1812)
        !           407:         <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a
1.4       sobrado   408:         <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
1.65    ! deraadt   409:             OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.
1.3       deraadt   410:         </ul>
                    411:     </ul>
                    412: <p>
                    413:
                    414: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
                    415:     <ul>
1.64      bentley   416:     <li>New integrated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tbl.7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
                    417:     <li>Support the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a> .de, .rm, and .so requests.
                    418:     <li>Support all roff code used in the standard <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pod2man.1">pod2man(1)</a> preamble.
                    419:     <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man.7">man(7)</a> documents.
1.3       deraadt   420:     <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
                    421:     <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
                    422:     <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
                    423:     <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
                    424:       to render manuals.
                    425:     </ul>
                    426: <p>
                    427:
1.14      deraadt   428: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3       deraadt   429: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.64      bentley   430:     <ul style="column-count: 4">
1.3       deraadt   431:     <li>i386:       6620
                    432:     <li>sparc64:    6225
                    433:     <li>alpha:      6000
1.20      deraadt   434:     <li>sh:         3656
1.3       deraadt   435:     <li>amd64:      6570
                    436:     <li>powerpc:    6272
                    437:     <li>sparc:      4184
1.20      deraadt   438:     <li>arm:        5679
1.8       deraadt   439:     <li>hppa:       5838
1.3       deraadt   440:     <li>vax:        1068
                    441:     <li>mips64:     5492
                    442:     <li>mips64el:   5499
1.64      bentley   443:     </ul>
1.3       deraadt   444: Some highlights:
                    445:     <ul>
                    446:     <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
                    447:     <li>KDE 3.5.10.
                    448:     <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
                    449:     <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
                    450:     <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
                    451:     <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
                    452:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
                    453:     <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
                    454:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
                    455:     <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
1.26      jasper    456:     <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4.
1.3       deraadt   457:     <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
                    458:     <li>Vim 7.3.3.
                    459:     <li>PHP 5.2.16.
                    460:     <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
                    461:     <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
                    462:     <li>Mono 2.8.2.
1.26      jasper    463:     <li>Chromium 9.0.597.94.
1.3       deraadt   464:     </ul>
                    465: <p>
                    466:
                    467: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    468: <p>
                    469:
                    470: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    471:     <ul>
1.13      matthieu  472:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
                    473:        freetype 2.4.4,
1.19      stsp      474:         fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 267 and more)
1.20      deraadt   475:     <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+ patches)
                    476:     <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
1.3       deraadt   477:     <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
1.20      deraadt   478:         and DSO support
                    479:     <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
                    480:     <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
                    481:     <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
                    482:     <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
                    483:     <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
                    484:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    485:     <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
                    486:     <li>Arla 0.35.7
                    487:     <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
                    488:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.3       deraadt   489:     </ul>
1.1       deraadt   490: </ul>
1.64      bentley   491: </section>
1.1       deraadt   492:
                    493: <hr>
1.64      bentley   494:
                    495: <section id=install>
                    496: <h3>How to install</h3>
                    497:
1.1       deraadt   498: <p>
                    499: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    500: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    501: form of install.  The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
                    502: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    503: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    504: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    505: <p>
                    506:
                    507: <hr>
                    508: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
                    509: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
                    510: <p>
                    511: <ul>
                    512: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
                    513: <p>
                    514: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
                    515: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    516: <p>
                    517: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    518: <p>
                    519: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    520: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
                    521: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    522: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
                    523: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
                    524: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
                    525: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
                    526: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
                    527: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
                    528: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
                    529: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    530: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
                    531: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
                    532: </ul>
                    533: <hr>
                    534:
1.64      bentley   535: <section id=quickinstall>
                    536:
1.1       deraadt   537: <p>
                    538: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    539: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    540: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
1.64      bentley   541:
                    542: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
                    543:
1.1       deraadt   544: <p>
                    545: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    546: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    547: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
                    548: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
                    549:
                    550: <p>
                    551: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
                    552: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
                    553:
                    554: <p>
                    555: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    556: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    557: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    558:
                    559: <p>
                    560: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    561: read INSTALL.i386.
                    562:
                    563: <p>
                    564: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    565: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
                    566: use the
1.64      bentley   567: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>
1.1       deraadt   568: utility. The following is an example usage of
1.64      bentley   569: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>,
1.1       deraadt   570: where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    571: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    572:
1.64      bentley   573: <blockquote><pre>
1.1       deraadt   574: # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
1.64      bentley   575: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       deraadt   576:
                    577: <p>
                    578: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    579: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    580: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.59      tj        581: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.64      bentley   582:
                    583: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   584:
                    585: <p>
                    586: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
                    587: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    588: your BIOS options first.
                    589: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
                    590: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
                    591: boot from the floppy drive.
                    592:
                    593: <p>
                    594: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    595: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    596: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    597:
                    598: <p>
                    599: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    600: read INSTALL.amd64.
1.64      bentley   601:
                    602: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   603:
                    604: <p>
                    605: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    606: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    607:
                    608: <p>
                    609: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    610: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.64      bentley   611:
                    612: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   613:
                    614: <p>
                    615: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    616:
                    617: <p>
                    618: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    619: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
                    620: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    621: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    622:
                    623: <p>
                    624: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    625: will most likely fail.
                    626:
                    627: <p>
                    628: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
                    629: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    630:
                    631: <p>
                    632: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1.64      bentley   633:
                    634: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   635:
                    636: <p>
1.64      bentley   637: Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
1.1       deraadt   638: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
                    639: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    640:
                    641: <p>
                    642: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    643: will most likely fail.
                    644:
1.64      bentley   645: <h3>OpenBSD/armish:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   646:
                    647: <p>
                    648: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
                    649: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
                    650: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
                    651: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
                    652: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
                    653: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
                    654: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
                    655:
1.64      bentley   656: <h3>OpenBSD/hp300:</h3>
                    657:
1.1       deraadt   658: <p>
                    659: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
                    660:
1.64      bentley   661: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
                    662:
1.1       deraadt   663: <p>
                    664: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    665: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1.64      bentley   666:
                    667: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   668:
                    669: <p>
                    670: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
                    671: or disk, and boot normally.
                    672:
1.64      bentley   673: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
                    674:
1.1       deraadt   675: <p>
                    676: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    677: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    678: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    679:
1.64      bentley   680: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme68k:</h3>
                    681:
1.1       deraadt   682: <p>
                    683: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    684: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    685: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    686: for more details.
                    687:
1.64      bentley   688: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme88k:</h3>
                    689:
1.1       deraadt   690: <p>
                    691: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    692: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    693: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    694: for more details.
1.64      bentley   695:
                    696: <h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   697:
                    698: <p>
                    699: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
                    700: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
                    701: menu.
                    702:
                    703: <p>
                    704: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
                    705: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
                    706: the kernel matching your system type.
                    707: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
                    708:
1.64      bentley   709: <h3>OpenBSD/socppc:</h3>
                    710:
1.1       deraadt   711: <p>
                    712: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    713: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
1.64      bentley   714:
                    715: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   716:
                    717: <p>
                    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:
1.64      bentley   721: <blockquote><pre>
                    722: ok <kbd>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
1.1       deraadt   723: or
1.64      bentley   724: > <kbd>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
                    725: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       deraadt   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.
1.59      tj        730: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.1       deraadt   731: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
                    732: depending on the version of your ROM.
                    733:
1.64      bentley   734: <blockquote><pre>
                    735: ok <kbd>boot floppy</kbd>
1.1       deraadt   736: or
1.64      bentley   737: > <kbd>b fd()</kbd>
                    738: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       deraadt   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.
1.64      bentley   748:
                    749: <h3>OpenBSD/vax:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   750:
                    751: <p>
                    752: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    753:
1.64      bentley   754: <h3>OpenBSD/zaurus:</h3>
                    755:
1.1       deraadt   756: <p>
                    757: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
                    758: openbsd49_arm.ipk package.  Reboot, then run it.  Read INSTALL.zaurus
                    759: for a few important details.
1.64      bentley   760:
                    761: </section>
                    762:
                    763: <section id=sourcecode>
                    764: <h3>Notes about the source code:</h3>
1.1       deraadt   765:
                    766: <p>
                    767: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    768: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    769: in a separate archive.  To extract:
1.64      bentley   770:
                    771: <blockquote><pre>
                    772: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
                    773: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    774: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
                    775: </pre></blockquote>
                    776:
1.1       deraadt   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:
1.64      bentley   781:
                    782: <blockquote><pre>
                    783: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
                    784: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
1.1       deraadt   785: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
1.64      bentley   786: </pre></blockquote>
                    787:
1.1       deraadt   788: <p>
                    789: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    790: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    791: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    792: Using these files
                    793: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    794: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    795:
1.64      bentley   796: </section>
                    797: </section>
                    798:
1.1       deraadt   799: <hr>
1.64      bentley   800:
                    801: <section id=upgrade>
                    802: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
1.1       deraadt   803: <p>
1.2       deraadt   804: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       deraadt   805: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    806: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1.64      bentley   807: </section>
1.1       deraadt   808:
                    809: <hr>
1.64      bentley   810:
                    811: <section id=ports>
                    812: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1.1       deraadt   813: <p>
                    814: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    815: <p>
1.64      bentley   816: <blockquote><pre>
                    817: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
                    818: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
                    819: # <kbd>cd ports</kbd>
                    820: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       deraadt   821: <p>
                    822: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
                    823: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    824: if you know nothing about ports
                    825: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    826: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    827: OpenBSD ports system.
                    828: <p>
                    829: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.64      bentley   830: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1">
1.1       deraadt   831: cvs(1)</a> if
                    832: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    833: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    834: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    835: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    836: like:
                    837: <p>
1.64      bentley   838: <blockquote><pre>
1.1       deraadt   839: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
1.64      bentley   840: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       deraadt   841: <p>
                    842: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    843: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    844: server.]
                    845: <p>
                    846: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
                    847: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    848: <p>
                    849: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    850: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    851: place to know.
1.64      bentley   852: </section>