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<li>Improved hardware support, including:

<ul>

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4">oce(4)</a> for Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet adapters

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oce&sektion=4">oce(4)</a> for Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet adapters.

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtsx&sektion=4">rtsx(4)</a> for the Realtek RTS5209 card reader

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtsx&sektion=4">rtsx(4)</a> for the Realtek RTS5209 card reader.

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfii&sektion=4">mfii(4)</a> for the LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS Fusion controllers

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfii&sektion=4">mfii(4)</a> for the LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS Fusion controllers.

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smsc&sektion=4">smsc(4)</a> for SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet adapters

<li>New driver <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smsc&sektion=4">smsc(4)</a> for SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet adapters.

<li>New drivers for Toradex OAK USB sensors: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uoaklux&sektion=4">uoaklux(4)</a> (illuminance), <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uoakrh&sektion=4">uoakrh(4)</a> (temperature and relative humidity) and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uoakv&sektion=4">uoakv(4)</a> (+/- 10V 8channel ADC)

<li>New drivers for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=virtio&sektion=4">virtio(4)</a> devices: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vio&sektion=4">vio(4)</a> (network), <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vioblk&sektion=4">vioblk(4)</a> (block devices, attaching as SCSI disks) and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viomb&sektion=4">viomb(4)</a> (memory ballooning)

<li>Support for Adaptec 39320LPE added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahd&sektion=4">ahd(4)</a>

<li>Support for Adaptec 39320LPE added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahd&sektion=4">ahd(4)</a>.

<li>Intel X540-based 10Gb Ethernet devices supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>

<li>Intel X540-based 10Gb Ethernet devices supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>.

<li>Support for SFP+ hot-plug (82599) and various other improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>

<li>Support for SFP+ hot-plug (82599) and various other improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ix&sektion=4">ix(4)</a>.

<li>TX interrupt mitigation, hardware VLAN tagging and checksum offload reduce CPU use in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4">vr(4)</a>

<li>TX interrupt mitigation, hardware VLAN tagging and checksum offload reduce CPU use in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4">vr(4)</a>.

<li>Baby jumbo frames supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vr&sektion=4">vr(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">sis(4)</a> useful for e.g. MPLS, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4">vlan(4)</a> tag stacking (QinQ) and RFC4638 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppoe&sektion=4">pppoe(4)</a>

<li>TCP RX Checksum offload in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>

<li>TCP RX Checksum offload in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>.

<li>Improvements for NICs using 82579/pch2 in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>

<li>Improvements for NICs using 82579/pch2 in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.

<li>Flow control is now supported on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bnx&sektion=4">bnx(4)</a> 5708S/5709S adapters, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=jme&sektion=4">jme(4)</a>

<li>Power-saving clients supported in hostap mode with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acx&sektion=4">acx(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&sektion=4">athn(4)</a>

<li>A cause of RT2661 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a> wedging in hostap mode was fixed

<li>A cause of RT2661 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a> wedging in hostap mode was fixed.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn&sektion=4">iwn(4)</a> supports additional devices (Centrino Advanced-N 6235 and initial support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030)

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn&sektion=4">iwn(4)</a> supports additional devices (Centrino Advanced-N 6235 and initial support for Centrino Wireless-N 1030).

<li>Improvements to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and switch additional chips to AHCI mode

<li>Improvements to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahci&sektion=4">ahci(4)</a> and switch additional chips to AHCI mode.

<li>Support for the fixed-function performance counter on newer x86 chips with constant time stamp counters

<li>Support for the fixed-function performance counter on newer x86 chips with constant time stamp counters.

<li>Elantech touchpads supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=synaptics&sektion=4">synaptics(4)</a>

<li>Support for "physical devices" on skinny <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4">mfi(4)</a> controllers

<li>Support for "physical devices" on skinny <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4">mfi(4)</a> controllers.

<li>VMware emulated SAS adapters supported by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a>

<li>VMware emulated SAS adapters supported by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a>.

<li>Support for Intel's Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP) and Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) features on i386 and amd64

<li>Support for Intel's Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP) and Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) features on i386 and amd64.

<li>Support for the RDRAND instruction to read the hardware random number generator on recent Intel processors

<li>Support for the RDRAND instruction to read the hardware random number generator on recent Intel processors.

<li>amd64 PCI memory extent changed to cover the whole 64-bit memory space; fixes erroneous extent allocation panic on IBM x3100

<li>amd64 PCI memory extent changed to cover the whole 64-bit memory space; fixes erroneous extent allocation panic on IBM x3100.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ulpt&sektion=4">ulpt(4)</a> can now upload firmware to certain HP LaserJet printers

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ulpt&sektion=4">ulpt(4)</a> can now upload firmware to certain HP LaserJet printers.

<li>Added stat clock to Loongson machines, improving accuracy of CPU usage statistics

<li>Added stat clock to Loongson machines, improving accuracy of CPU usage statistics.

<li>CPU throttling supported on Loongson 2F

<li>CPU throttling supported on Loongson 2F.

<li>Support for Apple UniNorth and U3 AGP added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4">agp(4)</a>

<li>Support for Apple UniNorth and U3 AGP added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=agp&sektion=4">agp(4)</a>.

<li>DRM support for macppc

<li>DRM support for macppc.

</ul>

<li>Generic network stack improvements:

<ul>

<li>BPF can now write directly to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a> member interfaces (restriction relaxed)

<li>Restriction on writing to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a> member interfaces relaxed; BPF can now write to interfaces directly (useful for LLDP).

<li>UDP support added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sosplice&sektion=9">sosplice(9)</a> (zero-copy socket splicing)

<li>UDP support added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sosplice&sektion=9">sosplice(9)</a> (zero-copy socket splicing).

<li>IPv6 autoconfprivacy is enabled by default (can be disabled per-interface with an <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> flag)

<li>IPv6 autoconfprivacy is enabled by default (can be disabled per-interface with an <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> flag).

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a> <tt>hwfeatures</tt> displays the maximum MTU supported by the driver (indicating support for jumbo/baby-jumbo frames)

</ul>

<li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:

<ul>

<li>OpenBSD now includes <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=npppd&sektion=8">npppd(8)</a>, a server-side daemon for L2TP, L2TP/IPsec, PPTP and PPPoE

<li>OpenBSD now includes <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=npppd&sektion=8">npppd(8)</a>, a server-side daemon for L2TP, L2TP/IPsec, PPTP and PPPoE.

<li>New standalone <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tftp-proxy&sektion=8">tftp-proxy(8)</a> to replace the old <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inetd&sektion=8">inetd(8)</a>-based implementation

<li>SNMPv3 supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>

<li>SNMPv3 supported in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> is more tolerant of unknown capabilities when bringing up a session (logs a warning rather than fails)

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> is more tolerant of unknown capabilities when bringing up a session (logs a warning rather than fails).

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> now handles the client side of "graceful restart"

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> now handles the client side of "graceful restart".

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> can now filter based on the NEXTHOP attribute

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> can now filter based on the NEXTHOP attribute.

<li>A stratum can now be assigned to hardware sensors in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8">ntpd(8)</a>

<li>A stratum can now be assigned to hardware sensors in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8">ntpd(8)</a>.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=authpf&sektion=8">authpf(8)</a> now supports the use of per-group rules files.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a> client now supports basic HTTP authentication as per RFC 2617 and 3986 like "ftp http[s]://user:pass@host/file".

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<li>Assorted improvements:

<ul>

<li>Position-independent executables (PIE) are now used by default on alpha, amd64, hppa, landisk, loongson, sgi and sparc64

<li>Position-independent executables (PIE) are now used by default on alpha, amd64, hppa, landisk, loongson, sgi and sparc64.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldomctl&sektion=8&arch=sparc64">ldomctl(8)</a>

was added to manage logical domains on sun4v systems through

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldomd&sektion=8&arch=sparc64">ldomd(8)</a>

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldomd&sektion=8&arch=sparc64">ldomd(8)</a>.

<li>Support for WPA Enterprise was added to the wpa_supplicant package

<li>Support for WPA Enterprise was added to the wpa_supplicant package.

<li>OpenBSD/luna88k and OpenBSD/mvme88k have switched to GCC 3, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elf&sektion=5">elf(5)</a> and gained shared library support

<li>OpenBSD/luna88k and OpenBSD/mvme88k have switched to GCC 3, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elf&sektion=5">elf(5)</a> and gained shared library support.

<li>OpenBSD/hp300 and OpenBSD/mvme68k have switched to GCC 3 and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elf&sektion=5">elf(5)</a>

<li>OpenBSD/hp300 and OpenBSD/mvme68k have switched to GCC 3 and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elf&sektion=5">elf(5)</a>.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1">gcc(1)</a> stack smashing protector added for Alpha and MIPS (enabled by default)

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1">gcc(1)</a> stack smashing protector added for Alpha and MIPS (enabled by default).

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> RAID1 and crypto volumes are now bootable on i386 and amd64 (full disk encryption)

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> RAID1 and crypto volumes are now bootable on i386 and amd64 (full disk encryption).

<li>Large performance and reliability improvements in

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1">make(1)</a>,

especially in parallel mode. make no longer does any busy waiting, it handles

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Column numbers have been made configureable and locale is respected for ctype purposes, like displaying ISO Latin 1 characters.

<li>Improved our own <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg-config&sektion=1">pkg-config(1)</a>

implementation to make it compatible with freedesktop.org's 0.27.1 release.

<li>A number of improvements to the buffer cache and page daemon interactions to avoid issues in low memory/low kva situations.

<li>Various bug fixes in uvm to avoid potential races and deadlock issues.

<li>Softdep speedup improvements by the revert of a previously necessary wokaround to prevent kva starvation.

<li>Memory filesystem (mfs) switched to bufq, giving us queue limits and FIFO queueing (rather than the current LIFO queueing)

<li>Memory filesystem (mfs) switched to bufq, giving us queue limits and FIFO queueing (rather than the current LIFO queueing).

<li>Shared library on GCC 4 platforms now each get their own stack protector cookies instead of sharing a single global cookie.

<li>Threaded programs and libraries can now be linked with the POSIX-standard -lpthread flag instead of the OpenBSD-specific -pthread flag.

<li>Threaded programs and libraries can now be linked with the POSIX-standard -lpthread flag instead of the OpenBSD-specific -pthread flag

<li>Many improvements to the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cwm&sektion=1">cwm(1)</a> window manager,

including tab completion and Xft support for menus, improved Xinerama support, and per-group vertical/horizontal manual tiling support.

</ul>

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optimizations that amount to a large performance increase:

dpb can now build selected large ports using parallel make, and it

has a notion of affinity, so that ports failing on a cluster will be

preferentiably restarted on the same machine.

preferentially restarted on the same machine.

</ul>

<li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture: