Annotation of www/54.html, Revision 1.28
1.1 deraadt 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>OpenBSD 5.4 Release</title>
5: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
6: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
7: <meta name="description" content="OpenBSD 5.4">
8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,main">
9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 2013 by OpenBSD.">
11: </head>
12:
13: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#24248E">
14:
15: <a href="index.html">
16: <img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" hspace="24" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
17: <hr>
18:
19: <p>
1.14 deraadt 20: <a href="images/Puffia.jpg">
1.1 deraadt 21: <img align="left" width="227" height="343" hspace="24" vspace="30"
1.14 deraadt 22: src="images/Puffia.jpg" alt="OpenBSD 5.4 logo"></a>
1.1 deraadt 23: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 5.4 Release:</font></h2>
24: <p>
1.25 nick 25: Released Nov 1, 2013<br>
1.1 deraadt 26: Copyright 1997-2013, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.28 ! deraadt 27: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-2-8</font>
1.1 deraadt 28: <br>
1.14 deraadt 29: <a href="lyrics.html#54">5.4 Song: "Our favorite hacks"</a>
1.1 deraadt 30: <p>
31:
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>
36: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
37:
38: <p>
39: <h3><font color="#0000e0">To get the files for this release:</font></h3>
40: <p>
41: <ul>
42: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
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/5.4/</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="errata54.html">The 5.4 Errata page</a> for a list
49: of bugs and workarounds.
50: <li>See a <a href="plus54.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
51: 5.3 and 5.4 releases.
52: </ul>
53: <br clear=all>
54:
55: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
56: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
57: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
58: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
59: the CDROM because of lack of space.
60: <p>
61:
62: <a name="new"></a>
63: <hr>
64: <p>
65: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
66: <p>
67: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.4.
68: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus54.html">changelog</a> leading
69: to 5.4.
70: <p>
71:
72: <ul>
1.2 bcallah 73: <li>New/extended platforms:</li>
74: <ul>
75: <li><a href="octeon.html">OpenBSD/octeon</a><br>
76: New platform for systems based on the Cavium Octeon MIPS-compatible
77: processors. Supported machines include:
78: <ul>
79: <li>Portwell CAM-0100
80: <li>Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter LITE (no local storage)
81: </ul>
1.15 lteo 82: <li><a href="beagle.html">OpenBSD/beagle</a><br>
83: New platform for OMAP3/4 and AM335x systems using an ARM Cortex-A8 or
84: Cortex-A9 CPU. Supported boards include:
85: <ul>
86: <li>BeagleBoard C4 / xM
87: <li>BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black
88: <li>PandaBoard and PandaBoard ES
89: </ul>
1.2 bcallah 90: </ul>
91: <p>
92:
1.1 deraadt 93: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
94: <ul>
1.7 jsg 95: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a>
96: has been overhauled, including:
97: <ul>
98: <li>Now mostly in sync with Linux 3.8.13.
99: <li>Support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) including support for additional output types such as DisplayPort.
100: <li>Sandy Bridge and newer parts which previously had only ShadowFB acceleration
101: now have full hardware acceleration including use of the 3D rings.
102: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wsdisplay&sektion=4">wsdisplay(4)</a> now attaches to
103: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a> and providers a
104: framebuffer console.
1.18 deraadt 105: </ul>
1.8 mpi 106: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vgafb&sektion=4&arch=macppc">vgafb(4/macppc)</a> now supports multiple virtual consoles.
107: <li>Support for Elantech touchpads version 4 (clickpad) added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a>.
1.16 krw 108: <li>Fixed <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> EOM handling, enabling much better Bacula support.
109: <li>Support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vdsk&sektion=4&arch=sparc64">vdsk(4)</a> disks larger than 2TB.
1.15 lteo 110: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 111: <p>
112:
113: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
114: <ul>
1.6 pascal 115: <li>Reworked checksum handling for network protocols.
1.15 lteo 116: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=divert&sektion=4">divert(4)</a> now recalculates the IP and protocol checksums of reinjected packets.
1.16 krw 117: <li>No longer attempt to delete the undeletable RNF_ROOT route.
1.1 deraadt 118: </ul>
119: <p>
120:
121: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
122: <ul>
123: <li>Support SSL inspection in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a>.
124: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=slowcgi&sektion=8">slowcgi(8)</a>, a libevent-based FastCGI implementation.
1.6 pascal 125: <li>Enabled ECDHE support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>.
126: <li>Do not start <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inetd&sektion=8">inetd(8)</a> by default any more.
1.15 lteo 127: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a> improvements, including a speed-up of the session establishment process, support for adjacencies and targeted hellos, support for multiple addresses per interface, and more.
1.1 deraadt 128: </ul>
129: <p>
130:
1.16 krw 131: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> improvements:
132: <ul>
133: <li>Improved compliance with RFC 2131 strictures on client-identifiers.
134: <li>Fixed synchronization of leases.
135: <li>Replaced manual date parsing and printing with strftime and strptime.
136: <li>Explicitly label dates in leases files as being UTC dates.
137: </ul>
138:
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improvements:
142: <ul>
143: <li>Delete routes added by defunct dhclient processes.
144: <li>Improved handling of client-identifier option.
145: <li>Increased ip_ttl on packets to 128, allowing more distant servers to provide leases.
146: <li>Replaced manual date parsing and printing with strftime and strptime.
147: <li>Explicitly label dates in leases files as being UTC dates.
1.21 sobrado 148: <li>Improved interactions between dhclient processes to make the most recent dhclient started the most likely to persist.
1.16 krw 149: <li>Support for static routes and classless static routes options.
150: <li>Fixed log messages to print correct addresses.
151: <li>Reduced log verbosity by emitting debug messages only when debugging.
152: <li>Eliminated unnecessary address and route churn during lease renewal by not binding leases identical to the current one.
153: </ul>
154:
155: <p>
1.1 deraadt 156:
157: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.3.3:
158: <ul>
159: <li>New features:
160: <ul>
1.17 gilles 161: <li>Add support for LMTP local deliveries
162: <li>Add SECURE and AUTH transmission types
163: <li>Add support for transparent queue compression
164: <li>helo names can now be looked up in a db(3) table
165: <li>New "error:" alias kind allows aliasing a user-part to an error
166: <li>Traces can be (de)activated at runtime
1.1 deraadt 167: </ul>
168:
169: <li>Improvements:
170: <ul>
1.17 gilles 171: <li>More robust queue can cope with runtime errors
172: <li>Improved routing strategies
173: <li>Assorted minor bug fixes and cleanups
1.1 deraadt 174: </ul>
175: </ul>
176: <p>
177:
178: <li>Performance improvements:
179: <ul>
1.13 guenther 180: <li>Don't require the kernel lock when processing audio interrupts.
181: <li>Improved kernel bcopy/memmove/memcpy implementations and made more careful choices between them.
182: <li>Implemented symbol caching and RELCOUNT/RELACOUNT optimizations in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 183: </ul>
184: <p>
185:
186: <li>Threading improvements:
187: <ul>
1.13 guenther 188: <li>Closed various race conditions between exit/fork/execve/__tfork/__threxit/ptrace in both the kernel and libpthread.
1.1 deraadt 189: </ul>
190: <p>
191:
192: <li>Assorted improvements:
193: <ul>
194: <li>Added a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=locale&sektion=1">locale(1)</a> utility.
195: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ltrace&sektion=1">ltrace(1)</a>, a tool to trace PLT calls.
1.6 pascal 196: <li>Added a new implementation of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cu&sektion=1">cu(1)</a>.
197: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shm_open&sektion=3">shm_open(3)/shm_unlink(3)</a>.
1.7 jsg 198: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getprogname&sektion=3">getprogname(3)/setprogname(3)</a>.
199: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=clock_getcpuclockid&sektion=3">clock_getcpuclockid(3)</a> and
200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthread_getcpuclockid&sektion=3">pthread_getcpuclockid(3)</a>.
201: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fmemopen&sektion=3">fmemopen(3)</a>.
202: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=open_memstream&sektion=3">open_memstream(3)/open_wmemstream(3)</a>.
203: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=memmem&sektion=3">memmem(3)</a>.
204: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdatasync&sektion=2">fdatasync(2)</a>.
205: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppoll&sektion=2">ppoll(2)</a>.
206: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pselect&sektion=2">pselect(2)</a>.
207: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utrace&sektion=2">utrace(2)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 208: <li>Switched the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/vax.html">VAX</a> platform to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=elf&sektion=5">ELF</a>.
1.6 pascal 209: <li>Fixed kernel profiling on multiprocessor systems.
1.13 guenther 210: <li>Experimental support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fuse&sektion=4">fuse(4)</a>.
211: <li>Added support for <tt>write_opt=nodir</tt> and the 'path' and 'linkpath' extended headers to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> (aka <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1">tar(1)</a>).
212: <li>Brought <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getconf&sektion=1">getconf(1)</a> up to date with recent POSIX updates.
213: <li>Added -L and -P options to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ln&sektion=1">ln(1)</a>.
214: <li>More structures and symbolic values displayed by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kdump&sektion=1">kdump(1)</a>.
1.15 lteo 215: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1">pkill(1)</a> now accepts an -I option to ask for confirmation on killing processes.
1.1 deraadt 216: </ul>
217: <p>
218:
219: <li>OpenSSH 6.3:
220: <ul>
221: <li>New features:
222: <ul>
223: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
224: add
225: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>
226: support to
227: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>;
228: allows encrypted hostkeys, or hostkeys on smartcards.
229: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
230: and
231: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
232: allow optional time-based rekeying via a second argument to the
233: existing <tt>RekeyLimit</tt> option. <tt>RekeyLimit</tt> is now
234: supported in
235: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
236: as well as on the client.
237: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
238: standardise logging of information during user authentication.
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
240: add the ability to query supported ciphers, MAC algorithms, key types
241: and key exchange methods.
242: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
243: support <tt>ProxyCommand=-</tt> to allow support cases where stdin and
244: stdout already point to the proxy.
245: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
246: allow <tt>IdentityFile=none</tt>.
247: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
248: and
249: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
250: add <tt>-E</tt> option to
251: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
252: and
253: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
254: to append debugging logs to a specified file instead of stderr or
255: syslog.
256: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
257: add support for resuming partial downloads using the <tt>reget</tt>
258: command and on the
259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
260: commandline or on the get commandline using the <tt>-a</tt>
261: (append) option.
262: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
263: add an <tt>IgnoreUnknown</tt> configuration option to selectively
264: suppress errors arising from unknown configuration directives.
265: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
266: add support for submethods to be appended to required authentication
267: methods listed via <tt>AuthenticationMethods</tt>.
268: </ul>
269: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
270: <ul>
271: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
272: fix refusal to accept certificate if a key of a different type to the
273: CA key appeared in <tt>authorized_keys</tt> before the CA key.
274: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
275: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>
276: and
277: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
278: Use a monotonic time source for timers so that things like keepalives
279: and rekeying will work properly over clock steps.
280: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
281: update progressmeter when data is acknowledged, not when it's sent.
282: (bz#2108)
283: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
284: and
285: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
286: improve error messages when the current user does not exist in
287: <tt>/etc/passwd</tt>. (bz#2125)
288: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
289: reset the order in which public keys are tried after partial
290: authentication success.
291: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
292: clean up socket files after SIGINT when in debug mode. (bz#2120)
293: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
294: and others: avoid confusing error messages in the case of broken system
295: resolver configurations. (bz#2122)
296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
297: set TCP nodelay for connections started with <tt>-N</tt>. (bz#2124)
298: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
299: correct manual for permission requirements on <tt>~/.ssh/config</tt>.
300: (bz#2078)
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
302: fix <tt>ControlPersist</tt> timeout not triggering in cases where TCP
303: connections have hung. (bz#1917)
304: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.20 sobrado 305: properly detach a <tt>ControlPersist</tt> master from its controlling
1.1 deraadt 306: terminal.
307: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
308: avoid crashes in libedit when it has been compiled with multi-byte
309: character support. (bz#1990)
310: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
311: when running <tt>sshd -D</tt>, close stderr unless we have explicitly
312: requested logging to stderr. (bz#1976)
313: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
314: fix incomplete bzero. (bz#2100)
315: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
316: log and error and exit if <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt> is specified and
317: running without root privileges.
318: <li>Many improvements to the regression test suite. In particular log
319: files are now saved from
320: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
321: and
322: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
323: after failures.
324: <li>Fix a number of memory leaks. (bz#1967, bz#2096 and others)
325: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
326: fix public key authentication when a <tt>:style</tt> is appended to the
327: requested username.
328: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
329: do not fatally exit when attempting to cleanup multiplexing-created
330: channels that are incompletely opened. (bz#2079)
331: </ul>
332: </ul>
333: <p>
334:
1.19 espie 335: <li>Over 7,800 ports, major stability improvements in
1.1 deraadt 336: the package build process
337: <ul>
1.19 espie 338: <li>The parallel ports builder is better at catching up errors on older
339: slower platforms, thus allowing release engineers to better concentrate on
340: real errors.
1.1 deraadt 341: </ul>
342: <p>
343: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
344: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
345: <tr>
346: <td valign="top" width="25%">
347: <ul>
1.10 sthen 348: <li>i386: 7976
349: <li>sparc64: 6959
350: <li>alpha: 6062
1.24 miod 351: <li>m68k: 3862
1.1 deraadt 352: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.23 pirofti 353: <li>sh: 989
1.10 sthen 354: <li>amd64: 7941
1.11 sthen 355: <li>powerpc: 7483
1.24 miod 356: <li>m88k: 3951
1.1 deraadt 357: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.11 sthen 358: <li>sparc: 4823
359: <li>arm: 5582
1.10 sthen 360: <li>hppa: 6607
1.1 deraadt 361: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.12 sebastia 362: <li>vax: 2226
1.10 sthen 363: <li>mips64: 6739
364: <li>mips64el: 6306
1.1 deraadt 365: </ul></td></tr></table>
366: <p>
367:
368: <li>Some highlights:
369: <ul>
370: <li>GNOME 3.8.3 <li>KDE 3.5.10
371: <li>Xfce 4.10 <li>MySQL 5.1.70
372: <li>PostgreSQL 9.2.4 <li>Postfix 2.10.1
373: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.35 <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 and 22.0
374: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.7 <li>GHC 7.6.3
375: <li>LibreOffice 4.0.4.2 <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.3
1.5 lteo 376: <li>Vim 7.3.850 <li>PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.27
1.1 deraadt 377: <li>Python 2.7.5 and 3.3.2 <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.448 and 2.0.0.247
1.5 lteo 378: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.4.20, 8.5.14 and 8.6.0 <li>JDK 1.6.0.32 and 1.7.0.21
1.1 deraadt 379: <li>Mono 2.10.9 <li>Chromium 28.0.1500.45
380: <li>Groff 1.22.2 <li>Go 1.1.1
381: <li>GCC 4.6.4 and 4.8.1 <li>LLVM/Clang 3.3
1.3 abieber 382: <li>Node.js 0.10.12
1.1 deraadt 383: </ul>
384: <p>
385:
386: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
390: <ul>
391: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.14.1 + patches,
1.4 matthieu 392: freetype 2.4.12, fontconfig 2.10.91, Mesa 7.11.2, xterm 293,
1.1 deraadt 393: xkeyboard-config 2.7 and more)
1.22 nick 394: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+patches), 3.3.6 (+ patches) and 2.95.3 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 395: <li>Perl 5.16.3 (+ patches)
396: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with
397: SSL/TLS and DSO support
398: <li>Nginx 1.4.1 (+ patches)
399: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.1c (+ patches)
400: <li>SQLite 3.7.17 (+ patches)
401: <li>Sendmail 8.14.7, with libmilter
402: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
403: <li>NSD 3.2.15
404: <li>Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
405: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
406: <li>Ncurses 5.7
407: <li>Heimdal 1.5.2 (+ patches)
408: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
409: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
410: <li>Less 444 (+ patches)
411: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
412: </ul>
413:
414: </ul>
415:
416: <a name="install"></a>
417: <hr>
418: <p>
419: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
420: <p>
421: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
422: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
423: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
424: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
425: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
426: purchased a CDROM instead.
427: <p>
428:
429: <hr>
430: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
431: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.4 on your machine:
432: <p>
433: <ul>
434: <li>CD1:5.4/i386/INSTALL.i386
435: <p>
436: <li>CD2:5.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
437: <p>
438: <li>CD3:5.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
439: <p>
440: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
441: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/armish/INSTALL.armish
442: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/beagle/INSTALL.beagle
443: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
444: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
445: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
446: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
447: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k
448: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
449: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
450: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
451: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon
452: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
453: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
454: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
455: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/vax/INSTALL.vax
456: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.4/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
457: </ul>
458: <hr>
459:
460: <p>
461: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
462: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
463: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
464: <p>
465:
466: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
467: <ul>
468: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
469: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
470: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
471: <i>CD1:5.4/i386/floppy54.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
472:
473: <p>
474: Use <i>CD1:5.4/i386/floppyB54.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
475: support, or <i>CD1:5.4/i386/floppyC54.fs</i> for better laptop support.
476:
477: <p>
478: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
479: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
480: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
481:
482: <p>
483: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
484: read INSTALL.i386.
485:
486: <p>
487: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
488: at <i>CD1:5.4/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
489: use the
490: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
491: utility. The following is an example usage of
492: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
493: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
494: "rfd0a".
495:
496: <ul><pre>
497: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
498: </pre></ul>
499:
500: <p>
501: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
502: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
503: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
504: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
505: </ul>
506:
507: <p>
508: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
509: <ul>
510: The 5.4 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
511: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
512: your BIOS options first.
513: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
514: To do this, write <i>CD2:5.4/amd64/floppy54.fs</i> to a floppy, then
515: boot from the floppy drive.
516:
517: <p>
518: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
519: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
520: INSTALL.amd64 document.
521:
522: <p>
523: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
524: read INSTALL.amd64.
525: </ul>
526:
527: <p>
528: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
529: <ul>
1.9 martin 530: Burn the image from the FTP site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 531: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
532: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
533:
534: <p>
535: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
536: /5.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
537: </ul>
538:
539: <p>
540: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
541: <ul>
542: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
543:
544: <p>
545: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
546: <i>CD3:5.4/sparc64/floppy54.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.4/sparc64/floppyB54.fs</i>
547: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
548: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
549:
550: <p>
551: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
552: will most likely fail.
553:
554: <p>
555: You can also write <i>CD3:5.4/sparc64/miniroot54.fs</i> to the swap partition on
556: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
557:
558: <p>
559: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
560: </ul>
561:
562: <p>
563: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
564: <ul>
565: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.4/alpha/floppy54.fs</i> or
566: <i>FTP:5.4/alpha/floppyB54.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
567: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
568:
569: <p>
570: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
571: will most likely fail.
572:
573: </ul>
574:
575: <p>
576: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
577: <ul>
578: <p>
579: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
580: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
581: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
582: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
583: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
584: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
585: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
586: </ul>
587:
588: <p>
589: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
590: <ul>
591: <p>
592: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
593: </ul>
594:
595: <p>
596: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
597: <ul>
598: <p>
599: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
600: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
601: </ul>
602:
603: <p>
604: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
605: <ul>
606: <p>
607: Write <i>miniroot54.fs</i> to the start of the CF
608: or disk, and boot normally.
609: </ul>
610:
611: <p>
612: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
613: <ul>
614: <p>
615: Write <i>miniroot54.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
616: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
617: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
618: </ul>
619: <p>
620:
621: <p>
622: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
623: <ul>
624: <p>
625: Copy bsd.rd to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot it from the PROM.
626: Alternatively, you can create a bootable tape and boot from it. Refer to
627: the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
628: </ul>
629:
630: <p>
631: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
632: <ul>
633: <p>
634: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
635: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
636: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
637: for more details.
638: </ul>
639:
640: <p>
641: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
642: <ul>
643: <p>
644: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
645: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
646: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
647: for more details.
648: </ul>
649:
650: <p>
651: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
652: <ul>
653: <p>
1.2 bcallah 654: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
655: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
1.1 deraadt 656: </ul>
657:
658: <p>
659: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
660: <ul>
661: <p>
662: To install on an O2, burn cd54.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
663: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
664: menu.
665:
666: <p>
667: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
668: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
669: the kernel matching your system type.
670: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
671: </ul>
672:
673: <p>
674: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
675: <ul>
676: <p>
677: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
678: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
679: </ul>
680:
681: <p>
682: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
683: <ul>
684: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
685: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
686:
687: <ul><pre>
688: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.4/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
689: or
690: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.4/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
691: </pre></ul>
692:
693: <p>
694: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
695: To do so you need to write <i>floppy54.fs</i> to a floppy.
696: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
697: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
698: depending on the version of your ROM.
699:
700: <ul><pre>
701: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
702: or
703: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
704: </pre></ul>
705:
706: <p>
707: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
708: will most likely fail.
709:
710: <p>
711: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
712: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
713: INSTALL.sparc file.
714: </ul>
715:
716: <p>
717: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
718: <ul>
719: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
720: </ul>
721:
722: <p>
723: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
724: <ul>
725: <p>
726: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
727: openbsd54_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
728: for a few important details.
729: </ul>
730:
731: <p>
732: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
733: <ul>
734: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
735: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
736: in a separate archive. To extract:
737: <p>
738: <ul><pre>
739: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
740: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
741: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
742: </pre></ul>
743: <p>
744: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
745: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
746: To extract:
747: <p>
748: <ul><pre>
749: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
750: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
751: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
752: </pre></ul>
753: <p>
754: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
755: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
756: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
757: Using these files
758: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
759: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
760: <p>
761: </ul>
762:
763: <a name="upgrade"></a>
764: <hr>
765: <p>
766: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
767: <p>
768: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
769: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
770: <a href="faq/upgrade54.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
771:
772: <a name="ports"></a>
773: <hr>
774: <p>
775: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
776: <p>
777: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
778: <p>
779: <ul><pre>
780: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
781: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
782: </pre></ul>
783: <p>
784: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
785: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
786: if you know nothing about ports
787: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
788: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
789: OpenBSD ports system.
790: <p>
791: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
792: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
793: cvs(1)</a> if
794: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
795: source tree, our ports tree is available via
796: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
797: So, in order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
798: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
799: like:
800: <p>
801: <ul><pre>
802: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
803: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_4</strong>
804: </pre></ul>
805: <p>
806: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
807: server.]
808: <p>
809: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
810: packages for the 5.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
811: <p>
812: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
813: would like to know more, the mailing list
814: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
815: <p>
816: </body>
817: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to 54.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www