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version 1.46, 2014/04/09 04:26:49

version 1.47, 2014/04/09 04:36:14

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<li>The installer now supports a scriptable <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autoinstall&sektion=8">auto-installation</a> method.

<li>Installer improvements:

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<li>The installer now supports a scriptable

<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autoinstall&sektion=8">auto-installation</a>

method that enables unattended installation and upgrades using a response file.

<li>Disk images which can be written to a USB flash drive (miniroot55.fs and

install55.fs) are now provided for amd64 and i386.

<li>Rewritten

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

utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms (currently

used by amd64 and i386 only).

<li>The installer now parses nwid's with embedded blanks correctly.

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<li>New/extended platforms:

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<li>Corrected handling of UTIME_OMIT.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> now sets the mode and timestamps correctly on symlinks, and makes hardlinks to symlinks when requested.

<li>Corrected handling of shared-library destructors when libc is staticly linked.

<li>Disk images which can be written to a USB flash (miniroot55.fs and install55.fs) are now provided for i386 and amd64.

<li>Corrected various disk drivers to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.

<li>Corrected <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=growfs&sektion=8">growfs(8)</a> to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.

<li>All CIRCLEQ uses replaced with TAILQ.

<li>Preserve and honour changes to the OpenBSD bounds in a disklabel.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now always writes a good signature when MBR is written to disk.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> now writes the disklabel to the correct location on non-512-byte sector devices.

<li>Correctly parse nwid's with embedded blanks during install.

<li>Fix <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&sektion=4">athn(4)</a> tick calculations to eliminate excessive timeouts.

<li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> to set any partition, including 'C', to type UNUSED.

<li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha512&sektion=1">sha512(1)</a> tool to calculate and verify the SHA-512 checksums of files.

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now support a new -h flag to place the checksum into a specified hash file instead of stdout.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha256&sektion=1">sha256(1)</a> and related tools now support a new -C flag that allows the verification of selected files in a checklist.

<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha256&sektion=1">sha256(1)</a> and related tools will now print MISSING if they encounter non-existent files in a checklist.

<li>Rewritten

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

utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms. Currently used by i386 and amd64 platforms only.

<li>i386 and amd64 platforms can now boot from keydisk-based <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> crypto volumes.

<li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> to work with partitions larger than 2TB.

<li>Removed experimental RAID 4 support from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a>.