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1.14 deraadt 21: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 5.5</font></h2>
1.1 deraadt 22: <p>
1.14 deraadt 23: To be released May 1, 2014<br>
1.1 deraadt 24: Copyright 1997-2014, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-3-5</font>
26: <br>
27: <a href="lyrics.html#55">5.5 Song: "Wrap in Time"</a>
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30: <ul>
31: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
33: a list of mirror machines.
34: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/5.5/</font> directory on
35: one of the mirror sites.
36: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
37: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata55.html">The 5.5 Errata page</a> for a list
38: of bugs and workarounds.
39: <li>See a <a href="plus55.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
40: 5.4 and 5.5 releases.
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1.14 deraadt 43: <p>
44: All applicable copyrights and credits can be found in the applicable
45: file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
46: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The
47: distribution files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file
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54: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
55: <p>
56: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.5.
57: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus55.html">changelog</a> leading
58: to 5.5.
59: <p>
60:
61: <ul>
1.45 brynet 62: <li>time_t is now 64 bits on all platforms.
1.52 ! lteo 63: <ul>
! 64: <li>From OpenBSD 5.5 onwards, OpenBSD is year 2038 ready and will run well beyond Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC.
! 65: <li>The entire source tree (kernel, libraries, and userland programs) has been carefully and comprehensively audited to support 64-bit time_t.
! 66: <li>Userland programs that were changed include
! 67: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arp&sektion=8">arp(8)</a>,
! 68: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
! 69: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=calendar&sektion=8">calendar(8)</a>,
! 70: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cron&sektion=8">cron(8)</a>,
! 71: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=find&sektion=1">find(1)</a>,
! 72: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fsck_ffs&sektion=8">fsck_ffs(8)</a>,
! 73: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>,
! 74: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>,
! 75: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld&sektion=1">ld(1)</a>,
! 76: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>,
! 77: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=netstat&sektion=1">netstat(1)</a>,
! 78: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8">pfctl(8)</a>,
! 79: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ping&sektion=8">ping(8)</a>,
! 80: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtadvd&sektion=8">rtadvd(8)</a>,
! 81: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
! 82: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1">tar(1)</a>,
! 83: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1">tmux(1)</a>,
! 84: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1">top(1)</a>,
! 85: and many others, including games!
! 86: <li>Removed time_t from network, on-disk, and database formats.
! 87: <li>Removed as many (time_t) casts as possible.
! 88: <li>Format strings were converted to use %lld and (long long) casts.
! 89: <li>Uses of timeval were converted to timespec where possible.
! 90: <li>Parts of the system that could not use 64-bit time_t were converted to use unsigned 32-bit instead, so they are good till the year 2106.
! 91: <li>Numerous ports throughout the ports tree received time_t fixes.
! 92: </ul>
1.46 lteo 93: <p>
94:
1.15 tedu 95: <li>Releases and packages are now cryptographically signed with the
1.10 tedu 96: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify&sektion=1">signify(1)</a> utility.
1.46 lteo 97: <ul>
98: <li>The installer will verify all sets before installing.
99: <li>Installing without verification works, but is discouraged.
100: <li>Users are advised to verify the installer (bsd.rd, install55.iso, etc.)
101: ahead of time using the
102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify&sektion=1#end">signify(1)</a> tool if available.
103: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a> now trusts signed packages only by default.
104: </ul>
105: <p>
106:
1.47 lteo 107: <li>Installer improvements:
108: <ul>
109: <li>The installer now supports a scriptable
110: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autoinstall&sektion=8">auto-installation</a>
111: method that enables unattended installation and upgrades using a response file.
1.48 deraadt 112: <li>Disk images which can be written to a USB flash drive
113: (miniroot55.fs [bsd.rd only] and install55.fs [bsd.rd + unsigned sets])
114: are now provided for amd64 and i386.
1.47 lteo 115: <li>Rewritten
116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot&sektion=8">installboot(8)</a>
117: utility aiming for a unified implementation across platforms (currently
118: used by amd64 and i386 only).
119: <li>The installer now parses nwid's with embedded blanks correctly.
120: </ul>
1.10 tedu 121: <p>
122:
1.8 tedu 123: <li>New/extended platforms:
1.1 deraadt 124: <ul>
1.32 miod 125: <li><a href="alpha.html">OpenBSD/alpha</a>:
126: <ul>
127: <li>Multiprocessor support.
128: </ul>
129: <li><a href="aviion.html">OpenBSD/aviion</a>:
130: <ul>
131: <li>First self-hosting release for 88100-based AViiON systems.
132: </ul>
1.39 lteo 133: <li><a href="armv7.html">OpenBSD/armv7</a> replaces OpenBSD/beagle.
1.1 deraadt 134: </ul>
135: <p>
136:
137: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
138: <ul>
1.5 jsg 139: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vmx&sektion=4">vmx(4)</a>
140: driver for VMware VMXNET3 Virtual Interface Controller devices.
141: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vmwpvs&sektion=4">vmwpvs(4)</a>
142: driver for VMware Paravirtual SCSI.
143: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vioscsi&sektion=4">vioscsi(4)</a>
144: driver for VirtIO SCSI adapters.
145: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viornd&sektion=4">viornd(4)</a>
146: driver for VirtIO random number devices.
147: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ubcmtp&sektion=4">ubcmtp(4)</a>
1.50 lteo 148: driver for Broadcom multi-touch trackpads found on newer Apple MacBook,
149: MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air laptops.
1.5 jsg 150: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ugold&sektion=4">ugold(4)</a>
151: driver for TEMPer gold HID thermometers.
152: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ugl&sektion=4">ugl(4)</a>
153: driver for Genesys Logic based USB host-to-host adapters.
1.41 stsp 154: <li> New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=qla&sektion=4">qla(4)</a> driver for Qlogic fibre channel HBAs.
1.5 jsg 155: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>
156: has been overhauled, including:
157: <ul>
158: <li>New port of the Radeon code in Linux 3.8.13.19.
159: <li>Support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) including support for
160: additional output types such as DisplayPort.
161: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wsdisplay&sektion=4">wsdisplay(4)</a>
162: now attaches to
163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>
164: and provides a framebuffer console.
165: </ul>
166: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a>
1.20 sthen 167: has been updated to Linux 3.8.13.19 notably bringing Haswell stability fixes.
1.5 jsg 168: <li>Support for Intel 8 Series Ethernet with i217/i218 PHYs, and
169: i210/i211/i354 has been added to
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
171: <li>Support for Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200, 2230 and 105/135 has been added to
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn&sektion=4">iwn(4)</a>.
1.28 chris 173: <li>Support for Areca ARC-1880, ARC-1882, ARC-1883, ARC-1223, ARC-1214, ARC-1264, ARC-1284 has been added to
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc&sektion=4">arc(4)</a>.
1.41 stsp 175: <li>Support for Elantech v2 touchpads in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a> has been fixed.
176: <li>Support for 802.11a (5Ghz) has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wpi&sektion=4">wpi(4)</a>.
177: <li>Workarounds for firmware stability issues have been added to
178: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wpi&sektion=4">wpi(4)</a>,
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>, and
180: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn&sektion=4">iwn(4)</a>.
181: <li>Support for RT3572 chips has been added to the
182: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a> driver.
1.43 brad 183: <li>Support for RTL8106E chips has been added to the
1.41 stsp 184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4">re(4)</a> driver.
185: <li>Support for RTS5229 card readers has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtsx&sektion=4">rtsx(4)</a>.
186: <li>Support for Microsoft XBox 360 controllers has been added to the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uhid&sektion=4">uhid(4)</a> driver.
187: <li>Support for CoreChip RD9700 USB Ethernet devices has been added to the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=udav&sektion=4">udav(4)</a> driver.
1.38 deraadt 188: <li>Further reliability improvements regarding suspend/resume and hibernation.
1.50 lteo 189: <li>Enabled IPv6 transmit TCP/UDP checksum offload in
190: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=jme&sektion=4">jme(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 191: </ul>
192: <p>
193:
194: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
195: <ul>
1.17 jsg 196: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vxlan&sektion=4">vxlan(4)</a>
197: a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface.
1.19 florian 198: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflow&sektion=4">pflow(4)</a>
199: sends 64 bit time values for pflowproto 10. The changed templates /
200: flows for pflowproto 10 are now parseable by existing receivers.
1.34 lteo 201: <li>Continued improvement of the checksum offload framework to streamline
202: the calculation of TCP, UDP, ICMP, and ICMPv6 checksums.
1.50 lteo 203: <li>Enabled IPv6 routing domain support.
1.1 deraadt 204: </ul>
205: <p>
206:
207: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
208: <ul>
1.13 tedu 209: <li>The popa3d POP3 server has been removed.
1.17 jsg 210: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpctl&sektion=8">ntpctl(8)</a>
211: a program to control the Network Time Protocol daemon.
1.19 florian 212: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=slowcgi&sektion=8">slowcgi(8)</a>
213: now works with a high number of concurrent connections.
1.39 lteo 214: <li>The inetd-based identd has been replaced by a new libevent-based
215: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=identd&sektion=8">identd(8)</a>.
216: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
217: can now detect bad ICMP and ICMPv6 checksums when used with the -v flag.
1.50 lteo 218: <li>Added rdomain support to IPv6 configuration tools
219: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ndp&sektion=8">ndp(8)</a>,
220: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtsold&sektion=8">rtsold(8)</a>,
221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ping6&sektion=8">ping6(8)</a>, and
222: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=traceroute6&sektion=8">traceroute6(8)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 223: </ul>
224: <p>
225:
1.34 lteo 226: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
227: <ul>
228: <li>New queueing system with new syntax.
229: <li>The "received-on" parameter can now be used with the "any" keyword to
230: match any existing interface except loopback ones.
1.36 lteo 231: <li>The block policy in the default <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf.conf&sektion=5">pf.conf(5)</a> is now "block return".
1.34 lteo 232: </ul>
233: <p>
234:
1.7 deraadt 235: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improvements:
1.1 deraadt 236: <ul>
1.30 krw 237: <li>no longer create a route to the bound address via 127.0.0.1.
1.42 rpe 238: <li>the options 'dhcp-lease-time', 'dhcp-rebinding-time', and 'dhcp-renewal-time' can now be configured in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient.conf&sektion=5">dhclient.conf(5)</a>.
1.30 krw 239: <li>'next-server' (a.k.a. siaddr) info now saved in lease files.
240: <li>fall back to broadcasting when unicast renewal fails, as specified in
241: RFC 2131 and friends.
242: <li>fix various problems in communications between privileged and non-privileged processes.
243: <li>fix many abuses of memcpy.
244: <li>stop pretending we still support FDDI or token ring hardware types.
245: <li>fix classless static routes option handling and add syntax to parse human readable forms.
1.42 rpe 246: <li>fix 'effective' lease created by '-L' to have correct address, 'next_server', 'timestamp', and 'resolv_conf' fields.
1.30 krw 247: <li>fix handling of non-printable characters in lease file strings.
248: <li>fix many edge cases in config file and lease parsing and ensure error messages refer to correct position in erroneous line.
249: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient.conf&sektion=5">dhclient.conf(5)</a> can now override anything in an offer or saved lease when creating the effective lease, in particular 'fixed-address', 'next-server', 'filename' and 'server-name'.
250: <li>fix parsing of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient.conf&sektion=5">dhclient.conf(5)</a> statements 'fixed-address' and
251: 'next-server'.
252: <li>log failures to fchmod() or fchown() files being written.
253: <li>create lease files with permissions 0640.
254: <li>fix possible failure to write <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf&sektion=5">resolv.conf(5)</a> when -L is used.
1.42 rpe 255: <li>'send dhcp-client-identifier "";' in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient.conf&sektion=5">dhclient.conf(5)</a> will result in no 'dhcp-client-identifier' (option 61) being sent.
1.1 deraadt 256: </ul>
257: <p>
258:
1.17 jsg 259: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.2:
1.1 deraadt 260: <ul>
261: <li>...
262: </ul>
263: <p>
264:
1.16 jsg 265: <li>Security improvements:
266: <ul>
1.23 deraadt 267: <li>Position-independent executables (PIE) are now used by default on i386.
1.17 jsg 268: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>
269: functions now use the ChaCha20 cipher.
1.18 tedu 270: <li>The kernel random number system is initially seeded by the bootloader,
271: providing better random very early.
1.38 deraadt 272: <li>Kernel stack protector is also seeded via the same mechanism, providing
273: protection earlier.
1.17 jsg 274: <li>-Wbounded is now enabled in GCC by default.
275: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=explicit_bzero&sektion=3">explicit_bzero(3)</a>.
1.16 jsg 276: </ul>
277: <p>
278:
1.1 deraadt 279: <li>Performance improvements:
280: <ul>
1.11 tedu 281: <li>Relations between the buffer cache and swap daemon have been improved.
1.1 deraadt 282: </ul>
283: <p>
284:
285: <li>Threading improvements:
286: <ul>
1.12 tedu 287: <li>Interprocess semaphores via <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sem_open&sektion=3">sem_open(3)</a>.
1.26 guenther 288: <li>Running threaded processes under a debugger no longer causes panics.
289: <li>SIGPROF and SIGVTALRM are now reliably delivered to the thread that was running when they were triggered.
290: <li>Thread stacks now have a random bias.
1.45 brynet 291: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a> no longer changes the pthread_t of the forking thread in the child.
1.26 guenther 292: <li>Signaling races eliminated from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthread_kill&sektion=3">pthread_kill(3)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthread_cancel&sektion=3">pthread_cancel(3)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 293: </ul>
294: <p>
295:
296: <li>Assorted improvements:
297: <ul>
1.29 deraadt 298: <li>New in-memory file system, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_tmpfs&sektion=8">tmpfs</a>.
1.37 sobrado 299: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fuse&sektion=4">fuse(4)</a> improvements and stability fixes.
1.29 deraadt 300: <li>Added POSIX required <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nl&sektion=1">nl(1)</a> utility.
1.16 jsg 301: <li>OpenBSD/vax has switched to GCC 3.
1.26 guenther 302: <li>Replaced <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getdirentries&sektion=2&manpath=OpenBSD+5.4">getdirentries(2)</a> with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getdents&sektion=2">getdents(2)</a>, vastly improving the performance and memory usage of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=telldir&sektion=3">telldir(3)</a>.
303: <li>amd64 and i386 now use the MWAIT instruction for their idle loop where available to reduce latency.
1.29 deraadt 304: <li>Added support for CLOCK_UPTIME.
1.26 guenther 305: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcgetsid&sektion=3">tcgetsid(3)</a>.
1.45 brynet 306: <li>clock_t is now a 64 bit type, so it no longer wraps around in only 248 days.
307: <li>ino_t is now a 64 bit type, mostly to support large NFS filesystems.
1.26 guenther 308: <li>Corrected handling of UTIME_OMIT.
1.37 sobrado 309: <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.
1.50 lteo 310: <li>Corrected handling of shared-library destructors when libc is statically linked.
1.31 krw 311: <li>Corrected various disk drivers to handle non-512-byte sectors and disk sizes greater than 32-bits.
312: <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.
313: <li>All CIRCLEQ uses replaced with TAILQ.
314: <li>Preserve and honour changes to the OpenBSD bounds in a disklabel.
315: <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.
316: <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.
317: <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.
318: <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.
1.34 lteo 319: <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.
320: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha256&sektion=1">sha256(1)</a> and related tools
321: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cksum&sektion=1">cksum(1)</a>,
322: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=md5&sektion=1">md5(1)</a>,
323: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha1&sektion=1">sha1(1)</a>, and
324: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sha512&sektion=1">sha512(1)</a>)
325: now support a new -h flag to place the checksum into a specified hash file instead of stdout.
326: <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.
327: <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.
1.40 stsp 328: <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.
329: <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.
330: <li>Removed experimental RAID 4 support from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a>.
331: <li>Added experimental support for rebuilding RAID 5 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> volumes. Lots of testing is still required and there is missing functionality, such as the ability to resume a partially completed rebuild. <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl&sektion=8">bioctl(8)</a> refuses to create RAID 5 volumes unless recompiled with -DRAID5.
1.50 lteo 332: <li>The uhts(4) driver has been merged into
1.41 stsp 333: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4">ums(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 334: </ul>
335: <p>
336:
1.3 sobrado 337: <li>OpenSSH 6.6 (including changes to 6.5, a feature-focused release):
1.1 deraadt 338: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 339: <li>Security:
1.1 deraadt 340: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 341: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
342: when using environment passing with a
343: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
344: <tt>AcceptEnv</tt> pattern with a wildcard. OpenSSH prior to 6.6 could
345: be tricked into accepting any enviornment variable that contains the
346: characters before the wildcard character.
347: </ul>
348: <li>New/changed features:
349: <ul>
350: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
351: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
352: Add support for key exchange using <i>elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman</i>
353: in Daniel Bernstein's <i>Curve25519</i>. This key exchange method is
354: the default when both the client and server support it.
355: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
356: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
357: Add support for <i>ED25519</i> as a public key type. ED25519 is
358: a elliptic curve signature scheme that offers better security than
359: <i>ECDSA</i> and <i>DSA</i> and good performance. It may be used for
360: both <i>user</i> and <i>host</i> keys.
361: <li>Add a new private key format that uses a <i>bcrypt KDF</i> to better
362: protect keys at rest. This format is used unconditionally for
363: ED25519 keys, but may be requested when generating or saving
364: existing keys of other types via the <tt>-o</tt>
365: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
366: option. We intend to make the new format the default in the near
367: future. Details of the new format are in the <tt>PROTOCOL.key</tt>
368: file.
369: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
370: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
371: Add a new transport cipher "chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com" that
372: combines Daniel Bernstein's <i>ChaCha20</i> stream cipher and
373: <i>Poly1305 MAC</i> to build an authenticated encryption mode. Details
374: are in the <tt>PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305</tt> file.
375: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
376: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
377: Refuse <i>RSA</i> keys from old proprietary clients and servers that
378: use the obsolete <i>RSA+MD5</i> signature scheme. It will still be
379: possible to connect with these clients/servers but <b>only DSA keys
380: will be accepted, and OpenSSH will refuse connection entirely in a
381: future release</b>.
382: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
383: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
384: Refuse old proprietary clients and servers that use a weaker key
385: exchange hash calculation.
386: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
387: Increase the size of the <i>Diffie-Hellman groups</i> requested for
388: each symmetric key size. New values from <i>NIST Special Publication
389: 800-57</i> with the upper limit specified by <i>RFC 4419</i>.
390: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
391: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
392: Support <i>PKCS#11</i> tokens that only provide <i>X.509</i> certs
393: instead of raw public keys. (requested as bz#1908)
394: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
395: Add a
396: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
397: <tt>Match</tt> keyword that allows conditional configuration to be
398: applied by matching on <i>hostname</i>, <i>user</i> and <i>result of
399: arbitrary commands</i>.
400: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
401: Add support for <i>client-side hostname canonicalisation</i> using a
402: set of <i>DNS suffixes</i> and rules in
403: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
404: This allows unqualified names to be canonicalised to fully-qualified
405: domain names to eliminate ambiguity when looking up keys in
406: <tt>known_hosts</tt> or checking host certificate names.
407: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
408: Add the ability to whitelist and/or blacklist sftp protocol requests by
409: name.
410: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
411: Add a sftp "fsync@openssh.com" to support calling
412: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fsync&sektion=2">fsync(2)</a>
413: on an open file handle.
414: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
415: Add a
416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
417: <tt>PermitTTY</tt> to disallow <i>TTY</i> allocation, mirroring the
418: longstanding <tt>no-pty</tt> <tt>authorized_keys</tt> option.
419: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
420: Add a
421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
422: <tt>ProxyUseFDPass</tt> option that supports the use of
423: <tt>ProxyCommands</tt> that establish a connection and then pass a
424: connected file descriptor back to
425: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>.
426: This allows the <tt>ProxyCommand</tt> to exit rather than staying
427: around to transfer data.
428: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
429: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
430: this release removes the <i>J-PAKE</i> authentication code. This code
431: was experimental, never enabled and had been unmaintained for some
432: time.
433: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
434: when processing <tt>Match</tt> blocks, skip '<tt>exec</tt>' clauses
435: other clauses predicates failed to match.
436: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
437: if hostname canonicalisation is enabled and results in the destination
438: hostname being changed, then re-parse
439: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
440: files using the new destination hostname. This gives '<tt>Host</tt>'
441: and '<tt>Match</tt>' directives that use the expanded hostname a chance
442: to be applied.
1.1 deraadt 443: </ul>
444: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
445: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 446: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
447: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
448: Fix potential stack exhaustion caused by nested certificates.
449: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
450: make <tt>BindAddress</tt> work with <tt>UsePrivilegedPort</tt>.
451: (bz#1211)
452: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
453: fix the progress meter for resumed transfer. (bz#2137)
454: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-add&sektion=1">ssh-add(1)</a>:
455: do not request smartcard PIN when removing keys from
456: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>.
457: (bz#2187)
458: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
459: fix re-exec fallback when original
460: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
461: binary cannot be executed. (bz#2139)
462: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
463: Make relative-specified certificate expiry times relative to current
464: time and not the validity start time.
465: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
466: fix <tt>AuthorizedKeysCommand</tt> inside a <tt>Match</tt> block.
467: (bz#2161)
468: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
469: symlinking a file would incorrectly canonicalise the target path.
470: (bz#2129)
471: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
472: fix a use-after-free in the PKCS#11 agent helper executable.
473: (bz#2175)
474: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
475: Improve logging of sessions to include the <i>user name</i>, <i>remote
476: host</i> and <i>port</i>, the <i>session type</i> (shell, command,
477: etc.) and <i>allocated TTY</i> (if any).
478: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
479: tell the client (via a debug message) when their preferred listen
480: address has been overridden by the server's <tt>GatewayPorts</tt>
481: setting. (bz#1297)
482: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
483: include report port in bad protocol banner message. (bz#2162)
484: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
485: fix memory leak in error path in <i>do_readdir()</i>. (bz#2163)
486: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
487: don't leak file descriptor on error. (bz#2171)
488: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
489: include the <i>local address</i> and <i>port</i> in "<tt>Connection
490: from ...</tt>" message. (only shown at <i>loglevel>=verbose</i>)
491: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
492: avoid spurious "<tt>getsockname failed: Bad file descriptor</tt>" in
493: <tt>ssh -W</tt>. (bz#2200, debian#738692)
494: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
495: allow the
496: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>
497: syscall in seccomp-bpf and systrace sandbox modes, as it is reachable
498: if the connection is terminated during the pre-auth phase.
499: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
500: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
501: fix unsigned overflow that in <i>SSH protocol 1 bignum parsing</i>.
502: Minimum key length checks render this bug unexploitable to compromise
503: SSH 1 sessions.
504: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
505: clarify behaviour of a keyword that appears in multiple matching
506: <tt>Match</tt> blocks. (bz#2184)
507: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
508: avoid unnecessary hostname lookups when canonicalisation is disabled.
509: (bz#2205)
510: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
511: avoid sandbox violation crashes in GSSAPI code by caching the supported
512: list of GSSAPI mechanism OIDs before entering the sandbox. (bz#2107)
513: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
514: fix possible crashes in SOCKS4 parsing caused by assumption that the
515: SOCKS username is nul-terminated.
516: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
517: fix regression for <tt>UsePrivilegedPort=yes</tt> when
518: <tt>BindAddress</tt> is not specified.
519: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
520: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
521: fix memory leak in ECDSA signature verification.
522: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
523: fix matching of '<tt>Host</tt>' directives in
524: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
525: files to be case-insensitive again. (regression in 6.5)
1.1 deraadt 526: </ul>
527: </ul>
528: <p>
529:
1.46 lteo 530: <li>Ports and packages:
1.1 deraadt 531: <ul>
1.46 lteo 532: <li>Over 8,700 ports.
533: <li>Major overhaul of the package tools resulting in much better memory usage.
1.23 deraadt 534: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a> now trusts signed packages only by default.
1.46 lteo 535: <li>The build process now allows some limited capability for building
536: conflicting packages, yielding kde4 packages as a result, along with kde3.
1.1 deraadt 537: </ul>
538: <p>
539: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
540: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
541: <tr>
542: <td valign="top" width="25%">
543: <ul>
544: <li>i386: 8468
1.6 deraadt 545: <li>sparc64: 7969
1.21 sthen 546: <li>alpha: 6199
1.1 deraadt 547: <li>m68k: XXXX
548: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
549: <li>sh: XXXX
550: <li>amd64: 8534
551: <li>powerpc: 8057
552: <li>m88k: XXXX
553: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.49 sthen 554: <li>sparc: 4681
1.1 deraadt 555: <li>arm: XXXX
556: <li>hppa: 6549
557: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
558: <li>vax: XXXX
1.21 sthen 559: <li>mips64: 4726
560: <li>mips64el: 6730
1.1 deraadt 561: </ul></td></tr></table>
562: <p>
563:
564: <li>Some highlights:
565: <ul>
1.4 jsg 566: <li>GNOME 3.10.2 <li>KDE 3.5.10
1.2 espie 567: <li>KDE 4.11.5
1.4 jsg 568: <li>Xfce 4.10 <li>MySQL 5.1.73
569: <li>PostgreSQL 9.3.2 <li>Postfix 2.11.0
570: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.38 <li>Mozilla Firefox 24.3 and 26.0
571: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 24.3.0 <li>GHC 7.6.3
572: <li>LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.3
573: <li>Vim 7.4.135 <li>PHP 5.3.28 and 5.4.24
574: <li>Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.2 <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.484, 2.0.0.353 and 2.1.0
575: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 and 8.6.1 <li>JDK 1.6.0.32 and 1.7.0.21
1.2 espie 576: <li>Mono 2.10.9 <li>Chromium 32.0.1700.102
1.4 jsg 577: <li>Groff 1.22.2 <li>Go 1.2
578: <li>GCC 4.6.4 and 4.8.2 <li>LLVM/Clang 3.3
579: <li>Node.js 0.10.24
1.1 deraadt 580: </ul>
581: <p>
582:
583: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
587: <ul>
1.4 jsg 588: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.14.5 + patches,
589: freetype 2.5.2, fontconfig 2.10.91, Mesa 9.2.5, xterm 301,
590: xkeyboard-config 2.10.1 and more)
1.32 miod 591: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 592: <li>Perl 5.16.3 (+ patches)
593: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with
594: SSL/TLS and DSO support
1.4 jsg 595: <li>Nginx 1.4.4 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 596: <li>OpenSSL 1.0.1c (+ patches)
1.4 jsg 597: <li>SQLite 3.8.0.2 (+ patches)
598: <li>Sendmail 8.14.8, with libmilter
1.1 deraadt 599: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
1.4 jsg 600: <li>NSD 4.0.1
1.1 deraadt 601: <li>Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
602: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
603: <li>Ncurses 5.7
604: <li>Heimdal 1.5.2 (+ patches)
605: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
606: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
607: <li>Less 444 (+ patches)
608: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
609: </ul>
610:
611: </ul>
612:
613: <a name="install"></a>
614: <hr>
615: <p>
616: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
617: <p>
618: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
619: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
620: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
621: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
622: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
623: purchased a CDROM instead.
624: <p>
625:
626: <hr>
627: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
628: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.5 on your machine:
629: <p>
630: <ul>
1.9 deraadt 631: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/i386/INSTALL.i386">
1.7 deraadt 632: .../OpenBSD/5.5/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
1.9 deraadt 633: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/vax/INSTALL.vax">
1.7 deraadt 634: .../OpenBSD/vax/INSTALL.vax (on CD1)</a>
635: <p>
1.9 deraadt 636: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.7 deraadt 637: .../OpenBSD/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
1.9 deraadt 638: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.7 deraadt 639: .../OpenBSD/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD2)</a>
1.9 deraadt 640: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.7 deraadt 641: .../OpenBSD/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
642: <p>
1.9 deraadt 643: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
1.7 deraadt 644: .../OpenBSD/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
1.9 deraadt 645: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.7 deraadt 646: .../OpenBSD/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
647: <p>
1.9 deraadt 648: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.7 deraadt 649: .../OpenBSD/5.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
1.9 deraadt 650: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/armish/INSTALL.armish">
1.7 deraadt 651: .../OpenBSD/5.5/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
1.9 deraadt 652: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
1.7 deraadt 653: .../OpenBSD/5.5/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
1.32 miod 654: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
655: .../OpenBSD/5.5/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
1.9 deraadt 656: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300">
1.7 deraadt 657: .../OpenBSD/5.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300</a>
1.9 deraadt 658: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.7 deraadt 659: .../OpenBSD/5.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
1.9 deraadt 660: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
1.7 deraadt 661: .../OpenBSD/5.5/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.9 deraadt 662: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
1.7 deraadt 663: .../OpenBSD/5.5/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.9 deraadt 664: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
1.7 deraadt 665: .../OpenBSD/5.5/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
1.9 deraadt 666: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.7 deraadt 667: .../OpenBSD/5.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
1.9 deraadt 668: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k">
1.7 deraadt 669: .../OpenBSD/5.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k</a>
1.9 deraadt 670: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k">
1.7 deraadt 671: .../OpenBSD/5.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k</a>
1.9 deraadt 672: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.7 deraadt 673: .../OpenBSD/5.5/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
1.9 deraadt 674: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
1.7 deraadt 675: .../OpenBSD/5.5/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
1.9 deraadt 676: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
1.7 deraadt 677: .../OpenBSD/5.5/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
1.9 deraadt 678: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.7 deraadt 679: .../OpenBSD/5.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
1.9 deraadt 680: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/vax/INSTALL.vax">
1.7 deraadt 681: .../OpenBSD/5.5/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
1.9 deraadt 682: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.5/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
1.7 deraadt 683: .../OpenBSD/5.5/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
1.1 deraadt 684: </ul>
685: <hr>
686:
687: <p>
688: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
689: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
690: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
691: <p>
692:
693: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
694: <ul>
695: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
696: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
697: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
698: <i>CD1:5.5/i386/floppy55.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
699:
700: <p>
701: Use <i>CD1:5.5/i386/floppyB55.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
702: support, or <i>CD1:5.5/i386/floppyC55.fs</i> for better laptop support.
703:
704: <p>
705: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
706: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
707: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
708:
709: <p>
710: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
711: read INSTALL.i386.
712:
713: <p>
714: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
715: at <i>CD1:5.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
716: use the
717: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
718: utility. The following is an example usage of
719: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
720: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
721: "rfd0a".
722:
723: <ul><pre>
724: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
725: </pre></ul>
726:
727: <p>
728: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
729: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
730: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
731: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
732: </ul>
733:
734: <p>
735: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
736: <ul>
737: The 5.5 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
738: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
739: your BIOS options first.
740: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
741: To do this, write <i>CD2:5.5/amd64/floppy55.fs</i> to a floppy, then
742: boot from the floppy drive.
743:
744: <p>
745: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
746: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
747: INSTALL.amd64 document.
748:
749: <p>
750: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
751: read INSTALL.amd64.
752: </ul>
753:
754: <p>
755: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
756: <ul>
757: Burn the image from the FTP site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
758: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
759: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
760:
761: <p>
762: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
763: /5.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
764: </ul>
765:
766: <p>
767: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
768: <ul>
769: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
770:
771: <p>
772: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
773: <i>CD3:5.5/sparc64/floppy55.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.5/sparc64/floppyB55.fs</i>
774: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
775: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
776:
777: <p>
778: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
779: will most likely fail.
780:
781: <p>
782: You can also write <i>CD3:5.5/sparc64/miniroot55.fs</i> to the swap partition on
783: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
784:
785: <p>
786: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
787: </ul>
788:
789: <p>
790: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
791: <ul>
792: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.5/alpha/floppy55.fs</i> or
793: <i>FTP:5.5/alpha/floppyB55.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
794: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
795:
796: <p>
797: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
798: will most likely fail.
799:
800: </ul>
801:
802: <p>
803: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
804: <ul>
805: <p>
806: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
807: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
808: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
809: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
810: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
811: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
812: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
813: </ul>
814:
815: <p>
816: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
817: <ul>
818: <p>
819: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
820: </ul>
821:
822: <p>
823: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
824: <ul>
825: <p>
826: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
827: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
828: </ul>
829:
830: <p>
831: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
832: <ul>
833: <p>
834: Write <i>miniroot55.fs</i> to the start of the CF
835: or disk, and boot normally.
836: </ul>
837:
838: <p>
839: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
840: <ul>
841: <p>
842: Write <i>miniroot55.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
843: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
844: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
845: </ul>
846: <p>
847:
848: <p>
849: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
850: <ul>
851: <p>
1.32 miod 852: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
853: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
854: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1.1 deraadt 855: </ul>
856:
857: <p>
858: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
859: <ul>
860: <p>
861: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
862: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
863: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
864: for more details.
865: </ul>
866:
867: <p>
868: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
869: <ul>
870: <p>
871: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
872: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
873: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
874: for more details.
875: </ul>
876:
877: <p>
878: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
879: <ul>
880: <p>
881: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
882: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
883: </ul>
884:
885: <p>
886: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
887: <ul>
888: <p>
1.32 miod 889: To install, burn cd55.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
1.1 deraadt 890: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
1.32 miod 891: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
892: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
893: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1.1 deraadt 894:
895: <p>
1.32 miod 896: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
897: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
898: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1.1 deraadt 899: </ul>
900:
901: <p>
902: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
903: <ul>
904: <p>
905: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
906: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
907: </ul>
908:
909: <p>
910: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
911: <ul>
912: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
913: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
914:
915: <ul><pre>
916: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
917: or
918: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
919: </pre></ul>
920:
921: <p>
922: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
923: To do so you need to write <i>floppy55.fs</i> to a floppy.
924: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
925: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
926: depending on the version of your ROM.
927:
928: <ul><pre>
929: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
930: or
931: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
932: </pre></ul>
933:
934: <p>
935: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
936: will most likely fail.
937:
938: <p>
939: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
940: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
941: INSTALL.sparc file.
942: </ul>
943:
944: <p>
945: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
946: <ul>
947: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
948: </ul>
949:
950: <p>
951: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
952: <ul>
953: <p>
954: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
955: openbsd55_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
956: for a few important details.
957: </ul>
958:
959: <p>
960: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
961: <ul>
962: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
963: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
964: in a separate archive. To extract:
965: <p>
966: <ul><pre>
967: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
968: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
969: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
970: </pre></ul>
971: <p>
972: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
973: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
974: To extract:
975: <p>
976: <ul><pre>
977: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
978: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
979: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
980: </pre></ul>
981: <p>
982: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
983: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
984: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
985: Using these files
986: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
987: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
988: <p>
989: </ul>
990:
991: <a name="upgrade"></a>
992: <hr>
993: <p>
994: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
995: <p>
996: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.4 system, and do not want to reinstall,
997: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
998: <a href="faq/upgrade55.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
999:
1000: <a name="ports"></a>
1001: <hr>
1002: <p>
1003: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1004: <p>
1005: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1006: <p>
1007: <ul><pre>
1008: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
1009: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
1010: </pre></ul>
1011: <p>
1012: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
1013: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1014: if you know nothing about ports
1015: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1016: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1017: OpenBSD ports system.
1018: <p>
1019: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1020: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
1021: cvs(1)</a> if
1022: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1023: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1024: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1025: So, in order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
1026: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
1027: like:
1028: <p>
1029: <ul><pre>
1030: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
1031: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_5</strong>
1032: </pre></ul>
1033: <p>
1034: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1035: server.]
1036: <p>
1037: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
1038: packages for the 5.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
1039: <p>
1040: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1041: would like to know more, the mailing list
1042: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1043: <p>
1044: </body>
1045: </html>
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