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1.98 deraadt 17: <i><font color="#0000ff">Open</font></i><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
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1.88 deraadt 23: Released May 1, 2015<br>
1.1 deraadt 24: Copyright 1997-2015, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-5-9</font>
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1.92 deraadt 27: 5.7 Song: <a href="lyrics.html#57">"Source Fish"</a>
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30: <ul>
31: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="https://openbsdstore.com">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/5.7/</font> directory on
35: one of the mirror sites.
36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata57.html">the 5.7 errata page</a> for a list
37: of bugs and workarounds.
38: <li>See a <a href="plus57.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
39: 5.6 and 5.7 releases.
40: <p>
1.103 tb 41: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=signify&sektion=1">signify(1)</a> pubkeys for this release:<br>
1.14 rpe 42: <pre>
43: base: RWSvUZXnw9gUb70PdeSNnpSmodCyIPJEGN1wWr+6Time1eP7KiWJ5eAM
44: fw: RWSuRBL44FVkb2QuvtlwOJmzS9UJtbKZd7GEYcol8HPXu4On/Ct1LoZr
45: pkg: RWTJ1iHLn/zcvJJSbxJIEU9ChlfAlU16XoLLxmxciliOFWfTLyOv0vQs
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48: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
49: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
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1.1 deraadt 55:
56: <a name="new"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
58: <p>
59: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.7.
60: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus57.html">changelog</a> leading
61: to 5.7.
62: <p>
63:
64: <ul>
65: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
66: <ul>
1.103 tb 67: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/xhci.4?query=xhci&sec=4">xhci(4)</a> driver for USB 3.0 host controllers.
68: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/umcs.4?query=umcs&sec=4">umcs(4)</a> driver for MosChip Semiconductor 78x0 USB multiport serial adapters.
69: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/i386/skgpio.4?query=skgpio&sec=4">skgpio(4)</a> driver for Soekris net6501 GPIO and LEDs.
70: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/uslhcom.4?query=uslhcom&sec=4">uslhcom(4)</a> driver for Silicon Labs CP2110 USB HID based UART.
71: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/nep.4?query=nep&sec=4">nep(4)</a> driver for Sun Neptune 10Gb Ethernet devices.
72: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/iwm.4?query=iwm&sec=4">iwm(4)</a> driver for Intel 7260, 7265, and 3160 wifi cards.
73: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/rtsx.4?query=rtsx&sec=4">rtsx(4)</a> driver now supports RTS5227 and RTL8411B card readers.
74: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/bge.4?query=bge&sec=4">bge(4)</a> driver now supports jumbo frames on various additional BCM57xx chipsets.
75: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ciss.4?query=ciss&sec=4">ciss(4)</a> driver now supports HP Gen9 Smart Array/Smart HBA devices.
76: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/mpi.4?query=mpi&sec=4">mpi(4)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/mfi.4">mfi(4)</a> drivers now have mpsafe interrupt handlers running without the big lock.
77: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ppb.4?query=ppb&sec=4">ppb(4)</a> driver now supports PCI bridges that support subtractive decoding (fixes PCMCIA behind the ATI SB400 PCI bridge), and devices with 64-bit BARs behind PCI-PCI bridges as seen on SPARC T5-2 systems.
78: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/puc.4?query=puc&sec=4">puc(4)</a> driver now supports Winchiphead CH382 devices.
79: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sdmmc.4?query=sdmmc&sec=4">sdmmc(4)</a> driver now supports eMMC storage devices larger than 2GB.
80: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sdhc.4?query=sdhc&sec=4">sdhc(4)</a> driver can properly resume on Ricoh controllers.
81: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sdhc.4?query=sdhc&sec=4">sdhc(4)</a> driver now supports Ricoh R5U822 and R5U823 card readers.
82: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/mfii.4?query=mfii&sec=4">mfii(4)</a> driver now supports the Megaraid 3008 (Fury) and 3108 (Invader) cards.
83: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/myx.4?query=myx&sec=4">myx(4)</a> driver runs less code under the big lock.
84: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/msk.4?query=msk&sec=4">msk(4)</a> driver now supports Yukon Prime, Yukon Optima 2, Yukon 88E8079, and various EC U and Supreme chipsets.
85: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/umass.4?query=umass&sec=4">umass(4)</a> driver now supports Archos 24y Vision devices.
86: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/athn.4?query=athn&sec=4">athn(4)</a> driver now supports Atheros UB94 devices.
87: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/azalia.4?query=azalia&sec=4">azalia(4)</a> driver now supports Realtek ALC885 codecs and Bay Trail HD Audio devices.
88: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ix.4?query=ix&sec=4">ix(4)</a> driver now supports onboard Ethernet devices in SPARC T5 machines.
89: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/upd.4?query=upd&sec=4">upd(4)</a> driver now handles UPSes with broken report descriptors.
90: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ums.4?query=ums&sec=4">ums(4)</a> driver now supports the USB Tablet device emulated by Qemu.
91: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/umsm.4?query=umsm&sec=4">umsm(4)</a> driver now supports MEDION S4222 devices.
92: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/pciide.4?query=pciide&sec=4">pciide(4)</a> driver now supports Intel C610 chipsets.
93: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ukbd.4?query=ukbd&sec=4">ukbd(4)</a> driver now supports "wellspring" Apple keyboards.
94: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/pms.4?query=pms&sec=4">pms(4)</a> driver now supports click-and-drag with Elantech v4 touchpads.
95: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/umodem.4?query=umodem&sec=4">umodem(4)</a> driver now supports Arduino Leonardo devices.
96: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sk.4?query=sk&sec=4">sk(4)</a> driver now supports receive ring scaling.
1.71 dlg 97: <li>Replaced custom jumbo allocators in
1.103 tb 98: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sk.4?query=sk&sec=4">sk(4)</a>,
99: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/nge.4?query=nge&sec=4">nge(4)</a>,
100: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/lge.4?query=lge&sec=4">lge(4)</a>, and
101: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ti.4?query=ti&sec=4">ti(4)</a> with
102: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/MCLGETI.9?query=MCLGETI&sec=9">MCLGETI(9)</a>.
103: <li>Wireless network scanning problems with the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/iwn.4?query=iwn&sec=4">iwn(4)</a> driver have been fixed.
104: <li>Support for RS* IGP Radeon devices in the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/radeondrm.4?query=radeondrm&sec=4">radeondrm(4)</a> driver has been fixed.
1.66 deraadt 105: <li>PowerMac7,2 and PowerMac7,3 can now boot with a multiprocessor kernel.
1.4 stsp 106: </ul>
107: <p>
108:
109: <li>Removed hardware support:
110: <ul>
1.103 tb 111: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/lofn.4?query=lofn&sec=4">lofn(4)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/nofn.4?query=nofn&sec=4">nofn(4)</a> drivers for Hifn crypto accelerator devices have been removed.
112: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/art.4?query=art&sec=4">art(4)</a> driver for Accoom Networks Artery T1/E1 devices has been removed.
113: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/urio.4?query=urio&sec=4">urio(4)</a> driver for Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 players has been removed.
1.1 deraadt 114: </ul>
115: <p>
116:
117: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
118: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 119: <li>The routing table is now used for most of the address lookup operations superseding the RB-tree and IPv4 address list.
1.52 lteo 120: <li>The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing,
1.103 tb 121: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a> loadbalancing,
122: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/pf.4?query=pf&sec=4">pf(4)</a> and
123: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/bridge.4?query=bridge&sec=4">bridge(4)</a>.
1.52 lteo 124: <li>Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen with
1.103 tb 125: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/tcpdump.8?query=tcpdump&sec=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
126: <li>A <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a> now needs to be configured with an explicit <em>carpdev</em> parent interface.
1.69 dlg 127: <li>The
1.103 tb 128: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/mbuf.9?query=mbuf&sec=9">mbuf(9)</a>
1.69 dlg 129: layer has been made mpsafe.
130: <li>Introduce mbuf_list and mbuf_queue structures and APIs.
1.71 dlg 131: <li>Support changing the IPv6 input queue length via
1.103 tb 132: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sysctl&sektion=1">sysctl(1)</a> and net.inet6.ip6.ifq.
1.1 deraadt 133: </ul>
1.44 deraadt 134: <p>
1.1 deraadt 135:
1.10 rpe 136: <li>Installer improvements:
137: <ul>
138: <li>The <tt>etc</tt> and <tt>xetc</tt> sets are now part of <tt>base</tt> and
1.66 deraadt 139: <tt>xbase</tt> and are not distributed separately anymore. They are extracted
140: from <tt>base</tt> and <tt>xbase</tt> during installation and upgrades.<br>
1.25 tedu 141: <b>Note that this includes the <tt>rc</tt> and <tt>rc.conf</tt> files!</b>
1.10 rpe 142: <li>The installer now supports
1.103 tb 143: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a>
1.10 rpe 144: interfaces during upgrades.
145: <li>The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended installation and
1.66 deraadt 146: upgrades has been extended to be more flexible.
1.10 rpe 147: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 148: <li>Ask for the location if DHCP discovery fails for location or mode.
149: <li>Provide a default URL if the 'next-server' DHCP option is found.
1.10 rpe 150: <li>Use <tt>/auto_install.conf</tt> or <tt>/auto_upgrade.conf</tt> if present.
1.66 deraadt 151: <li>Automatically start the installer in unattended mode if either one of these
1.10 rpe 152: files is present when the system boots.
153: </ul>
1.29 krw 154: <li>Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
155: <li>Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
1.35 krw 156: <li>
1.103 tb 157: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now zeros out GPT signatures found when writing out an MBR that has been re-initialized and has no EFI or EFISYS partition.
1.36 krw 158: <li>Fixed manipulation of 'ro' and 'rw' fstab options to avoid damage to other options that happen to contain 'ro' or 'rw'.
1.66 deraadt 159: <li>The ramdisk binary (one binary contains all the commands) is now compiled without optimization and security features. The benefit is a substantial saving in space, allowing more features in the future.
1.10 rpe 160: </ul>
161: <p>
162:
1.1 deraadt 163: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
164: <ul>
1.68 deraadt 165: <li>nginx has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
166: <li>sliplogin has been removed.
1.80 nick 167: <li>Sendmail has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
1.37 sthen 168: <li>IPv6 router solicitations are now sent by the kernel ("inet6 autoconf"); rtsol(8) and rtsold(8) are no longer necessary and have been removed.
1.103 tb 169: <li>Enhancements and bugfixes in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=arp&sektion=8">arp(8)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ndp&sektion=8">ndp(8)</a>
170: <li>The effects of the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag on <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3">getaddrinfo(3)</a> results are limited to DNS queries. This avoids erratic behavior with transient network problems, "raw" addresses and localhost entries in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=hosts&sektion=5">/etc/hosts</a>.
171: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=gethostbyname&sektion=3">gethostbyname(3)</a> now no longer fails when more than 16 addresses/aliases are returned. The original pre-asr limit of 35 has been restored, with additional results being truncated.
172: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=tftp&sektion=1">tftp(1)</a> now supports sending or receiving files larger than 65536 blocks in size.
173: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=tpd&sec=8">ntpd(8)</a> now supports authenticated TLS constraints.
1.1 deraadt 174: </ul>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li>Security improvements:
178: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 179: <li>Stricter enforcement of W^X in the kernel address space, especially on architectures with the right featureset (amd64, in particular, has seen substantial improvements).
1.27 tedu 180: <li>Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
1.32 lteo 181: <li>procfs has been removed.
1.103 tb 182: <li>Comprehensive audit of the tree to use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=reallocarray&sektion=3">reallocarray(3)</a> idiom throughout.
183: <li>Many conversions from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=select&sektion=2">select(2)</a> to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=poll&sektion=2">poll(2)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 184: <li>/var/tmp is now a symbolic link to /tmp, as a first step towards reducing the "fill it up" attack surface against the /var partition.
1.103 tb 185: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=memcpy&sektion=3">memcpy(3)</a> with overlapping arguments now aborts a program (with a syslog report), allowing these problems to be found. Overlapping copies should use <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=memmove&sektion=3">memmove(3)</a>. Sometime after 5.7 release, having learned more about the situation and repairing instances that are discovered by users during release use, we will go back to the optimized version.
1.44 deraadt 186: <li>Change
1.103 tb 187: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=rand&sektion=3">rand(3)</a>,
188: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=random&sektion=3">random(3)</a>,
189: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=drand48&sektion=3">drand48(3)</a>,
190: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=lrand48&sektion=3">lrand48(3)</a>,
191: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mrand48&sektion=3">mrand48(3)</a>,
192: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srand48&sektion=3">srand48(3)</a>
1.44 deraadt 193: to return non-deterministic strong random values by default, sourced from
1.103 tb 194: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 195: New functions
1.103 tb 196: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srand_deterministic&sektion=3">srand_deterministic(3)</a>,
197: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srandom_deterministic&sektion=3">srandom_deterministic(3)</a>,
198: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=seed48_deterministic&sektion=3">seed48_deterministic(3)</a> and
199: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=lcong48_deterministic&sektion=3">lcong48_deterministic(3)</a>
1.79 deraadt 200: are added for cases where determinism needs to be requested.
1.66 deraadt 201: <li>At resume (or unhibernate) time, use a variety of methods to reseed the random number generator. This also works on VMs which wake up (if a wakeup event is seen).
1.57 deraadt 202: <li>All architectures have been transitioned to static PIE, meaning the statically linked binaries in /bin and /sbin now have randomly located text segments.
1.44 deraadt 203: <li>Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
1.103 tb 204: <li>Sync kernel AES code and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a> AES code to the one shipped with OpenSSL/LibreSSL.
205: <li>Removed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=passwd&sektion=1">passwd(1)</a> support for all password ciphers except <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=blowfish&sektion=3">blowfish(3)</a>.
206: <li>Use sha512 instead of md5 for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=tcp&sektion=4">tcp(4)</a> initial sequence number.
1.56 benno 207: <li>Use sha512 instead of md5 in the random number generator.
1.103 tb 208: <li>Delete secret or secret-derived data in many base utilities with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=explicit_bzero&sektion=3">explicit_bzero(3)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 209: </ul>
210: <p>
211:
212: <li>Assorted improvements:
213: <ul>
1.103 tb 214: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=rcctl&sektion=8"">rcctl(8)</a> utility to control daemons.
215: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fw_update&sektion=1">fw_update(1)</a> has been rewritten to be faster and smarter.
216: <li>Cleanup <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=event&sektion=3">libevent(3)</a>,
1.19 bluhm 217: the compatibility layer for other operating systems has been removed.
218: The API is still compatible with upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
1.103 tb 219: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.66 deraadt 220: s_client now supports a -proxy parameter for connecting over an HTTP proxy.
1.27 tedu 221: <li>gzsig has been removed.
1.72 tedu 222: <li>Switch to fast assembly versions of some libc functions on amd64.
1.103 tb 223: <li>Frequency scaling has been moved from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=apmd&sektion=1">apmd(8)</a> to the kernel with an improved algorithm.
1.66 deraadt 224: <li>Switch last workq API uses to
1.103 tb 225: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=taskq_create&sektion=9">taskq</a> API and remove all traces of workq.
1.31 krw 226: <li>Use
1.103 tb 227: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=services&sektion=5">services(5)</a> names in the default pf rules in force during startup.
1.35 krw 228: <li>
1.103 tb 229: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=what&sektion=1">what(1)</a> now correctly displays $OpenBSD$ expansions.
1.35 krw 230: <li>
1.103 tb 231: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> now removes addresses from its pf table a single time when they expire, rather than at every timeout after the expiry.
1.31 krw 232: <li>
1.103 tb 233: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> now ensures that the pf table process exits when the main process does.
1.31 krw 234: <li>
1.103 tb 235: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> has more informative log entries for DHCPACKs issued in response to DHCPINFORM messages.
1.36 krw 236: <li>Added POSIX types blkcnt_t (int64) and blksize_t (int32), and used them for st_blocks (formerly int64_t) and st_blksize (formerly u_int32_t) in struct stat.
1.38 tedu 237: <li>Improved typography for
1.103 tb 238: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=banner&sektion=6">banner(6)</a>.
239: <li>Allow <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=hangman&sektion=6">hangman</a>
1.91 tedu 240: to play against any ELF file.
1.40 krw 241: <li>
1.103 tb 242: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> adjusts MTU when the interface-mtu DHCP option is provided.
1.40 krw 243: <li>Various memory leaks in
1.103 tb 244: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> plugged, providing more stability for long running (in terms of time or renewals) instances.
1.40 krw 245: <li>The
1.103 tb 246: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>
1.40 krw 247: command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
1.66 deraadt 248: <li>The communication between the privileged and unprivileged
1.103 tb 249: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> processes was reworked to further minimize information sharing.
1.40 krw 250: <li>
1.103 tb 251: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> ensures lease timeouts (renew, rebind, expire) are sane and uses default values closer to RFC suggestions.
1.40 krw 252: <li>
1.103 tb 253: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> no longer crashes when a lease expires and cannot be renewed or replaced.
1.40 krw 254: <li>
1.103 tb 255: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improved tracking network interface link states.
1.40 krw 256: <li>Improved network error tracking and accounting in
1.103 tb 257: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>.
1.40 krw 258: <li>Private number conversion functions in
1.103 tb 259: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> eliminated in favour of standard library functions.
1.66 deraadt 260: <li>Further signal race cleanups in
1.103 tb 261: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 262: <li>BIND has been retired, encouraging use of
1.103 tb 263: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a> and
264: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=unbound&sektion=8">unbound(8)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 265: <li>Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files, especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
1.103 tb 266: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> RAID1 and CRYPTO volumes are now bootable on the sparc64 platform.
267: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now uses "TLS" rather than "SSL" terminology to reflect the deprecation of the latter.
268: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now supports the random and source-hash modes with redirections.
269: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now supports the <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/share/snmp/OPENBSD-RELAYD-MIB.txt?rev=1.1">OPENBSD-RELAYD-MIB</a> via agentx with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>.
270: <li>Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag and/or non-blocking mode on new file descriptors: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=pipe2&sektion=2">pipe2(2)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dup3&sektion=2">dup3(2)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=accept4&sektion=2">accept4(2)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mkostemp&sektion=3">mkostemp(3)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mkostemps&sektion=3">mkostemps(3)</a>, the <tt>SOCK_CLOEXEC</tt> and <tt>SOCK_NONBLOCK</tt> flags for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=socket&sektion=2">socket(2)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=socketpair&sektion=2">socketpair(2)</a>, and the <tt>MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC</tt> flag for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=recvmsg&sektion=2">recvmsg(2)</a>. In addition, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2&sektion=3">posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(3)</a> now always clears the close-on-exec flag.
271: <li>Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag on new FILE handles and for requesting exclusive creation via the the 'e' and 'x' mode letters for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fopen&sektion=3">fopen(3)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdopen&sektion=3">fdopen(3)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=freopen&sektion=3">freopen(3)</a>, and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=popen&sektion=3">popen(3)</a>.
1.50 guenther 272: <li>Many library functions and programs changed to use the above for safety or simplicity.
1.103 tb 273: <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chflagsat&sektion=2">chflagsat(2)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sockatmark&sektion=3">sockatmark(3)</a>, and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=stravis&sektion=3">stravis(3)</a>.
274: <li>Merged performance and safety fixes for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fts&sektion=3">fts(3)</a> from FreeBSD.
275: <li>Merged fixes for file descriptor leaks in various <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=rpc&sektion=3">rpc(3)</a> functions from NetBSD.
276: <li>Added a <tt>kern.global_ptrace</tt> <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sysctl&sektion=1">sysctl(1)</a> to disable, by default, the ability to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a> processes that aren't your descendent.
277: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=kdump&sektion=1">kdump(1)</a> now always displays both the numeric and the textual forms for users, groups, timestamps, and sysctl ids, eliminating the <tt>-r</tt> option. It also auto-selects between decimal and hex format for arguments, renders more types of flags, and is more robust when parsing corrupt ktrace files.
278: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chmod&sektion=1">chmod(1)</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chgrp&sektion=1">chgrp(1)</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chown&sektion=8">chown(8)</a> now comply with POSIX's requirements when they encounter symlinks when the <tt>-R</tt> option is used, and are safe from race conditions when doing so.
279: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dmesg&sektion=8">dmesg(8)</a> utility can now display the console message buffer in addition to the system message buffer.
280: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=inetd&sektion=8">inetd(8)</a> now uses libevent instead of
281: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=select&sektion=3">select(3)</a>.
1.70 dlg 282: <li>Reworking of the kernel
1.103 tb 283: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/pool.9?query=pool&sec=9">pool(9)</a>
1.70 dlg 284: implementation to provide mpsafety and pave the way for performance improvements.
1.71 dlg 285: <li>Removed the
1.103 tb 286: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man9/workq_add_task.9?query=workq_add_task&sec=9">workq API</a>
1.71 dlg 287: after replacing it with the
1.103 tb 288: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/task_add.9?query=task_add&sec=9">task API</a>.
1.71 dlg 289: <li>Add support for creating kernel threads that cannot sleep to
1.103 tb 290: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/man9/taskq_create.9?query=taskq_create&sec=9">taskq_create(9)</a>.
1.71 dlg 291: <li>Completed the implementation of the atomic (eg,
1.103 tb 292: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_cas_uint.9?query=atomic_cas_uint&sec=9">atomic_cas_uint(9)</a>,
293: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_swap_uint.9?query=atomic_swap_uint&sec=9">atomic_swap_uint(9)</a>,
294: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_add_int.9?query=atomic_add_int&sec=9">atomic_add_int(9)</a>,
295: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_sub_int.9?query=atomic_sub_int&sec=9">atomic_sub_int(9)</a>,
296: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_inc_int.9?query=atomic_inc_int&sec=9">atomic_inc_int(9)</a>, and
297: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_dec_int.9?query=atomic_inc_int&sec=9">atomic_dec_int(9)</a>)
1.71 dlg 298: and membar
1.103 tb 299: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/membar_sync.9?query=membar_sync&sec=9">membar_sync(9)</a>)
1.71 dlg 300: APIs across all supported architectures.
1.46 reyk 301: </ul>
302: <p>
303:
1.103 tb 304: <li>OpenBSD <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
1.46 reyk 305: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 306: <li>SSLv2/3 is not supported anymore; renamed all occurrences of "SSL" to "TLS".
1.46 reyk 307: <li>Various TLS improvements with better support for ECDHE/DHE forward secrecy.
308: <li>Improved support for virtual hosts by supporting name- and IP- based aliases.
1.103 tb 309: <li>Added support for basic authentication by checking against files created with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=htpasswd&sektion=1">htpasswd(1)</a>.
1.46 reyk 310: <li>Added support for custom error codes, blocking and dropping of connections.
311: <li>Added support for redirections and macros in specified target URLs.
312: <li>Added the "root strip" option to sanitize PATH_INFO for some CGI scripts.
313: <li>Added an option to specify an alternative log directory instead of /var/www/logs.
1.103 tb 314: <li>Various FastCGI improvements; <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a> is now compatible with many well-known web applications.
1.46 reyk 315: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
316: </ul>
317: <p>
318:
319: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
320: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 321: <li>SSLv3 is not supported anymore.
1.59 gilles 322: <li>Added support for a new message and headers parser.
323: <li>Added support for append-domain.
324: <li>Restricted address lookups to configured address families.
325: <li>Domain is no longer required when mailing a local user.
326: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
1.1 deraadt 327: </ul>
328: <p>
329:
1.3 sobrado 330: <li>OpenSSH 6.8
1.1 deraadt 331: <ul>
332: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
333: <ul>
1.103 tb 334: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 335: <tt>UseDNS</tt> now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
336: against the client host name (via
1.103 tb 337: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 338: or <tt>authorized_keys</tt>) may need to re-enable it or convert to
339: matching against addresses.
1.1 deraadt 340: </ul>
341: <li>New/changed features:
342: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 343: <li>Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
344: library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
345: have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
346: <li>Add <tt>FingerprintHash</tt> option to
1.103 tb 347: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 348: and
1.103 tb 349: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>,
1.3 sobrado 350: and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
351: algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5
352: to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now have the
353: hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host keys will also
354: be different.
1.103 tb 355: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
356: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.34 sobrado 357: Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension
1.28 sobrado 358: for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after
359: authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in
360: <tt>known_hosts</tt>, allowing it to upgrade to better host key
361: algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys. The client
362: side of this is controlled by a <tt>UpdateHostkeys</tt> config option
363: (default off).
1.103 tb 364: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 365: Add a
1.103 tb 366: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 367: <tt>HostbasedKeyType</tt> option to control which host public key types
368: are tried during host-based authentication.
1.103 tb 369: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
370: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 371: fix connection-killing host key mismatch errors when
1.103 tb 372: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.3 sobrado 373: offers multiple ECDSA keys of different lengths.
1.103 tb 374: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 375: when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to parse host names
376: as addresses before looking them up for canonicalisation. Fixes
377: bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS lookups in some cases.
1.103 tb 378: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
379: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 380: <i>Key Revocation Lists</i> (KRLs) no longer require OpenSSH to be
381: compiled with OpenSSL support.
1.103 tb 382: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
383: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keysign&sektion=8">ssh-keysign(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 384: Make ed25519 keys work for host based authentication.
1.103 tb 385: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 386: SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al., <i>Bleichenbacher
387: Side Channel Attack</i>. Fake up a bignum key before RSA decryption.
1.103 tb 388: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 389: Remember which public keys have been used for authentication and
390: refuse to accept previously-used keys. This allows
391: <tt>AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey</tt> to require that
392: users authenticate using two <i>different</i> public keys.
1.103 tb 393: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 394: add
1.103 tb 395: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 396: <tt>HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt>
397: options to allow
1.103 tb 398: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.3 sobrado 399: to control what public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults
400: to all.
1.103 tb 401: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 402: Don't count partial authentication success as a failure against
403: <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt>.
1.103 tb 404: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 405: Add <tt>RevokedHostKeys</tt> option for the client to allow text-file
406: or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
1.103 tb 407: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
408: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 409: Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by serial number or key ID without
410: scoping to a particular CA.
1.103 tb 411: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 412: Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
1.103 tb 413: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 414: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to trigger only in the second config pass.
1.103 tb 415: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 416: Add a <tt>-G</tt> option to
1.103 tb 417: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 418: that causes it to parse its configuration and dump the result to
419: stdout, similar to "<tt>sshd -T</tt>".
1.103 tb 420: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 421: Allow <tt>Match</tt> criteria to be negated
422: (e.g. "<tt>Match !host</tt>").
423: <li>The regression test suite has been extended to cover more OpenSSH
424: features. The unit tests have been expanded and now cover key
425: exchange.
1.1 deraadt 426: </ul>
427: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
428: <ul>
1.103 tb 429: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
430: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 431: has been made much more robust again servers that hang or violate
432: the SSH protocol.
1.103 tb 433: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
434: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 435: Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names were being lost as comment
436: fields.
1.103 tb 437: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 438: Allow
1.103 tb 439: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 440: <tt>Port</tt> options set in the second config parse phase to be
441: applied (they were being ignored). (bz#2286)
1.103 tb 442: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 443: Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation—make the
444: second pass through the config files always run when host name
445: canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes).
446: (bz#2267)
1.103 tb 447: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 448: Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when connection
449: multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
1.103 tb 450: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 451: Fix broken private key conversion from non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
1.103 tb 452: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 453: Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in use.
454: <li>Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
1.1 deraadt 455: </ul>
456: </ul>
457: <p>
458:
459: <li>LibreSSL
460: <ul>
1.73 sobrado 461: <li>User-visible features:
462: <ul>
463: <li>Reluctantly add server-side support for <tt>TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV</tt>.
464: <li>Import <i>BoringSSL</i>'s crypto bytestring and crypto bytebuilder
465: APIs.
466: <li>Jettison DTLS over SCTP.
467: <li>Move
1.103 tb 468: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.73 sobrado 469: from <tt>/usr/sbin/openssl</tt> to <tt>/usr/bin/openssl</tt>.
470: <li>Two important cipher suites, GOST and Camellia, have been reworked
471: or reenabled, providing better interoperability with systems around
472: the world.
473: <li>libtls: New API for loading CA chains directly from memory instead
474: of a file, allowing verification with privilege separation in a
1.103 tb 475: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chroot&sektion=8">chroot(8)</a>
1.73 sobrado 476: without direct access to CA certificate files.
477: <li>libtls: Ciphers default to TLSv1.2 with AEAD and PFS.
478: <li>libtls: Improved error handling and message generation.
479: <li>Added <tt>X509_STORE_load_mem</tt> API for loading certificates from
480: memory. This facilitates accessing certificates from a chrooted
481: environment.
482: <li>New AEAD "MAC alias" allows configuring TLSv1.2 AEAD ciphers by
483: using 'TLSv1.2+AEAD' as the cipher selection string.
484: <li>New
1.103 tb 485: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.73 sobrado 486: command '<tt>certhash</tt>' replaces the <tt>c_rehash</tt> script.
487: <li><i>Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation</i> (ALPN) support.
488: </ul>
489: <li>Code improvements:
490: <ul>
491: <li>Dead and disabled code removal including MD5, Netscape workarounds,
492: non-POSIX IO, SCTP, RFC 3779 support, "#if 0" sections, and more.
493: <li>The ASN1 macros are expanded to aid readability and maintainability.
494: <li>Various NULL pointer asserts removed in favor of letting the
495: OS/signal handler catch them.
496: <li>Dozens of issues found with the <i>Coverity scanner</i> fixed.
497: </ul>
498: <li>Security updates:
499: <ul>
500: <li>Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
501: <li>Fix memory leaks.
502: <li>Address POODLE attack by disabling SSLv3 by default.
503: <li>SHA256 Camellia cipher suites for TLS 1.2 from RFC 5932.
504: <li>Earlier libtls support for non-blocking sockets and randomized
505: session ID contexts.
506: <li>Ensure the stack is marked non-executable for assembly sections.
507: <li>Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507,
508: CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511,
509: CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0205
510: and CVE-2015-0206.
511: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 512: </ul>
513: <p>
1.33 schwarze 514: <li>mandoc 1.13.3:
1.1 deraadt 515: <ul>
1.103 tb 516: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
517: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>, and
518: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 519: now have a unified user interface, all with the same options,
520: and are in fact all implemented by the same binary program.
1.103 tb 521: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 522: this implies new options -l and -IKOTW,
523: and it now finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections
524: even if they lack matching file names.
1.103 tb 525: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 526: this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
1.103 tb 527: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 528: this implies new options -acfhkl.
1.103 tb 529: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 530: now automatically detects and transparently accepts input encoded
531: in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option -K to explicitly
532: specify the input encoding.
1.103 tb 533: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 534: default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than -Tascii.
1.103 tb 535: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
1.33 schwarze 536: now supports in-line equations,
537: and terminal rendering of equations is considerably improved.
1.103 tb 538: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml
1.33 schwarze 539: now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders
1.103 tb 540: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
1.33 schwarze 541: using MathML.
1.103 tb 542: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 543: can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how broken the input
544: file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no longer has any effect.
545: A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is provided. Besides, many
546: diagnostic messages are now more specific.
547: <li>Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the
548: American Fuzzy Lop (afl).
1.1 deraadt 549: </ul>
550:
551: <p>
1.17 bluhm 552: <li>Syslogd:
553: <ul>
1.103 tb 554: <li>OpenBSD <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
1.52 lteo 555: is based on
1.103 tb 556: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=event&sektion=3">libevent</a>
1.52 lteo 557: now.
1.17 bluhm 558: <li>Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
559: <li>Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS.
1.20 bluhm 560: The syntax to specify the loghost is documented in
1.103 tb 561: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>.
1.20 bluhm 562: <li>Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable.
563: If a connection terminates, syslogd tries to reconnect.
564: When the message buffer in memory gets full, the number of dropped
565: messages is counted and logged.
1.66 deraadt 566: <li>With TLS, the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
1.17 bluhm 567: <li>The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
568: </ul>
569: <p>
1.1 deraadt 570: <li>Ports and packages:
571: <ul>
1.58 sthen 572: <li>Over 9,000 ports.
1.1 deraadt 573: </ul>
574: <p>
575: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
576: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
577: <tr>
578: <td valign="top" width="25%">
579: <ul>
1.58 sthen 580: <li>i386: 8722
1.86 sthen 581: <li>sparc64: 8184
582: <li>alpha: 6811
1.85 sthen 583: <li>sh: 0
1.1 deraadt 584: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.58 sthen 585: <li>amd64: 8745
1.86 sthen 586: <li>powerpc: 8286
587: <li>m88k: 1148
588: <li>sparc: 4026
1.1 deraadt 589: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.85 sthen 590: <li>arm: 0
1.86 sthen 591: <li>hppa: 6718
592: <li>vax: 1550
1.1 deraadt 593: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.82 deraadt 594: <li>mips64: 1595
595: <li>mips64el: 6914
1.1 deraadt 596: </ul></td></tr></table>
597: <p>
598:
599: <li>Some highlights:
1.67 sthen 600: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
601: <tr>
602: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
603: <li>Chromium 40.0.2214.115
604: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.4
605: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2
606: <li>GHC 7.8.4
607: <li>GNOME 3.14.2
608: <li>Go 1.4.1
609: <li>Groff 1.22.3
610: <li>JDK 1.7.0.71
611: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3
612: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
613: <li>LibreOffice 4.3.5.2
614: <li>MariaDB 10.0.16
615: <li>Mono 3.12.0
616: <li>Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and 35.0.1
617: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0
618: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
619: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
620: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40
621: <li>PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and 5.6.5
622: <li>Postfix 2.11.4
623: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.1
624: <li>Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
625: <li>R 3.1.2
626: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551, 2.0.0.598, 2.1.5, and 2.2.0
1.81 nick 627: <li>Sendmail 8.15.1
1.67 sthen 628: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2
629: <li>TeX Live 2013
630: <li>Vim 7.4.475
631: <li>Xfce 4.10
632: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
633: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 634: <p>
635:
636: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
637: <p>
638:
639: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
640: <ul>
1.2 lteo 641: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
642: freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
643: xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
1.1 deraadt 644: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.2 lteo 645: <li>Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
646: <li>SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
647: <li>NSD 4.1.1
1.22 brad 648: <li>Unbound 1.5.2
1.1 deraadt 649: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
650: <li>Ncurses 5.7
651: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
652: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
653: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
654: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
655: </ul>
656:
657: </ul>
658:
659: <a name="install"></a>
660: <hr>
661: <p>
662: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
663: <p>
664: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
665: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
1.16 rpe 666: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
1.1 deraadt 667: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
668: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
669: purchased a CDROM instead.
670: <p>
671:
672: <hr>
1.16 rpe 673: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
1.1 deraadt 674: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.7 on your machine:
675: <p>
676: <ul>
1.101 tb 677: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.1 deraadt 678: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
1.101 tb 679: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386">
1.1 deraadt 680: .../OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
1.101 tb 681: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.1 deraadt 682: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
683: <p>
1.101 tb 684: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.1 deraadt 685: .../OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
1.101 tb 686: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.1 deraadt 687: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
688: <p>
1.101 tb 689: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
1.1 deraadt 690: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
1.101 tb 691: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.1 deraadt 692: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
693: <p>
1.101 tb 694: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.95 deraadt 695: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
1.101 tb 696: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish">
1.1 deraadt 697: .../OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
1.101 tb 698: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 deraadt 699: .../OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
1.101 tb 700: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.95 deraadt 701: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
1.101 tb 702: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
1.1 deraadt 703: .../OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.101 tb 704: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
1.1 deraadt 705: .../OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.101 tb 706: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
1.1 deraadt 707: .../OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
1.101 tb 708: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.95 deraadt 709: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
1.101 tb 710: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.1 deraadt 711: .../OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
1.101 tb 712: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
1.1 deraadt 713: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
1.101 tb 714: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
1.1 deraadt 715: .../OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
1.101 tb 716: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.95 deraadt 717: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
1.101 tb 718: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax">
1.1 deraadt 719: .../OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
1.101 tb 720: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
1.1 deraadt 721: .../OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
722: </ul>
723: <hr>
724:
725: <p>
726: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
727: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
728: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
729: <p>
730:
731: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
732: <ul>
1.26 tedu 733: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
734: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
735: your BIOS options first.
1.1 deraadt 736:
737: <p>
1.49 bcallah 738: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
739: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
740:
741: <p>
742: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 743: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
744: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
745:
746: <p>
747: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
748: read INSTALL.i386.
749:
750: </ul>
751:
752: <p>
753: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
754: <ul>
1.26 tedu 755: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1.1 deraadt 756: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
757: your BIOS options first.
758:
759: <p>
1.49 bcallah 760: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
761: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
762:
763: <p>
764: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 765: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
766: INSTALL.amd64 document.
767:
768: <p>
769: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
770: read INSTALL.amd64.
771: </ul>
772:
773: <p>
774: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
775: <ul>
1.16 rpe 776: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 777: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
778: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
779:
780: <p>
781: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
782: /5.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
783: </ul>
784:
785: <p>
786: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
787: <ul>
1.87 deraadt 788: <b>
789: <a href="errata57.html#001_sparc64_miniroot">5.7 Errata 001</a>:
790: Unfortunately, 5.7 cannot boot from CDROM on some machines due
791: a bootloader bug.
792: </b>
793: <p>
1.1 deraadt 794: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
795:
796: <p>
797: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
798: <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppy57.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppyB57.fs</i>
799: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
800: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
801:
802: <p>
803: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
804: will most likely fail.
805:
806: <p>
807: You can also write <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/miniroot57.fs</i> to the swap partition on
808: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
809:
810: <p>
811: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
812: </ul>
813:
814: <p>
815: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
816: <ul>
817: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppy57.fs</i> or
818: <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppyB57.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
819: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
820:
821: <p>
822: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
823: will most likely fail.
824:
825: </ul>
826:
827: <p>
828: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
829: <ul>
830: <p>
831: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
832: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
833: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
834: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
835: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
836: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
837: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
838: </ul>
839:
840: <p>
841: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
842: <ul>
843: <p>
844: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
845: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
846: </ul>
847:
848: <p>
849: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
850: <ul>
851: <p>
852: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to the start of the CF
853: or disk, and boot normally.
854: </ul>
855:
856: <p>
857: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
858: <ul>
859: <p>
860: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
861: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
862: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
863: </ul>
864: <p>
865:
866: <p>
867: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
868: <ul>
869: <p>
870: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
871: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
872: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
873: </ul>
874:
875: <p>
876: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
877: <ul>
878: <p>
879: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
880: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
881: </ul>
882:
883: <p>
884: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
885: <ul>
886: <p>
887: To install, burn cd57.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
888: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
889: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
890: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
891: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
892:
893: <p>
894: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
895: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
896: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
897: </ul>
898:
899: <p>
900: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
901: <ul>
902: <p>
903: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
904: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
905: </ul>
906:
907: <p>
908: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
909: <ul>
910: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
911: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
912:
913: <ul><pre>
914: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
915: or
916: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
917: </pre></ul>
918:
919: <p>
920: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
921: To do so you need to write <i>floppy57.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.99 tj 922: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.1 deraadt 923: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
924: depending on the version of your ROM.
925:
926: <ul><pre>
927: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
928: or
929: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
930: </pre></ul>
931:
932: <p>
933: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
934: will most likely fail.
935:
936: <p>
937: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
938: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
939: INSTALL.sparc file.
940: </ul>
941:
942: <p>
943: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
944: <ul>
945: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
946: </ul>
947:
948: <p>
949: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
950: <ul>
951: <p>
952: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
953: openbsd57_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
954: for a few important details.
955: </ul>
956:
1.15 rpe 957: <a name="upgrade"></a>
958: <hr>
959: <p>
960: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
961: <p>
962: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
963: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
964: <a href="faq/upgrade57.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
965:
966: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
967: <hr>
968: <p>
969: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 970: <p>
971: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
972: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
973: in a separate archive. To extract:
974: <p>
975: <ul><pre>
976: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
977: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
978: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
979: </pre></ul>
980: <p>
981: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
982: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
983: To extract:
984: <p>
985: <ul><pre>
986: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
987: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
988: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
989: </pre></ul>
990: <p>
991: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
992: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
993: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
994: Using these files
995: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
996: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
997: <p>
998:
999: <a name="ports"></a>
1000: <hr>
1001: <p>
1002: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1003: <p>
1004: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1005: <p>
1006: <ul><pre>
1007: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
1008: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
1009: </pre></ul>
1010: <p>
1.18 rpe 1011: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1.1 deraadt 1012: if you know nothing about ports
1013: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1014: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1015: OpenBSD ports system.
1016: <p>
1017: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.103 tb 1018: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
1.1 deraadt 1019: cvs(1)</a> if
1020: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1021: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1022: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1.104 ! tj 1023: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
1.12 rpe 1024: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1025: with a command like:
1.1 deraadt 1026: <p>
1027: <ul><pre>
1028: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
1029: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_7</strong>
1030: </pre></ul>
1031: <p>
1032: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1033: server.]
1034: <p>
1.16 rpe 1035: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.9 jca 1036: ports for the 5.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 1037: <p>
1038: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1039: would like to know more, the mailing list
1040: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1041: <p>
1042: </body>
1043: </html>