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58: <a name="new"></a>
59: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
60: <p>
61: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.7.
62: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus57.html">changelog</a> leading
63: to 5.7.
64: <p>
65:
66: <ul>
67: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
68: <ul>
1.103 tb 69: <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.
70: <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.
71: <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.
72: <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.
73: <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.
74: <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.
75: <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.
76: <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.
77: <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.
78: <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.
79: <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.
80: <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.
81: <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.
82: <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.
83: <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.
84: <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.
85: <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.
86: <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.
87: <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.
88: <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.
89: <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.
90: <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.
91: <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.
92: <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.
93: <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.
94: <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.
95: <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.
96: <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.
97: <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.
98: <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 99: <li>Replaced custom jumbo allocators in
1.103 tb 100: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/sk.4?query=sk&sec=4">sk(4)</a>,
101: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/nge.4?query=nge&sec=4">nge(4)</a>,
102: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/lge.4?query=lge&sec=4">lge(4)</a>, and
103: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/ti.4?query=ti&sec=4">ti(4)</a> with
104: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/MCLGETI.9?query=MCLGETI&sec=9">MCLGETI(9)</a>.
105: <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.
106: <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 107: <li>PowerMac7,2 and PowerMac7,3 can now boot with a multiprocessor kernel.
1.4 stsp 108: </ul>
109: <p>
110:
111: <li>Removed hardware support:
112: <ul>
1.103 tb 113: <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.
114: <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.
115: <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 116: </ul>
117: <p>
118:
119: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
120: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 121: <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 122: <li>The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing,
1.103 tb 123: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a> loadbalancing,
124: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/pf.4?query=pf&sec=4">pf(4)</a> and
125: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/bridge.4?query=bridge&sec=4">bridge(4)</a>.
1.52 lteo 126: <li>Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen with
1.103 tb 127: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/tcpdump.8?query=tcpdump&sec=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
128: <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 129: <li>The
1.103 tb 130: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/mbuf.9?query=mbuf&sec=9">mbuf(9)</a>
1.69 dlg 131: layer has been made mpsafe.
132: <li>Introduce mbuf_list and mbuf_queue structures and APIs.
1.71 dlg 133: <li>Support changing the IPv6 input queue length via
1.103 tb 134: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sysctl&sektion=1">sysctl(1)</a> and net.inet6.ip6.ifq.
1.1 deraadt 135: </ul>
1.44 deraadt 136: <p>
1.1 deraadt 137:
1.10 rpe 138: <li>Installer improvements:
139: <ul>
140: <li>The <tt>etc</tt> and <tt>xetc</tt> sets are now part of <tt>base</tt> and
1.66 deraadt 141: <tt>xbase</tt> and are not distributed separately anymore. They are extracted
142: from <tt>base</tt> and <tt>xbase</tt> during installation and upgrades.<br>
1.25 tedu 143: <b>Note that this includes the <tt>rc</tt> and <tt>rc.conf</tt> files!</b>
1.10 rpe 144: <li>The installer now supports
1.103 tb 145: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a>
1.10 rpe 146: interfaces during upgrades.
147: <li>The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended installation and
1.66 deraadt 148: upgrades has been extended to be more flexible.
1.10 rpe 149: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 150: <li>Ask for the location if DHCP discovery fails for location or mode.
151: <li>Provide a default URL if the 'next-server' DHCP option is found.
1.10 rpe 152: <li>Use <tt>/auto_install.conf</tt> or <tt>/auto_upgrade.conf</tt> if present.
1.66 deraadt 153: <li>Automatically start the installer in unattended mode if either one of these
1.10 rpe 154: files is present when the system boots.
155: </ul>
1.29 krw 156: <li>Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
157: <li>Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
1.35 krw 158: <li>
1.103 tb 159: <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 160: <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 161: <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 162: </ul>
163: <p>
164:
1.1 deraadt 165: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
166: <ul>
1.68 deraadt 167: <li>nginx has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
168: <li>sliplogin has been removed.
1.80 nick 169: <li>Sendmail has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
1.37 sthen 170: <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 171: <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>
172: <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>.
173: <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.
174: <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.
175: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=tpd&sec=8">ntpd(8)</a> now supports authenticated TLS constraints.
1.1 deraadt 176: </ul>
177: <p>
178:
179: <li>Security improvements:
180: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 181: <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 182: <li>Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
1.32 lteo 183: <li>procfs has been removed.
1.103 tb 184: <li>Comprehensive audit of the tree to use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=reallocarray&sektion=3">reallocarray(3)</a> idiom throughout.
185: <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 186: <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 187: <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 188: <li>Change
1.103 tb 189: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=rand&sektion=3">rand(3)</a>,
190: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=random&sektion=3">random(3)</a>,
191: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=drand48&sektion=3">drand48(3)</a>,
192: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=lrand48&sektion=3">lrand48(3)</a>,
193: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mrand48&sektion=3">mrand48(3)</a>,
194: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srand48&sektion=3">srand48(3)</a>
1.44 deraadt 195: to return non-deterministic strong random values by default, sourced from
1.103 tb 196: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 197: New functions
1.103 tb 198: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srand_deterministic&sektion=3">srand_deterministic(3)</a>,
199: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=srandom_deterministic&sektion=3">srandom_deterministic(3)</a>,
200: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=seed48_deterministic&sektion=3">seed48_deterministic(3)</a> and
201: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=lcong48_deterministic&sektion=3">lcong48_deterministic(3)</a>
1.79 deraadt 202: are added for cases where determinism needs to be requested.
1.66 deraadt 203: <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 204: <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 205: <li>Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
1.103 tb 206: <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.
207: <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>.
208: <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 209: <li>Use sha512 instead of md5 in the random number generator.
1.103 tb 210: <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 211: </ul>
212: <p>
213:
214: <li>Assorted improvements:
215: <ul>
1.103 tb 216: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=rcctl&sektion=8"">rcctl(8)</a> utility to control daemons.
217: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fw_update&sektion=1">fw_update(1)</a> has been rewritten to be faster and smarter.
218: <li>Cleanup <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=event&sektion=3">libevent(3)</a>,
1.19 bluhm 219: the compatibility layer for other operating systems has been removed.
220: The API is still compatible with upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
1.103 tb 221: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.66 deraadt 222: s_client now supports a -proxy parameter for connecting over an HTTP proxy.
1.27 tedu 223: <li>gzsig has been removed.
1.72 tedu 224: <li>Switch to fast assembly versions of some libc functions on amd64.
1.103 tb 225: <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 226: <li>Switch last workq API uses to
1.103 tb 227: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=taskq_create&sektion=9">taskq</a> API and remove all traces of workq.
1.31 krw 228: <li>Use
1.103 tb 229: <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 230: <li>
1.103 tb 231: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=what&sektion=1">what(1)</a> now correctly displays $OpenBSD$ expansions.
1.35 krw 232: <li>
1.103 tb 233: <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 234: <li>
1.103 tb 235: <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 236: <li>
1.103 tb 237: <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 238: <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 239: <li>Improved typography for
1.103 tb 240: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=banner&sektion=6">banner(6)</a>.
241: <li>Allow <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=hangman&sektion=6">hangman</a>
1.91 tedu 242: to play against any ELF file.
1.40 krw 243: <li>
1.103 tb 244: <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 245: <li>Various memory leaks in
1.103 tb 246: <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 247: <li>The
1.103 tb 248: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>
1.40 krw 249: command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
1.66 deraadt 250: <li>The communication between the privileged and unprivileged
1.103 tb 251: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> processes was reworked to further minimize information sharing.
1.40 krw 252: <li>
1.103 tb 253: <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 254: <li>
1.103 tb 255: <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 256: <li>
1.103 tb 257: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improved tracking network interface link states.
1.40 krw 258: <li>Improved network error tracking and accounting in
1.103 tb 259: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>.
1.40 krw 260: <li>Private number conversion functions in
1.103 tb 261: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> eliminated in favour of standard library functions.
1.66 deraadt 262: <li>Further signal race cleanups in
1.103 tb 263: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 264: <li>BIND has been retired, encouraging use of
1.103 tb 265: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a> and
266: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=unbound&sektion=8">unbound(8)</a>.
1.44 deraadt 267: <li>Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files, especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
1.103 tb 268: <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.
269: <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.
270: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now supports the random and source-hash modes with redirections.
271: <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>.
272: <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.
273: <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 274: <li>Many library functions and programs changed to use the above for safety or simplicity.
1.103 tb 275: <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>.
276: <li>Merged performance and safety fixes for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=fts&sektion=3">fts(3)</a> from FreeBSD.
277: <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.
278: <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.
279: <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.
280: <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.
281: <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.
282: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=inetd&sektion=8">inetd(8)</a> now uses libevent instead of
283: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=select&sektion=3">select(3)</a>.
1.70 dlg 284: <li>Reworking of the kernel
1.103 tb 285: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/pool.9?query=pool&sec=9">pool(9)</a>
1.70 dlg 286: implementation to provide mpsafety and pave the way for performance improvements.
1.71 dlg 287: <li>Removed the
1.103 tb 288: <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 289: after replacing it with the
1.103 tb 290: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/task_add.9?query=task_add&sec=9">task API</a>.
1.71 dlg 291: <li>Add support for creating kernel threads that cannot sleep to
1.103 tb 292: <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 293: <li>Completed the implementation of the atomic (eg,
1.103 tb 294: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_cas_uint.9?query=atomic_cas_uint&sec=9">atomic_cas_uint(9)</a>,
295: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_swap_uint.9?query=atomic_swap_uint&sec=9">atomic_swap_uint(9)</a>,
296: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_add_int.9?query=atomic_add_int&sec=9">atomic_add_int(9)</a>,
297: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_sub_int.9?query=atomic_sub_int&sec=9">atomic_sub_int(9)</a>,
298: <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
299: <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 300: and membar
1.103 tb 301: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man9/membar_sync.9?query=membar_sync&sec=9">membar_sync(9)</a>)
1.71 dlg 302: APIs across all supported architectures.
1.46 reyk 303: </ul>
304: <p>
305:
1.103 tb 306: <li>OpenBSD <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
1.46 reyk 307: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 308: <li>SSLv2/3 is not supported anymore; renamed all occurrences of "SSL" to "TLS".
1.46 reyk 309: <li>Various TLS improvements with better support for ECDHE/DHE forward secrecy.
310: <li>Improved support for virtual hosts by supporting name- and IP- based aliases.
1.103 tb 311: <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 312: <li>Added support for custom error codes, blocking and dropping of connections.
313: <li>Added support for redirections and macros in specified target URLs.
314: <li>Added the "root strip" option to sanitize PATH_INFO for some CGI scripts.
315: <li>Added an option to specify an alternative log directory instead of /var/www/logs.
1.103 tb 316: <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 317: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
318: </ul>
319: <p>
320:
321: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
322: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 323: <li>SSLv3 is not supported anymore.
1.59 gilles 324: <li>Added support for a new message and headers parser.
325: <li>Added support for append-domain.
326: <li>Restricted address lookups to configured address families.
327: <li>Domain is no longer required when mailing a local user.
328: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
1.1 deraadt 329: </ul>
330: <p>
331:
1.3 sobrado 332: <li>OpenSSH 6.8
1.1 deraadt 333: <ul>
334: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
335: <ul>
1.103 tb 336: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 337: <tt>UseDNS</tt> now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
338: against the client host name (via
1.103 tb 339: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 340: or <tt>authorized_keys</tt>) may need to re-enable it or convert to
341: matching against addresses.
1.1 deraadt 342: </ul>
343: <li>New/changed features:
344: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 345: <li>Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
346: library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
347: have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
348: <li>Add <tt>FingerprintHash</tt> option to
1.103 tb 349: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 350: and
1.103 tb 351: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>,
1.3 sobrado 352: and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
353: algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5
354: to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now have the
355: hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host keys will also
356: be different.
1.103 tb 357: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
358: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.34 sobrado 359: Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension
1.28 sobrado 360: for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after
361: authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in
362: <tt>known_hosts</tt>, allowing it to upgrade to better host key
363: algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys. The client
364: side of this is controlled by a <tt>UpdateHostkeys</tt> config option
365: (default off).
1.103 tb 366: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 367: Add a
1.103 tb 368: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 369: <tt>HostbasedKeyType</tt> option to control which host public key types
370: are tried during host-based authentication.
1.103 tb 371: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
372: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 373: fix connection-killing host key mismatch errors when
1.103 tb 374: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.3 sobrado 375: offers multiple ECDSA keys of different lengths.
1.103 tb 376: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 377: when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to parse host names
378: as addresses before looking them up for canonicalisation. Fixes
379: bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS lookups in some cases.
1.103 tb 380: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
381: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 382: <i>Key Revocation Lists</i> (KRLs) no longer require OpenSSH to be
383: compiled with OpenSSL support.
1.103 tb 384: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
385: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keysign&sektion=8">ssh-keysign(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 386: Make ed25519 keys work for host based authentication.
1.103 tb 387: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 388: SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al., <i>Bleichenbacher
389: Side Channel Attack</i>. Fake up a bignum key before RSA decryption.
1.103 tb 390: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 391: Remember which public keys have been used for authentication and
392: refuse to accept previously-used keys. This allows
393: <tt>AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey</tt> to require that
394: users authenticate using two <i>different</i> public keys.
1.103 tb 395: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 396: add
1.103 tb 397: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 398: <tt>HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt>
399: options to allow
1.103 tb 400: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.3 sobrado 401: to control what public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults
402: to all.
1.103 tb 403: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 404: Don't count partial authentication success as a failure against
405: <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt>.
1.103 tb 406: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 407: Add <tt>RevokedHostKeys</tt> option for the client to allow text-file
408: or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
1.103 tb 409: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
410: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 411: Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by serial number or key ID without
412: scoping to a particular CA.
1.103 tb 413: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 414: Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
1.103 tb 415: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 416: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to trigger only in the second config pass.
1.103 tb 417: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 418: Add a <tt>-G</tt> option to
1.103 tb 419: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 420: that causes it to parse its configuration and dump the result to
421: stdout, similar to "<tt>sshd -T</tt>".
1.103 tb 422: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 423: Allow <tt>Match</tt> criteria to be negated
424: (e.g. "<tt>Match !host</tt>").
425: <li>The regression test suite has been extended to cover more OpenSSH
426: features. The unit tests have been expanded and now cover key
427: exchange.
1.1 deraadt 428: </ul>
429: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
430: <ul>
1.103 tb 431: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
432: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>
1.3 sobrado 433: has been made much more robust again servers that hang or violate
434: the SSH protocol.
1.103 tb 435: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
436: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 437: Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names were being lost as comment
438: fields.
1.103 tb 439: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 440: Allow
1.103 tb 441: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.3 sobrado 442: <tt>Port</tt> options set in the second config parse phase to be
443: applied (they were being ignored). (bz#2286)
1.103 tb 444: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 445: Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation—make the
446: second pass through the config files always run when host name
447: canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes).
448: (bz#2267)
1.103 tb 449: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 450: Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when connection
451: multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
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 broken private key conversion from non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
1.103 tb 454: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.3 sobrado 455: Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in use.
456: <li>Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
1.1 deraadt 457: </ul>
458: </ul>
459: <p>
460:
461: <li>LibreSSL
462: <ul>
1.73 sobrado 463: <li>User-visible features:
464: <ul>
465: <li>Reluctantly add server-side support for <tt>TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV</tt>.
466: <li>Import <i>BoringSSL</i>'s crypto bytestring and crypto bytebuilder
467: APIs.
468: <li>Jettison DTLS over SCTP.
469: <li>Move
1.103 tb 470: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.73 sobrado 471: from <tt>/usr/sbin/openssl</tt> to <tt>/usr/bin/openssl</tt>.
472: <li>Two important cipher suites, GOST and Camellia, have been reworked
473: or reenabled, providing better interoperability with systems around
474: the world.
475: <li>libtls: New API for loading CA chains directly from memory instead
476: of a file, allowing verification with privilege separation in a
1.103 tb 477: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=chroot&sektion=8">chroot(8)</a>
1.73 sobrado 478: without direct access to CA certificate files.
479: <li>libtls: Ciphers default to TLSv1.2 with AEAD and PFS.
480: <li>libtls: Improved error handling and message generation.
481: <li>Added <tt>X509_STORE_load_mem</tt> API for loading certificates from
482: memory. This facilitates accessing certificates from a chrooted
483: environment.
484: <li>New AEAD "MAC alias" allows configuring TLSv1.2 AEAD ciphers by
485: using 'TLSv1.2+AEAD' as the cipher selection string.
486: <li>New
1.103 tb 487: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.73 sobrado 488: command '<tt>certhash</tt>' replaces the <tt>c_rehash</tt> script.
489: <li><i>Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation</i> (ALPN) support.
490: </ul>
491: <li>Code improvements:
492: <ul>
493: <li>Dead and disabled code removal including MD5, Netscape workarounds,
494: non-POSIX IO, SCTP, RFC 3779 support, "#if 0" sections, and more.
495: <li>The ASN1 macros are expanded to aid readability and maintainability.
496: <li>Various NULL pointer asserts removed in favor of letting the
497: OS/signal handler catch them.
498: <li>Dozens of issues found with the <i>Coverity scanner</i> fixed.
499: </ul>
500: <li>Security updates:
501: <ul>
502: <li>Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
503: <li>Fix memory leaks.
504: <li>Address POODLE attack by disabling SSLv3 by default.
505: <li>SHA256 Camellia cipher suites for TLS 1.2 from RFC 5932.
506: <li>Earlier libtls support for non-blocking sockets and randomized
507: session ID contexts.
508: <li>Ensure the stack is marked non-executable for assembly sections.
509: <li>Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507,
510: CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511,
511: CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0205
512: and CVE-2015-0206.
513: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 514: </ul>
515: <p>
1.33 schwarze 516: <li>mandoc 1.13.3:
1.1 deraadt 517: <ul>
1.103 tb 518: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
519: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>, and
520: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 521: now have a unified user interface, all with the same options,
522: and are in fact all implemented by the same binary program.
1.103 tb 523: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 524: this implies new options -l and -IKOTW,
525: and it now finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections
526: even if they lack matching file names.
1.103 tb 527: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 528: this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
1.103 tb 529: <li>For <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>,
1.33 schwarze 530: this implies new options -acfhkl.
1.103 tb 531: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 532: now automatically detects and transparently accepts input encoded
533: in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option -K to explicitly
534: specify the input encoding.
1.103 tb 535: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 536: default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than -Tascii.
1.103 tb 537: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
1.33 schwarze 538: now supports in-line equations,
539: and terminal rendering of equations is considerably improved.
1.103 tb 540: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml
1.33 schwarze 541: now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders
1.103 tb 542: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
1.33 schwarze 543: using MathML.
1.103 tb 544: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
1.33 schwarze 545: can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how broken the input
546: file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no longer has any effect.
547: A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is provided. Besides, many
548: diagnostic messages are now more specific.
549: <li>Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the
550: American Fuzzy Lop (afl).
1.1 deraadt 551: </ul>
552:
553: <p>
1.17 bluhm 554: <li>Syslogd:
555: <ul>
1.103 tb 556: <li>OpenBSD <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
1.52 lteo 557: is based on
1.103 tb 558: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=event&sektion=3">libevent</a>
1.52 lteo 559: now.
1.17 bluhm 560: <li>Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
561: <li>Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS.
1.20 bluhm 562: The syntax to specify the loghost is documented in
1.103 tb 563: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>.
1.20 bluhm 564: <li>Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable.
565: If a connection terminates, syslogd tries to reconnect.
566: When the message buffer in memory gets full, the number of dropped
567: messages is counted and logged.
1.66 deraadt 568: <li>With TLS, the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
1.17 bluhm 569: <li>The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
570: </ul>
571: <p>
1.1 deraadt 572: <li>Ports and packages:
573: <ul>
1.58 sthen 574: <li>Over 9,000 ports.
1.1 deraadt 575: </ul>
576: <p>
577: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
578: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
579: <tr>
580: <td valign="top" width="25%">
581: <ul>
1.58 sthen 582: <li>i386: 8722
1.86 sthen 583: <li>sparc64: 8184
584: <li>alpha: 6811
1.85 sthen 585: <li>sh: 0
1.1 deraadt 586: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.58 sthen 587: <li>amd64: 8745
1.86 sthen 588: <li>powerpc: 8286
589: <li>m88k: 1148
590: <li>sparc: 4026
1.1 deraadt 591: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.85 sthen 592: <li>arm: 0
1.86 sthen 593: <li>hppa: 6718
594: <li>vax: 1550
1.1 deraadt 595: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.82 deraadt 596: <li>mips64: 1595
597: <li>mips64el: 6914
1.1 deraadt 598: </ul></td></tr></table>
599: <p>
600:
601: <li>Some highlights:
1.67 sthen 602: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
603: <tr>
604: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
605: <li>Chromium 40.0.2214.115
606: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.4
607: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2
608: <li>GHC 7.8.4
609: <li>GNOME 3.14.2
610: <li>Go 1.4.1
611: <li>Groff 1.22.3
612: <li>JDK 1.7.0.71
613: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3
614: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
615: <li>LibreOffice 4.3.5.2
616: <li>MariaDB 10.0.16
617: <li>Mono 3.12.0
618: <li>Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and 35.0.1
619: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0
620: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
621: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
622: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40
623: <li>PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and 5.6.5
624: <li>Postfix 2.11.4
625: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.1
626: <li>Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
627: <li>R 3.1.2
628: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551, 2.0.0.598, 2.1.5, and 2.2.0
1.81 nick 629: <li>Sendmail 8.15.1
1.67 sthen 630: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2
631: <li>TeX Live 2013
632: <li>Vim 7.4.475
633: <li>Xfce 4.10
634: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
635: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 636: <p>
637:
638: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
639: <p>
640:
641: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
642: <ul>
1.2 lteo 643: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
644: freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
645: xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
1.1 deraadt 646: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.2 lteo 647: <li>Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
648: <li>SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
649: <li>NSD 4.1.1
1.22 brad 650: <li>Unbound 1.5.2
1.1 deraadt 651: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
652: <li>Ncurses 5.7
653: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
654: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
655: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
656: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
657: </ul>
658:
659: </ul>
660:
661: <a name="install"></a>
662: <hr>
663: <p>
664: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
665: <p>
666: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
667: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
1.16 rpe 668: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
1.1 deraadt 669: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
670: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
671: purchased a CDROM instead.
672: <p>
673:
674: <hr>
1.16 rpe 675: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
1.1 deraadt 676: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.7 on your machine:
677: <p>
678: <ul>
1.101 tb 679: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.1 deraadt 680: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
1.101 tb 681: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386">
1.1 deraadt 682: .../OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
1.101 tb 683: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.1 deraadt 684: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
685: <p>
1.101 tb 686: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.1 deraadt 687: .../OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
1.101 tb 688: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.1 deraadt 689: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
690: <p>
1.101 tb 691: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
1.1 deraadt 692: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
1.101 tb 693: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.1 deraadt 694: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
695: <p>
1.101 tb 696: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.95 deraadt 697: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
1.101 tb 698: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish">
1.1 deraadt 699: .../OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
1.101 tb 700: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
1.1 deraadt 701: .../OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
1.101 tb 702: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.95 deraadt 703: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
1.101 tb 704: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
1.1 deraadt 705: .../OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.101 tb 706: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
1.1 deraadt 707: .../OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.101 tb 708: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
1.1 deraadt 709: .../OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
1.101 tb 710: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.95 deraadt 711: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
1.101 tb 712: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.1 deraadt 713: .../OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
1.101 tb 714: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
1.1 deraadt 715: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
1.101 tb 716: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
1.1 deraadt 717: .../OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
1.101 tb 718: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
1.95 deraadt 719: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
1.101 tb 720: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax">
1.1 deraadt 721: .../OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
1.101 tb 722: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
1.1 deraadt 723: .../OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
724: </ul>
725: <hr>
726:
727: <p>
728: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
729: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
730: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
731: <p>
732:
733: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
734: <ul>
1.26 tedu 735: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
736: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
737: your BIOS options first.
1.1 deraadt 738:
739: <p>
1.49 bcallah 740: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
741: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
742:
743: <p>
744: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 745: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
746: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
747:
748: <p>
749: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
750: read INSTALL.i386.
751:
752: </ul>
753:
754: <p>
755: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
756: <ul>
1.26 tedu 757: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1.1 deraadt 758: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
759: your BIOS options first.
760:
761: <p>
1.49 bcallah 762: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
763: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
764:
765: <p>
766: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 767: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
768: INSTALL.amd64 document.
769:
770: <p>
771: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
772: read INSTALL.amd64.
773: </ul>
774:
775: <p>
776: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
777: <ul>
1.16 rpe 778: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 779: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
780: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
781:
782: <p>
783: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
784: /5.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
785: </ul>
786:
787: <p>
788: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
789: <ul>
1.87 deraadt 790: <b>
791: <a href="errata57.html#001_sparc64_miniroot">5.7 Errata 001</a>:
792: Unfortunately, 5.7 cannot boot from CDROM on some machines due
793: a bootloader bug.
794: </b>
795: <p>
1.1 deraadt 796: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
797:
798: <p>
799: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
800: <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppy57.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppyB57.fs</i>
801: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
802: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
803:
804: <p>
805: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
806: will most likely fail.
807:
808: <p>
809: You can also write <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/miniroot57.fs</i> to the swap partition on
810: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
811:
812: <p>
813: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
814: </ul>
815:
816: <p>
817: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
818: <ul>
819: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppy57.fs</i> or
820: <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppyB57.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
821: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
822:
823: <p>
824: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
825: will most likely fail.
826:
827: </ul>
828:
829: <p>
830: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
831: <ul>
832: <p>
833: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
834: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
835: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
836: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
837: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
838: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
839: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
840: </ul>
841:
842: <p>
843: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
844: <ul>
845: <p>
846: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
847: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
848: </ul>
849:
850: <p>
851: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
852: <ul>
853: <p>
854: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to the start of the CF
855: or disk, and boot normally.
856: </ul>
857:
858: <p>
859: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
860: <ul>
861: <p>
862: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
863: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
864: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
865: </ul>
866: <p>
867:
868: <p>
869: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
870: <ul>
871: <p>
872: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
873: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
874: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k 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>
889: To install, burn cd57.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
890: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
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.
894:
895: <p>
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.
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 5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
917: or
918: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.7/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>floppy57.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.99 tj 924: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.1 deraadt 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: openbsd57_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
956: for a few important details.
957: </ul>
958:
1.15 rpe 959: <a name="upgrade"></a>
960: <hr>
961: <p>
962: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
963: <p>
964: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
965: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
966: <a href="faq/upgrade57.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
967:
968: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
969: <hr>
970: <p>
971: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 972: <p>
973: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
974: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
975: in a separate archive. To extract:
976: <p>
977: <ul><pre>
978: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
979: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
980: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
981: </pre></ul>
982: <p>
983: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
984: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
985: To extract:
986: <p>
987: <ul><pre>
988: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
989: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
990: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
991: </pre></ul>
992: <p>
993: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
994: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
995: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
996: Using these files
997: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
998: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
999: <p>
1000:
1001: <a name="ports"></a>
1002: <hr>
1003: <p>
1004: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1005: <p>
1006: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1007: <p>
1008: <ul><pre>
1009: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
1010: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
1011: </pre></ul>
1012: <p>
1.18 rpe 1013: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1.1 deraadt 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
1.103 tb 1020: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
1.1 deraadt 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>.
1.104 tj 1025: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
1.12 rpe 1026: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1027: with a command like:
1.1 deraadt 1028: <p>
1029: <ul><pre>
1030: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
1031: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_7</strong>
1032: </pre></ul>
1033: <p>
1034: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1035: server.]
1036: <p>
1.16 rpe 1037: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.9 jca 1038: ports for the 5.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 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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