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1.1 deraadt 21: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 5.7</font></h2>
22: <p>
23: Released May 1, 2015<br>
24: Copyright 1997-2015, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-5-9</font>
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27: <a href="lyrics.html#57">5.7 Song: "XXX"</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.
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41: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify&sektion=1">signify(1)</a> pubkeys for this release:<br>
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50: file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
51: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The
52: distribution files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file
53: are not included on the CDROM because of lack of space.
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58: <p>
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>
1.5 stsp 69: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/xhci.4?query=xhci&sec=4">xhci(4)</a> driver for USB 3.0 host controllers.
70: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/umcs.4?query=umcs&sec=4">umcs(4)</a> driver for MosChip Semiconductor 78x0 USB multiport serial adapters.
1.41 jsg 71: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/i386/skgpio.4?query=skgpio&sec=4">skgpio(4)</a> driver for Soekris net6501 GPIO and LEDs.
1.5 stsp 72: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/nep.4?query=nep&sec=4">nep(4)</a> driver for Sun Neptune 10Gb Ethernet devices.
1.22 brad 74: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/iwm.4?query=iwm&sec=4">iwm(4)</a> driver for Intel 7260, 7265, and 3160 wifi cards.
1.5 stsp 75: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/rtsx.4?query=rtsx&sec=4">rtsx(4)</a> driver now supports RTS5227 and RTL8411B card readers.
1.22 brad 76: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/bge.4?query=bge&sec=4">bge(4)</a> driver now supports jumbo frames on various additional BCM57xx chipsets.
1.5 stsp 77: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ciss.4?query=ciss&sec=4">ciss(4)</a> driver now supports HP Gen9 Smart Array/Smart HBA devices.
1.13 sthen 78: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/mpi.4?query=mpi&sec=4">mpi(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/mfi.4">mfi(4)</a> drivers now have mpsafe interrupt handlers running without the big lock.
1.5 stsp 79: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/pucdata.4?query=pucdata&sec=4">pucdata(4)</a> driver now supports Winchiphead CH382 devices.
81: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/sdmmc.4?query=sdmmc&sec=4">sdmmc(4)</a> driver now supports eMMC storage devices larger than 2GB.
1.44 deraadt 82: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/sdhc.4?query=sdhc&sec=4">sdhc(4)</a> driver can properly resume on Ricoh controllers.
1.5 stsp 83: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/myx.4?query=myx&sec=4">myx(4)</a> driver runs less code under big lock.
86: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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 Surpreme chipsets.
1.7 stsp 87: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/umass.4?query=umass&sec=4">umass(4)</a> driver now supports Archos 24y Vision devices.
1.5 stsp 88: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/athn.4?query=athn&sec=4">athn(4)</a> driver now supports Atheros UB94 devices.
1.7 stsp 89: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/azalia.4?query=azalia&sec=4">azalia(4)</a> driver now supports Realtek ALC885 codecs and Bay Trail HD Audio devices.
1.5 stsp 90: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/upd.4?query=upd&sec=4">upd(4)</a> driver how handles UPSes with broken report descriptors.
92: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/umsm.4?query=umsm&sec=4">umsm(4)</a> driver now supports MEDION S4222 devices.
94: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/pciide.4?query=pciide&sec=4">pciide(4)</a> driver now supports Intel C610 chipsets.
95: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ukbd.4?query=ukbd&sec=4">ukbd(4)</a> driver now supports "wellspring" Apple keyboards.
96: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/umodem.4?query=umodem&sec=4">umodem(4)</a> driver now supports Arduino Leonardo devices.
98: <li>Wireless network scanning problems with the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/iwn.4?query=iwn&sec=4">iwn(4)</a> driver have been fixed.
99: <li>Support for RS* IGP Radeon devices in the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/radeondrm.4?query=radeondrm&sec=4">radeondrm(4)</a> driver has been fixed.
1.42 mpi 100: <li>PowerMac7,2 and PowerMac7,3 can now boot multiprocessor kernel
1.4 stsp 101: </ul>
102: <p>
103:
104: <li>Removed hardware support:
105: <ul>
1.6 stsp 106: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/lofn.4?query=lofn&sec=4">lofn(4)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/nofn.4?query=nofn&sec=4">nofn(4)</a> drivers for Hifn crypto accelerator devices have been removed.
107: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-5.6/man4/art.4?query=art&sec=4">art(4)</a> driver for Accoom Networks Artery T1/E1 drives has been removed.
108: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/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 109: </ul>
110: <p>
111:
112: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
113: <ul>
1.43 jasper 114: <li>The routing table is now used for most of the address lookups operations superseding the RB-tree and IPv4 address list.
1.42 mpi 115: <li>The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing, trunk(4) loadbalancing, pf(4) and bridge(4).
1.43 jasper 116: <li>Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen with tcpdump(8).
117: <li> ...
1.1 deraadt 118: </ul>
1.44 deraadt 119: <p>
1.1 deraadt 120:
1.10 rpe 121: <li>Installer improvements:
122: <ul>
123: <li>The <tt>etc</tt> and <tt>xetc</tt> sets are now part of <tt>base</tt> and
124: <tt>xbase</tt> and are not distributed separately anymore. They are extracted
1.25 tedu 125: from <tt>base</tt> and <tt>xbase</tt> during installation and upgrade.<br>
126: <b>Note that this includes the <tt>rc</tt> and <tt>rc.conf</tt> files!</b>
1.10 rpe 127: <li>The installer now supports
128: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a>
129: interfaces during upgrades.
130: <li>The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended installation and
131: upgrade has been extended to be more flexible.
132: <ul>
133: <li>Ask for the location if dhcp discovery fails for location or mode.
134: <li>Provide a default url if the 'next-server' dhcp option is found.
135: <li>Use <tt>/auto_install.conf</tt> or <tt>/auto_upgrade.conf</tt> if present.
136: <li>Automatically start installer in unattended mode if either one of these
137: files is present when the system boots.
138: </ul>
1.29 krw 139: <li>Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
140: <li>Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
1.35 krw 141: <li>
142: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now zeros out GPT signatures found when writing out an MBR that has been re-initialzed and has no EFI or EFISYS partition.
1.36 krw 143: <li>Fixed manipulation of 'ro' and 'rw' fstab options to avoid damage to other options that happen to contain 'ro' or 'rw'.
1.44 deraadt 144: <l>The ramdisk binary (one binary contains all the commands) is now compiled without optimization and security features. The benefit is a substantial savings in space, allowing more features in the future.
1.10 rpe 145: </ul>
146: <p>
147:
1.1 deraadt 148: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
149: <ul>
1.37 sthen 150: <li>nginx and sliplogin have been removed.
151: <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.
152: <li> ...
1.1 deraadt 153: </ul>
154: <p>
155:
1.2 lteo 156: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
1.1 deraadt 157: <ul>
158: <li>...
159: </ul>
160: <p>
161:
162: <li>Security improvements:
163: <ul>
1.44 deraadt 164: <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 165: <li>Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
1.32 lteo 166: <li>procfs has been removed.
1.44 deraadt 167: <li>Comprehensive audit of the tree to use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=reallocarray&sektion=3">reallocarray(3)</a> idiom throughout.
168: <li>Many conversions from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=select&sektion=2">select(2)</a> to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=poll&sektion=2">poll(2)</a>.
169: <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.
170: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?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.
171: <li>Change
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rand&sektion=3">rand(3)</a>,
173: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=3">random(3)</a>,
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=drand48&sektion=3">drand48(3)</a>,
175: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lrand48&sektion=3">lrand48(3)</a>,
176: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mrand48&sektion=3">mrand48(3)</a>,
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand48&sektion=3">srand48(3)</a>
178: to return non-deterministic strong random values by default, sourced from
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>.
180: New functions
181: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand_deterministic&sektion=3">srand_deterministic(3)</a>,
182: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srandom_deterministic&sektion=3">srandom_deterministic(3)</a>,
183: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=seed48_deterministic&sektion=3">seed48_deterministic(3)</a>,
184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcong48_deterministic&sektion=3">lcong48_deterministic(3)</a>,
185: are added for cases where determinism must be requested.
186: <li>At resume (or unhibernate) time, use a variety of methods to reseed the random number generator. This also works on VM's which wake up (if a wakeup event is seen).
187: <li>All architectures have been transitioned so to static PIE, meaning the statically linked binaries in /bin and /sbin now have randomly located text segments.
188: <li>Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
1.1 deraadt 189: <li>...
190: </ul>
191: <p>
192:
193: <li>Assorted improvements:
194: <ul>
1.32 lteo 195: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcctl&sektion=8"">rcctl(8)</a> utility to control daemons.
196: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fw_update&sektion=1">fw_update(1)</a> has been rewritten to be faster and smarter.
1.19 bluhm 197: <li>Cleanup <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">libevent(3)</a>,
198: the compatibility layer for other operating systems has been removed.
199: The API is still compatible with upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
1.21 bluhm 200: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
201: s_client got a -proxy parameter for connecting over a HTTP proxy.
1.24 tedu 202: <li>Ground work laid for improved SMP scalability.
203: <li>Improved standards compliance in system header files.
204: <li>Improved portability in many userland components by reducing reliance
205: on historic BSD header files.
1.39 tedu 206: <li>memcpy now strictly enforces the no overlapping buffers rule.
1.31 krw 207: <li>Eliminate many duplicate header file inclusions.
1.27 tedu 208: <li>gzsig has been removed.
1.30 krw 209: <li>switch last workq API uses to
210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=taskq_create&sektion=9">taskq</a> API and remove all traces of workq.
1.31 krw 211: <li>Use
1.35 krw 212: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=services&sektion=5">services(5)</a> names in the default pf rules in force during startup.
213: <li>
1.40 krw 214: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=what&sektion=1">what(1)</a> now correctly displays $OpenBSD$ expansions.
1.35 krw 215: <li>
216: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?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 217: <li>
1.35 krw 218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> now ensures that the pf table process exits when the main process does.
1.31 krw 219: <li>
1.35 krw 220: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> has more informative log entries for DHCPACKs issued in response to DHCPINFORM messages.
1.36 krw 221: <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 222: <li>Improved typography for
223: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=banner&sektion=6">banner(6)</a>.
1.40 krw 224: <li>
225: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> adjusts MTU when the interface-mtu DHCP option is provided.
226: <li>Various memory leaks in
227: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> plugged, providing more stability for long running (in terms of time or renewals) instances.
228: <li>The
229: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>
230: command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
231: <li>The communications between the privileged and unprivileged
232: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> processes was reworked to further minimize information sharing.
233: <li>
234: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> ensures lease timeouts (renew, rebind, expire) are sane and uses default values closer to RFC suggestions.
235: <li>
236: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> no longer crashes when a lease expires and cannot be renewed or replaced.
237: <li>
238: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improved tracking network interface link states.
239: <li>Improved network error tracking and accounting in
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>.
241: <li>Private number conversion functions in
242: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> eliminated in favour of standard library functions.
1.44 deraadt 243: <li>Further signal race cleanups in
244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>.
245: <li>BIND has been retired, encouraging use of
246: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a> and
247: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=unbound&sektion=8">unbound(8)</a>.
248: <li>Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files, especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
1.45 ! stsp 249: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4">softraid(4)</a> RAID1 and CRYPTO volumes are now bootable on the sparc64 platform.
1.1 deraadt 250: <li>...
251: </ul>
252: <p>
253:
1.3 sobrado 254: <li>OpenSSH 6.8
1.1 deraadt 255: <ul>
256: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
257: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 258: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
259: <tt>UseDNS</tt> now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
260: against the client host name (via
261: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
262: or <tt>authorized_keys</tt>) may need to re-enable it or convert to
263: matching against addresses.
1.1 deraadt 264: </ul>
265: <li>New/changed features:
266: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 267: <li>Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
268: library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
269: have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
270: <li>Add <tt>FingerprintHash</tt> option to
271: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
272: and
273: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>,
274: and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
275: algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5
276: to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now have the
277: hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host keys will also
278: be different.
279: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
280: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.34 sobrado 281: Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension
1.28 sobrado 282: for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after
283: authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in
284: <tt>known_hosts</tt>, allowing it to upgrade to better host key
285: algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys. The client
286: side of this is controlled by a <tt>UpdateHostkeys</tt> config option
287: (default off).
1.3 sobrado 288: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
289: Add a
290: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
291: <tt>HostbasedKeyType</tt> option to control which host public key types
292: are tried during host-based authentication.
293: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
294: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
295: fix connection-killing host key mismatch errors when
296: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
297: offers multiple ECDSA keys of different lengths.
298: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
299: when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to parse host names
300: as addresses before looking them up for canonicalisation. Fixes
301: bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS lookups in some cases.
302: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
304: <i>Key Revocation Lists</i> (KRLs) no longer require OpenSSH to be
305: compiled with OpenSSL support.
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
307: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keysign&sektion=8">ssh-keysign(8)</a>:
308: Make ed25519 keys work for host based authentication.
309: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
310: SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al., <i>Bleichenbacher
311: Side Channel Attack</i>. Fake up a bignum key before RSA decryption.
312: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
313: Remember which public keys have been used for authentication and
314: refuse to accept previously-used keys. This allows
315: <tt>AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey</tt> to require that
316: users authenticate using two <i>different</i> public keys.
317: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
318: add
319: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
320: <tt>HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt>
321: options to allow
322: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
323: to control what public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults
324: to all.
325: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
326: Don't count partial authentication success as a failure against
327: <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt>.
328: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
329: Add <tt>RevokedHostKeys</tt> option for the client to allow text-file
330: or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
331: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
332: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
333: Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by serial number or key ID without
334: scoping to a particular CA.
335: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
336: Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
337: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
338: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to trigger only in the second config pass.
339: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
340: Add a <tt>-G</tt> option to
341: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
342: that causes it to parse its configuration and dump the result to
343: stdout, similar to "<tt>sshd -T</tt>".
344: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
345: Allow <tt>Match</tt> criteria to be negated
346: (e.g. "<tt>Match !host</tt>").
347: <li>The regression test suite has been extended to cover more OpenSSH
348: features. The unit tests have been expanded and now cover key
349: exchange.
1.1 deraadt 350: </ul>
351: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
352: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 353: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
354: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>
355: has been made much more robust again servers that hang or violate
356: the SSH protocol.
357: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
358: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
359: Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names were being lost as comment
360: fields.
361: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
362: Allow
363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
364: <tt>Port</tt> options set in the second config parse phase to be
365: applied (they were being ignored). (bz#2286)
366: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
367: Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation—make the
368: second pass through the config files always run when host name
369: canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes).
370: (bz#2267)
371: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
372: Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when connection
373: multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
374: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
375: Fix broken private key conversion from non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
376: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
377: Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in use.
378: <li>Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
1.1 deraadt 379: </ul>
380: </ul>
381: <p>
382:
383: <li>LibreSSL
384: <ul>
1.23 tedu 385: <li>Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
1.27 tedu 386: <li>Move openssl(1) from /usr/sbin/openssl to /usr/bin/openssl
1.1 deraadt 387: <li>...
388: </ul>
389: <p>
1.33 schwarze 390: <li>mandoc 1.13.3:
1.1 deraadt 391: <ul>
1.33 schwarze 392: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
393: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>, and
394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
395: now have a unified user interface, all with the same options,
396: and are in fact all implemented by the same binary program.
397: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
398: this implies new options -l and -IKOTW,
399: and it now finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections
400: even if they lack matching file names.
401: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>,
402: this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
403: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>,
404: this implies new options -acfhkl.
405: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
406: now automatically detects and transparently accepts input encoded
407: in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option -K to explicitly
408: specify the input encoding.
409: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
410: default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than -Tascii.
411: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
412: now supports in-line equations,
413: and terminal rendering of equations is considerably improved.
414: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml
415: now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders
416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
417: using MathML.
418: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
419: can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how broken the input
420: file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no longer has any effect.
421: A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is provided. Besides, many
422: diagnostic messages are now more specific.
423: <li>Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the
424: American Fuzzy Lop (afl).
1.1 deraadt 425: </ul>
426:
427: <p>
1.17 bluhm 428: <li>Syslogd:
429: <ul>
1.20 bluhm 430: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
431: is based on libevent now.
1.17 bluhm 432: <li>Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
433: <li>Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS.
1.20 bluhm 434: The syntax to specify the loghost is documented in
435: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>.
436: <li>Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable.
437: If a connection terminates, syslogd tries to reconnect.
438: When the message buffer in memory gets full, the number of dropped
439: messages is counted and logged.
1.17 bluhm 440: <li>With TLS the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
441: <li>The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
442: </ul>
443: <p>
1.1 deraadt 444: <li>Ports and packages:
445: <ul>
446: <li>Over X,XXX ports.
447: </ul>
448: <p>
449: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
450: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
451: <tr>
452: <td valign="top" width="25%">
453: <ul>
454: <li>i386: XXXX
455: <li>sparc64: XXXX
456: <li>alpha: XXXX
457: <li>sh: XXXX
458: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
459: <li>amd64: XXXX
460: <li>powerpc: XXXX
461: <li>m88k: XXXX
462: <li>sparc: XXXX
463: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
464: <li>arm: XXXX
465: <li>hppa: XXXX
466: <li>vax: XXXX
467: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
468: <li>mips64: XXXX
469: <li>mips64el: XXXX
470: </ul></td></tr></table>
471: <p>
472:
473: <li>Some highlights:
474: <ul>
1.2 lteo 475: <li>GNOME 3.14.2 <li>KDE 3.5.10
1.8 jca 476: <li>KDE 4.14.3 <li>Xfce 4.10
477: <li>MariaDB 10.0.16 <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.1
478: <li>Postfix 2.11.4 <li>Sendmail 8.15.1
1.11 jca 479: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40 <li>Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and 35.0.1
1.2 lteo 480: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0 <li>GHC 7.8.4
481: <li>LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.4
482: <li>Vim 7.4.475 <li>PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and 5.6.5
483: <li>Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2 <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551, 2.0.0.598, 2.1.5, and 2.2.0
484: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2 <li>JDK 1.7.0.71
1.37 sthen 485: <li>Mono 3.12.0 <li>Chromium 40.0.2214.115
1.2 lteo 486: <li>Groff 1.22.3 <li>Go 1.4.1
487: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2 <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
488: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
1.1 deraadt 489: </ul>
490: <p>
491:
492: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
496: <ul>
1.2 lteo 497: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
498: freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
499: xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
1.1 deraadt 500: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.2 lteo 501: <li>Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
502: <li>SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
503: <li>NSD 4.1.1
1.22 brad 504: <li>Unbound 1.5.2
1.1 deraadt 505: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
506: <li>Ncurses 5.7
507: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
508: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
509: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
510: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
511: </ul>
512:
513: </ul>
514:
515: <a name="install"></a>
516: <hr>
517: <p>
518: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
519: <p>
520: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
521: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
1.16 rpe 522: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
1.1 deraadt 523: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
524: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
525: purchased a CDROM instead.
526: <p>
527:
528: <hr>
1.16 rpe 529: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
1.1 deraadt 530: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.7 on your machine:
531: <p>
532: <ul>
533: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.alpha">
534: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
535: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386">
536: .../OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
537: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
538: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
539: <p>
540: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
541: .../OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
542: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
543: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
544: <p>
545: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
546: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
547: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
548: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
549: <p>
550: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
551: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
552: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish">
553: .../OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
554: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
555: .../OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
556: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
557: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
558: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
559: .../OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
560: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
561: .../OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
562: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
563: .../OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
564: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
565: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
566: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
567: .../OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
568: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
569: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
570: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
571: .../OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
572: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
573: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
574: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax">
575: .../OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
576: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
577: .../OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
578: </ul>
579: <hr>
580:
581: <p>
582: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
583: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
584: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
585: <p>
586:
587: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
588: <ul>
1.26 tedu 589: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
590: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
591: your BIOS options first.
1.1 deraadt 592:
593: <p>
594: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
595: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
596: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
597:
598: <p>
599: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
600: read INSTALL.i386.
601:
602: </ul>
603:
604: <p>
605: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
606: <ul>
1.26 tedu 607: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1.1 deraadt 608: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
609: your BIOS options first.
610:
611: <p>
612: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
613: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
614: INSTALL.amd64 document.
615:
616: <p>
617: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
618: read INSTALL.amd64.
619: </ul>
620:
621: <p>
622: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
623: <ul>
1.16 rpe 624: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 625: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
626: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
627:
628: <p>
629: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
630: /5.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
631: </ul>
632:
633: <p>
634: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
635: <ul>
636: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
637:
638: <p>
639: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
640: <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppy57.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppyB57.fs</i>
641: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
642: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
643:
644: <p>
645: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
646: will most likely fail.
647:
648: <p>
649: You can also write <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/miniroot57.fs</i> to the swap partition on
650: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
651:
652: <p>
653: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
654: </ul>
655:
656: <p>
657: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
658: <ul>
659: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppy57.fs</i> or
660: <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppyB57.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
661: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
662:
663: <p>
664: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
665: will most likely fail.
666:
667: </ul>
668:
669: <p>
670: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
671: <ul>
672: <p>
673: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
674: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
675: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
676: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
677: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
678: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
679: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
680: </ul>
681:
682: <p>
683: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
684: <ul>
685: <p>
686: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
687: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
688: </ul>
689:
690: <p>
691: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
692: <ul>
693: <p>
694: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to the start of the CF
695: or disk, and boot normally.
696: </ul>
697:
698: <p>
699: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
700: <ul>
701: <p>
702: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
703: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
704: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
705: </ul>
706: <p>
707:
708: <p>
709: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
710: <ul>
711: <p>
712: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
713: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
714: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
715: </ul>
716:
717: <p>
718: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
719: <ul>
720: <p>
721: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
722: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
723: </ul>
724:
725: <p>
726: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
727: <ul>
728: <p>
729: To install, burn cd57.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
730: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
731: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
732: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
733: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
734:
735: <p>
736: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
737: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
738: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
739: </ul>
740:
741: <p>
742: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
743: <ul>
744: <p>
745: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
746: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
747: </ul>
748:
749: <p>
750: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
751: <ul>
752: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
753: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
754:
755: <ul><pre>
756: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
757: or
758: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
759: </pre></ul>
760:
761: <p>
762: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
763: To do so you need to write <i>floppy57.fs</i> to a floppy.
764: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
765: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
766: depending on the version of your ROM.
767:
768: <ul><pre>
769: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
770: or
771: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
772: </pre></ul>
773:
774: <p>
775: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
776: will most likely fail.
777:
778: <p>
779: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
780: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
781: INSTALL.sparc file.
782: </ul>
783:
784: <p>
785: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
786: <ul>
787: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
788: </ul>
789:
790: <p>
791: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
792: <ul>
793: <p>
794: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
795: openbsd57_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
796: for a few important details.
797: </ul>
798:
1.15 rpe 799: <a name="upgrade"></a>
800: <hr>
801: <p>
802: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
803: <p>
804: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
805: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
806: <a href="faq/upgrade57.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
807:
808: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
809: <hr>
810: <p>
811: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 812: <p>
813: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
814: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
815: in a separate archive. To extract:
816: <p>
817: <ul><pre>
818: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
819: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
820: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
821: </pre></ul>
822: <p>
823: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
824: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
825: To extract:
826: <p>
827: <ul><pre>
828: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
829: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
830: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
831: </pre></ul>
832: <p>
833: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
834: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
835: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
836: Using these files
837: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
838: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
839: <p>
840:
841: <a name="ports"></a>
842: <hr>
843: <p>
844: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
845: <p>
846: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
847: <p>
848: <ul><pre>
849: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
850: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
851: </pre></ul>
852: <p>
1.18 rpe 853: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1.1 deraadt 854: if you know nothing about ports
855: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
856: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
857: OpenBSD ports system.
858: <p>
859: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
860: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
861: cvs(1)</a> if
862: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
863: source tree, our ports tree is available via
864: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1.12 rpe 865: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
866: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
867: with a command like:
1.1 deraadt 868: <p>
869: <ul><pre>
870: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
871: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_7</strong>
872: </pre></ul>
873: <p>
874: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
875: server.]
876: <p>
1.16 rpe 877: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.9 jca 878: ports for the 5.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 879: <p>
880: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
881: would like to know more, the mailing list
882: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
883: <p>
884: </body>
885: </html>
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