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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>
1.14 rpe 42: <pre>
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49: All applicable copyrights and credits can be found in the applicable
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
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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.
1.52 lteo 115: <li>The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing,
116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a> loadbalancing,
117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/pf.4?query=pf&sec=4">pf(4)</a> and
118: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/bridge.4?query=bridge&sec=4">bridge(4)</a>.
119: <li>Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen with
120: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/tcpdump.8?query=tcpdump&sec=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.43 jasper 121: <li> ...
1.1 deraadt 122: </ul>
1.44 deraadt 123: <p>
1.1 deraadt 124:
1.10 rpe 125: <li>Installer improvements:
126: <ul>
127: <li>The <tt>etc</tt> and <tt>xetc</tt> sets are now part of <tt>base</tt> and
128: <tt>xbase</tt> and are not distributed separately anymore. They are extracted
1.25 tedu 129: from <tt>base</tt> and <tt>xbase</tt> during installation and upgrade.<br>
130: <b>Note that this includes the <tt>rc</tt> and <tt>rc.conf</tt> files!</b>
1.10 rpe 131: <li>The installer now supports
132: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a>
133: interfaces during upgrades.
134: <li>The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended installation and
135: upgrade has been extended to be more flexible.
136: <ul>
137: <li>Ask for the location if dhcp discovery fails for location or mode.
138: <li>Provide a default url if the 'next-server' dhcp option is found.
139: <li>Use <tt>/auto_install.conf</tt> or <tt>/auto_upgrade.conf</tt> if present.
140: <li>Automatically start installer in unattended mode if either one of these
141: files is present when the system boots.
142: </ul>
1.29 krw 143: <li>Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
144: <li>Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
1.35 krw 145: <li>
1.52 lteo 146: <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-initialized and has no EFI or EFISYS partition.
1.36 krw 147: <li>Fixed manipulation of 'ro' and 'rw' fstab options to avoid damage to other options that happen to contain 'ro' or 'rw'.
1.50 guenther 148: <li>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 149: </ul>
150: <p>
151:
1.1 deraadt 152: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
153: <ul>
1.37 sthen 154: <li>nginx and sliplogin have been removed.
155: <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.
156: <li> ...
1.1 deraadt 157: </ul>
158: <p>
159:
160: <li>Security improvements:
161: <ul>
1.44 deraadt 162: <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 163: <li>Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
1.32 lteo 164: <li>procfs has been removed.
1.44 deraadt 165: <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.
166: <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>.
167: <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.
168: <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.
169: <li>Change
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rand&sektion=3">rand(3)</a>,
171: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=3">random(3)</a>,
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=drand48&sektion=3">drand48(3)</a>,
173: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lrand48&sektion=3">lrand48(3)</a>,
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mrand48&sektion=3">mrand48(3)</a>,
175: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand48&sektion=3">srand48(3)</a>
176: to return non-deterministic strong random values by default, sourced from
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>.
178: New functions
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand_deterministic&sektion=3">srand_deterministic(3)</a>,
180: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srandom_deterministic&sektion=3">srandom_deterministic(3)</a>,
181: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=seed48_deterministic&sektion=3">seed48_deterministic(3)</a>,
182: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcong48_deterministic&sektion=3">lcong48_deterministic(3)</a>,
183: are added for cases where determinism must be requested.
184: <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).
185: <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.
186: <li>Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
1.1 deraadt 187: <li>...
188: </ul>
189: <p>
190:
191: <li>Assorted improvements:
192: <ul>
1.32 lteo 193: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcctl&sektion=8"">rcctl(8)</a> utility to control daemons.
194: <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 195: <li>Cleanup <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">libevent(3)</a>,
196: the compatibility layer for other operating systems has been removed.
197: The API is still compatible with upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
1.21 bluhm 198: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
199: s_client got a -proxy parameter for connecting over a HTTP proxy.
1.24 tedu 200: <li>Ground work laid for improved SMP scalability.
201: <li>Improved standards compliance in system header files.
202: <li>Improved portability in many userland components by reducing reliance
203: on historic BSD header files.
1.39 tedu 204: <li>memcpy now strictly enforces the no overlapping buffers rule.
1.31 krw 205: <li>Eliminate many duplicate header file inclusions.
1.27 tedu 206: <li>gzsig has been removed.
1.30 krw 207: <li>switch last workq API uses to
208: <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 209: <li>Use
1.35 krw 210: <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.
211: <li>
1.40 krw 212: <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 213: <li>
214: <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 215: <li>
1.35 krw 216: <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 217: <li>
1.35 krw 218: <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 219: <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 220: <li>Improved typography for
221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=banner&sektion=6">banner(6)</a>.
1.40 krw 222: <li>
223: <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.
224: <li>Various memory leaks in
225: <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.
226: <li>The
227: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>
228: command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
229: <li>The communications between the privileged and unprivileged
230: <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.
231: <li>
232: <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.
233: <li>
234: <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.
235: <li>
236: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improved tracking network interface link states.
237: <li>Improved network error tracking and accounting in
238: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>.
239: <li>Private number conversion functions in
240: <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 241: <li>Further signal race cleanups in
242: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>.
243: <li>BIND has been retired, encouraging use of
244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a> and
245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=unbound&sektion=8">unbound(8)</a>.
246: <li>Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files, especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
1.45 stsp 247: <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.
1.48 reyk 248: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now uses "TLS" rather than "SSL" terminology to reflect the deprecation of the latter.
249: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now supports the random and source-hash modes with redirections.
250: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&sektion=8">relayd(8)</a> now supports the <a href="http://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="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snmpd&sektion=8">snmpd(8)</a>.
1.50 guenther 251: <li>Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag and/or non-blocking mode on new file descriptors: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pipe2&sektion=2">pipe2(2)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dup3&sektion=2">dup3(2)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=accept4&sektion=2">accept4(2)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mkostemp&sektion=3">mkostemp(3)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mkostemps&sektion=3">mkostemps(3)</a>, the <tt>SOCK_CLOEXEC</tt> and <tt>SOCK_NONBLOCK</tt> flags for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=socket&sektion=2">socket(2)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=socketpair&sektion=2">socketpair(2)</a>, and the <tt>MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC</tt> flag for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=recvmsg&sektion=2">recvmsg(2)</a>. In addition, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2&sektion=3">posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(3)</a> now always clears the close-on-exec flag.
252: <li>Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag on new FILE handles and for requesting exclusive creation via the the 'o' and 'x' mode letters for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fopen&sektion=3">fopen(3)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdopen&sektion=3">fdopen(3)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=freopen&sektion=3">freopen(3)</a>, and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=popen&sektion=3">popen(3)</a>.
253: <li>Many library functions and programs changed to use the above for safety or simplicity.
254: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=chflagsat&sektion=2">chflagsat(2)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sockatmark&sektion=3">sockatmark(3)</a>, and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=stravis&sektion=3">stravis(3)</a>.
255: <li>Merged performance and safety fixes for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fts&sektion=3">fts(3)</a> from FreeBSD.
256: <li>Merged fixes for file descriptor leaks in various <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc&sektion=3">rpc(3)</a> functions from NetBSD.
1.53 ! guenther 257: <li>Added <tt>kern.global_ptrace</tt> <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=1">sysctl(1)</a> to disable by default the ability to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a> processes that aren't your descendent.
! 258: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?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.
! 259: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=chmod&sektion=1">chmod(1)</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=chgrp&sektion=1">chgrp(1)</a>/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?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.
1.46 reyk 260: <li>...
261: </ul>
262: <p>
263:
264: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
265: <ul>
1.52 lteo 266: <li>SSLv2/3 is not supported anymore; renamed all occurrences of "SSL" to "TLS".
1.46 reyk 267: <li>Various TLS improvements with better support for ECDHE/DHE forward secrecy.
268: <li>Improved support for virtual hosts by supporting name- and IP- based aliases.
269: <li>Added support for basic authentication by checking against files created with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=htpasswd&sektion=1">htpasswd(1)</a>.
270: <li>Added support for custom error codes, blocking and dropping of connections.
271: <li>Added support for redirections and macros in specified target URLs.
272: <li>Added the "root strip" option to sanitize PATH_INFO for some CGI scripts.
273: <li>Added an option to specify an alternative log directory instead of /var/www/logs.
274: <li>Various FastCGI improvements; httpd(8) is now compatible with many well-known web applications.
275: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
276: </ul>
277: <p>
278:
279: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
280: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 281: <li>...
282: </ul>
283: <p>
284:
1.3 sobrado 285: <li>OpenSSH 6.8
1.1 deraadt 286: <ul>
287: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
288: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 289: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
290: <tt>UseDNS</tt> now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
291: against the client host name (via
292: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
293: or <tt>authorized_keys</tt>) may need to re-enable it or convert to
294: matching against addresses.
1.1 deraadt 295: </ul>
296: <li>New/changed features:
297: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 298: <li>Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
299: library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
300: have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
301: <li>Add <tt>FingerprintHash</tt> option to
302: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
303: and
304: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>,
305: and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
306: algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5
307: to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now have the
308: hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host keys will also
309: be different.
310: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.34 sobrado 312: Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension
1.28 sobrado 313: for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after
314: authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in
315: <tt>known_hosts</tt>, allowing it to upgrade to better host key
316: algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys. The client
317: side of this is controlled by a <tt>UpdateHostkeys</tt> config option
318: (default off).
1.3 sobrado 319: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
320: Add a
321: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
322: <tt>HostbasedKeyType</tt> option to control which host public key types
323: are tried during host-based authentication.
324: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
325: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
326: fix connection-killing host key mismatch errors when
327: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
328: offers multiple ECDSA keys of different lengths.
329: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
330: when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to parse host names
331: as addresses before looking them up for canonicalisation. Fixes
332: bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS lookups in some cases.
333: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
334: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
335: <i>Key Revocation Lists</i> (KRLs) no longer require OpenSSH to be
336: compiled with OpenSSL support.
337: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
338: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keysign&sektion=8">ssh-keysign(8)</a>:
339: Make ed25519 keys work for host based authentication.
340: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
341: SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al., <i>Bleichenbacher
342: Side Channel Attack</i>. Fake up a bignum key before RSA decryption.
343: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
344: Remember which public keys have been used for authentication and
345: refuse to accept previously-used keys. This allows
346: <tt>AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey</tt> to require that
347: users authenticate using two <i>different</i> public keys.
348: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
349: add
350: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
351: <tt>HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt>
352: options to allow
353: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
354: to control what public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults
355: to all.
356: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
357: Don't count partial authentication success as a failure against
358: <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt>.
359: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
360: Add <tt>RevokedHostKeys</tt> option for the client to allow text-file
361: or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
362: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
364: Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by serial number or key ID without
365: scoping to a particular CA.
366: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
367: Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
368: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
369: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to trigger only in the second config pass.
370: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
371: Add a <tt>-G</tt> option to
372: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
373: that causes it to parse its configuration and dump the result to
374: stdout, similar to "<tt>sshd -T</tt>".
375: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
376: Allow <tt>Match</tt> criteria to be negated
377: (e.g. "<tt>Match !host</tt>").
378: <li>The regression test suite has been extended to cover more OpenSSH
379: features. The unit tests have been expanded and now cover key
380: exchange.
1.1 deraadt 381: </ul>
382: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
383: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 384: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
385: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>
386: has been made much more robust again servers that hang or violate
387: the SSH protocol.
388: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
389: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
390: Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names were being lost as comment
391: fields.
392: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
393: Allow
394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
395: <tt>Port</tt> options set in the second config parse phase to be
396: applied (they were being ignored). (bz#2286)
397: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
398: Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation—make the
399: second pass through the config files always run when host name
400: canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes).
401: (bz#2267)
402: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
403: Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when connection
404: multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
405: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
406: Fix broken private key conversion from non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
407: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
408: Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in use.
409: <li>Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
1.1 deraadt 410: </ul>
411: </ul>
412: <p>
413:
414: <li>LibreSSL
415: <ul>
1.23 tedu 416: <li>Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
1.47 tedu 417: <li>Reluctantly add server-side support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
418: <li>Import BoringSSL's crypto bytestring and crypto bytebuilder APIs.
419: <li>Jettison DTLS over SCTP.
420: <li>Fix memory leaks.
1.52 lteo 421: <li>Move <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/openssl.1??query=openssl&sec=1">openssl(1)</a> from /usr/sbin/openssl to /usr/bin/openssl
1.1 deraadt 422: <li>...
423: </ul>
424: <p>
1.33 schwarze 425: <li>mandoc 1.13.3:
1.1 deraadt 426: <ul>
1.33 schwarze 427: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
428: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>, and
429: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
430: now have a unified user interface, all with the same options,
431: and are in fact all implemented by the same binary program.
432: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
433: this implies new options -l and -IKOTW,
434: and it now finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections
435: even if they lack matching file names.
436: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>,
437: this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
438: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>,
439: this implies new options -acfhkl.
440: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
441: now automatically detects and transparently accepts input encoded
442: in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option -K to explicitly
443: specify the input encoding.
444: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
445: default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than -Tascii.
446: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
447: now supports in-line equations,
448: and terminal rendering of equations is considerably improved.
449: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml
450: now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders
451: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
452: using MathML.
453: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
454: can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how broken the input
455: file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no longer has any effect.
456: A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is provided. Besides, many
457: diagnostic messages are now more specific.
458: <li>Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the
459: American Fuzzy Lop (afl).
1.1 deraadt 460: </ul>
461:
462: <p>
1.17 bluhm 463: <li>Syslogd:
464: <ul>
1.20 bluhm 465: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
1.52 lteo 466: is based on
467: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">libevent</a>
468: now.
1.17 bluhm 469: <li>Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
470: <li>Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS.
1.20 bluhm 471: The syntax to specify the loghost is documented in
472: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>.
473: <li>Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable.
474: If a connection terminates, syslogd tries to reconnect.
475: When the message buffer in memory gets full, the number of dropped
476: messages is counted and logged.
1.17 bluhm 477: <li>With TLS the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
478: <li>The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
479: </ul>
480: <p>
1.1 deraadt 481: <li>Ports and packages:
482: <ul>
483: <li>Over X,XXX ports.
484: </ul>
485: <p>
486: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
487: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
488: <tr>
489: <td valign="top" width="25%">
490: <ul>
491: <li>i386: XXXX
492: <li>sparc64: XXXX
493: <li>alpha: XXXX
494: <li>sh: XXXX
495: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
496: <li>amd64: XXXX
497: <li>powerpc: XXXX
498: <li>m88k: XXXX
499: <li>sparc: XXXX
500: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
501: <li>arm: XXXX
502: <li>hppa: XXXX
503: <li>vax: XXXX
504: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
505: <li>mips64: XXXX
506: <li>mips64el: XXXX
507: </ul></td></tr></table>
508: <p>
509:
510: <li>Some highlights:
511: <ul>
1.2 lteo 512: <li>GNOME 3.14.2 <li>KDE 3.5.10
1.8 jca 513: <li>KDE 4.14.3 <li>Xfce 4.10
514: <li>MariaDB 10.0.16 <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.1
515: <li>Postfix 2.11.4 <li>Sendmail 8.15.1
1.11 jca 516: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40 <li>Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and 35.0.1
1.2 lteo 517: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0 <li>GHC 7.8.4
518: <li>LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.4
519: <li>Vim 7.4.475 <li>PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and 5.6.5
520: <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
521: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2 <li>JDK 1.7.0.71
1.37 sthen 522: <li>Mono 3.12.0 <li>Chromium 40.0.2214.115
1.2 lteo 523: <li>Groff 1.22.3 <li>Go 1.4.1
524: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2 <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
525: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
1.1 deraadt 526: </ul>
527: <p>
528:
529: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
533: <ul>
1.2 lteo 534: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
535: freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
536: xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
1.1 deraadt 537: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.2 lteo 538: <li>Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
539: <li>SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
540: <li>NSD 4.1.1
1.22 brad 541: <li>Unbound 1.5.2
1.1 deraadt 542: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
543: <li>Ncurses 5.7
544: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
545: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
546: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
547: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
548: </ul>
549:
550: </ul>
551:
552: <a name="install"></a>
553: <hr>
554: <p>
555: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
556: <p>
557: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
558: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
1.16 rpe 559: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
1.1 deraadt 560: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
561: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
562: purchased a CDROM instead.
563: <p>
564:
565: <hr>
1.16 rpe 566: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
1.1 deraadt 567: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.7 on your machine:
568: <p>
569: <ul>
570: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.alpha">
571: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
572: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386">
573: .../OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
574: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
575: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
576: <p>
577: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
578: .../OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
579: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
580: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
581: <p>
582: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
583: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
584: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
585: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
586: <p>
587: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
588: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
589: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish">
590: .../OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
591: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
592: .../OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
593: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
594: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
595: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
596: .../OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
597: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
598: .../OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
599: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
600: .../OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
601: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
602: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
603: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
604: .../OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
605: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
606: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
607: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
608: .../OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
609: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
610: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
611: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax">
612: .../OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
613: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
614: .../OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
615: </ul>
616: <hr>
617:
618: <p>
619: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
620: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
621: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
622: <p>
623:
624: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
625: <ul>
1.26 tedu 626: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
627: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
628: your BIOS options first.
1.1 deraadt 629:
630: <p>
1.49 bcallah 631: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
632: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
633:
634: <p>
635: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 636: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
637: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
638:
639: <p>
640: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
641: read INSTALL.i386.
642:
643: </ul>
644:
645: <p>
646: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
647: <ul>
1.26 tedu 648: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1.1 deraadt 649: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
650: your BIOS options first.
651:
652: <p>
1.49 bcallah 653: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
654: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
655:
656: <p>
657: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 658: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
659: INSTALL.amd64 document.
660:
661: <p>
662: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
663: read INSTALL.amd64.
664: </ul>
665:
666: <p>
667: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
668: <ul>
1.16 rpe 669: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 670: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
671: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
672:
673: <p>
674: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
675: /5.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
676: </ul>
677:
678: <p>
679: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
680: <ul>
681: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
682:
683: <p>
684: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
685: <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppy57.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppyB57.fs</i>
686: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
687: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
688:
689: <p>
690: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
691: will most likely fail.
692:
693: <p>
694: You can also write <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/miniroot57.fs</i> to the swap partition on
695: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
696:
697: <p>
698: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
699: </ul>
700:
701: <p>
702: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
703: <ul>
704: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppy57.fs</i> or
705: <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppyB57.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
706: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
707:
708: <p>
709: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
710: will most likely fail.
711:
712: </ul>
713:
714: <p>
715: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
716: <ul>
717: <p>
718: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
719: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
720: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
721: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
722: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
723: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
724: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
725: </ul>
726:
727: <p>
728: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
729: <ul>
730: <p>
731: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
732: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
733: </ul>
734:
735: <p>
736: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
737: <ul>
738: <p>
739: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to the start of the CF
740: or disk, and boot normally.
741: </ul>
742:
743: <p>
744: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
745: <ul>
746: <p>
747: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
748: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
749: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
750: </ul>
751: <p>
752:
753: <p>
754: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
755: <ul>
756: <p>
757: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
758: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
759: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
760: </ul>
761:
762: <p>
763: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
764: <ul>
765: <p>
766: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
767: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
768: </ul>
769:
770: <p>
771: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
772: <ul>
773: <p>
774: To install, burn cd57.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
775: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
776: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
777: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
778: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
779:
780: <p>
781: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
782: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
783: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
784: </ul>
785:
786: <p>
787: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
788: <ul>
789: <p>
790: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
791: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
792: </ul>
793:
794: <p>
795: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
796: <ul>
797: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
798: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
799:
800: <ul><pre>
801: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
802: or
803: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
804: </pre></ul>
805:
806: <p>
807: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
808: To do so you need to write <i>floppy57.fs</i> to a floppy.
809: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
810: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
811: depending on the version of your ROM.
812:
813: <ul><pre>
814: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
815: or
816: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
817: </pre></ul>
818:
819: <p>
820: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
821: will most likely fail.
822:
823: <p>
824: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
825: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
826: INSTALL.sparc file.
827: </ul>
828:
829: <p>
830: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
831: <ul>
832: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
833: </ul>
834:
835: <p>
836: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
837: <ul>
838: <p>
839: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
840: openbsd57_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
841: for a few important details.
842: </ul>
843:
1.15 rpe 844: <a name="upgrade"></a>
845: <hr>
846: <p>
847: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
848: <p>
849: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
850: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
851: <a href="faq/upgrade57.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
852:
853: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
854: <hr>
855: <p>
856: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 857: <p>
858: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
859: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
860: in a separate archive. To extract:
861: <p>
862: <ul><pre>
863: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
864: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
865: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
866: </pre></ul>
867: <p>
868: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
869: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
870: To extract:
871: <p>
872: <ul><pre>
873: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
874: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
875: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
876: </pre></ul>
877: <p>
878: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
879: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
880: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
881: Using these files
882: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
883: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
884: <p>
885:
886: <a name="ports"></a>
887: <hr>
888: <p>
889: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
890: <p>
891: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
892: <p>
893: <ul><pre>
894: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
895: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
896: </pre></ul>
897: <p>
1.18 rpe 898: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1.1 deraadt 899: if you know nothing about ports
900: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
901: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
902: OpenBSD ports system.
903: <p>
904: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
905: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
906: cvs(1)</a> if
907: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
908: source tree, our ports tree is available via
909: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1.12 rpe 910: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
911: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
912: with a command like:
1.1 deraadt 913: <p>
914: <ul><pre>
915: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
916: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_7</strong>
917: </pre></ul>
918: <p>
919: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
920: server.]
921: <p>
1.16 rpe 922: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.9 jca 923: ports for the 5.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 924: <p>
925: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
926: would like to know more, the mailing list
927: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
928: <p>
929: </body>
930: </html>