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