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1.1 deraadt 21: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 5.7</font></h2>
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1.68 deraadt 23: To be released May 1, 2015<br>
1.1 deraadt 24: Copyright 1997-2015, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-5-9</font>
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1.68 deraadt 27: <a href="lyrics.html#57">5.7 Song: "Source Fish"</a>
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30: <ul>
31: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="https://openbsdstore.com">ordering system</a>.
32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
33: a list of mirror machines.
34: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/5.7/</font> directory on
35: one of the mirror sites.
36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata57.html">the 5.7 errata page</a> for a list
37: of bugs and workarounds.
38: <li>See a <a href="plus57.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
39: 5.6 and 5.7 releases.
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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>
43: base: RWSvUZXnw9gUb70PdeSNnpSmodCyIPJEGN1wWr+6Time1eP7KiWJ5eAM
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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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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.
1.66 deraadt 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 the 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 Supreme 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.
1.66 deraadt 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 now handles UPSes with broken report descriptors.
1.5 stsp 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.
1.71 dlg 98: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/sk.4?query=sk&sec=4">sk(4)</a> driver now supports receive ring scaling.
99: <li>Replaced custom jumbo allocators in
100: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/sk.4?query=sk&sec=4">sk(4)</a>,
101: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/nge.4?query=nge&sec=4">nge(4)</a>,
102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/lge.4?query=lge&sec=4">lge(4)</a>, and
103: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ti.4?query=ti&sec=4">ti(4)</a> with
104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/MCLGETI.9?query=MCLGETI&sec=9">MCLGETI(9)</a>.
1.5 stsp 105: <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.
106: <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.
1.66 deraadt 107: <li>PowerMac7,2 and PowerMac7,3 can now boot with a multiprocessor kernel.
1.4 stsp 108: </ul>
109: <p>
110:
111: <li>Removed hardware support:
112: <ul>
1.6 stsp 113: <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.
114: <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.
115: <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 116: </ul>
117: <p>
118:
119: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
120: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 121: <li>The routing table is now used for most of the address lookup operations superseding the RB-tree and IPv4 address list.
1.52 lteo 122: <li>The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing,
123: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a> loadbalancing,
124: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/pf.4?query=pf&sec=4">pf(4)</a> and
125: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/bridge.4?query=bridge&sec=4">bridge(4)</a>.
126: <li>Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen with
127: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/tcpdump.8?query=tcpdump&sec=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.56 benno 128: <li>A <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a> now needs to be configured with an explicit <em>carpdev</em> parent interface.
1.69 dlg 129: <li>The
130: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/mbuf.9?query=mbuf&sec=9">mbuf(9)</a>
131: layer has been made mpsafe.
132: <li>Introduce mbuf_list and mbuf_queue structures and APIs.
1.71 dlg 133: <li>Support changing the IPv6 input queue length via
134: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=1">sysctl(1)</a> and net.inet6.ip6.ifq.
1.1 deraadt 135: </ul>
1.44 deraadt 136: <p>
1.1 deraadt 137:
1.10 rpe 138: <li>Installer improvements:
139: <ul>
140: <li>The <tt>etc</tt> and <tt>xetc</tt> sets are now part of <tt>base</tt> and
1.66 deraadt 141: <tt>xbase</tt> and are not distributed separately anymore. They are extracted
142: from <tt>base</tt> and <tt>xbase</tt> during installation and upgrades.<br>
1.25 tedu 143: <b>Note that this includes the <tt>rc</tt> and <tt>rc.conf</tt> files!</b>
1.10 rpe 144: <li>The installer now supports
145: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/trunk.4?query=trunk&sec=4">trunk(4)</a>
146: interfaces during upgrades.
147: <li>The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended installation and
1.66 deraadt 148: upgrades has been extended to be more flexible.
1.10 rpe 149: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 150: <li>Ask for the location if DHCP discovery fails for location or mode.
151: <li>Provide a default URL if the 'next-server' DHCP option is found.
1.10 rpe 152: <li>Use <tt>/auto_install.conf</tt> or <tt>/auto_upgrade.conf</tt> if present.
1.66 deraadt 153: <li>Automatically start the installer in unattended mode if either one of these
1.10 rpe 154: files is present when the system boots.
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1.29 krw 156: <li>Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
157: <li>Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
1.35 krw 158: <li>
1.52 lteo 159: <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 160: <li>Fixed manipulation of 'ro' and 'rw' fstab options to avoid damage to other options that happen to contain 'ro' or 'rw'.
1.66 deraadt 161: <li>The ramdisk binary (one binary contains all the commands) is now compiled without optimization and security features. The benefit is a substantial saving in space, allowing more features in the future.
1.10 rpe 162: </ul>
163: <p>
164:
1.1 deraadt 165: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
166: <ul>
1.68 deraadt 167: <li>nginx has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
168: <li>sliplogin has been removed.
1.37 sthen 169: <li>IPv6 router solicitations are now sent by the kernel ("inet6 autoconf"); rtsol(8) and rtsold(8) are no longer necessary and have been removed.
1.56 benno 170: <li>Enhancements and bugfixes in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arp&sektion=8">arp(8)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ndp&sektion=8">ndp(8)</a>
1.60 jca 171: <li>The effects of the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&sektion=3">getaddrinfo(3)</a> results are limited to DNS queries. This avoids erratic behavior with transient network problems, "raw" addresses and localhost entries in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hosts&sektion=5">/etc/hosts</a>.
1.65 jca 172: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gethostbyname&sektion=3">gethostbyname(3)</a> now no longer fails when more than 16 addresses/aliases are returned. The original pre-asr limit of 35 has been restored, with additional results being truncated.
1.74 ! jca 173: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tftp&sektion=1">tftp(1)</a> now supports sending or receiving files larger than 65536 blocks in size.
1.1 deraadt 174: </ul>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li>Security improvements:
178: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 179: <li>Stricter enforcement of W^X in the kernel address space, especially on architectures with the right featureset (amd64, in particular, has seen substantial improvements).
1.27 tedu 180: <li>Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
1.32 lteo 181: <li>procfs has been removed.
1.44 deraadt 182: <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.
183: <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>.
184: <li>/var/tmp is now a symbolic link to /tmp, as a first step towards reducing the "fill it up" attack surface against the /var partition.
185: <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.
186: <li>Change
187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rand&sektion=3">rand(3)</a>,
188: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=3">random(3)</a>,
189: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=drand48&sektion=3">drand48(3)</a>,
190: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lrand48&sektion=3">lrand48(3)</a>,
191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mrand48&sektion=3">mrand48(3)</a>,
192: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand48&sektion=3">srand48(3)</a>
193: to return non-deterministic strong random values by default, sourced from
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a>.
195: New functions
196: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srand_deterministic&sektion=3">srand_deterministic(3)</a>,
197: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=srandom_deterministic&sektion=3">srandom_deterministic(3)</a>,
1.66 deraadt 198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=seed48_deterministic&sektion=3">seed48_deterministic(3)</a> and
199: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lcong48_deterministic&sektion=3">lcong48_deterministic(3)</a>
1.44 deraadt 200: are added for cases where determinism must be requested.
1.66 deraadt 201: <li>At resume (or unhibernate) time, use a variety of methods to reseed the random number generator. This also works on VMs which wake up (if a wakeup event is seen).
1.57 deraadt 202: <li>All architectures have been transitioned to static PIE, meaning the statically linked binaries in /bin and /sbin now have randomly located text segments.
1.44 deraadt 203: <li>Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
1.56 benno 204: <li>Sync kernel AES code and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a> AES code to the one shipped with OpenSSL/LibreSSL.
1.66 deraadt 205: <li>Removed <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=1">passwd(1)</a> support for all password ciphers except <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=blowfish&sektion=3">blowfish(3)</a>.
1.56 benno 206: <li>Use sha512 instead of md5 for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcp&sektion=4">tcp(4)</a> initial sequence number.
207: <li>Use sha512 instead of md5 in the random number generator.
208: <li>Delete secret or secret-derived data in many base utilities with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=explicit_bzero&sektion=3">explicit_bzero(3)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 209: </ul>
210: <p>
211:
212: <li>Assorted improvements:
213: <ul>
1.32 lteo 214: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcctl&sektion=8"">rcctl(8)</a> utility to control daemons.
215: <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 216: <li>Cleanup <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">libevent(3)</a>,
217: the compatibility layer for other operating systems has been removed.
218: The API is still compatible with upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
1.21 bluhm 219: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
1.66 deraadt 220: s_client now supports a -proxy parameter for connecting over an HTTP proxy.
1.24 tedu 221: <li>Ground work laid for improved SMP scalability.
1.27 tedu 222: <li>gzsig has been removed.
1.72 tedu 223: <li>Switch to fast assembly versions of some libc functions on amd64.
224: <li>Frequency scaling has been moved to the kernel with an improved algorithm.
1.66 deraadt 225: <li>Switch last workq API uses to
1.30 krw 226: <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 227: <li>Use
1.35 krw 228: <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.
229: <li>
1.40 krw 230: <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 231: <li>
232: <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 233: <li>
1.35 krw 234: <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 235: <li>
1.35 krw 236: <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 237: <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 238: <li>Improved typography for
239: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=banner&sektion=6">banner(6)</a>.
1.40 krw 240: <li>
241: <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.
242: <li>Various memory leaks in
243: <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.
244: <li>The
1.66 deraadt 245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>
1.40 krw 246: command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
1.66 deraadt 247: <li>The communication between the privileged and unprivileged
1.40 krw 248: <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.
249: <li>
250: <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.
251: <li>
252: <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.
253: <li>
254: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> improved tracking network interface link states.
255: <li>Improved network error tracking and accounting in
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a>.
257: <li>Private number conversion functions in
258: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> eliminated in favour of standard library functions.
1.66 deraadt 259: <li>Further signal race cleanups in
1.44 deraadt 260: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>.
261: <li>BIND has been retired, encouraging use of
262: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a> and
263: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=unbound&sektion=8">unbound(8)</a>.
264: <li>Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files, especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
1.45 stsp 265: <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.
1.66 deraadt 266: <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.
1.48 reyk 267: <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.
268: <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 269: <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.
1.64 jca 270: <li>Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag on new FILE handles and for requesting exclusive creation via the the 'e' and 'x' mode letters for <a href="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>.
1.50 guenther 271: <li>Many library functions and programs changed to use the above for safety or simplicity.
272: <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>.
273: <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.
274: <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.
1.66 deraadt 275: <li>Added a <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.
1.53 guenther 276: <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.
277: <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.
1.56 benno 278: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dmesg&sektion=8">dmesg(8)</a> utility can now display the console message buffer in addition to the system message buffer.
1.71 dlg 279: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inetd&sektion=8">inetd(8)</a> now uses libevent instead of
280: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=select&sektion=3">select(3)</a>.
1.70 dlg 281: <li>Reworking of the kernel
282: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/pool.9?query=pool&sec=9">pool(9)</a>
283: implementation to provide mpsafety and pave the way for performance improvements.
1.71 dlg 284: <li>Removed the
285: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-5.6/man9/workq_add_task.9?query=workq_add_task&sec=9">workq API</a>
286: after replacing it with the
287: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/task_add.9?query=task_add&sec=9">task API</a>.
288: <li>Add support for creating kernel threads that cannot sleep to
289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-5.6/man9/taskq_create.9?query=taskq_create&sec=9">taskq_create(9)</a>.
290: <li>Completed the implementation of the atomic (eg,
291: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_cas_uint.9?query=atomic_cas_uint&sec=9">atomic_cas_uint(9)</a>,
292: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_swap_uint.9?query=atomic_swap_uint&sec=9">atomic_swap_uint(9)</a>,
293: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_add_int.9?query=atomic_add_int&sec=9">atomic_add_int(9)</a>,
294: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_sub_int.9?query=atomic_sub_int&sec=9">atomic_sub_int(9)</a>,
295: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_inc_int.9?query=atomic_inc_int&sec=9">atomic_inc_int(9)</a>, and
296: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/atomic_dec_int.9?query=atomic_inc_int&sec=9">atomic_dec_int(9)</a>)
297: and membar
298: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/membar_sync.9?query=membar_sync&sec=9">membar_sync(9)</a>)
299: APIs across all supported architectures.
1.46 reyk 300: </ul>
301: <p>
302:
303: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
304: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 305: <li>SSLv2/3 is not supported anymore; renamed all occurrences of "SSL" to "TLS".
1.46 reyk 306: <li>Various TLS improvements with better support for ECDHE/DHE forward secrecy.
307: <li>Improved support for virtual hosts by supporting name- and IP- based aliases.
308: <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>.
309: <li>Added support for custom error codes, blocking and dropping of connections.
310: <li>Added support for redirections and macros in specified target URLs.
311: <li>Added the "root strip" option to sanitize PATH_INFO for some CGI scripts.
312: <li>Added an option to specify an alternative log directory instead of /var/www/logs.
313: <li>Various FastCGI improvements; httpd(8) is now compatible with many well-known web applications.
314: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
315: </ul>
316: <p>
317:
318: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
319: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 320: <li>SSLv3 is not supported anymore.
1.59 gilles 321: <li>Added support for a new message and headers parser.
322: <li>Added support for append-domain.
323: <li>Restricted address lookups to configured address families.
324: <li>Domain is no longer required when mailing a local user.
325: <li>Various other fixes and improvements.
1.1 deraadt 326: </ul>
327: <p>
328:
1.3 sobrado 329: <li>OpenSSH 6.8
1.1 deraadt 330: <ul>
331: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
332: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 333: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
334: <tt>UseDNS</tt> now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
335: against the client host name (via
336: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
337: or <tt>authorized_keys</tt>) may need to re-enable it or convert to
338: matching against addresses.
1.1 deraadt 339: </ul>
340: <li>New/changed features:
341: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 342: <li>Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
343: library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
344: have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
345: <li>Add <tt>FingerprintHash</tt> option to
346: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
347: and
348: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>,
349: and equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
350: algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from MD5
351: to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now have the
352: hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host keys will also
353: be different.
354: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
355: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.34 sobrado 356: Experimental host key rotation support. Add a protocol extension
1.28 sobrado 357: for a server to inform a client of all its available host keys after
358: authentication has completed. The client may record the keys in
359: <tt>known_hosts</tt>, allowing it to upgrade to better host key
360: algorithms and a server to gracefully rotate its keys. The client
361: side of this is controlled by a <tt>UpdateHostkeys</tt> config option
362: (default off).
1.3 sobrado 363: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
364: Add a
365: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
366: <tt>HostbasedKeyType</tt> option to control which host public key types
367: are tried during host-based authentication.
368: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
369: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
370: fix connection-killing host key mismatch errors when
371: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
372: offers multiple ECDSA keys of different lengths.
373: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
374: when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to parse host names
375: as addresses before looking them up for canonicalisation. Fixes
376: bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS lookups in some cases.
377: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
378: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
379: <i>Key Revocation Lists</i> (KRLs) no longer require OpenSSH to be
380: compiled with OpenSSL support.
381: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
382: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keysign&sektion=8">ssh-keysign(8)</a>:
383: Make ed25519 keys work for host based authentication.
384: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
385: SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al., <i>Bleichenbacher
386: Side Channel Attack</i>. Fake up a bignum key before RSA decryption.
387: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
388: Remember which public keys have been used for authentication and
389: refuse to accept previously-used keys. This allows
390: <tt>AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey</tt> to require that
391: users authenticate using two <i>different</i> public keys.
392: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
393: add
394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
395: <tt>HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt>
396: options to allow
397: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
398: to control what public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults
399: to all.
400: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
401: Don't count partial authentication success as a failure against
402: <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt>.
403: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
404: Add <tt>RevokedHostKeys</tt> option for the client to allow text-file
405: or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
406: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>,
407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
408: Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by serial number or key ID without
409: scoping to a particular CA.
410: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
411: Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
412: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
413: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to trigger only in the second config pass.
414: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
415: Add a <tt>-G</tt> option to
416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
417: that causes it to parse its configuration and dump the result to
418: stdout, similar to "<tt>sshd -T</tt>".
419: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
420: Allow <tt>Match</tt> criteria to be negated
421: (e.g. "<tt>Match !host</tt>").
422: <li>The regression test suite has been extended to cover more OpenSSH
423: features. The unit tests have been expanded and now cover key
424: exchange.
1.1 deraadt 425: </ul>
426: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
427: <ul>
1.3 sobrado 428: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
429: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan&sektion=1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>
430: has been made much more robust again servers that hang or violate
431: the SSH protocol.
432: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
433: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
434: Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names were being lost as comment
435: fields.
436: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
437: Allow
438: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
439: <tt>Port</tt> options set in the second config parse phase to be
440: applied (they were being ignored). (bz#2286)
441: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
442: Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation—make the
443: second pass through the config files always run when host name
444: canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the host name changes).
445: (bz#2267)
446: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
447: Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when connection
448: multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
449: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
450: Fix broken private key conversion from non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
451: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
452: Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in use.
453: <li>Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
1.1 deraadt 454: </ul>
455: </ul>
456: <p>
457:
458: <li>LibreSSL
459: <ul>
1.73 sobrado 460: <li>User-visible features:
461: <ul>
462: <li>Reluctantly add server-side support for <tt>TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV</tt>.
463: <li>Import <i>BoringSSL</i>'s crypto bytestring and crypto bytebuilder
464: APIs.
465: <li>Jettison DTLS over SCTP.
466: <li>Move
467: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
468: from <tt>/usr/sbin/openssl</tt> to <tt>/usr/bin/openssl</tt>.
469: <li>Two important cipher suites, GOST and Camellia, have been reworked
470: or reenabled, providing better interoperability with systems around
471: the world.
472: <li>libtls: New API for loading CA chains directly from memory instead
473: of a file, allowing verification with privilege separation in a
474: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=chroot&sektion=8">chroot(8)</a>
475: without direct access to CA certificate files.
476: <li>libtls: Ciphers default to TLSv1.2 with AEAD and PFS.
477: <li>libtls: Improved error handling and message generation.
478: <li>Added <tt>X509_STORE_load_mem</tt> API for loading certificates from
479: memory. This facilitates accessing certificates from a chrooted
480: environment.
481: <li>New AEAD "MAC alias" allows configuring TLSv1.2 AEAD ciphers by
482: using 'TLSv1.2+AEAD' as the cipher selection string.
483: <li>New
484: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
485: command '<tt>certhash</tt>' replaces the <tt>c_rehash</tt> script.
486: <li><i>Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation</i> (ALPN) support.
487: </ul>
488: <li>Code improvements:
489: <ul>
490: <li>Dead and disabled code removal including MD5, Netscape workarounds,
491: non-POSIX IO, SCTP, RFC 3779 support, "#if 0" sections, and more.
492: <li>The ASN1 macros are expanded to aid readability and maintainability.
493: <li>Various NULL pointer asserts removed in favor of letting the
494: OS/signal handler catch them.
495: <li>Dozens of issues found with the <i>Coverity scanner</i> fixed.
496: </ul>
497: <li>Security updates:
498: <ul>
499: <li>Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
500: <li>Fix memory leaks.
501: <li>Address POODLE attack by disabling SSLv3 by default.
502: <li>SHA256 Camellia cipher suites for TLS 1.2 from RFC 5932.
503: <li>Earlier libtls support for non-blocking sockets and randomized
504: session ID contexts.
505: <li>Ensure the stack is marked non-executable for assembly sections.
506: <li>Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507,
507: CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511,
508: CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0205
509: and CVE-2015-0206.
510: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 511: </ul>
512: <p>
1.33 schwarze 513: <li>mandoc 1.13.3:
1.1 deraadt 514: <ul>
1.33 schwarze 515: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
516: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>, and
517: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
518: now have a unified user interface, all with the same options,
519: and are in fact all implemented by the same binary program.
520: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a>,
521: this implies new options -l and -IKOTW,
522: and it now finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections
523: even if they lack matching file names.
524: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apropos&sektion=1">apropos(1)</a>,
525: this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
526: <li>For <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>,
527: this implies new options -acfhkl.
528: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
529: now automatically detects and transparently accepts input encoded
530: in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option -K to explicitly
531: specify the input encoding.
532: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
533: default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than -Tascii.
534: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
535: now supports in-line equations,
536: and terminal rendering of equations is considerably improved.
537: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a> -Thtml
538: now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders
539: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eqn&sektion=7">eqn(7)</a>
540: using MathML.
541: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mandoc&sektion=1">mandoc(1)</a>
542: can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how broken the input
543: file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no longer has any effect.
544: A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is provided. Besides, many
545: diagnostic messages are now more specific.
546: <li>Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the
547: American Fuzzy Lop (afl).
1.1 deraadt 548: </ul>
549:
550: <p>
1.17 bluhm 551: <li>Syslogd:
552: <ul>
1.20 bluhm 553: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
1.52 lteo 554: is based on
555: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=event&sektion=3">libevent</a>
556: now.
1.17 bluhm 557: <li>Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
558: <li>Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS.
1.20 bluhm 559: The syntax to specify the loghost is documented in
560: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&sektion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>.
561: <li>Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable.
562: If a connection terminates, syslogd tries to reconnect.
563: When the message buffer in memory gets full, the number of dropped
564: messages is counted and logged.
1.66 deraadt 565: <li>With TLS, the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
1.17 bluhm 566: <li>The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
567: </ul>
568: <p>
1.1 deraadt 569: <li>Ports and packages:
570: <ul>
1.58 sthen 571: <li>Over 9,000 ports.
1.1 deraadt 572: </ul>
573: <p>
574: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
575: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
576: <tr>
577: <td valign="top" width="25%">
578: <ul>
1.58 sthen 579: <li>i386: 8722
1.1 deraadt 580: <li>sparc64: XXXX
581: <li>alpha: XXXX
582: <li>sh: XXXX
583: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.58 sthen 584: <li>amd64: 8745
1.1 deraadt 585: <li>powerpc: XXXX
586: <li>m88k: XXXX
587: <li>sparc: XXXX
588: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
589: <li>arm: XXXX
590: <li>hppa: XXXX
591: <li>vax: XXXX
592: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
593: <li>mips64: XXXX
594: <li>mips64el: XXXX
595: </ul></td></tr></table>
596: <p>
597:
598: <li>Some highlights:
1.67 sthen 599: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
600: <tr>
601: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
602: <li>Chromium 40.0.2214.115
603: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.4
604: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2
605: <li>GHC 7.8.4
606: <li>GNOME 3.14.2
607: <li>Go 1.4.1
608: <li>Groff 1.22.3
609: <li>JDK 1.7.0.71
610: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3
611: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
612: <li>LibreOffice 4.3.5.2
613: <li>MariaDB 10.0.16
614: <li>Mono 3.12.0
615: <li>Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and 35.0.1
616: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0
617: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
618: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
619: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40
620: <li>PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and 5.6.5
621: <li>Postfix 2.11.4
622: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.1
623: <li>Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
624: <li>R 3.1.2
625: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551, 2.0.0.598, 2.1.5, and 2.2.0
626: <li>Sendmail 8.15.1
627: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2
628: <li>TeX Live 2013
629: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2
630: <li>Vim 7.4.475
631: <li>Xfce 4.10
632: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
633: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 634: <p>
635:
636: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
637: <p>
638:
639: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
640: <ul>
1.2 lteo 641: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
642: freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
643: xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
1.1 deraadt 644: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.2 lteo 645: <li>Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
646: <li>SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
647: <li>NSD 4.1.1
1.22 brad 648: <li>Unbound 1.5.2
1.1 deraadt 649: <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
650: <li>Ncurses 5.7
651: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
652: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
653: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
654: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
655: </ul>
656:
657: </ul>
658:
659: <a name="install"></a>
660: <hr>
661: <p>
662: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
663: <p>
664: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
665: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
1.16 rpe 666: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
1.1 deraadt 667: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
668: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
669: purchased a CDROM instead.
670: <p>
671:
672: <hr>
1.16 rpe 673: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
1.1 deraadt 674: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.7 on your machine:
675: <p>
676: <ul>
677: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.alpha">
678: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
679: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386">
680: .../OpenBSD/5.7/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
681: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
682: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
683: <p>
684: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
685: .../OpenBSD/5.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
686: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
687: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
688: <p>
689: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
690: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
691: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
692: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
693: <p>
694: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
695: .../OpenBSD/5.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
696: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish">
697: .../OpenBSD/5.7/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
698: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
699: .../OpenBSD/5.7/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
700: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
701: .../OpenBSD/5.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
702: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
703: .../OpenBSD/5.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
704: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
705: .../OpenBSD/5.7/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
706: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
707: .../OpenBSD/5.7/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
708: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
709: .../OpenBSD/5.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
710: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
711: .../OpenBSD/5.7/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
712: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
713: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
714: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
715: .../OpenBSD/5.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
716: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
717: .../OpenBSD/5.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
718: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax">
719: .../OpenBSD/5.7/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
720: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
721: .../OpenBSD/5.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
722: </ul>
723: <hr>
724:
725: <p>
726: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
727: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
728: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
729: <p>
730:
731: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
732: <ul>
1.26 tedu 733: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
734: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
735: your BIOS options first.
1.1 deraadt 736:
737: <p>
1.49 bcallah 738: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
739: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
740:
741: <p>
742: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 743: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
744: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
745:
746: <p>
747: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
748: read INSTALL.i386.
749:
750: </ul>
751:
752: <p>
753: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
754: <ul>
1.26 tedu 755: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1.1 deraadt 756: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
757: your BIOS options first.
758:
759: <p>
1.49 bcallah 760: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install57.fs</i> or
761: <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
762:
763: <p>
764: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1.1 deraadt 765: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
766: INSTALL.amd64 document.
767:
768: <p>
769: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
770: read INSTALL.amd64.
771: </ul>
772:
773: <p>
774: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
775: <ul>
1.16 rpe 776: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1.1 deraadt 777: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
778: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
779:
780: <p>
781: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
782: /5.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
783: </ul>
784:
785: <p>
786: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
787: <ul>
788: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
789:
790: <p>
791: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
792: <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppy57.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/floppyB57.fs</i>
793: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
794: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
795:
796: <p>
797: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
798: will most likely fail.
799:
800: <p>
801: You can also write <i>CD3:5.7/sparc64/miniroot57.fs</i> to the swap partition on
802: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
803:
804: <p>
805: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
806: </ul>
807:
808: <p>
809: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
810: <ul>
811: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppy57.fs</i> or
812: <i>FTP:5.7/alpha/floppyB57.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
813: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
814:
815: <p>
816: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
817: will most likely fail.
818:
819: </ul>
820:
821: <p>
822: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
823: <ul>
824: <p>
825: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
826: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
827: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
828: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
829: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
830: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
831: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
832: </ul>
833:
834: <p>
835: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
836: <ul>
837: <p>
838: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
839: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
840: </ul>
841:
842: <p>
843: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
844: <ul>
845: <p>
846: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to the start of the CF
847: or disk, and boot normally.
848: </ul>
849:
850: <p>
851: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
852: <ul>
853: <p>
854: Write <i>miniroot57.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
855: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
856: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
857: </ul>
858: <p>
859:
860: <p>
861: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
862: <ul>
863: <p>
864: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
865: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
866: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
867: </ul>
868:
869: <p>
870: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
871: <ul>
872: <p>
873: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
874: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
875: </ul>
876:
877: <p>
878: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
879: <ul>
880: <p>
881: To install, burn cd57.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
882: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
883: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
884: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
885: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
886:
887: <p>
888: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
889: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
890: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
891: </ul>
892:
893: <p>
894: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
895: <ul>
896: <p>
897: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
898: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
899: </ul>
900:
901: <p>
902: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
903: <ul>
904: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
905: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
906:
907: <ul><pre>
908: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
909: or
910: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
911: </pre></ul>
912:
913: <p>
914: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
915: To do so you need to write <i>floppy57.fs</i> to a floppy.
916: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
917: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
918: depending on the version of your ROM.
919:
920: <ul><pre>
921: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
922: or
923: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
924: </pre></ul>
925:
926: <p>
927: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
928: will most likely fail.
929:
930: <p>
931: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
932: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
933: INSTALL.sparc file.
934: </ul>
935:
936: <p>
937: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
938: <ul>
939: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
940: </ul>
941:
942: <p>
943: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
944: <ul>
945: <p>
946: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
947: openbsd57_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
948: for a few important details.
949: </ul>
950:
1.15 rpe 951: <a name="upgrade"></a>
952: <hr>
953: <p>
954: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
955: <p>
956: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
957: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
958: <a href="faq/upgrade57.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
959:
960: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
961: <hr>
962: <p>
963: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 964: <p>
965: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
966: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
967: in a separate archive. To extract:
968: <p>
969: <ul><pre>
970: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
971: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
972: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
973: </pre></ul>
974: <p>
975: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
976: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
977: To extract:
978: <p>
979: <ul><pre>
980: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
981: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
982: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
983: </pre></ul>
984: <p>
985: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
986: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
987: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
988: Using these files
989: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
990: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
991: <p>
992:
993: <a name="ports"></a>
994: <hr>
995: <p>
996: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
997: <p>
998: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
999: <p>
1000: <ul><pre>
1001: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
1002: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
1003: </pre></ul>
1004: <p>
1.18 rpe 1005: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1.1 deraadt 1006: if you know nothing about ports
1007: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1008: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1009: OpenBSD ports system.
1010: <p>
1011: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1012: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
1013: cvs(1)</a> if
1014: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1015: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1016: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1.12 rpe 1017: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
1018: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1019: with a command like:
1.1 deraadt 1020: <p>
1021: <ul><pre>
1022: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
1023: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_7</strong>
1024: </pre></ul>
1025: <p>
1026: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1027: server.]
1028: <p>
1.16 rpe 1029: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1.9 jca 1030: ports for the 5.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 1031: <p>
1032: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1033: would like to know more, the mailing list
1034: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1035: <p>
1036: </body>
1037: </html>
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