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<title>OpenBSD 5.9</title>

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driver implementing Xen domU initialization and PVHVM device attachment.

driver for the XenSource Platform Device providing guests with additional

driver for the XenSource Platform Device providing guests with

capabilities.

additional capabilities.

driver for Xen paravirtualized networking interface.

<li>amd64 can now boot from 32 bit and 64 bit EFI.

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<li>Support for ACPI configured SD host controllers has been added to

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=sdhc">sdhc(4)</a>.

driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial devices.

driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial

<li>Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added to the

devices.

<li>Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added

to the

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=em">em(4)</a> driver.

<li>RTL8168H/RTL8111H support has been added to

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=re&sec=4">re(4)</a>.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=inteldrm">inteldrm(4)</a>

has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail

has been updated to Linux 3.14.52, adding initial support for Bay Trail

and Broadwell graphics.

<li>Support for audio in Thinkpad docks has been added to the

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=azalia">azalia(4)</a>

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driver now supports checksum offloading.

driver now supports OpenIPMI compatible character device.

<li>Remove support for ST-506 disks.

<li>Support for ST-506 disks has been removed.

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privilege separation</a> to

rdate(8)</a>,

rdate(8)</a>

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addition of

privilege separation</a> to

sndiod(8)</a>,

sndiod(8)</a>

<li>or the introduction of the <tt>SOCK_DNS</tt>

<li>the introduction of the <tt>SOCK_DNS</tt>

socket(2)</a> flag that makes an <tt>SS_DNS</tt> tagged socket

conceptually different from a plain socket.

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strings(1)</a> or

objdump(1)</a> from the <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/binutils/objdump.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">

objdump(1)</a> from <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/binutils/objdump.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">

binutils</a> or the <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/ca.c?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">

RSA-privsep process</a> in

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<li>SMP network stack improvements:

<ul>

<li>The task processing incoming packets can now run mostly in parallel

of the rest of the kernel, this include:

of the rest of the kernel. This includes:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=carp">carp(4)</a>,

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=trunk">trunk(4)</a>,

and other pseudo-driver with the exception of

and other pseudo-drivers, with the exception of

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=bridge">bridge(4)</a>.

<li>Ethernet decapsulation, ARP processing and MPLS forwarding path.

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<li>Generic network stack improvements:

<ul>

<li>New <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=etherip">etherip(4)</a>

pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks

pseudo-device for tunneling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks

using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.

pseudo-device for creating paired virtual Ethernet interfaces.

pseudo-device splitted up from

pseudo-device, split up from

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=tun">tun(4)</a>,

providing a layer 3 interface with userland.

providing a layer 3 interface with userland tools.

<li>Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.

<li>Support for obsolete IPv6 socket options has been removed.

driver now passes IEEE 802.11 control frames in monitor mode, allowing

full capture of traffic on a particular wireless channel.

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<li>Inappropriate user choices from a list of options are more reliably rejected.

<li>Installing to a disk partitioned with a GPT is now supported (amd64 only).

<li>When initializing a GPT the required EFI System partition is automatically created.

<li>When initializing a GPT, the required EFI System partition is automatically created.

<li>When installing to a GPT disk

<li>When installing to a GPT disk,

installboot(8)</a>

now formats the EFI System partition, creates the appropriate directory

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again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost,

preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=dhcpd">dhcpd(8)</a>

again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and

again properly utilizes <tt>default-lease-time</tt>,

bootp-lease-time options.

<tt>max-lease-time</tt> and <tt>bootp-lease-time</tt> options.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=tcpdump">tcpdump(8)</a>

now displays more information about IEEE 802.11 frames when run with

the -y IEEE802_11_RADIO and -v options.

the <tt>-y IEEE802_11_RADIO</tt> and <tt>-v</tt> options.

<li>Several interoperability issues in

have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.

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<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>

volumes can now be partitioned with a GPT.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>

now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the '-g'

now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the

flag is used.

<tt>-g</tt> flag is used.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>

now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition

now has a <tt>-b</tt> flag that specifies the size of the EFI System

to create.

partition to create.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>

now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT

now has a <tt>-v</tt> flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR

information.

and GPT information.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>

now provides full interactive GPT editing.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>

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<li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and

reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.

<li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=disklabel">disklabel(8)</a>

no longer supports boot code installation, with the -B and -b flags

no longer supports boot code installation, with the <tt>-B</tt> and

being removed.

<tt>-b</tt> flags being removed.

The associated fields in the disklabel were also removed.

These functions are now all performed by

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to improve security and reduce overhead in threaded processes.

<li>Over 100 internal or obsolete interfaces have been deleted or are no

longer exported by libc, reducing symbol conflicts and process size.

<li>libc now uses local references for most of its own functions to avoid

symbol overriding, improve standards compliance, increase speed,

and reduce dynamic linking overhead.

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<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=ps">ps(1)</a>,

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=rs">rs(1)</a>,

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=ul">ul(1)</a>,

<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=uniq">uniq(1)</a>,

and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/?query=wc">wc(1)</a>.

<li>Partial support for inserting and deleting UTF-8 characters in

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<li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.17.4 + patches,

freetype 2.6.2, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.0.9, xterm 322,

xkeyboard-config 2.17 and more)

<li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)

<li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)

<li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)

<li>SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)

<li>NSD 4.1.7