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                     19: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 5.9</font></h2>
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1.11      tedu       21: To be released May 1, 2016<br>
1.1       deraadt    22: Copyright 1997-2016, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     23: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-7-3</font>
                     24: <br>
                     25: 5.9 Songs: <a href="lyrics.html#59a">"xxx"</a>,
                     26:     <a href="lyrics.html#59b">"xxx"</a>
                     27: <ul>
                     28: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="https://openbsdstore.com">ordering system</a>.
                     29: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
                     30:     a list of mirror machines.
                     31: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/5.9/</font> directory on
                     32:     one of the mirror sites.
                     33: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata59.html">the 5.9 errata page</a> for a list
                     34:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     35: <li>See a <a href="plus59.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
                     36:     5.8 and 5.9 releases.
                     37: <p>
                     38: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify&amp;sektion=1">signify(1)</a> pubkeys for this release:<br>
                     39: <pre>
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                     46: All applicable copyrights and credits can be found in the applicable
                     47: file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
                     48: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz.  The
                     49: distribution files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file
                     50: are not included on the CDROM because of lack of space.
                     51: <p>
                     52:
                     53: <a name="new"></a>
                     54: <hr>
                     55: <p>
                     56: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
                     57: <p>
                     58: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.9.
                     59: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus59.html">changelog</a> leading
                     60: to 5.9.
                     61: <p>
                     62:
                     63: <ul>
                     64: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
                     65:     <ul>
1.33      jsg        66:     <li>amd64 can now boot from 32 bit and 64 bit EFI.
                     67:     <li>Initial support for hardware reduced ACPI added to
                     68:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpi&amp;sektion=4">acpi(4)</a>.
                     69:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=efifb&amp;sektion=4;arch=amd64">efifb(4)</a> driver for EFI frame buffer.
                     70:     <li>Support for ACPI configured SD host controllers has been added to
                     71:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdhc&amp;sektion=4">sdhc(4)</a>.
                     72:     <li>Xen domU support <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xen&amp;sektion=4">xen(4)</a>,
1.37      sobrado    73:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xspd&amp;sektion=4">xspd(4)</a>.
1.33      jsg        74:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xnf&amp;sektion=4">xnf(4)</a> driver for Xen Netfront network interfaces.
1.30      kirby      75:     <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=puc&amp;sektion=4">puc(4)</a> driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial devices.
1.33      jsg        76:     <li>Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added to the
                     77:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&amp;sektion=4">em(4)</a> driver.
                     78:     <li>RTL8168H/RTL8111H support has been added to
                     79:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&amp;sektion=4">re(4)</a>.
1.31      kirby      80:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asmc&amp;sektion=4">asmc(4)</a> driver for the Apple System Management Controller.
1.33      jsg        81:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchtemp&amp;sektion=4">pchtemp(4)</a> driver for the thermal sensor found on Intel X99, C610 series, 9 series and 100 series PCH.
1.31      kirby      82:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uonerng&amp;sektion=4">uonerng(4)</a> driver for the Moonbase Otago OneRNG.
1.33      jsg        83:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dwiic&amp;sektion=4">dwiic(4)</a> driver for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller.
                     84:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ikbd&amp;sektion=4">ikbd(4)</a>,
                     85:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ims&amp;sektion=4">ims(4)</a>, and
                     86:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=imt&amp;sektion=4">imt(4)</a>
                     87:         drivers for HID-over-i2c keyboards, mice and multitouch touchpads.
                     88:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm&amp;sektion=4">inteldrm(4)</a>
                     89:         has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail and Broadwell graphics.
1.32      kirby      90:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viocon&amp;sektion=4">viocon(4)</a> driver for the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=virtio&amp;sektion=4">virtio(4)</a> console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
1.1       deraadt    91:     <li>...
                     92:     </ul>
                     93: <p>
                     94:
                     95: <li>Removed hardware support:
                     96:     <ul>
1.24      krw        97:     <li>ST-506 disks are no longer supported.
1.1       deraadt    98:     <li>...
                     99:     </ul>
                    100: <p>
                    101:
1.34      deraadt   102: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge&amp;sektion=2">pledge(2)</a> support integrated:
                    103:     <ul>
                    104:     <li>tame(2) system call renamed to pledge(2).
1.35      deraadt   105:     <li>453 out of 707 base system binaries adapted to use pledge.
1.36      deraadt   106:     <li>14 ports adapted to use pledge (some decompression tools, mutt,
                    107:        some pdf tools, chromium/iridium, and the i3 window manager).
1.34      deraadt   108:     </ul>
                    109: <p>
                    110:
1.1       deraadt   111: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
                    112:     <ul>
1.28      sobrado   113:     <li>Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
1.33      jsg       114:     <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=etherip&amp;sektion=4">etherip(4)</a>
1.39      tj        115:         pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.
1.1       deraadt   116:     <li>...
                    117:     </ul>
                    118: <p>
                    119:
                    120: <li>Installer improvements:
                    121:     <ul>
1.24      krw       122:     <li>Inappropriate user choices from a list of options are more reliably rejected.
                    123:     <li>Installing to a disk partitioned with a GPT is now supported (amd64 only).
                    124:     <li>When initializing a GPT the required EFI System partition is automatically created.
                    125:     <li>When installing to a GPT disk <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot&amp;sektion=8">installboot(8)</a> now formats the EFI System partition, creates the appropriate directory structure and copies the required UEFI boot files into place.
1.1       deraadt   126:     <li>...
                    127:     </ul>
                    128: <p>
                    129:
                    130: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
                    131:     <ul>
1.23      krw       132:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now supports multiple domain names provided via DHCP option 15 (Domain Name).
                    133:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now supports search domains provided via DHCP option 119 (Domain Search).
                    134:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> no longer continually checks for a change to the routing domain of the interface it controls. It now relies on the appropriate routing socket messages.
                    135:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now issues DHCP DECLINE responses to lease offers found to be inadequate, and restarts the DISCOVER/RENEW process rather than waiting indefinitely for a better lease to appear.
                    136:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> no longer exits if a desired route cannot be added. It now just reports the fact.
                    137:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now takes a much more careful approach to received packets to ensure only received data is used to process the packet. Packets with incorrect length information or lacking appropriate header information are now dropped.
                    138:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost, preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.
                    139:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&amp;sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> was pledged.
                    140:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&amp;sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and bootp-lease-time options.
                    141:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&amp;sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> was pledged.
1.1       deraadt   142:     <li>...
                    143:     </ul>
                    144: <p>
                    145:
                    146: <li>Security improvements:
                    147:     <ul>
                    148:     <li>...
1.10      tedu      149:     <li>Support for looking up hosts via YP has been removed from libc.
                    150:   The 'yp' lookup method in
                    151:   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf&sektion=5">resolv.conf</a>
                    152:   is no longer available.
                    153:     <li>Support for the HOSTALIASES environment variable has been removed from libc.
1.1       deraadt   154:     </ul>
                    155: <p>
                    156:
                    157: <li>Assorted improvements:
                    158:     <ul>
1.29      sobrado   159:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=doas&amp;sektion=1">doas(1)</a>
                    160:       is a little friendlier to use.
1.28      sobrado   161:     <li>Updated
                    162:       <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=flex&amp;sektion=1">flex(1)</a>.
                    163:     <li>Updated and improved
                    164:       <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=less&amp;sektion=1">less(1)</a>.
1.24      krw       165:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/macppc/pdisk.8?query=pdisk">pdisk(8)</a> was largely rewritten and pledged.
                    166:     <li>Renaming files in the root directory of a MSDOS filesystem was fixed.
                    167:     <li>Many obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/disktab.5?query=disktab">disktab(5)</a> attributes and entries were removed.
                    168:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/softraid.4?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a> volumes now correctly look for the disklabel in the first OpenBSD disk partition, not the last.
                    169:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/softraid.4?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a> volumes can now be partitioned with a GPT.
1.25      krw       170:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&amp;sektion=9">fdisk(8)</a> now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the '-g' flag is used.
                    171:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&amp;sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition to create.
                    172:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&amp;sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT information.
                    173:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&amp;sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now provides full interactive GPT editing.
                    174:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&amp;sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> was pledged.
                    175:     <li>Disks with sector sizes other than 512 bytes can now be partitioned with a GPT.
                    176:     <li>The GPT kernel option was removed and GPT support is part of all GENERIC and GENERIC derived kernels.
                    177:     <li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.
                    178:     <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&amp;sec=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer supports boot code installation, with the -B and -b flags being removed. The associated fields in the disklabel were also removed. These functions are now all performed by
                    179:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot&amp;sektion=8">installboot(8)</a>.
                    180:
1.1       deraadt   181:     <li>...
                    182:     </ul>
                    183: <p>
                    184:
                    185: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&amp;sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
                    186:     <ul>
                    187:     <li>...
                    188:     </ul>
                    189: <p>
                    190:
1.38      gilles    191: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.9.1
                    192:   <ul>
                    193:     <li>Security:
                    194:       <ul>
                    195:       <li>Both
                    196:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&amp;sektion=8">smtpd(8)</a>
                    197:        and
                    198:        <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl&amp;sektion=8">smtpctl(8)</a>
                    199:        have been pledged.
                    200:       <li>The offline enqueue mode of
                    201:        <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl&amp;sektion=8">smtpctl(8)</a>
1.39      tj        202:        has been redesigned to remove the need for a publicly writable directory which was a vector of multiple attacks in the Qualys Security audit.
1.38      gilles    203:       </ul>
                    204:     <li>The following improvements were brought in this release:
                    205:       <ul>
                    206:        <li>Experimental support for filters API is now available with several filters available in ports.
                    207:        <li>Add Message-Id header if necessary.
                    208:        <li>Removed the kick mechanism which was misbehaving.
1.39      tj        209:        <li>Increased the length of acceptable headers lines.
1.38      gilles    210:        <li>Assume messages are 8-bit bytes by default.
                    211:       </ul>
1.1       deraadt   212:     </ul>
                    213: <p>
                    214:
1.41    ! jsg       215: <li>OpenSSH 7.2
1.1       deraadt   216:     <ul>
                    217:     <li>Security:
                    218:       <ul>
1.16      sobrado   219:       <li>Qualys Security identified vulnerabilities in the
                    220:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&amp;sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
1.18      sobrado   221:         client experimental support for resuming SSH-connections (roaming).
1.16      sobrado   222:         In the default configuration, this could potentially leak client keys
                    223:         to a hostile server.  The authentication of the server host key
                    224:         prevents exploitation by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak
                    225:         is restricted to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
                    226:         This feature has been disabled in the
                    227:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&amp;sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    228:         client, and it has been removed from the source tree.  The matching
                    229:         server code has never been shipped.
                    230:       <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&amp;sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
                    231:         OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in
                    232:         <tt>PermitRootLogin=prohibit-password/without-password</tt> that could,
                    233:         depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication
                    234:         to root while preventing other forms of authentication.
                    235:       <li>Eliminate the fallback from untrusted X11-forwarding to trusted
                    236:         forwarding for cases when the X server disables the <tt>SECURITY</tt>
                    237:         extension.
                    238:       <li>Fix an out of-bound read access in the packet handling code.
1.18      sobrado   239:       <li>Further use of
                    240:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&amp;sektion=3">explicit_bzero(3)</a>
                    241:         has been added in various buffer handling code paths to guard against
                    242:         compilers aggressively doing dead-store removal.
1.1       deraadt   243:       </ul>
                    244:     <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
                    245:       <ul>
1.16      sobrado   246:       <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&amp;sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
                    247:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&amp;sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18      sobrado   248:         add compatibility workarounds for FuTTY.
1.16      sobrado   249:       <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&amp;sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
                    250:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&amp;sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18      sobrado   251:         refine compatibility workarounds for WinSCP.
1.16      sobrado   252:       <li>Fix a number of memory faults (double-free, free of uninitialised
                    253:         memory, etc) in
                    254:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&amp;sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
                    255:         and
                    256:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen&amp;sektion=1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>.
1.18      sobrado   257:       <li>Correctly interpret the <tt>first_kex_follows</tt> option during the
                    258:         initial key exchange.
1.1       deraadt   259:       </ul>
                    260:     </ul>
                    261: <p>
1.17      sobrado   262: <li>LibreSSL 2.3.2
1.1       deraadt   263:     <ul>
                    264:     <li>User-visible features:
                    265:       <ul>
1.17      sobrado   266:       <li>This release corrects the handling of <tt>ClientHello</tt> messages
                    267:         that do not include TLS extensions, resulting in such handshakes being
                    268:         aborted.
1.39      tj        269:       <li>When loading a DSA key from a raw (without DH parameters) ASN.1
1.17      sobrado   270:         serialization, perform some consistency checks on its `p' and `q'
                    271:         values, and return an error if the checks failed.
                    272:       <li>Fixed a bug in <tt>ECDH_compute_key</tt> that can lead to silent
                    273:         truncation of the result key without error. A coding error could cause
                    274:         software to use much shorter keys than intended.
                    275:       <li>Removed support for <tt>DTLS_BAD_VER</tt>. Pre-DTLSv1 implementations
                    276:         are no longer supported.
                    277:       <li>The engine command and parameters are removed from
                    278:        <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&amp;sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>.
1.39      tj        279:         Previous releases removed dynamic and built-in engine support already.
1.17      sobrado   280:       <li>SHA-0 is removed, which was withdrawn shortly after publication
                    281:         twenty years ago.
                    282:       <li>Added <tt>Certplus CA</tt> root certificate to the default
                    283:         <tt>cert.pem</tt> file.
1.19      sobrado   284:       <li>Fixed a leak in
1.28      sobrado   285:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=SSL_new&amp;sektion=3">SSL_new(3)</a>
1.19      sobrado   286:         in the error path.
1.28      sobrado   287:       <li>Fixed a memory leak and out-of-bounds access in
                    288:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=OBJ_nid2obj&amp;sektion=3">OBJ_obj2txt(3)</a>.
1.17      sobrado   289:       <li>Fixed an up-to 7 byte overflow in RC4 when len is not a multiple of
                    290:         <tt>sizeof(RC4_CHUNK)</tt>.
1.19      sobrado   291:       <li>Added
1.28      sobrado   292:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init&amp;sektion=3">EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3)</a>
1.19      sobrado   293:         which matches the
1.18      sobrado   294:         <tt>AEAD</tt> construction introduced in RFC 7539, which is different
                    295:         than that already used in TLS with
1.28      sobrado   296:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init&amp;sektion=3">EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3)</a>.
1.18      sobrado   297:       <li>More man pages converted from pod to
1.28      sobrado   298:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc&amp;sektion=7">mdoc(7)</a>
1.18      sobrado   299:         format.
1.17      sobrado   300:       <li>Added <tt>COMODO RSA Certification Authority</tt> and
                    301:         <tt>QuoVadis</tt> root certificates to <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
                    302:       <li>Removed Remhve "<tt>C=US, O=VeriSign, Inc., OU=Class 3 Public Primary
                    303:         Certification Authority</tt>"
                    304:         (serial 3c:91:31:cb:1f:f6:d0:1b:0e:9a:b8:d0:44:bf:12:be)
                    305:         root certificate from <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
                    306:       <li>Fixed incorrect TLS certificate loading by
1.28      sobrado   307:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&amp;sektion=1">nc(1)</a>.
1.17      sobrado   308:       <li>The following CVEs had been fixed:
                    309:         <ul>
1.28      sobrado   310:         <li><tt>CVE-2015-3194</tt>&#8212;NULL pointer dereference in client
                    311:           side certificate validation.
                    312:         <li><tt>CVE-2015-3195</tt>&#8212;memory leak in PKCS7, not reachable
                    313:           from TLS/SSL.
1.17      sobrado   314:         </ul>
                    315:       <li>Note: The following OpenSSL CVEs did not apply to LibreSSL:
                    316:         <ul>
1.28      sobrado   317:         <li><tt>CVE-2015-3193</tt>&#8212;carry propagating bug in the x86_64
                    318:           Montgomery squaring procedure.
                    319:         <li><tt>CVE-2015-3196</tt>&#8212;double free race condition of the
                    320:           identify hint data.
1.17      sobrado   321:         </ul>
1.1       deraadt   322:       </ul>
                    323:     <li>Code improvements:
                    324:       <ul>
1.17      sobrado   325:       <li>Added install target for <tt>cmake</tt> builds.
                    326:       <li>Updated <tt>pkgconfig</tt> files to correctly report the release
                    327:         version number, not the individual library ABI version numbers.
                    328:       <li>SSLv3 is now permanently removed from the tree.
                    329:       <li>The <tt>libtls</tt> API is changed from the 2.2.x series:
                    330:         <ul>
1.28      sobrado   331:         <li>The
                    332:           <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_read(3)</a>
                    333:           and
                    334:           <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_write(3)</a>
                    335:           functions now work better with external event libraries.
                    336:         <li>Client-side verification is now supported, with the client
                    337:           supplying the certificate to the server.
                    338:         <li>Also, when using
                    339:           <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_connect_fds(3)</a>,
                    340:           <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_connect_socket(3)</a>
                    341:           or
                    342:           <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_accept_fds(3)</a>,
                    343:           <tt>libtls</tt> no longer implicitly closes the passed in sockets.
                    344:           The caller is responsible for closing them in this case.
1.17      sobrado   345:         </ul>
                    346:       <li>New interface <tt>OPENSSL_cpu_caps</tt> is provided that does not
                    347:         allow software to inadvertently modify cpu capability flags.
                    348:         <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap</tt> and <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc</tt> are removed.
1.18      sobrado   349:       <li>The <tt>out_len</tt> argument of <tt>AEAD</tt> changed from
                    350:         <tt>ssize_t</tt> to <tt>size_t</tt>.
1.17      sobrado   351:       <li>Deduplicated DTLS code, sharing bugfixes and improvements with TLS.
                    352:       <li>Converted
1.28      sobrado   353:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&amp;sektion=1">nc(1)</a>
1.17      sobrado   354:         to use <tt>libtls</tt> for client and server operations; it is
                    355:         included in the libressl-portable distribution as an example of how
                    356:         to use the <tt>libtls</tt> library.  This is intended to be a simpler
                    357:         and more robust replacement for <tt>openssl s_client</tt> and
                    358:         <tt>openssl s_server</tt> for day-to-day operations.
                    359:       <li>ASN.1 cleanups and RFC5280 compliance fixes.
                    360:       <li>Time representations switched from <tt>unsigned long</tt> to
                    361:         <tt>time_t</tt>.  LibreSSL now checks if the host OS supports 64-bit
                    362:         <tt>time_t</tt>.
                    363:       <li>Support always extracting the peer cipher and version with
                    364:         <tt>libtls</tt>.
                    365:       <li>Added ability to check certificate validity times with
1.19      sobrado   366:         <tt>libtls</tt>,
1.28      sobrado   367:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_peer_cert_notbefore(3)</a>
1.19      sobrado   368:         and
1.28      sobrado   369:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_peer_cert_notafter(3)</a>.
1.19      sobrado   370:       <li>Changed
1.28      sobrado   371:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init&amp;sektion=3">tls_connect_servername(3)</a>
1.19      sobrado   372:         to use the first address that resolves with
1.28      sobrado   373:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo&amp;sektion=3">getaddrinfo(3)</a>.
1.17      sobrado   374:       <li>Remove broken conditional <tt>EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY</tt> code
                    375:         (non-functional since initial commit in 2004).
1.19      sobrado   376:       <li>Reject too small bits value in
1.28      sobrado   377:         <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=BN_generate_prime&amp;sektion=3">BN_generate_prime_ex(3)</a>,
1.17      sobrado   378:         so that it does not risk becoming negative in
                    379:         <tt>probable_prime_dh_safe()</tt>.
1.18      sobrado   380:       <li>Changed format of <tt>LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt> to match that of
1.17      sobrado   381:         <tt>OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt>.
                    382:       <li>Avoid a potential undefined C99+ behavior due to shift overflow in
                    383:         <tt>AES_decrypt</tt>.
                    384:       <li>Deprecated the <tt>SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE</tt> flag.
1.1       deraadt   385:       </ul>
                    386:     </ul>
                    387: <p>
                    388: <li>Syslogd:
                    389:     <ul>
                    390:     <li>...
                    391:     </ul>
                    392: <p>
                    393: <li>Ports and packages:
                    394:     <dl>
                    395:     <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    396:     <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
                    397:     <tr>
                    398:     <td valign="top" width="25%">
                    399:     <ul>
                    400:       <li>alpha:      xxxx
                    401:       <li>amd64:      xxxx
                    402:       <li>hppa:       xxxx
                    403:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    404:       <li>i386:       xxxx
                    405:       <li>mips64:     xxxx
                    406:       <li>mips64el:   xxxx
                    407:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    408:       <li>powerpc:    xxxx
                    409:       <li>sh:         xxxx
                    410:       <li>sparc64:    xxxx
                    411:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    412:       <li>vax:        xxxx
                    413:     </ul></td></tr></table>
                    414:     <p>
                    415:
                    416:     <dt>Some highlights:
                    417:     <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
                    418:     <tr>
                    419:     <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
1.40      sthen     420:        <li>Chromium 48.0.2564.116
1.1       deraadt   421:        <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.5
1.3       jsg       422:        <li>GCC 4.9.3
                    423:        <li>GHC 7.10.3
                    424:        <li>GNOME 3.18.2
1.5       sthen     425:        <li>Go 1.5.3
1.1       deraadt   426:        <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.40      sthen     427:        <li>JDK 7u80 and 8u72
1.1       deraadt   428:        <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
                    429:        <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
1.3       jsg       430:        <li>LibreOffice 5.0.4.2
                    431:        <li>MariaDB 10.0.23
                    432:        <li>Mono 4.2.1.102
1.26      lteo      433:        <li>Mozilla Firefox 38.6.1esr and 44.0.2
                    434:        <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 38.6.0
1.1       deraadt   435:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
1.22      abieber   436:        <li>Node.js 4.3.0
1.3       jsg       437:        <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.43
1.26      lteo      438:        <li>PHP 5.4.45, 5.5.32 and 5.6.18
1.3       jsg       439:        <li>Postfix 3.0.3
1.26      lteo      440:        <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.6
1.3       jsg       441:        <li>Python 2.7.11, 3.4.4 and 3.5.1
                    442:        <li>R 3.2.3
                    443:        <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.0.0.648, 2.1.8, 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
1.15      lteo      444:        <li>Rust 1.6.0
1.1       deraadt   445:        <li>Sendmail 8.15.2
1.3       jsg       446:        <li>Sudo 1.8.15
1.1       deraadt   447:        <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
                    448:        <li>TeX Live 2014
1.3       jsg       449:        <li>Vim 7.4.900
1.1       deraadt   450:        <li>Xfce 4.12
                    451:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
                    452:     </td></tr></table>
                    453: <p>
                    454:
                    455: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    456: <p>
                    457:
                    458: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    459:     <ul>
1.3       jsg       460:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.17.4 + patches,
1.8       jsg       461:       freetype 2.6.2, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.0.9, xterm 322,
1.21      matthieu  462:       xkeyboard-config 2.17 and more)
1.1       deraadt   463:     <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
                    464:     <li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)
1.3       jsg       465:     <li>SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)
                    466:     <li>NSD 4.1.7
                    467:     <li>Unbound 1.5.7
1.1       deraadt   468:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    469:     <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
                    470:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
                    471:     <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
                    472:     <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
                    473:     </ul>
                    474:
                    475: </ul>
                    476:
                    477: <a name="install"></a>
                    478: <hr>
                    479: <p>
                    480: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
                    481: <p>
                    482: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    483: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    484: form of install.  The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
                    485: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    486: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    487: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    488: <p>
                    489:
                    490: <hr>
                    491: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
                    492: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.9 on your machine:
                    493: <p>
                    494: <ul>
                    495: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
                    496:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
                    497: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386">
                    498:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
                    499: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
                    500:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
                    501: <p>
                    502: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
                    503:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
                    504: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
                    505:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
                    506: <p>
                    507: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
                    508:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
                    509: <p>
                    510: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
                    511:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
                    512: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
                    513:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
                    514: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
                    515:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
                    516: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
                    517:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
                    518: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
                    519:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
                    520: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
                    521:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
                    522: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
                    523:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
                    524: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
                    525:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
                    526: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
                    527:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
                    528: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax">
                    529:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
                    530: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
                    531:        .../OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
                    532: </ul>
                    533: <hr>
                    534:
                    535: <p>
                    536: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    537: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    538: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    539: <p>
                    540:
                    541: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
                    542: <ul>
                    543: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
                    544: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    545: your BIOS options first.
                    546:
                    547: <p>
                    548: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
                    549: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    550:
                    551: <p>
                    552: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    553: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    554: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    555:
                    556: <p>
                    557: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    558: read INSTALL.i386.
                    559:
                    560: </ul>
                    561:
                    562: <p>
                    563: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
                    564: <ul>
                    565: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
                    566: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    567: your BIOS options first.
                    568:
                    569: <p>
                    570: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
                    571: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    572:
                    573: <p>
                    574: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    575: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    576: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    577:
                    578: <p>
                    579: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    580: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    581: </ul>
                    582:
                    583: <p>
                    584: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
                    585: <ul>
                    586: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
                    587: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
                    588: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    589:
                    590: <p>
                    591: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    592: /5.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    593: </ul>
                    594:
                    595: <p>
                    596: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
                    597: <ul>
                    598: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    599:
                    600: <p>
                    601: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    602: <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppy59.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppyB59.fs</i>
                    603: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    604: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    605:
                    606: <p>
                    607: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    608: will most likely fail.
                    609:
                    610: <p>
                    611: You can also write <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/miniroot59.fs</i> to the swap partition on
                    612: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    613:
                    614: <p>
                    615: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    616: </ul>
                    617:
                    618: <p>
                    619: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
                    620: <ul>
                    621: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppy59.fs</i> or
                    622: <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppyB59.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
                    623: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    624:
                    625: <p>
                    626: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    627: will most likely fail.
                    628:
                    629: </ul>
                    630:
                    631: <p>
                    632: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
                    633: <ul>
                    634: <p>
                    635: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    636: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    637: </ul>
                    638:
                    639: <p>
                    640: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
                    641: <ul>
                    642: <p>
                    643: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to the start of the CF
                    644: or disk, and boot normally.
                    645: </ul>
                    646:
                    647: <p>
                    648: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
                    649: <ul>
                    650: <p>
                    651: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    652: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    653: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    654: </ul>
                    655: <p>
                    656:
                    657: <p>
                    658: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
                    659: <ul>
                    660: <p>
                    661: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
                    662: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
                    663: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
                    664: </ul>
                    665:
                    666: <p>
                    667: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
                    668: <ul>
                    669: <p>
                    670: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    671: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
                    672: </ul>
                    673:
                    674: <p>
                    675: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
                    676: <ul>
                    677: <p>
                    678: To install, burn cd59.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
                    679: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
                    680: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
                    681: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
                    682: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
                    683:
                    684: <p>
                    685: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
                    686: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
                    687: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
                    688: </ul>
                    689:
                    690: <p>
                    691: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
                    692: <ul>
                    693: <p>
                    694: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    695: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
                    696: </ul>
                    697:
                    698: <p>
                    699: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
                    700: <ul>
                    701: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    702: </ul>
                    703:
                    704: <p>
                    705: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
                    706: <ul>
                    707: <p>
                    708: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
                    709: openbsd59_arm.ipk package.  Reboot, then run it.  Read INSTALL.zaurus
                    710: for a few important details.
                    711: </ul>
                    712:
                    713: <a name="upgrade"></a>
                    714: <hr>
                    715: <p>
                    716: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
                    717: <p>
1.6       tj        718: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       deraadt   719: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    720: <a href="faq/upgrade59.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    721:
                    722: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
                    723: <hr>
                    724: <p>
                    725: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
                    726: <p>
                    727: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    728: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    729: in a separate archive.  To extract:
                    730: <p>
                    731: <ul><pre>
                    732: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
                    733: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    734: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
                    735: </pre></ul>
                    736: <p>
                    737: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    738: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    739: To extract:
                    740: <p>
                    741: <ul><pre>
                    742: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
                    743: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    744: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
                    745: </pre></ul>
                    746: <p>
                    747: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    748: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    749: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    750: Using these files
                    751: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    752: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    753: <p>
                    754:
                    755: <a name="ports"></a>
                    756: <hr>
                    757: <p>
                    758: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
                    759: <p>
                    760: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    761: <p>
                    762: <ul><pre>
                    763: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
                    764: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
                    765: </pre></ul>
                    766: <p>
                    767: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    768: if you know nothing about ports
                    769: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    770: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    771: OpenBSD ports system.
                    772: <p>
                    773: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
                    774: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&amp;sektion=1&amp;arch=i386">
                    775: cvs(1)</a> if
                    776: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    777: source tree, our ports tree is available via
                    778: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
                    779: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
                    780: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
                    781: with a command like:
                    782: <p>
                    783: <ul><pre>
                    784: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
                    785: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_9</strong>
                    786: </pre></ul>
                    787: <p>
                    788: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
                    789: server.]
                    790: <p>
                    791: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
                    792: ports for the 5.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    793: <p>
                    794: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    795: would like to know more, the mailing list
                    796: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
                    797: <p>
                    798: </body>
                    799: </html>