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1.1 deraadt 19: <h2><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 5.9</font></h2>
20: <p>
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>
1.57 tb 38: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify">signify(1)</a>
39: pubkeys for this release:<br>
1.1 deraadt 40: <pre>
1.4 jsg 41: base: RWQJVNompF3pwfIqbg+5sxfpxmZMa3tTBaW4qbUhWje/H/M7glrA6oVn
42: fw: RWSdmaNkytzh6BApmPSNSDLNg26ZaXlY8g/879UvLdo3rjbsby76Eda1
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47: All applicable copyrights and credits can be found in the applicable
48: file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
49: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The
50: distribution files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file
51: are not included on the CDROM because of lack of space.
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53:
54: <a name="new"></a>
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56: <p>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
58: <p>
59: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.9.
60: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus59.html">changelog</a> leading
61: to 5.9.
62: <p>
63:
64: <ul>
1.51 deraadt 65: <li>Processor support, including:
66: <ul>
67: <li>W^X policy enforced in the i386 kernel address space.
68: </ul>
69: <p>
1.1 deraadt 70: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
71: <ul>
1.33 jsg 72: <li>amd64 can now boot from 32 bit and 64 bit EFI.
73: <li>Initial support for hardware reduced ACPI added to
1.57 tb 74: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpi">acpi(4)</a>.
75: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=efifb">efifb(4)</a>
76: driver for EFI frame buffer.
1.33 jsg 77: <li>Support for ACPI configured SD host controllers has been added to
1.57 tb 78: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdhc">sdhc(4)</a>.
79: <li>Xen domU support
80: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xen">xen(4)</a>,
81: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xspd">xspd(4)</a>.
82: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xnf">xnf(4)</a>
83: driver for Xen Netfront network interfaces.
84: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=puc">puc(4)</a>
85: driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial devices.
1.33 jsg 86: <li>Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added to the
1.57 tb 87: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em">em(4)</a> driver.
88: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge">bge(4)</a>
89: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em">em(4)</a>
90: drivers now process packets without the kernel lock held.
91: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oce">oce(4)</a>
92: driver now processes received packets without the kernel lock held.
1.33 jsg 93: <li>RTL8168H/RTL8111H support has been added to
1.58 tb 94: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&sec=4">re(4)</a>.
1.57 tb 95: <li>Initial IEEE 802.11n support in the
96: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwm">iwm(4)</a>
97: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
98: drivers.
99: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asmc">asmc(4)</a>
100: driver for the Apple System Management Controller.
101: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchtemp">pchtemp(4)</a>
102: driver for the thermal sensor found on Intel X99, C610 series, 9 series
103: and 100 series PCH.
104: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uonerng">uonerng(4)</a>
105: driver for the Moonbase Otago OneRNG.
106: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dwiic">dwiic(4)</a>
107: driver for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller.
108: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ikbd">ikbd(4)</a>,
109: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ims">ims(4)</a>, and
110: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=imt">imt(4)</a>
1.33 jsg 111: drivers for HID-over-i2c keyboards, mice and multitouch touchpads.
1.57 tb 112: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm">inteldrm(4)</a>
113: has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail
114: and Broadwell graphics.
115: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viocon">viocon(4)</a>
116: driver for the
117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=virtio">virtio(4)</a>
118: console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
119: <li>Support for audio in Thinkpad docks has been added to the
120: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=azalia">azalia(4)</a>
121: driver.
122: <li>Support for Synaptic touchpads without W mode has been added to the
123: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
124: driver.
125: <li>Support for tap-and-drag detection with ALPS touchpads in the
126: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
127: driver has been improved.
128: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdmmc">sdmmc(4)</a>
129: driver now supports sector mode for eMMC devices, such as those found on
130: some BeagleBone Black boards.
131: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cnmac">cnmac(4)</a>
132: driver now supports checksum offloading and receives packets without the
133: kernel lock held.
134: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xhci">xhci(4)</a>
135: driver is now enabled for macppc machines.
136: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi">ipmi(4)</a>
137: driver now supports OpenIPMI compatible character device.
1.1 deraadt 138: <li>...
139: </ul>
140: <p>
141:
142: <li>Removed hardware support:
143: <ul>
1.24 krw 144: <li>ST-506 disks are no longer supported.
1.1 deraadt 145: <li>...
146: </ul>
147: <p>
148:
1.57 tb 149: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>
150: support integrated:
1.34 deraadt 151: <ul>
1.59 tb 152: <li>The tame(2) system call was renamed to pledge(2).
153: Behavior and semantics were extended and refined.
154: <li>453 out of 707 base system binaries were adapted to use pledge.
155: <li>14 ports now use pledge(2): some decompression tools, mutt,
156: some pdf tools, chromium/iridium, and the i3 window manager.
157: <li>Various bugs exposed by pledge(2) were corrected.
158: For example in
1.57 tb 159: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.c?rev=1.181&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
160: bgpd(8)</a>,
161: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/iked/config.c?rev=1.40&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
162: iked(8)</a>,
163: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ldapd/control.c?rev=1.13&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
164: ldapd(8)</a>,
165: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/constraint.c?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
166: ntpd(8)</a>,
167: and <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c?rev=1.200&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
168: syslogd(8)</a>.
1.59 tb 169: <li>Several misfeatures were removed, such as:
170: <ul>
171: <li><a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/asr/asr.c?rev=1.50&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
172: support for HOSTALIASES</a>
1.60 tb 173: in the
1.59 tb 174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asr_run">
175: resolver</a>.
176: <li><a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/asr/asr.c?rev=1.49&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
177: support for <tt>lookup yp</tt></a>
178: in
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
180: resolv.conf(5)</a>.
181: <li><a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils-2.17/binutils/rename.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
182: setuid-preserving code</a>
183: in tools from binutils.
184: <li>handling of
185: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/ed.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
186: ed-style diffs</a> via proc/exec in
1.60 tb 187: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=patch">
188: patch(1)</a>.
1.59 tb 189: </ul>
190: <li>Userland programs were audited so that they could be properly annotated
191: with pledge(2).
1.60 tb 192: This resulted in design changes such as
193: <ul>
194: <li>
195: addition of
196: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.c?rev=1.33&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
197: privilege separation</a> to
198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdate">
1.61 ! tb 199: rdate(8)</a>,
1.60 tb 200: <li>
201: addition of
202: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sndiod/sndiod.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
203: privilege separation</a> to
204: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sndiod">
205: sndiod(8)</a>,
206: <li>or the introduction of the <tt>SOCK_DNS</tt>
207: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=socket">
208: socket(2)</a>
209: flag that makes an <tt>SS_DNS</tt> tagged socket conceptually different
210: from a plain socket.
211: </ul>
1.59 tb 212: <li>pledge(2) is also used to constrain programs that handle untrusted data
213: to a very limited subset of POSIX.
214: For example,
1.60 tb 215: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strings">
216: strings(1)</a>
1.59 tb 217: or
1.60 tb 218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=objdump">
219: objdump(1)</a>
1.59 tb 220: from the
1.57 tb 221: <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">
222: binutils</a>
1.60 tb 223: or the
1.57 tb 224: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/ca.c?rev=1.15&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
1.60 tb 225: RSA-privsep process</a> in
226: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">
227: smtpd(8)</a>.
1.34 deraadt 228: </ul>
229: <p>
230:
1.1 deraadt 231: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
232: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 233: <li>Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
1.57 tb 234: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=etherip">etherip(4)</a>
235: pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks
236: using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.
237: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pair">pair(4)</a>
238: pseudo-device for creating paired virtual Ethernet interfaces.
239: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bpf">bpf(4)</a>
240: now runs without the kernel lock.
241: <li>Split up the
242: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>
243: pseudo-device into
244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>
245: (for layer 3) and
246: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
247: (for layer 2) pseudo-devices.
248: As a result, the link0 flag has no effect on
249: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>
250: interfaces anymore.
251: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
252: driver now passes IEEE 802.11 control frames in monitor mode, allowing
253: full capture of traffic on a particular wireless channel.
254: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflow">pflow(4)</a>
255: now supports IPv6 for transport.
256: <li>Several interoperability issues in
1.61 ! tb 257: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked">iked(8)</a>
1.57 tb 258: have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.
1.1 deraadt 259: <li>...
260: </ul>
261: <p>
262:
263: <li>Installer improvements:
264: <ul>
1.24 krw 265: <li>Inappropriate user choices from a list of options are more reliably rejected.
266: <li>Installing to a disk partitioned with a GPT is now supported (amd64 only).
267: <li>When initializing a GPT the required EFI System partition is automatically created.
1.57 tb 268: <li>When installing to a GPT disk
269: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
270: installboot(8)</a>
271: now formats the EFI System partition, creates the appropriate directory
272: structure and copies the required UEFI boot files into place.
1.1 deraadt 273: <li>...
274: </ul>
275: <p>
276:
277: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
278: <ul>
1.57 tb 279: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eigrpd">eigrpd(8)</a>
280: routing daemon for the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
281: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
282: now supports multiple domain names provided via DHCP option 15 (Domain Name).
283: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
284: now supports search domains provided via DHCP option 119 (Domain Search).
285: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
286: no longer continually checks for a change to the routing domain of the
287: interface it controls. It now relies on the appropriate routing socket
288: messages.
289: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
290: now issues DHCP DECLINE responses to lease offers found to be inadequate,
291: and restarts the DISCOVER/RENEW process rather than waiting indefinitely
292: for a better lease to appear.
293: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
294: no longer exits if a desired route cannot be added. It now just reports
295: the fact.
296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
297: now takes a much more careful approach to received packets to ensure
298: only received data is used to process the packet.
299: Packets with incorrect length information or lacking appropriate header
300: information are now dropped.
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
302: again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost,
303: preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.
304: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
305: was pledged.
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd">dhcpd(8)</a>
307: again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and
308: bootp-lease-time options.
309: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd">dhcpd(8)</a>
310: was pledged.
1.61 ! tb 311: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.57 tb 312: now displays more information about IEEE 802.11 frames when run with
313: the -y IEEE802_11_RADIO and -v options.
1.1 deraadt 314: <li>...
315: </ul>
316: <p>
317:
318: <li>Security improvements:
319: <ul>
320: <li>...
1.10 tedu 321: <li>Support for looking up hosts via YP has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 322: The 'yp' lookup method in
323: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
324: resolv.conf</a>
325: is no longer available.
1.10 tedu 326: <li>Support for the HOSTALIASES environment variable has been removed from libc.
1.1 deraadt 327: </ul>
328: <p>
329:
330: <li>Assorted improvements:
331: <ul>
1.57 tb 332: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=doas">doas(1)</a>
333: is a little friendlier to use.
1.28 sobrado 334: <li>Updated
1.57 tb 335: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=flex">flex(1)</a>.
336: <li>Forked <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=less">less(1)</a>
337: from upstream, then proceeded to clean it up substantially.
338: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pdisk">pdisk(8)</a>
339: was largely rewritten and pledged.
1.24 krw 340: <li>Renaming files in the root directory of a MSDOS filesystem was fixed.
1.57 tb 341: <li>Many obsolete
342: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab">disktab(5)</a>
343: attributes and entries were removed.
344: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
345: volumes now correctly look for the disklabel in the first OpenBSD disk
346: partition, not the last.
347: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
348: volumes can now be partitioned with a GPT.
349: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
350: now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the '-g'
351: flag is used.
352: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
353: now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition
354: to create.
355: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
356: now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT
357: information.
358: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
359: now provides full interactive GPT editing.
360: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
361: was pledged.
362: <li>Disks with sector sizes other than 512 bytes can now be partitioned with
363: a GPT.
364: <li>The GPT kernel option was removed and GPT support is part of all GENERIC
365: and GENERIC derived kernels.
366: <li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and
367: reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.
368: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel">disklabel(8)</a>
369: no longer supports boot code installation, with the -B and -b flags
370: being removed.
371: The associated fields in the disklabel were also removed.
372: These functions are now all performed by
373: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
374: installboot(8)</a>.
1.43 guenther 375: <li>PowerPC converted to secure-PLT ABI variant.
1.57 tb 376: <li>Perform lazy binding updates in
377: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so">ld.so(1)</a>
378: using
379: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbind">kbind(2)</a>
380: to improve security and reduce overhead in threaded processes.
381: <li>Over 100 internal or obsolete interfaces have been deleted or are no
382: longer exported by libc, reducing symbol conflicts and process size.
383: <!-- List stuff? YP and XDR APIs, mpool_*, bcrypt_autorounds, link_addr -->
384: <li>libc now uses local references for most of its own functions to avoid
385: symbol overriding, improve standards compliance, increase speed,
386: and reduce dynamic linking overhead.
387: <li>Handle intra-thread kills via new
388: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=thrkill">thrkill(2)</a>
389: system call to tighten pledge(2) restrictions and improve pthread_kill(3)
390: and pthread_cancel(3) compliance.
391: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwnam_shadow">
392: getpwnam_shadow(3)</a>
393: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwuid_shadow">
394: getpwuid_shadow(3)</a>
395: to permit tighter pledge(2) restrictions.
396: <li>Added support to
397: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ktrace">ktrace(1)</a>
398: the arguments to
399: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve">execve(2)</a>
400: and
401: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>.
402: Removed support for tracing context switch points.
403: <tt>kevent</tt> structures are now dumped.
1.46 stsp 404: <li>Disabled support for loading locales other than UTF-8.
405: <li>UTF-8 character locale data has been updated to Unicode 7.0.0.
1.57 tb 406: <li>Added UTF-8 support to several utilities, including
407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=calendar">calendar(1)</a>,
408: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=colrm">colrm(1)</a>,
409: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cut">cut(1)</a>,
410: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fmt">fmt(1)</a>,
411: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ls">ls(1)</a>,
412: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ps">ps(1)</a>,
413: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rs">rs(1)</a>,
414: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ul">ul(1)</a>,
415: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uniq">uniq(1)</a>,
416: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wc">wc(1)</a>.
1.46 stsp 417: <li>Native language support (NLS) has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 418: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ddb">ddb(4)</a>
419: now automatically shows a stack trace upon panic.
1.1 deraadt 420: <li>...
421: </ul>
422: <p>
423:
1.57 tb 424: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd">httpd(8)</a>:
1.1 deraadt 425: <ul>
426: <li>...
427: </ul>
428: <p>
429:
1.38 gilles 430: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.9.1
431: <ul>
432: <li>Security:
433: <ul>
434: <li>Both
1.57 tb 435: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">smtpd(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 436: and
1.57 tb 437: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 438: have been pledged.
1.57 tb 439: <li>The offline enqueue mode of
440: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
441: has been redesigned to remove the need for a publicly writable directory
442: which was a vector of multiple attacks in the Qualys Security audit.
1.38 gilles 443: </ul>
444: <li>The following improvements were brought in this release:
445: <ul>
1.57 tb 446: <li>Experimental support for filters API is now available with several
447: filters available in ports.
1.38 gilles 448: <li>Add Message-Id header if necessary.
449: <li>Removed the kick mechanism which was misbehaving.
1.39 tj 450: <li>Increased the length of acceptable headers lines.
1.38 gilles 451: <li>Assume messages are 8-bit bytes by default.
452: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 453: </ul>
454: <p>
455:
1.41 jsg 456: <li>OpenSSH 7.2
1.1 deraadt 457: <ul>
458: <li>Security:
459: <ul>
1.16 sobrado 460: <li>Qualys Security identified vulnerabilities in the
1.57 tb 461: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.18 sobrado 462: client experimental support for resuming SSH-connections (roaming).
1.16 sobrado 463: In the default configuration, this could potentially leak client keys
464: to a hostile server. The authentication of the server host key
465: prevents exploitation by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak
466: is restricted to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
467: This feature has been disabled in the
1.57 tb 468: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 469: client, and it has been removed from the source tree. The matching
470: server code has never been shipped.
1.57 tb 471: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.16 sobrado 472: OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in
473: <tt>PermitRootLogin=prohibit-password/without-password</tt> that could,
474: depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication
475: to root while preventing other forms of authentication.
476: <li>Fix an out of-bound read access in the packet handling code.
1.18 sobrado 477: <li>Further use of
1.57 tb 478: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero">explicit_bzero(3)</a>
1.18 sobrado 479: has been added in various buffer handling code paths to guard against
480: compilers aggressively doing dead-store removal.
1.57 tb 481: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
482: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 483: remove unfinished and unused roaming code.
1.57 tb 484: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 485: eliminate fallback from untrusted X11 forwarding to trusted forwarding
486: when the X server disables the <tt>SECURITY</tt> extension.
1.57 tb 487: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
488: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 489: increase the minimum modulus size supported for
490: <tt>diffie-hellman-group-exchange</tt> to 2048 bits.
491: </ul>
492: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
493: <ul>
494: <li>This release disables a number of legacy cryptographic algorithms
495: by default in
1.57 tb 496: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 497: <ul>
498: <li>Several ciphers: <tt>blowfish-cbc</tt>, <tt>cast128-cbc</tt>,
499: all <tt>arcfour</tt> variants and the <tt>rijndael-cbc</tt> aliases
500: for AES.
501: <li>MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms.
502: </ul>
503: </ul>
504: <li>New/changed features:
505: <ul>
506: <li>all: add support for RSA signatures using SHA-256/512 hash algorithms
507: based on <tt>draft-rsa-dsa-sha2-256-03.txt</tt> and
508: <tt>draft-ssh-ext-info-04.txt</tt>.
1.57 tb 509: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 510: Add an <tt>AddKeysToAgent</tt> client option which can be set to
511: <tt>yes</tt>, <tt>no</tt>, <tt>ask</tt>, or <tt>confirm</tt>, and
512: defaults to <tt>no</tt>. When enabled, a private key that is used
513: during authentication will be added to
1.57 tb 514: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 515: if it is running (with confirmation enabled if set to <tt>confirm</tt>).
1.57 tb 516: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 517: add a new <tt>authorized_keys</tt> option <tt>restrict</tt> that
518: includes all current and future key restrictions
519: (<tt>no-*-forwarding</tt>, etc.).
520: Also add permissive versions of the existing restrictions, e.g.
521: <tt>no-pty</tt> -> <tt>pty</tt>. This simplifies the task of setting up
522: restricted keys and ensures they are maximally-restricted,
523: regardless of any permissions we might implement in the future.
1.57 tb 524: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 525: add
1.57 tb 526: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 527: CertificateFile option to explicitly list certificates. (bz#2436)
1.57 tb 528: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 529: allow
1.57 tb 530: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 531: to change the key comment for all supported formats.
1.57 tb 532: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 533: allow fingerprinting from standard input, e.g. "ssh-keygen -lf -".
1.57 tb 534: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 535: allow fingerprinting multiple public keys in a file, e.g.
536: <tt>ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/authorized_keys</tt>. (bz#1319)
1.57 tb 537: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 538: support <tt>none</tt> as an argument for
1.57 tb 539: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 540: <tt>Foreground</tt> and <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt>. Useful inside
541: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to override a global default. (bz#2486)
1.57 tb 542: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 543: support multiple certificates (one per line) and reading from standard
544: input (using "<tt>-f -</tt>") for <tt>ssh-keygen -L</tt>.
1.57 tb 545: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 546: add <tt>ssh-keyscan -c ...</tt> flag to allow fetching certificates
547: instead of plain keys.
1.57 tb 548: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 549: better handle anchored FQDNs (e.g. <tt>cvs.openbsd.org.</tt>) in
550: hostname canonicalisation - treat them as already canonical and
551: trailing '<tt>.</tt>' before matching
1.57 tb 552: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 553: </ul>
554: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
555: <ul>
1.57 tb 556: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
557: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 558: add compatibility workarounds for FuTTY.
1.57 tb 559: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
560: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 561: refine compatibility workarounds for WinSCP.
1.16 sobrado 562: <li>Fix a number of memory faults (double-free, free of uninitialised
563: memory, etc) in
1.57 tb 564: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 565: and
1.57 tb 566: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 567: <li>Correctly interpret the <tt>first_kex_follows</tt> option during the
568: initial key exchange.
1.57 tb 569: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp">sftp(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 570: existing destination directories should not terminate recursive uploads
571: (regression in openssh 6.8). (bz#2528)
1.57 tb 572: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
573: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 574: correctly send back <tt>SSH2_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED</tt> replies to
575: unexpected messages during key exchange. (bz#2949)
1.57 tb 576: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 577: refuse attempts to set <tt>ConnectionAttempts=0</tt>, which does not
578: make sense and would cause ssh to print an uninitialised stack
579: variable. (bz#2500)
1.57 tb 580: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 581: fix errors when attempting to connect to scoped IPv6 addresses with
582: hostname canonicalisation enabled.
1.57 tb 583: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 584: list a couple more options usable in <tt>Match</tt> blocks. (bz#2489)
1.57 tb 585: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 586: fix <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +...</tt> inside a <tt>Match</tt> block.
1.57 tb 587: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 588: expand tilde characters in filenames passed to <tt>-i</tt> options
589: before checking whether or not the identity file exists. Avoids
590: confusion for cases where shell doesn't expand (e.g.
591: <tt>-i ~/file</tt> vs. <tt>-i~/file</tt>). (bz#2481)
1.57 tb 592: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 593: do not prepend "exec" to the shell command run by <tt>Match exec</tt>
594: in a config file, which could cause some commands to fail in certain
595: environments. (bz#2471)
1.57 tb 596: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 597: fix output for multiple hosts/addrs on one line when host hashing or
598: a non standard port is in use. (bz#2479)
1.57 tb 599: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 600: skip "Could not chdir to home directory" message when
601: <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt> is active. (bz#2485)
1.57 tb 602: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 603: include <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> in <tt>ssh -G</tt> config dump.
1.57 tb 604: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 605: avoid changing <tt>TunnelForwarding</tt> device flags if they are
606: already what is needed; makes it possible to use
1.57 tb 607: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>/
608: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
1.45 sobrado 609: networking as non-root user if device permissions and interface flags
610: are pre-established.
1.57 tb 611: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
612: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 613: <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> could be exceeded by one packet. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 614: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 615: fix multiplexing master failure to notice client exit.
1.57 tb 616: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
617: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 618: avoid <tt>fatal()</tt> for PKCS11 tokens that present empty key IDs.
619: (bz#1773)
1.57 tb 620: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 621: avoid
1.57 tb 622: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=printf&sec=3">printf(3)</a>
1.45 sobrado 623: of NULL argument. (bz#2535)
1.57 tb 624: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
625: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 626: allow <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> larger than 4GB. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 627: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
628: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 629: fix several bugs in (unused) KRL signature support.
1.57 tb 630: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
631: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 632: fix connections with peers that use the key exchange guess feature of
633: the protocol. (bz#2515)
1.57 tb 634: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 635: include remote port number in log messages. (bz#2503)
1.57 tb 636: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 637: don't try to load SSHv1 private key when compiled without SSHv1
638: support. (bz#2505)
1.57 tb 639: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
640: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 641: fix incorrect error messages during key loading and signing errors.
642: (bz#2507)
1.57 tb 643: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 644: don't leave empty temporary files when performing <tt>known_hosts</tt>
645: file edits when <tt>known_hosts</tt> doesn't exist.
1.57 tb 646: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 647: correct packet format for tcpip-forward replies for requests that
648: don't allocate a port. (bz#2509)
1.57 tb 649: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
650: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 651: fix possible hang on closed output. (bz#2469)
1.57 tb 652: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 653: expand <tt>%i</tt> in <tt>ControlPath</tt> to UID. (bz#2449)
1.57 tb 654: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
655: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 656: fix return type of <tt>openssh_RSA_verify</tt>. (bz#2460)
1.57 tb 657: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
658: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 659: fix some option parsing memory leaks. (bz#2182)
1.57 tb 660: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 661: add a some debug output before DNS resolution; it's a place where
662: ssh could previously silently stall in cases of unresponsive DNS
663: servers. (bz#2433)
1.57 tb 664: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 665: remove spurious newline in visual hostkey. (bz#2686)
1.57 tb 666: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 667: fix printing (<tt>ssh -G ...</tt>) of <tt>HostKeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.57 tb 668: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 669: fix expansion of <tt>HostkeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.1 deraadt 670: </ul>
671: </ul>
672: <p>
1.17 sobrado 673: <li>LibreSSL 2.3.2
1.1 deraadt 674: <ul>
675: <li>User-visible features:
676: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 677: <li>This release corrects the handling of <tt>ClientHello</tt> messages
678: that do not include TLS extensions, resulting in such handshakes being
679: aborted.
1.39 tj 680: <li>When loading a DSA key from a raw (without DH parameters) ASN.1
1.17 sobrado 681: serialization, perform some consistency checks on its `p' and `q'
682: values, and return an error if the checks failed.
683: <li>Fixed a bug in <tt>ECDH_compute_key</tt> that can lead to silent
684: truncation of the result key without error. A coding error could cause
685: software to use much shorter keys than intended.
686: <li>Removed support for <tt>DTLS_BAD_VER</tt>. Pre-DTLSv1 implementations
687: are no longer supported.
688: <li>The engine command and parameters are removed from
1.57 tb 689: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl">
690: openssl(1)</a>.
1.39 tj 691: Previous releases removed dynamic and built-in engine support already.
1.17 sobrado 692: <li>SHA-0 is removed, which was withdrawn shortly after publication
693: twenty years ago.
694: <li>Added <tt>Certplus CA</tt> root certificate to the default
695: <tt>cert.pem</tt> file.
1.19 sobrado 696: <li>Fixed a leak in
1.57 tb 697: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=SSL_new">
698: SSL_new(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 699: in the error path.
1.28 sobrado 700: <li>Fixed a memory leak and out-of-bounds access in
1.57 tb 701: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=OBJ_nid2obj">
702: OBJ_obj2txt(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 703: <li>Fixed an up-to 7 byte overflow in RC4 when len is not a multiple of
704: <tt>sizeof(RC4_CHUNK)</tt>.
1.19 sobrado 705: <li>Added
1.57 tb 706: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
707: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 708: which matches the
1.18 sobrado 709: <tt>AEAD</tt> construction introduced in RFC 7539, which is different
710: than that already used in TLS with
1.57 tb 711: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
712: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 713: <li>More man pages converted from pod to
1.57 tb 714: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc">mdoc(7)</a>
1.18 sobrado 715: format.
1.17 sobrado 716: <li>Added <tt>COMODO RSA Certification Authority</tt> and
717: <tt>QuoVadis</tt> root certificates to <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
718: <li>Removed Remhve "<tt>C=US, O=VeriSign, Inc., OU=Class 3 Public Primary
719: Certification Authority</tt>"
720: (serial 3c:91:31:cb:1f:f6:d0:1b:0e:9a:b8:d0:44:bf:12:be)
721: root certificate from <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
722: <li>Fixed incorrect TLS certificate loading by
1.57 tb 723: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 724: <li>The following CVEs had been fixed:
725: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 726: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3194</tt>—NULL pointer dereference in client
727: side certificate validation.
728: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3195</tt>—memory leak in PKCS7, not reachable
729: from TLS/SSL.
1.17 sobrado 730: </ul>
731: <li>Note: The following OpenSSL CVEs did not apply to LibreSSL:
732: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 733: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3193</tt>—carry propagating bug in the x86_64
734: Montgomery squaring procedure.
735: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3196</tt>—double free race condition of the
736: identify hint data.
1.17 sobrado 737: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 738: </ul>
739: <li>Code improvements:
740: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 741: <li>Added install target for <tt>cmake</tt> builds.
742: <li>Updated <tt>pkgconfig</tt> files to correctly report the release
743: version number, not the individual library ABI version numbers.
744: <li>SSLv3 is now permanently removed from the tree.
745: <li>The <tt>libtls</tt> API is changed from the 2.2.x series:
746: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 747: <li>The
1.57 tb 748: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
749: tls_read(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 750: and
1.57 tb 751: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
752: tls_write(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 753: functions now work better with external event libraries.
754: <li>Client-side verification is now supported, with the client
755: supplying the certificate to the server.
756: <li>Also, when using
1.57 tb 757: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
758: tls_connect_fds(3)</a>,
759: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
760: tls_connect_socket(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 761: or
1.57 tb 762: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
763: tls_accept_fds(3)</a>,
1.28 sobrado 764: <tt>libtls</tt> no longer implicitly closes the passed in sockets.
765: The caller is responsible for closing them in this case.
1.17 sobrado 766: </ul>
767: <li>New interface <tt>OPENSSL_cpu_caps</tt> is provided that does not
768: allow software to inadvertently modify cpu capability flags.
769: <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap</tt> and <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc</tt> are removed.
1.18 sobrado 770: <li>The <tt>out_len</tt> argument of <tt>AEAD</tt> changed from
771: <tt>ssize_t</tt> to <tt>size_t</tt>.
1.17 sobrado 772: <li>Deduplicated DTLS code, sharing bugfixes and improvements with TLS.
773: <li>Converted
1.57 tb 774: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>
1.17 sobrado 775: to use <tt>libtls</tt> for client and server operations; it is
776: included in the libressl-portable distribution as an example of how
777: to use the <tt>libtls</tt> library. This is intended to be a simpler
778: and more robust replacement for <tt>openssl s_client</tt> and
779: <tt>openssl s_server</tt> for day-to-day operations.
780: <li>ASN.1 cleanups and RFC5280 compliance fixes.
781: <li>Time representations switched from <tt>unsigned long</tt> to
782: <tt>time_t</tt>. LibreSSL now checks if the host OS supports 64-bit
783: <tt>time_t</tt>.
784: <li>Support always extracting the peer cipher and version with
785: <tt>libtls</tt>.
786: <li>Added ability to check certificate validity times with
1.19 sobrado 787: <tt>libtls</tt>,
1.57 tb 788: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
789: tls_peer_cert_notbefore(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 790: and
1.57 tb 791: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
792: tls_peer_cert_notafter(3)</a>.
1.19 sobrado 793: <li>Changed
1.57 tb 794: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
795: tls_connect_servername(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 796: to use the first address that resolves with
1.57 tb 797: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo">
798: getaddrinfo(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 799: <li>Remove broken conditional <tt>EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY</tt> code
800: (non-functional since initial commit in 2004).
1.19 sobrado 801: <li>Reject too small bits value in
1.57 tb 802: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=BN_generate_prime">
803: BN_generate_prime_ex(3)</a>,
1.17 sobrado 804: so that it does not risk becoming negative in
805: <tt>probable_prime_dh_safe()</tt>.
1.18 sobrado 806: <li>Changed format of <tt>LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt> to match that of
1.17 sobrado 807: <tt>OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt>.
808: <li>Avoid a potential undefined C99+ behavior due to shift overflow in
809: <tt>AES_decrypt</tt>.
810: <li>Deprecated the <tt>SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE</tt> flag.
1.1 deraadt 811: </ul>
812: </ul>
813: <p>
814: <li>Syslogd:
815: <ul>
816: <li>...
817: </ul>
818: <p>
819: <li>Ports and packages:
820: <dl>
821: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.57 tb 822: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 823: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
824: <tr>
825: <td valign="top" width="25%">
826: <ul>
827: <li>alpha: xxxx
1.54 deraadt 828: <li>amd64: 9295
1.1 deraadt 829: <li>hppa: xxxx
830: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.54 deraadt 831: <li>i386: 9290
1.1 deraadt 832: <li>mips64: xxxx
833: <li>mips64el: xxxx
834: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
835: <li>powerpc: xxxx
836: <li>sh: xxxx
837: <li>sparc64: xxxx
838: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
839: <li>vax: xxxx
840: </ul></td></tr></table>
841: <p>
842:
1.57 tb 843: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 844: <dt>Some highlights:
1.57 tb 845: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 846: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
847: <tr>
848: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
1.40 sthen 849: <li>Chromium 48.0.2564.116
1.1 deraadt 850: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.5
1.3 jsg 851: <li>GCC 4.9.3
852: <li>GHC 7.10.3
853: <li>GNOME 3.18.2
1.5 sthen 854: <li>Go 1.5.3
1.1 deraadt 855: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.40 sthen 856: <li>JDK 7u80 and 8u72
1.1 deraadt 857: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
858: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
1.3 jsg 859: <li>LibreOffice 5.0.4.2
860: <li>MariaDB 10.0.23
861: <li>Mono 4.2.1.102
1.26 lteo 862: <li>Mozilla Firefox 38.6.1esr and 44.0.2
863: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 38.6.0
1.1 deraadt 864: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
1.22 abieber 865: <li>Node.js 4.3.0
1.3 jsg 866: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.43
1.26 lteo 867: <li>PHP 5.4.45, 5.5.32 and 5.6.18
1.3 jsg 868: <li>Postfix 3.0.3
1.26 lteo 869: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.6
1.3 jsg 870: <li>Python 2.7.11, 3.4.4 and 3.5.1
871: <li>R 3.2.3
872: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.0.0.648, 2.1.8, 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
1.15 lteo 873: <li>Rust 1.6.0
1.1 deraadt 874: <li>Sendmail 8.15.2
1.3 jsg 875: <li>Sudo 1.8.15
1.1 deraadt 876: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
877: <li>TeX Live 2014
1.3 jsg 878: <li>Vim 7.4.900
1.1 deraadt 879: <li>Xfce 4.12
880: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
881: </td></tr></table>
882: <p>
883:
884: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
885: <p>
886:
887: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
888: <ul>
1.3 jsg 889: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.17.4 + patches,
1.8 jsg 890: freetype 2.6.2, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.0.9, xterm 322,
1.21 matthieu 891: xkeyboard-config 2.17 and more)
1.1 deraadt 892: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
893: <li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)
1.3 jsg 894: <li>SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)
895: <li>NSD 4.1.7
896: <li>Unbound 1.5.7
1.1 deraadt 897: <li>Ncurses 5.7
898: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
899: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
900: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
901: </ul>
902:
903: </ul>
904:
905: <a name="install"></a>
906: <hr>
907: <p>
908: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
909: <p>
910: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
911: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
912: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
913: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
914: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
915: purchased a CDROM instead.
916: <p>
917:
918: <hr>
919: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
920: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.9 on your machine:
921: <p>
922: <ul>
923: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
924: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
925: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386">
926: .../OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
927: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
928: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
929: <p>
930: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
931: .../OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
932: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
933: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
934: <p>
935: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
936: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
937: <p>
938: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
939: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
940: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
941: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
942: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
943: .../OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
944: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
945: .../OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
946: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
947: .../OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
948: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
949: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
950: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
951: .../OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
952: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
953: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
954: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
955: .../OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
956: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax">
957: .../OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
958: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
959: .../OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
960: </ul>
961: <hr>
962:
963: <p>
964: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
965: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
966: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
967: <p>
968:
969: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
970: <ul>
971: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
972: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
973: your BIOS options first.
974:
975: <p>
976: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
977: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
978:
979: <p>
980: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
981: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
982: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
983:
984: <p>
985: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
986: read INSTALL.i386.
987:
988: </ul>
989:
990: <p>
991: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
992: <ul>
993: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
994: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
995: your BIOS options first.
996:
997: <p>
998: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
999: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1000:
1001: <p>
1002: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1003: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
1004: INSTALL.amd64 document.
1005:
1006: <p>
1007: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1008: read INSTALL.amd64.
1009: </ul>
1010:
1011: <p>
1012: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
1013: <ul>
1014: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1015: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
1016: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1017:
1018: <p>
1019: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
1020: /5.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1021: </ul>
1022:
1023: <p>
1024: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
1025: <ul>
1026: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1027:
1028: <p>
1029: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1030: <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppy59.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppyB59.fs</i>
1031: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1032: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1033:
1034: <p>
1035: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1036: will most likely fail.
1037:
1038: <p>
1039: You can also write <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/miniroot59.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1040: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1041:
1042: <p>
1043: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1044: </ul>
1045:
1046: <p>
1047: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
1048: <ul>
1049: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppy59.fs</i> or
1050: <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppyB59.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1051: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1052:
1053: <p>
1054: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1055: will most likely fail.
1056:
1057: </ul>
1058:
1059: <p>
1060: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
1061: <ul>
1062: <p>
1063: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
1064: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1065: </ul>
1066:
1067: <p>
1068: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
1069: <ul>
1070: <p>
1071: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to the start of the CF
1072: or disk, and boot normally.
1073: </ul>
1074:
1075: <p>
1076: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
1077: <ul>
1078: <p>
1079: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
1080: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
1081: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1082: </ul>
1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <p>
1086: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
1087: <ul>
1088: <p>
1089: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1090: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
1091: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1092: </ul>
1093:
1094: <p>
1095: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
1096: <ul>
1097: <p>
1098: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1099: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
1100: </ul>
1101:
1102: <p>
1103: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
1104: <ul>
1105: <p>
1106: To install, burn cd59.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
1107: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
1108: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
1109: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
1110: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1111:
1112: <p>
1113: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
1114: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
1115: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1116: </ul>
1117:
1118: <p>
1119: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
1120: <ul>
1121: <p>
1122: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1123: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
1124: </ul>
1125:
1126: <p>
1127: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
1128: <ul>
1129: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1130: </ul>
1131:
1132: <p>
1133: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
1134: <ul>
1135: <p>
1136: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
1137: openbsd59_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
1138: for a few important details.
1139: </ul>
1140:
1141: <a name="upgrade"></a>
1142: <hr>
1143: <p>
1144: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
1145: <p>
1.6 tj 1146: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 1147: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
1148: <a href="faq/upgrade59.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1149:
1150: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
1151: <hr>
1152: <p>
1153: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1154: <p>
1155: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
1156: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
1157: in a separate archive. To extract:
1158: <p>
1.58 tb 1159: <blockquote><pre>
1160: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
1161: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1162: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
1163: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1164: <p>
1165: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
1166: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
1167: To extract:
1168: <p>
1.58 tb 1169: <blockquote><pre>
1170: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
1171: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1172: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
1173: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1174: <p>
1175: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
1176: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
1177: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
1178: Using these files
1179: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
1180: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1181: <p>
1182:
1183: <a name="ports"></a>
1184: <hr>
1185: <p>
1186: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1187: <p>
1188: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1189: <p>
1.58 tb 1190: <blockquote><pre>
1191: # <b>cd /usr</b>
1192: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
1193: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1194: <p>
1195: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1196: if you know nothing about ports
1197: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1198: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1199: OpenBSD ports system.
1200: <p>
1201: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.58 tb 1202: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs">
1.1 deraadt 1203: cvs(1)</a> if
1204: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1205: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1206: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1207: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
1208: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1209: with a command like:
1210: <p>
1.58 tb 1211: <blockquote><pre>
1212: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
1213: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_9</b>
1214: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1215: <p>
1216: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1217: server.]
1218: <p>
1219: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1220: ports for the 5.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
1221: <p>
1222: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1223: would like to know more, the mailing list
1224: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1225: <p>
1226: </body>
1227: </html>