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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>
1.62 deraadt 25: 5.9 Songs: <a href="lyrics.html#59a">"Doctor W^X"</a>,
26: <a href="lyrics.html#59b">"Systemagic (Anniversary Edition)"</a>
1.1 deraadt 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
43: pkg: RWSLRYDCTJeWLIScncqwGuXK6JVXDcIyRT0q+0m30MXXG4W2xWS4NZBP
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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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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>
1.64 ! mpi 72: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asmc">asmc(4)</a>
! 73: driver for the Apple System Management Controller.
! 74: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchtemp">pchtemp(4)</a>
! 75: driver for the thermal sensor found on Intel X99, C610 series, 9 series
! 76: and 100 series PCH.
! 77: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uonerng">uonerng(4)</a>
! 78: driver for the Moonbase Otago OneRNG.
! 79: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dwiic">dwiic(4)</a>
! 80: driver for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller.
! 81: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ikbd">ikbd(4)</a>,
! 82: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ims">ims(4)</a>, and
! 83: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=imt">imt(4)</a>
! 84: drivers for HID-over-i2c keyboards, mice and multitouch touchpads.
! 85: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=efifb">efifb(4)</a>
! 86: driver for EFI frame buffer.
! 87: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xnf">xnf(4)</a>
! 88: driver for Xen Netfront network interfaces.
! 89: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=viocon">viocon(4)</a>
! 90: driver for the
! 91: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=virtio">virtio(4)</a>
! 92: console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
1.33 jsg 93: <li>amd64 can now boot from 32 bit and 64 bit EFI.
94: <li>Initial support for hardware reduced ACPI added to
1.57 tb 95: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=acpi">acpi(4)</a>.
1.33 jsg 96: <li>Support for ACPI configured SD host controllers has been added to
1.57 tb 97: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdhc">sdhc(4)</a>.
98: <li>Xen domU support
99: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xen">xen(4)</a>,
100: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xspd">xspd(4)</a>.
101: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=puc">puc(4)</a>
102: driver now supports Moxa CP-168U, Perle Speed8 LE and QEMU PCI serial devices.
1.33 jsg 103: <li>Intel 100 Series PCH Ethernet MAC with i219 PHY support has been added to the
1.57 tb 104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em">em(4)</a> driver.
1.33 jsg 105: <li>RTL8168H/RTL8111H support has been added to
1.58 tb 106: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=re&sec=4">re(4)</a>.
1.57 tb 107: <li>Initial IEEE 802.11n support in the
108: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwm">iwm(4)</a>
109: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
110: drivers.
111: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm">inteldrm(4)</a>
112: has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail
113: and Broadwell graphics.
114: <li>Support for audio in Thinkpad docks has been added to the
115: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=azalia">azalia(4)</a>
116: driver.
117: <li>Support for Synaptic touchpads without W mode has been added to the
118: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
119: driver.
120: <li>Support for tap-and-drag detection with ALPS touchpads in the
121: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
122: driver has been improved.
123: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdmmc">sdmmc(4)</a>
124: driver now supports sector mode for eMMC devices, such as those found on
125: some BeagleBone Black boards.
126: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cnmac">cnmac(4)</a>
1.64 ! mpi 127: driver now supports checksum offloading
1.57 tb 128: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi">ipmi(4)</a>
129: driver now supports OpenIPMI compatible character device.
1.1 deraadt 130: <li>...
131: </ul>
132: <p>
133:
134: <li>Removed hardware support:
135: <ul>
1.24 krw 136: <li>ST-506 disks are no longer supported.
1.1 deraadt 137: <li>...
138: </ul>
139: <p>
140:
1.57 tb 141: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>
142: support integrated:
1.34 deraadt 143: <ul>
1.59 tb 144: <li>The tame(2) system call was renamed to pledge(2).
145: Behavior and semantics were extended and refined.
146: <li>453 out of 707 base system binaries were adapted to use pledge.
147: <li>14 ports now use pledge(2): some decompression tools, mutt,
148: some pdf tools, chromium/iridium, and the i3 window manager.
149: <li>Various bugs exposed by pledge(2) were corrected.
150: For example in
1.57 tb 151: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.c?rev=1.181&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
152: bgpd(8)</a>,
153: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/iked/config.c?rev=1.40&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
154: iked(8)</a>,
155: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ldapd/control.c?rev=1.13&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
156: ldapd(8)</a>,
157: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/constraint.c?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
158: ntpd(8)</a>,
159: 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">
160: syslogd(8)</a>.
1.59 tb 161: <li>Several misfeatures were removed, such as:
162: <ul>
163: <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">
164: support for HOSTALIASES</a>
1.60 tb 165: in the
1.59 tb 166: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asr_run">
167: resolver</a>.
168: <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">
169: support for <tt>lookup yp</tt></a>
170: in
171: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
172: resolv.conf(5)</a>.
173: <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">
174: setuid-preserving code</a>
175: in tools from binutils.
176: <li>handling of
177: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/ed.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
178: ed-style diffs</a> via proc/exec in
1.60 tb 179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=patch">
180: patch(1)</a>.
1.59 tb 181: </ul>
182: <li>Userland programs were audited so that they could be properly annotated
183: with pledge(2).
1.60 tb 184: This resulted in design changes such as
185: <ul>
186: <li>
187: addition of
188: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.c?rev=1.33&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
189: privilege separation</a> to
190: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdate">
1.61 tb 191: rdate(8)</a>,
1.60 tb 192: <li>
193: addition of
194: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sndiod/sndiod.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
195: privilege separation</a> to
196: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sndiod">
197: sndiod(8)</a>,
198: <li>or the introduction of the <tt>SOCK_DNS</tt>
199: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=socket">
200: socket(2)</a>
201: flag that makes an <tt>SS_DNS</tt> tagged socket conceptually different
202: from a plain socket.
203: </ul>
1.59 tb 204: <li>pledge(2) is also used to constrain programs that handle untrusted data
205: to a very limited subset of POSIX.
206: For example,
1.60 tb 207: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strings">
208: strings(1)</a>
1.59 tb 209: or
1.60 tb 210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=objdump">
211: objdump(1)</a>
1.59 tb 212: from the
1.57 tb 213: <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">
214: binutils</a>
1.60 tb 215: or the
1.57 tb 216: <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 217: RSA-privsep process</a> in
218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">
219: smtpd(8)</a>.
1.34 deraadt 220: </ul>
221: <p>
222:
1.64 ! mpi 223: <li>SMP network stack improvements:
! 224: <ul>
! 225: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge">bge(4)</a>
! 226: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em">em(4)</a>
! 227: drivers now process packets without the kernel lock held.
! 228: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oce">oce(4)</a>
! 229: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cnmac">cnmac(4)</a>
! 230: drivers now processes received packets without the kernel lock held.
! 231: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bpf">bpf(4)</a>
! 232: now runs without the kernel lock.
! 233: </ul>
! 234: <p>
! 235:
1.1 deraadt 236: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
237: <ul>
1.57 tb 238: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=etherip">etherip(4)</a>
239: pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks
240: using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.
241: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pair">pair(4)</a>
242: pseudo-device for creating paired virtual Ethernet interfaces.
1.64 ! mpi 243: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
! 244: pseudo-device splitted up from
1.57 tb 245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>
1.64 ! mpi 246: providing a layer 3 interface with userland.
! 247: <li>Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
1.57 tb 248: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
249: driver now passes IEEE 802.11 control frames in monitor mode, allowing
250: full capture of traffic on a particular wireless channel.
251: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflow">pflow(4)</a>
252: now supports IPv6 for transport.
1.1 deraadt 253: <li>...
254: </ul>
255: <p>
256:
257: <li>Installer improvements:
258: <ul>
1.24 krw 259: <li>Inappropriate user choices from a list of options are more reliably rejected.
260: <li>Installing to a disk partitioned with a GPT is now supported (amd64 only).
261: <li>When initializing a GPT the required EFI System partition is automatically created.
1.57 tb 262: <li>When installing to a GPT disk
263: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
264: installboot(8)</a>
265: now formats the EFI System partition, creates the appropriate directory
266: structure and copies the required UEFI boot files into place.
1.1 deraadt 267: <li>...
268: </ul>
269: <p>
270:
271: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
272: <ul>
1.57 tb 273: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eigrpd">eigrpd(8)</a>
274: routing daemon for the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
275: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
276: now supports multiple domain names provided via DHCP option 15 (Domain Name).
277: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
278: now supports search domains provided via DHCP option 119 (Domain Search).
279: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
280: no longer continually checks for a change to the routing domain of the
281: interface it controls. It now relies on the appropriate routing socket
282: messages.
283: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
284: now issues DHCP DECLINE responses to lease offers found to be inadequate,
285: and restarts the DISCOVER/RENEW process rather than waiting indefinitely
286: for a better lease to appear.
287: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
288: no longer exits if a desired route cannot be added. It now just reports
289: the fact.
290: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
291: now takes a much more careful approach to received packets to ensure
292: only received data is used to process the packet.
293: Packets with incorrect length information or lacking appropriate header
294: information are now dropped.
295: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
296: again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost,
297: preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.
298: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd">dhcpd(8)</a>
299: again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and
300: bootp-lease-time options.
1.61 tb 301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.57 tb 302: now displays more information about IEEE 802.11 frames when run with
303: the -y IEEE802_11_RADIO and -v options.
1.64 ! mpi 304: <li>Several interoperability issues in
! 305: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked">iked(8)</a>
! 306: have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.
1.1 deraadt 307: <li>...
308: </ul>
309: <p>
310:
311: <li>Security improvements:
312: <ul>
313: <li>...
1.10 tedu 314: <li>Support for looking up hosts via YP has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 315: The 'yp' lookup method in
316: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
317: resolv.conf</a>
318: is no longer available.
1.10 tedu 319: <li>Support for the HOSTALIASES environment variable has been removed from libc.
1.1 deraadt 320: </ul>
321: <p>
322:
323: <li>Assorted improvements:
324: <ul>
1.57 tb 325: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=doas">doas(1)</a>
326: is a little friendlier to use.
1.28 sobrado 327: <li>Updated
1.57 tb 328: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=flex">flex(1)</a>.
329: <li>Forked <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=less">less(1)</a>
330: from upstream, then proceeded to clean it up substantially.
331: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pdisk">pdisk(8)</a>
332: was largely rewritten and pledged.
1.24 krw 333: <li>Renaming files in the root directory of a MSDOS filesystem was fixed.
1.57 tb 334: <li>Many obsolete
335: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab">disktab(5)</a>
336: attributes and entries were removed.
337: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
338: volumes now correctly look for the disklabel in the first OpenBSD disk
339: partition, not the last.
340: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
341: volumes can now be partitioned with a GPT.
342: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
343: now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the '-g'
344: flag is used.
345: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
346: now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition
347: to create.
348: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
349: now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT
350: information.
351: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
352: now provides full interactive GPT editing.
353: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
354: was pledged.
355: <li>Disks with sector sizes other than 512 bytes can now be partitioned with
356: a GPT.
357: <li>The GPT kernel option was removed and GPT support is part of all GENERIC
358: and GENERIC derived kernels.
359: <li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and
360: reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.
361: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel">disklabel(8)</a>
362: no longer supports boot code installation, with the -B and -b flags
363: being removed.
364: The associated fields in the disklabel were also removed.
365: These functions are now all performed by
366: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
367: installboot(8)</a>.
1.43 guenther 368: <li>PowerPC converted to secure-PLT ABI variant.
1.57 tb 369: <li>Perform lazy binding updates in
370: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so">ld.so(1)</a>
371: using
372: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbind">kbind(2)</a>
373: to improve security and reduce overhead in threaded processes.
374: <li>Over 100 internal or obsolete interfaces have been deleted or are no
375: longer exported by libc, reducing symbol conflicts and process size.
376: <!-- List stuff? YP and XDR APIs, mpool_*, bcrypt_autorounds, link_addr -->
377: <li>libc now uses local references for most of its own functions to avoid
378: symbol overriding, improve standards compliance, increase speed,
379: and reduce dynamic linking overhead.
380: <li>Handle intra-thread kills via new
381: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=thrkill">thrkill(2)</a>
382: system call to tighten pledge(2) restrictions and improve pthread_kill(3)
383: and pthread_cancel(3) compliance.
384: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwnam_shadow">
385: getpwnam_shadow(3)</a>
386: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwuid_shadow">
387: getpwuid_shadow(3)</a>
388: to permit tighter pledge(2) restrictions.
389: <li>Added support to
390: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ktrace">ktrace(1)</a>
391: the arguments to
392: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve">execve(2)</a>
393: and
394: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>.
395: Removed support for tracing context switch points.
396: <tt>kevent</tt> structures are now dumped.
1.46 stsp 397: <li>Disabled support for loading locales other than UTF-8.
398: <li>UTF-8 character locale data has been updated to Unicode 7.0.0.
1.57 tb 399: <li>Added UTF-8 support to several utilities, including
400: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=calendar">calendar(1)</a>,
401: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=colrm">colrm(1)</a>,
402: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cut">cut(1)</a>,
403: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fmt">fmt(1)</a>,
404: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ls">ls(1)</a>,
405: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ps">ps(1)</a>,
406: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rs">rs(1)</a>,
407: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ul">ul(1)</a>,
408: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uniq">uniq(1)</a>,
409: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wc">wc(1)</a>.
1.46 stsp 410: <li>Native language support (NLS) has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 411: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ddb">ddb(4)</a>
412: now automatically shows a stack trace upon panic.
1.1 deraadt 413: <li>...
414: </ul>
415: <p>
416:
1.57 tb 417: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd">httpd(8)</a>:
1.1 deraadt 418: <ul>
419: <li>...
420: </ul>
421: <p>
422:
1.38 gilles 423: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.9.1
424: <ul>
425: <li>Security:
426: <ul>
427: <li>Both
1.57 tb 428: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">smtpd(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 429: and
1.57 tb 430: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 431: have been pledged.
1.57 tb 432: <li>The offline enqueue mode of
433: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
434: has been redesigned to remove the need for a publicly writable directory
435: which was a vector of multiple attacks in the Qualys Security audit.
1.38 gilles 436: </ul>
437: <li>The following improvements were brought in this release:
438: <ul>
1.57 tb 439: <li>Experimental support for filters API is now available with several
440: filters available in ports.
1.38 gilles 441: <li>Add Message-Id header if necessary.
442: <li>Removed the kick mechanism which was misbehaving.
1.39 tj 443: <li>Increased the length of acceptable headers lines.
1.38 gilles 444: <li>Assume messages are 8-bit bytes by default.
445: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 446: </ul>
447: <p>
448:
1.41 jsg 449: <li>OpenSSH 7.2
1.1 deraadt 450: <ul>
451: <li>Security:
452: <ul>
1.16 sobrado 453: <li>Qualys Security identified vulnerabilities in the
1.57 tb 454: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.18 sobrado 455: client experimental support for resuming SSH-connections (roaming).
1.16 sobrado 456: In the default configuration, this could potentially leak client keys
457: to a hostile server. The authentication of the server host key
458: prevents exploitation by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak
459: is restricted to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
460: This feature has been disabled in the
1.57 tb 461: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 462: client, and it has been removed from the source tree. The matching
463: server code has never been shipped.
1.57 tb 464: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.16 sobrado 465: OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in
466: <tt>PermitRootLogin=prohibit-password/without-password</tt> that could,
467: depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication
468: to root while preventing other forms of authentication.
469: <li>Fix an out of-bound read access in the packet handling code.
1.18 sobrado 470: <li>Further use of
1.57 tb 471: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero">explicit_bzero(3)</a>
1.18 sobrado 472: has been added in various buffer handling code paths to guard against
473: compilers aggressively doing dead-store removal.
1.57 tb 474: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
475: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 476: remove unfinished and unused roaming code.
1.57 tb 477: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 478: eliminate fallback from untrusted X11 forwarding to trusted forwarding
479: when the X server disables the <tt>SECURITY</tt> extension.
1.57 tb 480: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
481: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 482: increase the minimum modulus size supported for
483: <tt>diffie-hellman-group-exchange</tt> to 2048 bits.
484: </ul>
485: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
486: <ul>
487: <li>This release disables a number of legacy cryptographic algorithms
488: by default in
1.57 tb 489: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 490: <ul>
491: <li>Several ciphers: <tt>blowfish-cbc</tt>, <tt>cast128-cbc</tt>,
492: all <tt>arcfour</tt> variants and the <tt>rijndael-cbc</tt> aliases
493: for AES.
494: <li>MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms.
495: </ul>
496: </ul>
497: <li>New/changed features:
498: <ul>
499: <li>all: add support for RSA signatures using SHA-256/512 hash algorithms
500: based on <tt>draft-rsa-dsa-sha2-256-03.txt</tt> and
501: <tt>draft-ssh-ext-info-04.txt</tt>.
1.57 tb 502: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 503: Add an <tt>AddKeysToAgent</tt> client option which can be set to
504: <tt>yes</tt>, <tt>no</tt>, <tt>ask</tt>, or <tt>confirm</tt>, and
505: defaults to <tt>no</tt>. When enabled, a private key that is used
506: during authentication will be added to
1.57 tb 507: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 508: if it is running (with confirmation enabled if set to <tt>confirm</tt>).
1.57 tb 509: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 510: add a new <tt>authorized_keys</tt> option <tt>restrict</tt> that
511: includes all current and future key restrictions
512: (<tt>no-*-forwarding</tt>, etc.).
513: Also add permissive versions of the existing restrictions, e.g.
514: <tt>no-pty</tt> -> <tt>pty</tt>. This simplifies the task of setting up
515: restricted keys and ensures they are maximally-restricted,
516: regardless of any permissions we might implement in the future.
1.57 tb 517: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 518: add
1.57 tb 519: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 520: CertificateFile option to explicitly list certificates. (bz#2436)
1.57 tb 521: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 522: allow
1.57 tb 523: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 524: to change the key comment for all supported formats.
1.57 tb 525: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 526: allow fingerprinting from standard input, e.g. "ssh-keygen -lf -".
1.57 tb 527: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 528: allow fingerprinting multiple public keys in a file, e.g.
529: <tt>ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/authorized_keys</tt>. (bz#1319)
1.57 tb 530: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 531: support <tt>none</tt> as an argument for
1.57 tb 532: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 533: <tt>Foreground</tt> and <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt>. Useful inside
534: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to override a global default. (bz#2486)
1.57 tb 535: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 536: support multiple certificates (one per line) and reading from standard
537: input (using "<tt>-f -</tt>") for <tt>ssh-keygen -L</tt>.
1.57 tb 538: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 539: add <tt>ssh-keyscan -c ...</tt> flag to allow fetching certificates
540: instead of plain keys.
1.57 tb 541: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 542: better handle anchored FQDNs (e.g. <tt>cvs.openbsd.org.</tt>) in
543: hostname canonicalisation - treat them as already canonical and
544: trailing '<tt>.</tt>' before matching
1.57 tb 545: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 546: </ul>
547: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
548: <ul>
1.57 tb 549: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
550: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 551: add compatibility workarounds for FuTTY.
1.57 tb 552: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
553: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 554: refine compatibility workarounds for WinSCP.
1.16 sobrado 555: <li>Fix a number of memory faults (double-free, free of uninitialised
556: memory, etc) in
1.57 tb 557: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 558: and
1.57 tb 559: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 560: <li>Correctly interpret the <tt>first_kex_follows</tt> option during the
561: initial key exchange.
1.57 tb 562: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp">sftp(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 563: existing destination directories should not terminate recursive uploads
564: (regression in openssh 6.8). (bz#2528)
1.57 tb 565: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
566: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 567: correctly send back <tt>SSH2_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED</tt> replies to
568: unexpected messages during key exchange. (bz#2949)
1.57 tb 569: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 570: refuse attempts to set <tt>ConnectionAttempts=0</tt>, which does not
571: make sense and would cause ssh to print an uninitialised stack
572: variable. (bz#2500)
1.57 tb 573: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 574: fix errors when attempting to connect to scoped IPv6 addresses with
575: hostname canonicalisation enabled.
1.57 tb 576: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 577: list a couple more options usable in <tt>Match</tt> blocks. (bz#2489)
1.57 tb 578: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 579: fix <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +...</tt> inside a <tt>Match</tt> block.
1.57 tb 580: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 581: expand tilde characters in filenames passed to <tt>-i</tt> options
582: before checking whether or not the identity file exists. Avoids
583: confusion for cases where shell doesn't expand (e.g.
584: <tt>-i ~/file</tt> vs. <tt>-i~/file</tt>). (bz#2481)
1.57 tb 585: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 586: do not prepend "exec" to the shell command run by <tt>Match exec</tt>
587: in a config file, which could cause some commands to fail in certain
588: environments. (bz#2471)
1.57 tb 589: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 590: fix output for multiple hosts/addrs on one line when host hashing or
591: a non standard port is in use. (bz#2479)
1.57 tb 592: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 593: skip "Could not chdir to home directory" message when
594: <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt> is active. (bz#2485)
1.57 tb 595: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 596: include <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> in <tt>ssh -G</tt> config dump.
1.57 tb 597: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 598: avoid changing <tt>TunnelForwarding</tt> device flags if they are
599: already what is needed; makes it possible to use
1.57 tb 600: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>/
601: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
1.45 sobrado 602: networking as non-root user if device permissions and interface flags
603: are pre-established.
1.57 tb 604: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
605: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 606: <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> could be exceeded by one packet. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 607: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 608: fix multiplexing master failure to notice client exit.
1.57 tb 609: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
610: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 611: avoid <tt>fatal()</tt> for PKCS11 tokens that present empty key IDs.
612: (bz#1773)
1.57 tb 613: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 614: avoid
1.57 tb 615: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=printf&sec=3">printf(3)</a>
1.45 sobrado 616: of NULL argument. (bz#2535)
1.57 tb 617: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
618: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 619: allow <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> larger than 4GB. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 620: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
621: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 622: fix several bugs in (unused) KRL signature support.
1.57 tb 623: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
624: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 625: fix connections with peers that use the key exchange guess feature of
626: the protocol. (bz#2515)
1.57 tb 627: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 628: include remote port number in log messages. (bz#2503)
1.57 tb 629: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 630: don't try to load SSHv1 private key when compiled without SSHv1
631: support. (bz#2505)
1.57 tb 632: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
633: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 634: fix incorrect error messages during key loading and signing errors.
635: (bz#2507)
1.57 tb 636: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 637: don't leave empty temporary files when performing <tt>known_hosts</tt>
638: file edits when <tt>known_hosts</tt> doesn't exist.
1.57 tb 639: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 640: correct packet format for tcpip-forward replies for requests that
641: don't allocate a port. (bz#2509)
1.57 tb 642: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
643: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 644: fix possible hang on closed output. (bz#2469)
1.57 tb 645: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 646: expand <tt>%i</tt> in <tt>ControlPath</tt> to UID. (bz#2449)
1.57 tb 647: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
648: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 649: fix return type of <tt>openssh_RSA_verify</tt>. (bz#2460)
1.57 tb 650: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
651: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 652: fix some option parsing memory leaks. (bz#2182)
1.57 tb 653: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 654: add a some debug output before DNS resolution; it's a place where
655: ssh could previously silently stall in cases of unresponsive DNS
656: servers. (bz#2433)
1.57 tb 657: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 658: remove spurious newline in visual hostkey. (bz#2686)
1.57 tb 659: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 660: fix printing (<tt>ssh -G ...</tt>) of <tt>HostKeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.57 tb 661: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 662: fix expansion of <tt>HostkeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.1 deraadt 663: </ul>
664: </ul>
665: <p>
1.17 sobrado 666: <li>LibreSSL 2.3.2
1.1 deraadt 667: <ul>
668: <li>User-visible features:
669: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 670: <li>This release corrects the handling of <tt>ClientHello</tt> messages
671: that do not include TLS extensions, resulting in such handshakes being
672: aborted.
1.39 tj 673: <li>When loading a DSA key from a raw (without DH parameters) ASN.1
1.17 sobrado 674: serialization, perform some consistency checks on its `p' and `q'
675: values, and return an error if the checks failed.
676: <li>Fixed a bug in <tt>ECDH_compute_key</tt> that can lead to silent
677: truncation of the result key without error. A coding error could cause
678: software to use much shorter keys than intended.
679: <li>Removed support for <tt>DTLS_BAD_VER</tt>. Pre-DTLSv1 implementations
680: are no longer supported.
681: <li>The engine command and parameters are removed from
1.57 tb 682: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl">
683: openssl(1)</a>.
1.39 tj 684: Previous releases removed dynamic and built-in engine support already.
1.17 sobrado 685: <li>SHA-0 is removed, which was withdrawn shortly after publication
686: twenty years ago.
687: <li>Added <tt>Certplus CA</tt> root certificate to the default
688: <tt>cert.pem</tt> file.
1.19 sobrado 689: <li>Fixed a leak in
1.57 tb 690: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=SSL_new">
691: SSL_new(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 692: in the error path.
1.28 sobrado 693: <li>Fixed a memory leak and out-of-bounds access in
1.57 tb 694: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=OBJ_nid2obj">
695: OBJ_obj2txt(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 696: <li>Fixed an up-to 7 byte overflow in RC4 when len is not a multiple of
697: <tt>sizeof(RC4_CHUNK)</tt>.
1.19 sobrado 698: <li>Added
1.57 tb 699: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
700: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 701: which matches the
1.18 sobrado 702: <tt>AEAD</tt> construction introduced in RFC 7539, which is different
703: than that already used in TLS with
1.57 tb 704: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
705: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 706: <li>More man pages converted from pod to
1.57 tb 707: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc">mdoc(7)</a>
1.18 sobrado 708: format.
1.17 sobrado 709: <li>Added <tt>COMODO RSA Certification Authority</tt> and
710: <tt>QuoVadis</tt> root certificates to <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
711: <li>Removed Remhve "<tt>C=US, O=VeriSign, Inc., OU=Class 3 Public Primary
712: Certification Authority</tt>"
713: (serial 3c:91:31:cb:1f:f6:d0:1b:0e:9a:b8:d0:44:bf:12:be)
714: root certificate from <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
715: <li>Fixed incorrect TLS certificate loading by
1.57 tb 716: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 717: <li>The following CVEs had been fixed:
718: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 719: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3194</tt>—NULL pointer dereference in client
720: side certificate validation.
721: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3195</tt>—memory leak in PKCS7, not reachable
722: from TLS/SSL.
1.17 sobrado 723: </ul>
724: <li>Note: The following OpenSSL CVEs did not apply to LibreSSL:
725: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 726: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3193</tt>—carry propagating bug in the x86_64
727: Montgomery squaring procedure.
728: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3196</tt>—double free race condition of the
729: identify hint data.
1.17 sobrado 730: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 731: </ul>
732: <li>Code improvements:
733: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 734: <li>Added install target for <tt>cmake</tt> builds.
735: <li>Updated <tt>pkgconfig</tt> files to correctly report the release
736: version number, not the individual library ABI version numbers.
737: <li>SSLv3 is now permanently removed from the tree.
738: <li>The <tt>libtls</tt> API is changed from the 2.2.x series:
739: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 740: <li>The
1.57 tb 741: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
742: tls_read(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 743: and
1.57 tb 744: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
745: tls_write(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 746: functions now work better with external event libraries.
747: <li>Client-side verification is now supported, with the client
748: supplying the certificate to the server.
749: <li>Also, when using
1.57 tb 750: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
751: tls_connect_fds(3)</a>,
752: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
753: tls_connect_socket(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 754: or
1.57 tb 755: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
756: tls_accept_fds(3)</a>,
1.28 sobrado 757: <tt>libtls</tt> no longer implicitly closes the passed in sockets.
758: The caller is responsible for closing them in this case.
1.17 sobrado 759: </ul>
760: <li>New interface <tt>OPENSSL_cpu_caps</tt> is provided that does not
761: allow software to inadvertently modify cpu capability flags.
762: <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap</tt> and <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc</tt> are removed.
1.18 sobrado 763: <li>The <tt>out_len</tt> argument of <tt>AEAD</tt> changed from
764: <tt>ssize_t</tt> to <tt>size_t</tt>.
1.17 sobrado 765: <li>Deduplicated DTLS code, sharing bugfixes and improvements with TLS.
766: <li>Converted
1.57 tb 767: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>
1.17 sobrado 768: to use <tt>libtls</tt> for client and server operations; it is
769: included in the libressl-portable distribution as an example of how
770: to use the <tt>libtls</tt> library. This is intended to be a simpler
771: and more robust replacement for <tt>openssl s_client</tt> and
772: <tt>openssl s_server</tt> for day-to-day operations.
773: <li>ASN.1 cleanups and RFC5280 compliance fixes.
774: <li>Time representations switched from <tt>unsigned long</tt> to
775: <tt>time_t</tt>. LibreSSL now checks if the host OS supports 64-bit
776: <tt>time_t</tt>.
777: <li>Support always extracting the peer cipher and version with
778: <tt>libtls</tt>.
779: <li>Added ability to check certificate validity times with
1.19 sobrado 780: <tt>libtls</tt>,
1.57 tb 781: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
782: tls_peer_cert_notbefore(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 783: and
1.57 tb 784: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
785: tls_peer_cert_notafter(3)</a>.
1.19 sobrado 786: <li>Changed
1.57 tb 787: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
788: tls_connect_servername(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 789: to use the first address that resolves with
1.57 tb 790: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo">
791: getaddrinfo(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 792: <li>Remove broken conditional <tt>EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY</tt> code
793: (non-functional since initial commit in 2004).
1.19 sobrado 794: <li>Reject too small bits value in
1.57 tb 795: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=BN_generate_prime">
796: BN_generate_prime_ex(3)</a>,
1.17 sobrado 797: so that it does not risk becoming negative in
798: <tt>probable_prime_dh_safe()</tt>.
1.18 sobrado 799: <li>Changed format of <tt>LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt> to match that of
1.17 sobrado 800: <tt>OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt>.
801: <li>Avoid a potential undefined C99+ behavior due to shift overflow in
802: <tt>AES_decrypt</tt>.
803: <li>Deprecated the <tt>SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE</tt> flag.
1.1 deraadt 804: </ul>
805: </ul>
806: <p>
807: <li>Syslogd:
808: <ul>
809: <li>...
810: </ul>
811: <p>
812: <li>Ports and packages:
813: <dl>
814: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.57 tb 815: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 816: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
817: <tr>
818: <td valign="top" width="25%">
819: <ul>
820: <li>alpha: xxxx
1.54 deraadt 821: <li>amd64: 9295
1.63 deraadt 822: <li>hppa: 6304
1.1 deraadt 823: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.54 deraadt 824: <li>i386: 9290
1.1 deraadt 825: <li>mips64: xxxx
826: <li>mips64el: xxxx
827: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
828: <li>powerpc: xxxx
829: <li>sh: xxxx
830: <li>sparc64: xxxx
831: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
832: <li>vax: xxxx
833: </ul></td></tr></table>
834: <p>
835:
1.57 tb 836: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 837: <dt>Some highlights:
1.57 tb 838: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 839: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
840: <tr>
841: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
1.40 sthen 842: <li>Chromium 48.0.2564.116
1.1 deraadt 843: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.5
1.3 jsg 844: <li>GCC 4.9.3
845: <li>GHC 7.10.3
846: <li>GNOME 3.18.2
1.5 sthen 847: <li>Go 1.5.3
1.1 deraadt 848: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.40 sthen 849: <li>JDK 7u80 and 8u72
1.1 deraadt 850: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
851: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
1.3 jsg 852: <li>LibreOffice 5.0.4.2
853: <li>MariaDB 10.0.23
854: <li>Mono 4.2.1.102
1.26 lteo 855: <li>Mozilla Firefox 38.6.1esr and 44.0.2
856: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 38.6.0
1.1 deraadt 857: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
1.22 abieber 858: <li>Node.js 4.3.0
1.3 jsg 859: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.43
1.26 lteo 860: <li>PHP 5.4.45, 5.5.32 and 5.6.18
1.3 jsg 861: <li>Postfix 3.0.3
1.26 lteo 862: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.6
1.3 jsg 863: <li>Python 2.7.11, 3.4.4 and 3.5.1
864: <li>R 3.2.3
865: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.0.0.648, 2.1.8, 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
1.15 lteo 866: <li>Rust 1.6.0
1.1 deraadt 867: <li>Sendmail 8.15.2
1.3 jsg 868: <li>Sudo 1.8.15
1.1 deraadt 869: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
870: <li>TeX Live 2014
1.3 jsg 871: <li>Vim 7.4.900
1.1 deraadt 872: <li>Xfce 4.12
873: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
874: </td></tr></table>
875: <p>
876:
877: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
878: <p>
879:
880: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
881: <ul>
1.3 jsg 882: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.17.4 + patches,
1.8 jsg 883: freetype 2.6.2, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.0.9, xterm 322,
1.21 matthieu 884: xkeyboard-config 2.17 and more)
1.1 deraadt 885: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
886: <li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)
1.3 jsg 887: <li>SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)
888: <li>NSD 4.1.7
889: <li>Unbound 1.5.7
1.1 deraadt 890: <li>Ncurses 5.7
891: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
892: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
893: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
894: </ul>
895:
896: </ul>
897:
898: <a name="install"></a>
899: <hr>
900: <p>
901: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
902: <p>
903: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
904: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
905: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
906: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
907: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
908: purchased a CDROM instead.
909: <p>
910:
911: <hr>
912: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
913: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.9 on your machine:
914: <p>
915: <ul>
916: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
917: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
918: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386">
919: .../OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
920: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
921: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
922: <p>
923: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
924: .../OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
925: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
926: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
927: <p>
928: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
929: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
930: <p>
931: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
932: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
933: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
934: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
935: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
936: .../OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
937: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
938: .../OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
939: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
940: .../OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
941: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
942: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
943: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
944: .../OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
945: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
946: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
947: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
948: .../OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
949: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax">
950: .../OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
951: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
952: .../OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
953: </ul>
954: <hr>
955:
956: <p>
957: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
958: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
959: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
960: <p>
961:
962: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
963: <ul>
964: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
965: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
966: your BIOS options first.
967:
968: <p>
969: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
970: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
971:
972: <p>
973: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
974: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
975: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
976:
977: <p>
978: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
979: read INSTALL.i386.
980:
981: </ul>
982:
983: <p>
984: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
985: <ul>
986: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
987: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
988: your BIOS options first.
989:
990: <p>
991: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
992: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
993:
994: <p>
995: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
996: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
997: INSTALL.amd64 document.
998:
999: <p>
1000: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1001: read INSTALL.amd64.
1002: </ul>
1003:
1004: <p>
1005: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
1006: <ul>
1007: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1008: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
1009: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1010:
1011: <p>
1012: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
1013: /5.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1014: </ul>
1015:
1016: <p>
1017: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
1018: <ul>
1019: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1020:
1021: <p>
1022: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1023: <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppy59.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppyB59.fs</i>
1024: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1025: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1026:
1027: <p>
1028: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1029: will most likely fail.
1030:
1031: <p>
1032: You can also write <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/miniroot59.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1033: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1034:
1035: <p>
1036: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1037: </ul>
1038:
1039: <p>
1040: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
1041: <ul>
1042: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppy59.fs</i> or
1043: <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppyB59.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1044: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1045:
1046: <p>
1047: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1048: will most likely fail.
1049:
1050: </ul>
1051:
1052: <p>
1053: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
1054: <ul>
1055: <p>
1056: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
1057: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1058: </ul>
1059:
1060: <p>
1061: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
1062: <ul>
1063: <p>
1064: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to the start of the CF
1065: or disk, and boot normally.
1066: </ul>
1067:
1068: <p>
1069: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
1070: <ul>
1071: <p>
1072: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
1073: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
1074: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1075: </ul>
1076: <p>
1077:
1078: <p>
1079: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
1080: <ul>
1081: <p>
1082: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1083: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
1084: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1085: </ul>
1086:
1087: <p>
1088: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
1089: <ul>
1090: <p>
1091: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1092: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
1093: </ul>
1094:
1095: <p>
1096: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
1097: <ul>
1098: <p>
1099: To install, burn cd59.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
1100: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
1101: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
1102: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
1103: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1104:
1105: <p>
1106: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
1107: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
1108: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1109: </ul>
1110:
1111: <p>
1112: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
1113: <ul>
1114: <p>
1115: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1116: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
1117: </ul>
1118:
1119: <p>
1120: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
1121: <ul>
1122: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1123: </ul>
1124:
1125: <p>
1126: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
1127: <ul>
1128: <p>
1129: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
1130: openbsd59_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
1131: for a few important details.
1132: </ul>
1133:
1134: <a name="upgrade"></a>
1135: <hr>
1136: <p>
1137: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
1138: <p>
1.6 tj 1139: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 1140: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
1141: <a href="faq/upgrade59.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1142:
1143: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
1144: <hr>
1145: <p>
1146: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1147: <p>
1148: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
1149: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
1150: in a separate archive. To extract:
1151: <p>
1.58 tb 1152: <blockquote><pre>
1153: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
1154: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1155: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
1156: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1157: <p>
1158: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
1159: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
1160: To extract:
1161: <p>
1.58 tb 1162: <blockquote><pre>
1163: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
1164: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1165: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
1166: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1167: <p>
1168: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
1169: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
1170: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
1171: Using these files
1172: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
1173: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1174: <p>
1175:
1176: <a name="ports"></a>
1177: <hr>
1178: <p>
1179: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1180: <p>
1181: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1182: <p>
1.58 tb 1183: <blockquote><pre>
1184: # <b>cd /usr</b>
1185: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
1186: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1187: <p>
1188: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1189: if you know nothing about ports
1190: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1191: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1192: OpenBSD ports system.
1193: <p>
1194: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.58 tb 1195: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs">
1.1 deraadt 1196: cvs(1)</a> if
1197: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1198: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1199: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1200: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
1201: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1202: with a command like:
1203: <p>
1.58 tb 1204: <blockquote><pre>
1205: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
1206: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_9</b>
1207: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1208: <p>
1209: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1210: server.]
1211: <p>
1212: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1213: ports for the 5.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
1214: <p>
1215: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1216: would like to know more, the mailing list
1217: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1218: <p>
1219: </body>
1220: </html>
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