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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
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43: pkg: RWSLRYDCTJeWLIScncqwGuXK6JVXDcIyRT0q+0m30MXXG4W2xWS4NZBP
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46: <br clear=all>
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><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=inteldrm">inteldrm(4)</a>
108: has been updated to Linux 3.14.52 adding initial support for Bay Trail
109: and Broadwell graphics.
110: <li>Support for audio in Thinkpad docks has been added to the
111: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=azalia">azalia(4)</a>
112: driver.
113: <li>Support for Synaptic touchpads without W mode has been added to the
114: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
115: driver.
116: <li>Support for tap-and-drag detection with ALPS touchpads in the
117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms">pms(4)</a>
118: driver has been improved.
119: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sdmmc">sdmmc(4)</a>
120: driver now supports sector mode for eMMC devices, such as those found on
121: some BeagleBone Black boards.
122: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cnmac">cnmac(4)</a>
1.64 mpi 123: driver now supports checksum offloading
1.57 tb 124: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi">ipmi(4)</a>
125: driver now supports OpenIPMI compatible character device.
1.1 deraadt 126: <li>...
127: </ul>
128: <p>
129:
130: <li>Removed hardware support:
131: <ul>
1.24 krw 132: <li>ST-506 disks are no longer supported.
1.1 deraadt 133: <li>...
134: </ul>
135: <p>
136:
1.57 tb 137: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>
138: support integrated:
1.34 deraadt 139: <ul>
1.59 tb 140: <li>The tame(2) system call was renamed to pledge(2).
141: Behavior and semantics were extended and refined.
142: <li>453 out of 707 base system binaries were adapted to use pledge.
143: <li>14 ports now use pledge(2): some decompression tools, mutt,
144: some pdf tools, chromium/iridium, and the i3 window manager.
145: <li>Various bugs exposed by pledge(2) were corrected.
146: For example in
1.57 tb 147: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.c?rev=1.181&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
148: bgpd(8)</a>,
149: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/iked/config.c?rev=1.40&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
150: iked(8)</a>,
151: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ldapd/control.c?rev=1.13&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
152: ldapd(8)</a>,
153: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/constraint.c?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
154: ntpd(8)</a>,
155: 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">
156: syslogd(8)</a>.
1.59 tb 157: <li>Several misfeatures were removed, such as:
158: <ul>
159: <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">
160: support for HOSTALIASES</a>
1.60 tb 161: in the
1.59 tb 162: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=asr_run">
163: resolver</a>.
164: <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">
165: support for <tt>lookup yp</tt></a>
166: in
167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
168: resolv.conf(5)</a>.
169: <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">
170: setuid-preserving code</a>
171: in tools from binutils.
172: <li>handling of
173: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/patch/ed.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
174: ed-style diffs</a> via proc/exec in
1.60 tb 175: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=patch">
176: patch(1)</a>.
1.59 tb 177: </ul>
178: <li>Userland programs were audited so that they could be properly annotated
179: with pledge(2).
1.60 tb 180: This resulted in design changes such as
181: <ul>
182: <li>
183: addition of
184: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.c?rev=1.33&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
185: privilege separation</a> to
186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdate">
1.61 tb 187: rdate(8)</a>,
1.60 tb 188: <li>
189: addition of
190: <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sndiod/sndiod.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup">
191: privilege separation</a> to
192: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sndiod">
193: sndiod(8)</a>,
194: <li>or the introduction of the <tt>SOCK_DNS</tt>
195: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=socket">
196: socket(2)</a>
197: flag that makes an <tt>SS_DNS</tt> tagged socket conceptually different
198: from a plain socket.
199: </ul>
1.59 tb 200: <li>pledge(2) is also used to constrain programs that handle untrusted data
201: to a very limited subset of POSIX.
202: For example,
1.60 tb 203: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strings">
204: strings(1)</a>
1.59 tb 205: or
1.60 tb 206: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=objdump">
207: objdump(1)</a>
1.59 tb 208: from the
1.57 tb 209: <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">
210: binutils</a>
1.60 tb 211: or the
1.57 tb 212: <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 213: RSA-privsep process</a> in
214: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">
215: smtpd(8)</a>.
1.34 deraadt 216: </ul>
217: <p>
218:
1.64 mpi 219: <li>SMP network stack improvements:
220: <ul>
221: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge">bge(4)</a>
222: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em">em(4)</a>
223: drivers now process packets without the kernel lock held.
224: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oce">oce(4)</a>
225: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cnmac">cnmac(4)</a>
226: drivers now processes received packets without the kernel lock held.
227: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bpf">bpf(4)</a>
228: now runs without the kernel lock.
1.66 ! stsp 229: </ul>
! 230: <p>
! 231:
! 232: <li>Initial IEEE 802.11n wireless support:
! 233: <ul>
! 234: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211">ieee80211(9)</a>
! 235: subsystem now supports HT data rates up to 65 Mbit/s (802.11n MCS 0-7).
! 236: <li>The input path of
! 237: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211">ieee80211(9)</a>
! 238: now supports receiving A-MPDU and A-MSDU aggregated frames.
! 239: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwm">iwm(4)</a>
! 240: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
! 241: drivers make use of the above features.
! 242: <li>802.11n mode is used by default if supported by the OpenBSD wireless
! 243: driver and the access point.
! 244: Operation in 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g modes can be forced with
! 245: the new <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig">ifconfig(8)</a>
! 246: <tt>mode</tt> subcommand.
1.64 mpi 247: </ul>
248: <p>
249:
1.1 deraadt 250: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
251: <ul>
1.57 tb 252: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=etherip">etherip(4)</a>
253: pseudo-device for tunnelling Ethernet frames across IP[46] networks
254: using RFC 3378 EtherIP encapsulation.
255: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pair">pair(4)</a>
256: pseudo-device for creating paired virtual Ethernet interfaces.
1.64 mpi 257: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
258: pseudo-device splitted up from
1.57 tb 259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>
1.64 mpi 260: providing a layer 3 interface with userland.
261: <li>Remove support for obsolete IPv6 socket options.
1.57 tb 262: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwn">iwn(4)</a>
263: driver now passes IEEE 802.11 control frames in monitor mode, allowing
264: full capture of traffic on a particular wireless channel.
265: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflow">pflow(4)</a>
266: now supports IPv6 for transport.
1.1 deraadt 267: <li>...
268: </ul>
269: <p>
270:
271: <li>Installer improvements:
272: <ul>
1.24 krw 273: <li>Inappropriate user choices from a list of options are more reliably rejected.
274: <li>Installing to a disk partitioned with a GPT is now supported (amd64 only).
275: <li>When initializing a GPT the required EFI System partition is automatically created.
1.57 tb 276: <li>When installing to a GPT disk
277: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
278: installboot(8)</a>
279: now formats the EFI System partition, creates the appropriate directory
280: structure and copies the required UEFI boot files into place.
1.1 deraadt 281: <li>...
282: </ul>
283: <p>
284:
285: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
286: <ul>
1.57 tb 287: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=eigrpd">eigrpd(8)</a>
288: routing daemon for the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
289: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
290: now supports multiple domain names provided via DHCP option 15 (Domain Name).
291: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
292: now supports search domains provided via DHCP option 119 (Domain Search).
293: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
294: no longer continually checks for a change to the routing domain of the
295: interface it controls. It now relies on the appropriate routing socket
296: messages.
297: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
298: now issues DHCP DECLINE responses to lease offers found to be inadequate,
299: and restarts the DISCOVER/RENEW process rather than waiting indefinitely
300: for a better lease to appear.
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
302: no longer exits if a desired route cannot be added. It now just reports
303: the fact.
304: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
305: now takes a much more careful approach to received packets to ensure
306: only received data is used to process the packet.
307: Packets with incorrect length information or lacking appropriate header
308: information are now dropped.
309: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient">dhclient(8)</a>
310: again disables pending timeouts if the interface link is lost,
311: preventing endless retries at obtaining a lease.
312: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd">dhcpd(8)</a>
313: again properly utilizes default-lease-time, max-lease-time and
314: bootp-lease-time options.
1.61 tb 315: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.57 tb 316: now displays more information about IEEE 802.11 frames when run with
317: the -y IEEE802_11_RADIO and -v options.
1.64 mpi 318: <li>Several interoperability issues in
319: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iked">iked(8)</a>
320: have been fixed, including EAP auth with OS X El Capitan.
1.1 deraadt 321: <li>...
322: </ul>
323: <p>
324:
325: <li>Security improvements:
326: <ul>
327: <li>...
1.10 tedu 328: <li>Support for looking up hosts via YP has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 329: The 'yp' lookup method in
330: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=resolv.conf">
331: resolv.conf</a>
332: is no longer available.
1.10 tedu 333: <li>Support for the HOSTALIASES environment variable has been removed from libc.
1.1 deraadt 334: </ul>
335: <p>
336:
337: <li>Assorted improvements:
338: <ul>
1.57 tb 339: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=doas">doas(1)</a>
340: is a little friendlier to use.
1.28 sobrado 341: <li>Updated
1.57 tb 342: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=flex">flex(1)</a>.
343: <li>Forked <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=less">less(1)</a>
344: from upstream, then proceeded to clean it up substantially.
345: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pdisk">pdisk(8)</a>
346: was largely rewritten and pledged.
1.24 krw 347: <li>Renaming files in the root directory of a MSDOS filesystem was fixed.
1.57 tb 348: <li>Many obsolete
349: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab">disktab(5)</a>
350: attributes and entries were removed.
351: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
352: volumes now correctly look for the disklabel in the first OpenBSD disk
353: partition, not the last.
354: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid">softraid(4)</a>
355: volumes can now be partitioned with a GPT.
356: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
357: now creates a default GPT as well as the protective MBR when the '-g'
358: flag is used.
359: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
360: now has a '-b' flag that specifies the size of the EFI System partition
361: to create.
362: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
363: now has a '-v' flag that causes a verbose display of both MBR and GPT
364: information.
365: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
366: now provides full interactive GPT editing.
367: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk">fdisk(8)</a>
368: was pledged.
369: <li>Disks with sector sizes other than 512 bytes can now be partitioned with
370: a GPT.
371: <li>The GPT kernel option was removed and GPT support is part of all GENERIC
372: and GENERIC derived kernels.
373: <li>Many improvements were made to the GPT kernel support to ensure safe and
374: reliable operation of GPT and MBR processing.
375: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel">disklabel(8)</a>
376: no longer supports boot code installation, with the -B and -b flags
377: being removed.
378: The associated fields in the disklabel were also removed.
379: These functions are now all performed by
380: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=installboot">
381: installboot(8)</a>.
1.43 guenther 382: <li>PowerPC converted to secure-PLT ABI variant.
1.57 tb 383: <li>Perform lazy binding updates in
384: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so">ld.so(1)</a>
385: using
386: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbind">kbind(2)</a>
387: to improve security and reduce overhead in threaded processes.
388: <li>Over 100 internal or obsolete interfaces have been deleted or are no
389: longer exported by libc, reducing symbol conflicts and process size.
390: <!-- List stuff? YP and XDR APIs, mpool_*, bcrypt_autorounds, link_addr -->
391: <li>libc now uses local references for most of its own functions to avoid
392: symbol overriding, improve standards compliance, increase speed,
393: and reduce dynamic linking overhead.
394: <li>Handle intra-thread kills via new
395: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=thrkill">thrkill(2)</a>
396: system call to tighten pledge(2) restrictions and improve pthread_kill(3)
397: and pthread_cancel(3) compliance.
398: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwnam_shadow">
399: getpwnam_shadow(3)</a>
400: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getpwuid_shadow">
401: getpwuid_shadow(3)</a>
402: to permit tighter pledge(2) restrictions.
403: <li>Added support to
404: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ktrace">ktrace(1)</a>
405: the arguments to
406: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve">execve(2)</a>
407: and
408: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pledge">pledge(2)</a>.
409: Removed support for tracing context switch points.
410: <tt>kevent</tt> structures are now dumped.
1.46 stsp 411: <li>Disabled support for loading locales other than UTF-8.
412: <li>UTF-8 character locale data has been updated to Unicode 7.0.0.
1.57 tb 413: <li>Added UTF-8 support to several utilities, including
414: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=calendar">calendar(1)</a>,
415: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=colrm">colrm(1)</a>,
416: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cut">cut(1)</a>,
417: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fmt">fmt(1)</a>,
418: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ls">ls(1)</a>,
419: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ps">ps(1)</a>,
420: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rs">rs(1)</a>,
421: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ul">ul(1)</a>,
422: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uniq">uniq(1)</a>,
423: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wc">wc(1)</a>.
1.46 stsp 424: <li>Native language support (NLS) has been removed from libc.
1.57 tb 425: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ddb">ddb(4)</a>
426: now automatically shows a stack trace upon panic.
1.1 deraadt 427: <li>...
428: </ul>
429: <p>
430:
1.57 tb 431: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd">httpd(8)</a>:
1.1 deraadt 432: <ul>
433: <li>...
434: </ul>
435: <p>
436:
1.38 gilles 437: <li>OpenSMTPD 5.9.1
438: <ul>
439: <li>Security:
440: <ul>
441: <li>Both
1.57 tb 442: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd">smtpd(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 443: and
1.57 tb 444: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
1.38 gilles 445: have been pledged.
1.57 tb 446: <li>The offline enqueue mode of
447: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpctl">smtpctl(8)</a>
448: has been redesigned to remove the need for a publicly writable directory
449: which was a vector of multiple attacks in the Qualys Security audit.
1.38 gilles 450: </ul>
451: <li>The following improvements were brought in this release:
452: <ul>
1.57 tb 453: <li>Experimental support for filters API is now available with several
454: filters available in ports.
1.38 gilles 455: <li>Add Message-Id header if necessary.
456: <li>Removed the kick mechanism which was misbehaving.
1.39 tj 457: <li>Increased the length of acceptable headers lines.
1.38 gilles 458: <li>Assume messages are 8-bit bytes by default.
459: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 460: </ul>
461: <p>
462:
1.41 jsg 463: <li>OpenSSH 7.2
1.1 deraadt 464: <ul>
465: <li>Security:
466: <ul>
1.16 sobrado 467: <li>Qualys Security identified vulnerabilities in the
1.57 tb 468: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.18 sobrado 469: client experimental support for resuming SSH-connections (roaming).
1.16 sobrado 470: In the default configuration, this could potentially leak client keys
471: to a hostile server. The authentication of the server host key
472: prevents exploitation by a man-in-the-middle, so this information leak
473: is restricted to connections to malicious or compromised servers.
474: This feature has been disabled in the
1.57 tb 475: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 476: client, and it has been removed from the source tree. The matching
477: server code has never been shipped.
1.57 tb 478: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.16 sobrado 479: OpenSSH 7.0 contained a logic error in
480: <tt>PermitRootLogin=prohibit-password/without-password</tt> that could,
481: depending on compile-time configuration, permit password authentication
482: to root while preventing other forms of authentication.
483: <li>Fix an out of-bound read access in the packet handling code.
1.18 sobrado 484: <li>Further use of
1.57 tb 485: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero">explicit_bzero(3)</a>
1.18 sobrado 486: has been added in various buffer handling code paths to guard against
487: compilers aggressively doing dead-store removal.
1.57 tb 488: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
489: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 490: remove unfinished and unused roaming code.
1.57 tb 491: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 492: eliminate fallback from untrusted X11 forwarding to trusted forwarding
493: when the X server disables the <tt>SECURITY</tt> extension.
1.57 tb 494: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
495: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 496: increase the minimum modulus size supported for
497: <tt>diffie-hellman-group-exchange</tt> to 2048 bits.
498: </ul>
499: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
500: <ul>
501: <li>This release disables a number of legacy cryptographic algorithms
502: by default in
1.57 tb 503: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 504: <ul>
505: <li>Several ciphers: <tt>blowfish-cbc</tt>, <tt>cast128-cbc</tt>,
506: all <tt>arcfour</tt> variants and the <tt>rijndael-cbc</tt> aliases
507: for AES.
508: <li>MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms.
509: </ul>
510: </ul>
511: <li>New/changed features:
512: <ul>
513: <li>all: add support for RSA signatures using SHA-256/512 hash algorithms
514: based on <tt>draft-rsa-dsa-sha2-256-03.txt</tt> and
515: <tt>draft-ssh-ext-info-04.txt</tt>.
1.57 tb 516: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 517: Add an <tt>AddKeysToAgent</tt> client option which can be set to
518: <tt>yes</tt>, <tt>no</tt>, <tt>ask</tt>, or <tt>confirm</tt>, and
519: defaults to <tt>no</tt>. When enabled, a private key that is used
520: during authentication will be added to
1.57 tb 521: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 522: if it is running (with confirmation enabled if set to <tt>confirm</tt>).
1.57 tb 523: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 524: add a new <tt>authorized_keys</tt> option <tt>restrict</tt> that
525: includes all current and future key restrictions
526: (<tt>no-*-forwarding</tt>, etc.).
527: Also add permissive versions of the existing restrictions, e.g.
528: <tt>no-pty</tt> -> <tt>pty</tt>. This simplifies the task of setting up
529: restricted keys and ensures they are maximally-restricted,
530: regardless of any permissions we might implement in the future.
1.57 tb 531: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 532: add
1.57 tb 533: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 534: CertificateFile option to explicitly list certificates. (bz#2436)
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: allow
1.57 tb 537: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>
1.45 sobrado 538: to change the key comment for all supported formats.
1.57 tb 539: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 540: allow fingerprinting from standard input, e.g. "ssh-keygen -lf -".
1.57 tb 541: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 542: allow fingerprinting multiple public keys in a file, e.g.
543: <tt>ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/authorized_keys</tt>. (bz#1319)
1.57 tb 544: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 545: support <tt>none</tt> as an argument for
1.57 tb 546: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>
1.45 sobrado 547: <tt>Foreground</tt> and <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt>. Useful inside
548: <tt>Match</tt> blocks to override a global default. (bz#2486)
1.57 tb 549: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 550: support multiple certificates (one per line) and reading from standard
551: input (using "<tt>-f -</tt>") for <tt>ssh-keygen -L</tt>.
1.57 tb 552: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 553: add <tt>ssh-keyscan -c ...</tt> flag to allow fetching certificates
554: instead of plain keys.
1.57 tb 555: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 556: better handle anchored FQDNs (e.g. <tt>cvs.openbsd.org.</tt>) in
557: hostname canonicalisation - treat them as already canonical and
558: trailing '<tt>.</tt>' before matching
1.57 tb 559: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 560: </ul>
561: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
562: <ul>
1.57 tb 563: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
564: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 565: add compatibility workarounds for FuTTY.
1.57 tb 566: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
567: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.18 sobrado 568: refine compatibility workarounds for WinSCP.
1.16 sobrado 569: <li>Fix a number of memory faults (double-free, free of uninitialised
570: memory, etc) in
1.57 tb 571: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>
1.16 sobrado 572: and
1.57 tb 573: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 574: <li>Correctly interpret the <tt>first_kex_follows</tt> option during the
575: initial key exchange.
1.57 tb 576: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp">sftp(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 577: existing destination directories should not terminate recursive uploads
578: (regression in openssh 6.8). (bz#2528)
1.57 tb 579: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
580: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 581: correctly send back <tt>SSH2_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED</tt> replies to
582: unexpected messages during key exchange. (bz#2949)
1.57 tb 583: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 584: refuse attempts to set <tt>ConnectionAttempts=0</tt>, which does not
585: make sense and would cause ssh to print an uninitialised stack
586: variable. (bz#2500)
1.57 tb 587: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 588: fix errors when attempting to connect to scoped IPv6 addresses with
589: hostname canonicalisation enabled.
1.57 tb 590: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config">sshd_config(5)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 591: list a couple more options usable in <tt>Match</tt> blocks. (bz#2489)
1.57 tb 592: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 593: fix <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +...</tt> inside a <tt>Match</tt> block.
1.57 tb 594: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 595: expand tilde characters in filenames passed to <tt>-i</tt> options
596: before checking whether or not the identity file exists. Avoids
597: confusion for cases where shell doesn't expand (e.g.
598: <tt>-i ~/file</tt> vs. <tt>-i~/file</tt>). (bz#2481)
1.57 tb 599: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 600: do not prepend "exec" to the shell command run by <tt>Match exec</tt>
601: in a config file, which could cause some commands to fail in certain
602: environments. (bz#2471)
1.57 tb 603: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keyscan">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 604: fix output for multiple hosts/addrs on one line when host hashing or
605: a non standard port is in use. (bz#2479)
1.57 tb 606: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 607: skip "Could not chdir to home directory" message when
608: <tt>ChrootDirectory</tt> is active. (bz#2485)
1.57 tb 609: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 610: include <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> in <tt>ssh -G</tt> config dump.
1.57 tb 611: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 612: avoid changing <tt>TunnelForwarding</tt> device flags if they are
613: already what is needed; makes it possible to use
1.57 tb 614: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tun">tun(4)</a>/
615: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tap">tap(4)</a>
1.45 sobrado 616: networking as non-root user if device permissions and interface flags
617: are pre-established.
1.57 tb 618: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
619: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 620: <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> could be exceeded by one packet. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 621: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 622: fix multiplexing master failure to notice client exit.
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=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 625: avoid <tt>fatal()</tt> for PKCS11 tokens that present empty key IDs.
626: (bz#1773)
1.57 tb 627: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 628: avoid
1.57 tb 629: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=printf&sec=3">printf(3)</a>
1.45 sobrado 630: of NULL argument. (bz#2535)
1.57 tb 631: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
632: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 633: allow <tt>RekeyLimits</tt> larger than 4GB. (bz#2521)
1.57 tb 634: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
635: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 636: fix several bugs in (unused) KRL signature support.
1.57 tb 637: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
638: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 639: fix connections with peers that use the key exchange guess feature of
640: the protocol. (bz#2515)
1.57 tb 641: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 642: include remote port number in log messages. (bz#2503)
1.57 tb 643: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 644: don't try to load SSHv1 private key when compiled without SSHv1
645: support. (bz#2505)
1.57 tb 646: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
647: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 648: fix incorrect error messages during key loading and signing errors.
649: (bz#2507)
1.57 tb 650: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-keygen">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 651: don't leave empty temporary files when performing <tt>known_hosts</tt>
652: file edits when <tt>known_hosts</tt> doesn't exist.
1.57 tb 653: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 654: correct packet format for tcpip-forward replies for requests that
655: don't allocate a port. (bz#2509)
1.57 tb 656: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
657: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 658: fix possible hang on closed output. (bz#2469)
1.57 tb 659: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 660: expand <tt>%i</tt> in <tt>ControlPath</tt> to UID. (bz#2449)
1.57 tb 661: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
662: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 663: fix return type of <tt>openssh_RSA_verify</tt>. (bz#2460)
1.57 tb 664: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>,
665: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd">sshd(8)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 666: fix some option parsing memory leaks. (bz#2182)
1.57 tb 667: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 668: add a some debug output before DNS resolution; it's a place where
669: ssh could previously silently stall in cases of unresponsive DNS
670: servers. (bz#2433)
1.57 tb 671: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 672: remove spurious newline in visual hostkey. (bz#2686)
1.57 tb 673: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 674: fix printing (<tt>ssh -G ...</tt>) of <tt>HostKeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.57 tb 675: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh">ssh(1)</a>:
1.45 sobrado 676: fix expansion of <tt>HostkeyAlgorithms=+...</tt>
1.1 deraadt 677: </ul>
678: </ul>
679: <p>
1.17 sobrado 680: <li>LibreSSL 2.3.2
1.1 deraadt 681: <ul>
682: <li>User-visible features:
683: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 684: <li>This release corrects the handling of <tt>ClientHello</tt> messages
685: that do not include TLS extensions, resulting in such handshakes being
686: aborted.
1.39 tj 687: <li>When loading a DSA key from a raw (without DH parameters) ASN.1
1.17 sobrado 688: serialization, perform some consistency checks on its `p' and `q'
689: values, and return an error if the checks failed.
690: <li>Fixed a bug in <tt>ECDH_compute_key</tt> that can lead to silent
691: truncation of the result key without error. A coding error could cause
692: software to use much shorter keys than intended.
693: <li>Removed support for <tt>DTLS_BAD_VER</tt>. Pre-DTLSv1 implementations
694: are no longer supported.
695: <li>The engine command and parameters are removed from
1.57 tb 696: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl">
697: openssl(1)</a>.
1.39 tj 698: Previous releases removed dynamic and built-in engine support already.
1.17 sobrado 699: <li>SHA-0 is removed, which was withdrawn shortly after publication
700: twenty years ago.
701: <li>Added <tt>Certplus CA</tt> root certificate to the default
702: <tt>cert.pem</tt> file.
1.19 sobrado 703: <li>Fixed a leak in
1.57 tb 704: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=SSL_new">
705: SSL_new(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 706: in the error path.
1.28 sobrado 707: <li>Fixed a memory leak and out-of-bounds access in
1.57 tb 708: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=OBJ_nid2obj">
709: OBJ_obj2txt(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 710: <li>Fixed an up-to 7 byte overflow in RC4 when len is not a multiple of
711: <tt>sizeof(RC4_CHUNK)</tt>.
1.19 sobrado 712: <li>Added
1.57 tb 713: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
714: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305_ietf(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 715: which matches the
1.18 sobrado 716: <tt>AEAD</tt> construction introduced in RFC 7539, which is different
717: than that already used in TLS with
1.57 tb 718: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=EVP_AEAD_CTX_init">
719: EVP_aead_chacha20_poly1305(3)</a>.
1.18 sobrado 720: <li>More man pages converted from pod to
1.57 tb 721: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mdoc">mdoc(7)</a>
1.18 sobrado 722: format.
1.17 sobrado 723: <li>Added <tt>COMODO RSA Certification Authority</tt> and
724: <tt>QuoVadis</tt> root certificates to <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
725: <li>Removed Remhve "<tt>C=US, O=VeriSign, Inc., OU=Class 3 Public Primary
726: Certification Authority</tt>"
727: (serial 3c:91:31:cb:1f:f6:d0:1b:0e:9a:b8:d0:44:bf:12:be)
728: root certificate from <tt>cert.pem</tt>.
729: <li>Fixed incorrect TLS certificate loading by
1.57 tb 730: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 731: <li>The following CVEs had been fixed:
732: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 733: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3194</tt>—NULL pointer dereference in client
734: side certificate validation.
735: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3195</tt>—memory leak in PKCS7, not reachable
736: from TLS/SSL.
1.17 sobrado 737: </ul>
738: <li>Note: The following OpenSSL CVEs did not apply to LibreSSL:
739: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 740: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3193</tt>—carry propagating bug in the x86_64
741: Montgomery squaring procedure.
742: <li><tt>CVE-2015-3196</tt>—double free race condition of the
743: identify hint data.
1.17 sobrado 744: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 745: </ul>
746: <li>Code improvements:
747: <ul>
1.17 sobrado 748: <li>Added install target for <tt>cmake</tt> builds.
749: <li>Updated <tt>pkgconfig</tt> files to correctly report the release
750: version number, not the individual library ABI version numbers.
751: <li>SSLv3 is now permanently removed from the tree.
752: <li>The <tt>libtls</tt> API is changed from the 2.2.x series:
753: <ul>
1.28 sobrado 754: <li>The
1.57 tb 755: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
756: tls_read(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 757: and
1.57 tb 758: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
759: tls_write(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 760: functions now work better with external event libraries.
761: <li>Client-side verification is now supported, with the client
762: supplying the certificate to the server.
763: <li>Also, when using
1.57 tb 764: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
765: tls_connect_fds(3)</a>,
766: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
767: tls_connect_socket(3)</a>
1.28 sobrado 768: or
1.57 tb 769: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
770: tls_accept_fds(3)</a>,
1.28 sobrado 771: <tt>libtls</tt> no longer implicitly closes the passed in sockets.
772: The caller is responsible for closing them in this case.
1.17 sobrado 773: </ul>
774: <li>New interface <tt>OPENSSL_cpu_caps</tt> is provided that does not
775: allow software to inadvertently modify cpu capability flags.
776: <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap</tt> and <tt>OPENSSL_ia32cap_loc</tt> are removed.
1.18 sobrado 777: <li>The <tt>out_len</tt> argument of <tt>AEAD</tt> changed from
778: <tt>ssize_t</tt> to <tt>size_t</tt>.
1.17 sobrado 779: <li>Deduplicated DTLS code, sharing bugfixes and improvements with TLS.
780: <li>Converted
1.57 tb 781: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc">nc(1)</a>
1.17 sobrado 782: to use <tt>libtls</tt> for client and server operations; it is
783: included in the libressl-portable distribution as an example of how
784: to use the <tt>libtls</tt> library. This is intended to be a simpler
785: and more robust replacement for <tt>openssl s_client</tt> and
786: <tt>openssl s_server</tt> for day-to-day operations.
787: <li>ASN.1 cleanups and RFC5280 compliance fixes.
788: <li>Time representations switched from <tt>unsigned long</tt> to
789: <tt>time_t</tt>. LibreSSL now checks if the host OS supports 64-bit
790: <tt>time_t</tt>.
791: <li>Support always extracting the peer cipher and version with
792: <tt>libtls</tt>.
793: <li>Added ability to check certificate validity times with
1.19 sobrado 794: <tt>libtls</tt>,
1.57 tb 795: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
796: tls_peer_cert_notbefore(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 797: and
1.57 tb 798: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
799: tls_peer_cert_notafter(3)</a>.
1.19 sobrado 800: <li>Changed
1.57 tb 801: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tls_init">
802: tls_connect_servername(3)</a>
1.19 sobrado 803: to use the first address that resolves with
1.57 tb 804: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getaddrinfo">
805: getaddrinfo(3)</a>.
1.17 sobrado 806: <li>Remove broken conditional <tt>EVP_CHECK_DES_KEY</tt> code
807: (non-functional since initial commit in 2004).
1.19 sobrado 808: <li>Reject too small bits value in
1.57 tb 809: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=BN_generate_prime">
810: BN_generate_prime_ex(3)</a>,
1.17 sobrado 811: so that it does not risk becoming negative in
812: <tt>probable_prime_dh_safe()</tt>.
1.18 sobrado 813: <li>Changed format of <tt>LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt> to match that of
1.17 sobrado 814: <tt>OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt>.
815: <li>Avoid a potential undefined C99+ behavior due to shift overflow in
816: <tt>AES_decrypt</tt>.
817: <li>Deprecated the <tt>SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE</tt> flag.
1.1 deraadt 818: </ul>
819: </ul>
820: <p>
821: <li>Syslogd:
822: <ul>
823: <li>...
824: </ul>
825: <p>
826: <li>Ports and packages:
827: <dl>
828: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.57 tb 829: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 830: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
831: <tr>
832: <td valign="top" width="25%">
833: <ul>
834: <li>alpha: xxxx
1.54 deraadt 835: <li>amd64: 9295
1.63 deraadt 836: <li>hppa: 6304
1.1 deraadt 837: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.54 deraadt 838: <li>i386: 9290
1.1 deraadt 839: <li>mips64: xxxx
840: <li>mips64el: xxxx
841: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
842: <li>powerpc: xxxx
843: <li>sh: xxxx
844: <li>sparc64: xxxx
845: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
846: <li>vax: xxxx
847: </ul></td></tr></table>
848: <p>
849:
1.57 tb 850: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 851: <dt>Some highlights:
1.57 tb 852: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 853: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
854: <tr>
855: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
1.40 sthen 856: <li>Chromium 48.0.2564.116
1.1 deraadt 857: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.5
1.3 jsg 858: <li>GCC 4.9.3
859: <li>GHC 7.10.3
860: <li>GNOME 3.18.2
1.5 sthen 861: <li>Go 1.5.3
1.1 deraadt 862: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.40 sthen 863: <li>JDK 7u80 and 8u72
1.1 deraadt 864: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
865: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
1.3 jsg 866: <li>LibreOffice 5.0.4.2
867: <li>MariaDB 10.0.23
868: <li>Mono 4.2.1.102
1.26 lteo 869: <li>Mozilla Firefox 38.6.1esr and 44.0.2
870: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 38.6.0
1.1 deraadt 871: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
1.22 abieber 872: <li>Node.js 4.3.0
1.3 jsg 873: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.43
1.26 lteo 874: <li>PHP 5.4.45, 5.5.32 and 5.6.18
1.3 jsg 875: <li>Postfix 3.0.3
1.26 lteo 876: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.6
1.3 jsg 877: <li>Python 2.7.11, 3.4.4 and 3.5.1
878: <li>R 3.2.3
879: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.0.0.648, 2.1.8, 2.2.4 and 2.3.0
1.15 lteo 880: <li>Rust 1.6.0
1.1 deraadt 881: <li>Sendmail 8.15.2
1.3 jsg 882: <li>Sudo 1.8.15
1.1 deraadt 883: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
884: <li>TeX Live 2014
1.3 jsg 885: <li>Vim 7.4.900
1.1 deraadt 886: <li>Xfce 4.12
887: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
888: </td></tr></table>
889: <p>
890:
891: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
892: <p>
893:
894: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
895: <ul>
1.3 jsg 896: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.17.4 + patches,
1.8 jsg 897: freetype 2.6.2, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 11.0.9, xterm 322,
1.21 matthieu 898: xkeyboard-config 2.17 and more)
1.1 deraadt 899: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
900: <li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)
1.3 jsg 901: <li>SQLite 3.9.2 (+ patches)
902: <li>NSD 4.1.7
903: <li>Unbound 1.5.7
1.1 deraadt 904: <li>Ncurses 5.7
905: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
906: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
907: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
908: </ul>
909:
910: </ul>
911:
912: <a name="install"></a>
913: <hr>
914: <p>
915: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
916: <p>
917: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
918: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
919: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
920: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
921: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
922: purchased a CDROM instead.
923: <p>
924:
925: <hr>
926: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
927: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.9 on your machine:
928: <p>
929: <ul>
930: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
931: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
932: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386">
933: .../OpenBSD/5.9/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
934: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
935: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
936: <p>
937: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
938: .../OpenBSD/5.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
939: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
940: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
941: <p>
942: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
943: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
944: <p>
945: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
946: .../OpenBSD/5.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
947: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
948: .../OpenBSD/5.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
949: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
950: .../OpenBSD/5.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
951: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
952: .../OpenBSD/5.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
953: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
954: .../OpenBSD/5.9/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
955: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
956: .../OpenBSD/5.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
957: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
958: .../OpenBSD/5.9/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
959: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
960: .../OpenBSD/5.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
961: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
962: .../OpenBSD/5.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
963: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax">
964: .../OpenBSD/5.9/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
965: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
966: .../OpenBSD/5.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
967: </ul>
968: <hr>
969:
970: <p>
971: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
972: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
973: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
974:
975: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 976:
977: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
978: <li>
1.1 deraadt 979: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
980: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
981: your BIOS options first.
982: <p>
1.65 tb 983: <li>
1.1 deraadt 984: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
985: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
986: <p>
1.65 tb 987: <li>
1.1 deraadt 988: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
989: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
990: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
991: <p>
1.65 tb 992: <li>
1.1 deraadt 993: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
994: read INSTALL.i386.
995: </ul>
996:
997: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 998: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
999: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1000: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
1001: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
1002: your BIOS options first.
1003: <p>
1.65 tb 1004: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1005: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install59.fs</i> or
1006: <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1007: <p>
1.65 tb 1008: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1009: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1010: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
1011: INSTALL.amd64 document.
1012: <p>
1.65 tb 1013: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1014: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1015: read INSTALL.amd64.
1016: </ul>
1017:
1018: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1019:
1020: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1021: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1022: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1023: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
1024: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1025: <p>
1.65 tb 1026: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1027: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
1028: /5.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1029: </ul>
1030:
1031: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1032:
1033: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1034: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1035: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1036: <p>
1.65 tb 1037: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1038: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1039: <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppy59.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/floppyB59.fs</i>
1040: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1041: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1042: <p>
1.65 tb 1043: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1044: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1045: will most likely fail.
1046: <p>
1.65 tb 1047: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1048: You can also write <i>CD3:5.9/sparc64/miniroot59.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1049: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1050: <p>
1.65 tb 1051: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1052: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1053: </ul>
1054:
1055: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1056:
1057: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1058: <li>
1059: Write <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppy59.fs</i> or
1.1 deraadt 1060: <i>FTP:5.9/alpha/floppyB59.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1061: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1062: <p>
1.65 tb 1063: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1064: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1065: will most likely fail.
1066: </ul>
1067:
1068: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1069:
1070: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1071: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1072: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
1073: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1074: </ul>
1075:
1076: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1077:
1078: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1079: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1080: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to the start of the CF
1081: or disk, and boot normally.
1082: </ul>
1083:
1084: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1085:
1086: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1087: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1088: Write <i>miniroot59.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
1089: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
1090: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1091: </ul>
1092:
1093: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1094:
1095: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1096: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1097: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1098: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
1099: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1100: </ul>
1101:
1102: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1103:
1104: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1105: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1106: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1107: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
1108: </ul>
1109:
1110: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1111:
1112: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1113: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1114: To install, burn cd59.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
1115: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
1116: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
1117: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
1118: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1119:
1120: <p>
1.65 tb 1121: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1122: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
1123: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
1124: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
1125: </ul>
1126:
1127: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1128:
1129: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1130: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1131: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1132: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
1133: </ul>
1134:
1135: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1136: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1137: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1138: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1139: </ul>
1140:
1141: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1142:
1143: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
1144: <li>
1.1 deraadt 1145: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
1146: openbsd59_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
1147: for a few important details.
1148: </ul>
1149:
1150: <a name="upgrade"></a>
1151: <hr>
1.65 tb 1152:
1.1 deraadt 1153: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
1.65 tb 1154:
1.6 tj 1155: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 1156: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
1157: <a href="faq/upgrade59.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1158:
1159: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
1160: <hr>
1161: <p>
1162: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
1163: <p>
1164: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
1165: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
1166: in a separate archive. To extract:
1167: <p>
1.58 tb 1168: <blockquote><pre>
1169: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
1170: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1171: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
1172: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1173: <p>
1174: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
1175: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
1176: To extract:
1177: <p>
1.58 tb 1178: <blockquote><pre>
1179: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
1180: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1181: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
1182: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1183: <p>
1184: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
1185: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
1186: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
1187: Using these files
1188: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
1189: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1190: <p>
1191:
1192: <a name="ports"></a>
1193: <hr>
1194: <p>
1195: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
1196: <p>
1197: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1198: <p>
1.58 tb 1199: <blockquote><pre>
1200: # <b>cd /usr</b>
1201: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
1202: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1203: <p>
1204: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1205: if you know nothing about ports
1206: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1207: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1208: OpenBSD ports system.
1209: <p>
1210: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.58 tb 1211: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs">
1.1 deraadt 1212: cvs(1)</a> if
1213: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1214: source tree, our ports tree is available via
1215: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1216: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
1217: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1218: with a command like:
1219: <p>
1.58 tb 1220: <blockquote><pre>
1221: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
1222: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_9</b>
1223: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 1224: <p>
1225: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1226: server.]
1227: <p>
1228: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1229: ports for the 5.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
1230: <p>
1231: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1232: would like to know more, the mailing list
1233: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1234: <p>
1235: </body>
1236: </html>
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