=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/60.html,v retrieving revision 1.35 retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -r1.35 -r1.36 --- www/60.html 2016/07/27 13:51:01 1.35 +++ www/60.html 2016/07/30 23:37:40 1.36 @@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED and it is located on a filesystem mounted with the wxallowed mount(8) option. + Because there are still too many ports which violate W^X, the + installer mounts the /usr/local filesystem with + wxallowed. This allows the base system to be more + secure as long as /usr/local is a seperate filesystem. + If you use no W^X violating programs, consider manually + revoking that option.
  • The setjmp(3) family of functions now apply XOR cookies to stack and return-address values in the jmpbuf on amd64, hppa, i386, mips64, and powerpc.