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1.1 deraadt 23: Released October 15, 2017<br>
24: Copyright 1997-2017, Theo de Raadt.<br>
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27: 6.2 Song:
1.50 deraadt 28: <a href="lyrics.html#62">coming in December</a>.
1.1 deraadt 29:
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31: <ul>
32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
33: a list of mirror machines.
34: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/6.2/</font> directory on
35: one of the mirror sites.
36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata62.html">the 6.2 errata page</a> for a list
37: of bugs and workarounds.
38: <li>See a <a href="plus62.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
39: 6.1 and 6.2 releases.
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41: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
42: pubkeys for this release:<br>
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56:
57: <h3 id="new"><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
58:
59: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.2.
60: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus62.html">changelog</a> leading
61: to 6.2.
62:
63: <ul>
64:
65: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
66: <ul>
1.12 stsp 67: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkgrf.4">rkgrf(4)</a> driver for the Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 register file.
68: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkclock.4">rkclock(4)</a> driver for Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 clocks.
69: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkpinctrl.4">rkpinctrl(4)</a> driver for controlling Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 pins.
70: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkpgpio.4">rkpgpio(4)</a> driver for Rockchip RK3399 GPIO.
71: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkgtemp.4">rkptemp(4)</a> driver for Rockchip RK3399 temperature sensors.
72: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkiic.4">rkiic(4)</a> driver for Rockchip RK3399 I2C controllers.
73: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkpmic.4">rkpmic(4)</a> driver for the RK808 Power Management IC.
74: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwmmc.4">dwmmc(4)</a> driver for Synopsis Designware SD/MMC controllers.
75: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwdog.4">dwdog(4)</a> driver for the Synopsys Designware watchdog timer.
76: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwxe.4">dwxe(4)</a> driver for the Synopsys Designware Ethernet controller.
1.38 jca 77: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxitwi.4">sxitwi(4)</a> driver for the two-wire bus on Allwinner SoCs.
1.12 stsp 78: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/axppmic.4">axppmic(4)</a> driver for the AXP209 I2C PMIC.
79: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bcmaux.4">bcmaux(4)</a> driver for clocks and interrupts on the auxilliary UART on BCM2835 devices.
80: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvpinctrl.4">mvpinctrl(4)</a> driver to configure pins on Marvell SoCs (Armada 388).
81: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvneta.4">mvneta(4)</a> driver the Ethernet controller on the Armada 38x series.
1.17 ians 82: <li>arm: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amdisplay.4">amdisplay(4) & nxphdmi(4)</a> drivers for the Texas Instruments AM335x LCD controller.
1.43 visa 83: <li>octeon: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octeon/octcib.4">octcib(4)</a> driver for the interrupt bus widget on CN70xx/CN71xx.
84: <li>octeon: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octeon/octcit.4">octcit(4)</a> driver for the central interrupt unit version 3 on CN72xx/CN73xx/CN77xx/CN78xx.
1.5 stsp 85: <li>octeon: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octeon/octsctl.4">octsctl(4)</a> driver for the OCTEON SATA controller bridge.
86: <li>octeon: New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octeon/octxctl.4">octxctl(4)</a> driver for the OCTEON USB3 controller bridge.
1.48 visa 87: <li>octeon: Rhino Labs Inc. SDNA Shasta, and Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter 4 and 6 are now supported.
1.5 stsp 88: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hvs.4">hvs(4)</a> driver for Hyper-V storage.
89: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcxrtc.4">pcxrtc(4)</a> driver for the NXP PCF8563 Real Time Clock.
90: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/urng.4">urng(4)</a> driver for USB random number generator devices.
91: <li>Intel 8265 and 3168 support was added to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> driver.
92: <li>RTL8192CE support was added to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a> driver.
93: <li>RT5360 support was added to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ral.4">ral(4)</a> driver.
94: <li>RTS525A support was added to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtsx.4">rtsx(4)</a> driver.
95: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpibat.4">acpibat(4)</a> driver now supports _BIX entries from ACPI 4.0.
96: <li>ACPI hibernate support was added to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nvme.4">nvme(4)</a> driver.
97: <li>Substantially improved ACPI hibernate performance in the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ahci.4">ahci(4)</a> driver.
1.16 mikeb 98: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a> driver was updated to code based on Linux 4.4.70. It now supports Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Cherryview devices and has better support for Broadwell and Valleyview devices.
1.28 sthen 99: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/puc.4">puc(4)</a> driver now supports ASIX AX99100 devices.
1.16 mikeb 100: <li>Xen platform support and the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xbf.4">xbf(4)</a> driver in particular have been substantially improved.
1.42 krw 101: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nvme.4">nvme(4)</a> driver now reports correct last sector address to scsi, allowing valid GPT to be created.
1.53 deraadt 102: <li>Repair ioapic(8) misconfigurations.
1.1 deraadt 103: </ul>
104:
105: <p>
1.36 pd 106: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>/
107: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
1.1 deraadt 108: <ul>
1.46 mlarkin 109: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a> supports paused VM migration and memory snapshotting using send and receive commands.
110: <li>VPID/ASID reuse/rollover in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>.
111: <li>SGABIOS imported as an option ROM payload in SeaBIOS (for VGA to serial console redirection.)
112: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> resets the guest VM RTC (real time clock) on host resume from suspend/hibernate (OpenBSD guests only.)
113: <li>Allow guest VMs access to AVX/AVX2 host CPU features
114: <li>Support for AMD SVM/RVI hosts
115: <li>Allow larger guest VM memory sizes (up to MAXDSIZ sized guests - eg, 32GB on amd64 hosts)
116: <li>Better handling of guest VM MONITOR/MWAIT and HLT instructions
117: <li>Various device emulation improvements in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>.
118: <li>Increase the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/virtio.4">virtio(4)</a> queue size provided by <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> from 64 to 128 entries, to increase performance.
119: <li>Many fixes to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> error handling.
1.1 deraadt 120: </ul>
121: <p>
122:
123: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
124: <ul>
1.8 stsp 125: <li>MiRA 802.11n TX rate scaling now supports devices with unequal numbers of Tx and Rx streams. Fixes 11n mode for some <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/athn.8">athn(8)</a> devices.
126: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwn.8">iwn(8)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.8">iwm(8)</a> drivers will now start scanning for a new access point if they no longer receive beacons from their current AP.
127: <li>Prefer the 5GHz band over the 2GHz band during access point selection.
128: <li>Improved debug output in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dmesg.8">dmesg(8)</a> when a wireless interface is put into debug mode with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 129: </ul>
130: <p>
131:
132: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
133: <ul>
1.20 mpi 134: <li> Incoming and forwarded IP packets are now processed without
135: KERNEL_LOCK, resulting in better performances and reduced latency
1.4 florian 136: <li> The kernel no longer handles IPv6 Stateless Address
137: Autoconfiguration (RFC 4862), allowing cleanup and simplification
138: of the IPv6 network stack.
139: <li> The kernel sends IPv6 router solicitations for link local addresses
140: with a link local source address.
1.16 mikeb 141: <li> FQ-CoDel algorithm has been implemented for use with <a
142: href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf#QUEUEING">pf(4) queueing</a>.
1.31 bluhm 143: <li>Improve IPv6 checks for IPsec policies and make them consistent
144: with IPv4.
145: <li>Refactor local IP delivery to process IPsec packets in a flow.
146: Avoid that they are enqueued a second time.
147: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>
148: looks into AH packets and matches on the inner protocol.
149: This makes IPv4 authentication headers work like IPv6.
150: <li>The length of extension header chains in pf(4) is limited.
151: This prevents spending excessive cpu time on crafted packets.
152: <li>Block IPv6 packets in pf(4) that have hop-by-hop options
153: header or destination options header.
154: Such packets can be passed by adding "allow-opts" to the
155: rule.
156: So IPv6 options are handled like their counterpart in IPv4
157: now.
1.38 jca 158: <li>If the IPv4 ID gets reused too fast, pf(4) fragment reassembly
1.31 bluhm 159: uses a smarter strategy to drop packets.
1.52 dlg 160: <li>Enable the use of per-CPU caches on the network packet allocators
1.1 deraadt 161: </ul>
162: <p>
163:
164: <li>Installer improvements:
165: <ul>
1.4 florian 166: <li> The installer now uses the Allotment Routing Table (ART).
1.7 rpe 167: <li> A unique kernel is now created by the installer to boot from after install/upgrade.
168: <li> On release installs of architectures supported by syspatch "syspatch -c" is added to rc.firsttime.
169: <li> Backwards compatibility code to support the 'rtsol' keyword in hostname.if(5) has been removed.
170: <li> The install.site and upgrade.site scripts are now executed at the end of the install/upgrade process.
171: <li> More detailed information is shown to identify disks.
172: <li> The IPv6 default router selection has been fixed.
1.45 tb 173: <li> On the amd64 platform, the AES-NI is used if present.
1.1 deraadt 174: </ul>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
178: <ul>
1.4 florian 179: <li> A new daemon, <a
1.31 bluhm 180: href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> handles IPv6
1.4 florian 181: Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (RFC 4862).
1.31 bluhm 182: <li> <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtadvd.8">rtadvd(8)</a> now supports
1.4 florian 183: "Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements" (RFC 7772).
1.37 jca 184: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtadvd.8">rtadvd(8)</a> has
185: been fixed to quickly handle IPv6 prefixes changes on the system.
1.31 bluhm 186: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipsecctl.8">ipsecctl(8)</a>
187: can show SA bundles now.
188: The keyword "bundle" allows to create them explicitly.
189: This avoids confusion as they were used implicitly before.
190: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nc.1">nc(1)</a>
191: has got the option -W "recvlimit" to terminate netcat after
192: receiving a number of packets.
193: This allows to send a UDP request, receive a reply and check
194: the result on the command line.
195: <li>Fix a bunch of races in
196: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>
197: expecially in HTTP chunked mode.
1.37 jca 198: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ndp.8">ndp(8)</a> shows the
199: relevant NDP information when run in a non-default routing
200: domain.
1.40 jca 201: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifstated.8">ifstated(8)</a> now
202: copes with interface departures/arrivals.
1.51 benno 203: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> can now
204: be started multiple times in different
205: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rdomain.4">routing domains</a>,
206: this provides virtual router functionality.
1.1 deraadt 207: </ul>
208: <p>
209:
210: <li>Security improvements:
211: <ul>
1.9 otto 212: <li>A new function
213: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/freezero.3">freezero(3)</a>
214: to easily clear and free memory holding sensitive data has been added.
215: <li>Double free detection has been improved when the F
216: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a> option is used.
217: The existing S option now includes F.
1.24 anton 218: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tty.4#TIOCSTI">TIOCSTI</a>
1.19 deraadt 219: tty ioctl has been removed. The I/O-loops in the last two consumers
1.24 anton 220: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/csh.1">csh(1)</a> and
221: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mail.1">mail(1)</a>
1.19 deraadt 222: were rewritten to cope with the removal.
1.29 brynet 223: <li>Trapsleds, a new mitigation that significantly reduces the amount of
1.53 deraadt 224: nops in the instruction stream, replacing them with trap instructions
225: or jump-over-trap sequences, thereby requiring greater accuracy for
226: targetting potential gadgets.
1.29 brynet 227: <li>Kernel Address Randomized Link (KARL), a new "link-kit" allows the .o
228: files of the kernel to be relinked in a random order, creating a unique
1.53 deraadt 229: kernel for each boot. /bsd is now non-readable to users, to try to
230: keep the secret.
1.29 brynet 231: <li>Like with libc previously,
232: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.8">rc(8)</a> re-links libcrypto on
233: startup, placing the objects in a random order.
234: <li>In addition to libcrypto, to deter code reuse exploits,
235: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.8">rc(8)</a> re-links
236: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ld.so.1">ld.so</a> on
237: startup, placing the objects in a random order.
1.31 bluhm 238: <li>If process accounting is activated with
239: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/accton.8">accton(8)</a>,
240: the daily mail shows pledge violations and program crashes.
241: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lastcomm.8">lastcomm(8)</a>
242: uses the flags P and T for such processes.
1.34 brynet 243: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pflogd.8">pflogd(8)</a> uses the
244: fork+exec model.
245: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a> uses the
246: fork+exec model.
1.39 jca 247: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifstated.8">ifstated(8)</a>
248: uses <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
249: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a> and
250: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpctl(8)</a> now use
251: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
1.45 tb 252: <li>Tighter pledge for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/at.1">at(1)</a>.
253: <li>Fixed and simplified pledge logic for
254: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nc.1">nc(1)</a>.
1.53 deraadt 255: <li>More application of recallocarray(3) in userland, and tracked sizes
256: to free(9) in the kernel.
257: <li>Achieve higher levels of paranoia regarding structure packing, and
258: clear many kernel objects before passing to userland.
259: <li>Disable some optimizations in clang(1) due to incompatibility
260: with security.
261: <li>For instance, cope with clang(1)'s assumption that static or const
262: objects placed in unknown sections (such as .openbsd.randomdata)
263: are surely always 0, and therefore such memory accesses can be
264: optimized away..
265: <li>In kernel, randomly bias down the top-of-stack per kthread.
1.1 deraadt 266: </ul>
267: <p>
268:
1.32 krw 269: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a>/
1.1 deraadt 270: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcrelay.8">dhcrelay(8)</a> improvements:
271: <ul>
1.32 krw 272: <li>Add support for echo-client-id statement to
1.35 krw 273: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a>.
274: <li>Take greater care to process all data read, and only data read, from the
275: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bpf.4">bpf(4)</a>
276: socket.
277: <li>Use /dev/bpf instead of /dev/bpf0.
278: <li>Handle DHCPINFORM messages from clients behind a DHCP relay.
279: <li>Fix handling of
280: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/carp.4">carp(4)</a>
281: interfaces in
282: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcrelay.8">dhcrelay(8)</a>.
283: <li>Don't stop
284: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcrelay.8">dhcrelay(8)</a>
285: logging to stderr when it is started with the -d option.
1.32 krw 286: </ul>
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a> improvements:
290: <ul>
291: <li>Log messages reworked and clarified, in particular by prefixing
292: the name of the relevant network interface.
293: <li>Treat SSID as 0 to 32 bytes of binary data, not a string.
294: <li>Use RTM_PROPOSAL to take control of an interface rather than flipping
295: interface down and up in the hope that other
296: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
297: instances notice.
298: <li>Reduce file operations needed by -L option by opening file at
299: startup and using it throughout process lifetime.
300: <li>Improve <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>
301: handling by reducing writes and more reliably determining which interface
302: has the current default route.
303: <li>Take greater care to process all data read, and only data read, from the
304: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bpf.4">bpf(4)</a>
305: socket.
306: <li>Improve the determination of the link state of an interface.
307: <li>Decline inappropriate lease offers as soon as they are deemed
308: inappropriate.
309: <li>Drop support for the timestamp formats used in lease files created
310: more than four years ago.
311: <li>Accept an offer from the server that sent the first copy of
312: the offer, not the server that sent the last copy.
313: <li>Don't delete addresses and routes when exiting.
314: <li>Ensure IPv6 packets are not read from sockets.
315: <li>Don't silently ignore obsolete keywords in
316: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a>
317: <li>Reduce memory footprint by shrinking oversized static buffers.
318: <li>Eliminate repeated socket opens by opening the required sockets during
319: startup.
320: <li>Fix construction of unicast UDP packets, broken in 5.6.
321: <li>Improve determination of when a renewed lease requires interface
322: configuration changes.
323: <li>Don't exit when addresses are manually added or deleted from an
324: interface.
325: <li>Don't support option 33, classfull IP addresses.
326: <li>Fix configuration of default routes supplied by classless route options.
327: <li>Consider
328: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a>
329: contents when determining what MTU value to configure.
330: <li>Consider
331: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.conf.5">dhclient.conf(5)</a>
332: contents when creating the content of
333: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>.
334: <li>Delete direct routes when routes are flushed.
335: <li>Don't label routes with "DHCLIENT nnnn".
336: <li>Don't delete addresses or routes that will be immediately added back.
337: <li>Delete addresses and routes only when a renewal request is NAK'ed.
338: <li>Don't wait forever for requested information on the default route.
339: <li>Don't exit when an attempt to send a packet fails.
340: <li>Don't log a packet send when the send fails.
341: <li>Remove the -u option, broken since 2013 without complaints.
1.35 krw 342: <li>Use /dev/bpf instead of /dev/bpf0.
1.1 deraadt 343: </ul>
344: <p>
345:
346: <li>Assorted improvements:
347: <ul>
1.53 deraadt 348: <li>The <a href="https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html">i386</a> and
349: <a href="https://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">amd64</a>
350: platforms have switched to using
351: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang-local.1">clang(1)</a>
352: as the base system compiler.
1.14 anton 353: <li>Improved UTF-8 line editing support for
1.24 anton 354: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
1.14 anton 355: Emacs and Vi input mode.
1.22 tb 356: <li>The HISTFILE of <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now uses
357: a plain text format. Support for the
358: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh#HISTCONTROL">HISTCONTROL</a>
359: environment variable was added.
1.37 jca 360: <li>The performance of the memory deallocator used by
361: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> has been fixed.
362: <li>The <tt>emacs-usemeta</tt> <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
363: flag is no longer needed and is now deprecated.
1.41 schwarze 364: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/futex">futex(2)</a> syscall.
365: <li>New pthread
366: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pthread_mutex_init">mutex</a> and
367: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pthread_cond_init">condition
368: variable</a> implementations improving latency
369: of threaded applications.
370: <li>New POSIX <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/newlocale.3">xlocale</a>
371: implementation written from scratch, complete in the sense that
372: all POSIX *locale(3) and *_l(3) functions are included, but in
373: OpenBSD, we of course only really care about <code>LC_CTYPE</code>
374: and we only support ASCII and UTF-8.
1.44 mpi 375: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ctfdump">ctfdump(1)</a> and
376: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ctfconv">ctfconv(1)</a>
1.41 schwarze 377: tools to manipulate CTF (Compact C Type Format).
1.31 bluhm 378: <li>The error handling in
379: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syslogd.8">syslogd(8)</a>
380: has been improved.
1.38 jca 381: Even if internal errors occur, the daemon tries to keep
1.31 bluhm 382: unaffected subsystems active.
383: So as many messages as possible are logged.
384: They can be filtered by severity and facility "syslog".
385: <li>syslogd(8) can now suppress "last message repeated" which is
386: useful for remote logging.
387: <li>syslogd(8) can listen on multiple TLS sockets.
388: <li>syslogd(8) closes the *.514 UDP sockets when they are not
389: needed.
1.54 bluhm 390: <li>Truncate log messages at 8192 bytes everywhere.
1.37 jca 391: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/newsyslog.8">newsyslog(8)</a>
392: now skips and logs invalid config lines.
1.31 bluhm 393: <li>Nested mount points are umounted in correct order.
1.33 krw 394: <li>Fix creation of
395: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>
396: CONCAT volumes.
397: <li>Include
398: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>
399: volume and backing disk information in i/o error messages.
400: <li>Make
401: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vioscsi.4">vioscsi(4)</a>
402: a normal
403: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scsi.4">scsi(4)</a>
404: device by eliminating its use of the obsolete XS_NO_CCB mechanism.
1.38 jca 405: <li>Remove last vestiges of now unused XS_NO_CCB mechanism.
1.43 visa 406: <li>Userspace can now get the address of the thread control block
407: without a system call on OCTEON II and later.
408: <li>FPU is enabled on OCTEON III.
1.44 mpi 409: <li>GENERIC kernels now include a .SUNW_ctf section containing CTF data
410: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a> <tt>kill</tt>
411: command, send an uncatchable SIGABRT to a process.
412: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a> <tt>pprint</tt>
413: command, using CTF information to "pretty print" global symbols.
414: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a>
415: <tt>show struct</tt> command, using CTF information to display the content
416: of in memory C structures.
417: <li>x86: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a> uses CTF data
418: to display the correct number of function arguments in backtraces
1.45 tb 419: <li>Power off all codecs in
420: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/azalia.4">azalia(4)</a> to avoid static
421: noise in speakers and headphones on reboot.
1.46 mlarkin 422: <li>Fix i386 boot regression seen on very old 486DX CPUs.
1.49 visa 423: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/witness.4">witness(4)</a> tool
424: for debugging lock order issues in the kernel.
425: The tool is not built in by default, and only amd64, hppa and i386
426: are supported.
1.53 deraadt 427: <li>Modernize some bizzare tty behaviours of getty(8).
428: <li>Some subtle changes to pledge(2) to satisfy requirements observed
429: in real life.
430: <li>Prefer use of waitpid(2) rather than wait(3) where possible, to
431: avoid problems with pre-existing children.
432: <li>Rewrite swaths of machine-dependent system call stub code in ld.so(1)
433: in a more portable fashion.
1.52 dlg 434: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pool_cache_init.9">Per-CPU
435: caches</a> implemented in pools
1.46 mlarkin 436: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 437: <p>
438:
439: <li>OpenSMTPD X.X.X
440: <ul>
441: <li>...
442: </ul>
443: <p>
444:
445: <li>OpenSSH 7.X
446: <ul>
447: <li>Security:
448: <ul>
449: <li>...
450: </ul>
451: <li>New/changed features:
452: <ul>
1.31 bluhm 453: <li>Add RemoteCommand option to specify a command in the
454: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
455: config file instead of giving it on the client's command
456: line.
457: The feature allows to automate tasks using ssh config.
1.1 deraadt 458: <li>...
459: </ul>
460: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
461: <ul>
462: <li>...
463: </ul>
464: </ul>
465: <p>
466:
467: <li>LibreSSL X.X.X
468: <ul>
469: <li>...
470: </ul>
471: <p>
472:
1.41 schwarze 473: <li>mandoc 1.14.3
1.1 deraadt 474: <ul>
1.41 schwarze 475: <li>Full <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandocdb.5">mandoc.db(5)</a>
476: databases are now enabled by default, allowing semantic searching
477: with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/apropos.1">apropos(1)</a>
478: without any local configuration changes.
479: <li>Full integration of the former
480: <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/regress/usr.bin/mdoclint/">mdoclint(1)</a>
481: utility into <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>
482: <code>-Wall</code>, new <code>-Wstyle</code> and
483: <code>-Wopenbsd</code> message levels, and many new messages,
484: for example about typos in <code>.Sh</code> lines,
485: unknown <code>.Xr</code> targets, and links to self.
486: <li>Additional steps unifying the
487: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a>,
488: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man.7">man(7)</a>, and
489: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a> parsers:
490: use one common data type and
491: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ohash_init.3">ohash_init(3)</a>
492: for all requests and macros and support creation of syntax tree
493: nodes in the roff(7) parser, allowing support for many new
494: low-level roff(7) features.
495: Only about 25 ports still need <code>USE_GROFF</code> now.
496: <li>Many improvements to
497: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tbl.7">tbl(7)</a>
498: parsing and formatting,
499: including automatic line wrapping inside table columns.
500: <li>Many improvements to
501: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/eqn.7">eqn(7)</a>
502: parsing and formatting, including better font selection,
503: recognition of well-known mathematical function names, and writing
504: of <code><mn></code> and <code><mo></code> HTML tags.
505: <li>Intelligible rendering of mathematical symbols in
506: <code>-Tascii</code> output.
507: <li>Several parsing and rendering improvements for the
508: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a>
509: <code>.Lk</code> macro.
510: <li>Some CSS improvements in HTML output, in particular for the
511: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a>
512: <code>.Bl</code> macro.
1.1 deraadt 513: </ul>
514: <p>
515:
516: <li>Ports and packages:
517: <dl>
1.10 espie 518: <dt>A massive amount of clang-related fixes happened between 6.1 and 6.2.
1.1 deraadt 519: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
520: </dl>
521: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
522: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
523: <tr>
524: <td valign="top" width="25%">
525: <ul>
526: <li>alpha: XXXX
1.53 deraadt 527: <li>amd64: 9728
1.1 deraadt 528: <li>arm: XXXX
529: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
530: <li>hppa: XXXX
1.53 deraadt 531: <li>i386: 9285
1.1 deraadt 532: <li>mips64: XXXX
533: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
534: <li>mips64el: XXXX
535: <li>powerpc: XXXX
536: <li>sparc64: XXXX
537: </ul></td></tr></table>
538: <p>
539:
540: <dl>
541: <dt>Some highlights:
542: </dl>
543: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
544: <tr>
545: <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul>
1.3 jasper 546: <li>AFL 2.51b
1.47 dcoppa 547: <li>CMake 3.9.3
1.3 jasper 548: <li>Chromium 61.0.3163.100
549: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 25.3
1.1 deraadt 550: <li>GCC 4.9.4
551: <li>GHC 7.10.3
1.3 jasper 552: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
553: <li>GNOME 3.24.2
554: <li>Go 1.9
1.1 deraadt 555: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.3 jasper 556: <li>JDK 8u144
1.18 lteo 557: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
1.3 jasper 558: <li>LLVM/Clang 5.0.0
559: <li>LibreOffice 5.2.7.2
1.1 deraadt 560: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4, and 5.3.4
1.3 jasper 561: <li>MariaDB 10.0.32
562: <li>Mozilla Firefox 52.4.0esr and 56.0.0
563: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 52.2.1
1.1 deraadt 564: </ul></td><td valign=top width="50%"><ul>
1.3 jasper 565: <li>Mutt 1.9.1 and NeoMutt 20170912
566: <li>Node.js 6.11.2
1.1 deraadt 567: <li>Ocaml 4.03.0
1.3 jasper 568: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.45
1.18 lteo 569: <li>PHP 5.6.31 and 7.0.23
1.3 jasper 570: <li>Postfix 3.2.2 and 3.3-20170910
571: <li>PostgreSQL 9.6.5
572: <li>Python 2.7.14 and 3.6.2
573: <li>R 3.4.1
574: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.1.9, 2.2.8, 2.3.5 and 2.4.2
575: <li>Rust 1.20.0
576: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.21
577: <li>SQLite3 3.20.1
578: <li>Sudo 1.8.21.2
579: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.6
580: <li>TeX Live 2016
581: <li>Vim 8.0.0987
1.1 deraadt 582: <li>Xfce 4.12
583: </ul></td></tr></table>
584: <p>
585:
586: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
587: <p>
588:
589: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
590: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 591: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.18.4 + patches,
592: freetype 2.8.0, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 330,
1.1 deraadt 593: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
594: <li>LLVM/Clang 4.0.0 (+ patches)
595: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.18 lteo 596: <li>Perl 5.24.2 (+ patches)
1.2 florian 597: <li>NSD 4.1.17
598: <li>Unbound 1.6.6
1.1 deraadt 599: <li>Ncurses 5.7
600: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
601: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
602: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.31 bluhm 603: <li>Expat 2.2.4
1.1 deraadt 604: </ul>
605: </ul>
606:
607: <hr>
608:
609: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
610:
611: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
612: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.2 on your machine:
613:
614: <ul>
615: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
616: .../OpenBSD/6.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
617: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
618: .../OpenBSD/6.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
619: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
620: .../OpenBSD/6.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
621: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
622: .../OpenBSD/6.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
623: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
624: .../OpenBSD/6.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
625: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/i386/INSTALL.i386">
626: .../OpenBSD/6.2/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
627: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
628: .../OpenBSD/6.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
629: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
630: .../OpenBSD/6.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
631: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
632: .../OpenBSD/6.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
633: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
634: .../OpenBSD/6.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
635: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
636: .../OpenBSD/6.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
637: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
638: .../OpenBSD/6.2/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
639: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
640: .../OpenBSD/6.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
641: </ul>
642:
643: <hr>
644:
645: <p>
646: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
647: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
648: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
649: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
650:
651: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
652:
653: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
654: <li>
655: Write <i>floppy62.fs</i> or <i>floppyB62.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
656: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
657: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
658: <p>
659: <li>
660: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
661: will most likely fail.
662: </ul>
663:
664: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
665:
666: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
667: <li>
668: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install62.iso</i> or
669: <i>cd62.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
670: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
671: <p>
672: <li>
673: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install62.fs</i> or
674: <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
675: <p>
676: <li>
677: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
678: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
679: INSTALL.amd64 document.
680: <p>
681: <li>
682: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
683: read INSTALL.amd64.
684: </ul>
685:
686: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arm64:</font></h3>
687:
688: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
689: <li>
690: Write <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
691: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
692: <p>
693: </ul>
694:
695: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7:</font></h3>
696:
697: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
698: <li>
699: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
700: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
701: <p>
702: </ul>
703:
704: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
705:
706: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
707: <li>
708: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
709: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
710: </ul>
711:
712: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
713:
714: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
715: <li>
716: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install62.iso</i> or
717: <i>cd62.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
718: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
719: <p>
720: <li>
721: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install62.fs</i> or
722: <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
723: <p>
724: <li>
725: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
726: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
727: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
728: <p>
729: <li>
730: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
731: read INSTALL.i386.
732: </ul>
733:
734: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
735:
736: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
737: <li>
738: Write <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to the start of the CF
739: or disk, and boot normally.
740: </ul>
741:
742: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
743:
744: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
745: <li>
746: Write <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
747: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
748: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
749: </ul>
750:
751: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
752:
753: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
754: <li>
755: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
756: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
757: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
758: </ul>
759:
760: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
761:
762: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
763: <li>
764: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
765: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
766: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
767: <p>
768: <li>
769: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
770: /6.2/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
771: </ul>
772:
773: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
774:
775: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
776: <li>
777: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
778: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
779: </ul>
780:
781: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
782:
783: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
784: <li>
785: To install, burn cd62.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
786: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
787: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
788: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
789: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
790:
791: <p>
792: <li>
793: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
794: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
795: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
796: </ul>
797:
798: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
799:
800: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
801: <li>
802: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
803: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
804: <p>
805: <li>
806: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
807: <i>floppy62.fs</i> or <i>floppyB62.fs</i>
808: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
809: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
810: <p>
811: <li>
812: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
813: will most likely fail.
814: <p>
815: <li>
816: You can also write <i>miniroot62.fs</i> to the swap partition on
817: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
818: <p>
819: <li>
820: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
821: </ul>
822:
823: <hr>
824:
825: <h3 id="upgrade"><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
826:
827: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.1 system, and do not want to reinstall,
828: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
829: <a href="faq/upgrade62.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
830: <p>
831:
832: <hr>
833:
834: <h3 id="sourcecode"><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
835:
836: <tt>src.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src</tt>.
837: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
838: which are in a separate archive.
839: To extract:
840:
841: <blockquote><pre>
842: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
843: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
844: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
845: </pre></blockquote>
846:
847: <tt>sys.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src/sys</tt>.
848: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
849: To extract:
850:
851: <blockquote><pre>
852: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
853: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
854: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
855: </pre></blockquote>
856:
857: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
858: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
859: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
860: Using these files
861: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
862: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
863: <p>
864:
865: <hr>
866:
867: <h3 id="ports"><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
868:
869: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
870:
871: <blockquote><pre>
872: # <b>cd /usr</b>
873: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
874: </pre></blockquote>
875:
876: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
877: if you know nothing about ports
878: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
879: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
880: OpenBSD ports system.
881: <p>
882: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
883: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
884: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
885: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
886: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
887: with a command like:
888:
889: <blockquote><pre>
890: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
1.15 phessler 891: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_2</b>
1.1 deraadt 892: </pre></blockquote>
893:
894: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
895: server.]
896: <p>
897: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
898: ports for the 6.2 release will be made available if problems arise.
899: <p>
900: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
901: would like to know more, the mailing list
902: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
903: <p>
904: </body>
905: </html>