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1.94 deraadt 24: Released Oct 18, 2018<br>
1.1 benno 25: Copyright 1997-2018, Theo de Raadt.<br>
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1.103 job 28: Artwork by Aston Fenby.<br>
1.1 benno 29: <ul>
30: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
31: a list of mirror machines.
1.105 ! bentley 32: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/6.4/</code> directory on
1.1 benno 33: one of the mirror sites.
34: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata64.html">the 6.4 errata page</a> for a list
35: of bugs and workarounds.
36: <li>See a <a href="plus64.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
37: 6.3 and 6.4 releases.
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39: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
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59: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
60: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
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! 67: <h3>What's New</h3>
1.1 benno 68:
1.105 ! bentley 69: <p>
1.1 benno 70: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.4.
1.93 deraadt 71: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus64.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1 benno 72: to 6.4.
73:
74: <ul>
75:
76: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
77: <ul>
1.35 kettenis 78: <li>ACPI support on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.40 jsg 79: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
1.77 tj 80: driver was updated to code based on Linux 4.4.155, adding modesetting
1.40 jsg 81: support for KAVERI/KABINI/MULLINS APUs and
82: OLAND/BONAIRE/HAINAN/HAWAII GPUs.
1.35 kettenis 83: <li>Support for
84: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
85: on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.3 jcs 86: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umt.4">umt(4)</a> driver
87: for USB Windows Precision Touchpad devices.
1.22 schwarze 88: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4">bnxt(4)</a>
89: driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E PCI Express Ethernet
1.23 ccardena 90: adapters based on the Broadcom BCM573xx and BCM574xx chipsets. Enabled
91: on amd64 and arm64 platforms.
1.22 schwarze 92: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mue.4">mue(4)</a>
93: driver for Microchip LAN7500/LAN7505/LAN7515/LAN7850 USB 2.0
94: and LAN7800/LAN7801 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet devices.
95: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpisurface.4">acpisurface(4)</a>
96: driver providing ACPI support for Microsoft Surface Book laptops.
1.35 kettenis 97: <li>New
98: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/agintcmsi.4">agintcmsi(4/arm64)</a>
99: driver for the ITS component of the ARM GIC.
1.22 schwarze 100: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a>
101: driver for the Synopsys Designware PCIe controller,
102: which is built into various SoCs.
103: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpipci.4">acpipci(4/arm64)</a>
104: driver providing support for PCI host bridges
105: based on information provided by ACPI.
1.86 bcook 106: <li>New
1.22 schwarze 107: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvclock.4">mvclock(4)</a>,
108: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvgpio.4">mvgpio(4)</a>,
109: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvicu.4">mvicu(4)</a>,
110: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrng.4">mvrng(4)</a>,
111: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrtc.4">mvrtc(4)</a>, and
112: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvtemp.4">mvtemp(4)</a>
113: drivers for various components of the Marvell Armada SoCs.
114: <li>New
115: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hiclock.4">hiclock(4)</a>,
116: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hidwusb.4">hidwusb(4)</a>,
117: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hireset.4">hireset(4)</a>, and
118: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hitemp.4">hitemp(4)</a>
119: drivers for various components of the HiSilicon SoCs.
120: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccp.4">ccp(4)</a> and
121: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octcrypto.4">octcrypto(4/octeon)</a>
122: drivers for hardware-accelerated cryptography.
123: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccpmic.4">ccpmic(4)</a> and
124: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tipmic.4">tipmic(4)</a>
125: drivers for Intel Crystal Cove and Dollar Cove
126: TI Power Management ICs.
127: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxrtc.4">imxrtc(4)</a>
128: driver for the RTC integrated in Freescale i.MX7 and i.MX8 processors.
129: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fanpwr.4">fanpwr(4)</a>
130: driver for the Fairchild FAN53555 and Silergy SYR827/828
131: voltage regulators.
132: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pinctrl.4">pinctrl(4)</a>
133: driver for generic pin multiplexing.
134: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/plgpio.4">plgpio(4)</a>
135: driver for the ARM PrimeCell PL061 GPIO controller.
1.21 schwarze 136: <li>PIE support for the m88k platform.
1.101 bentley 137: <li>Support for some HID-over-I²C touchscreen devices in
1.28 jcs 138: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imt.4">imt(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 139: <li>Support for RTL8188EE and RTL8723AE in
140: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a>.
1.30 kevlo 141: <li>Support for RT3290 in
142: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ral.4">ral(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 143: <li>Support for SAS 3.5 controllers (SAS34xx and SAS35xx) in
144: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
145: <li>Support for drive and battery status sensors and bio in
146: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mfii.4">mfii(4)</a>.
1.40 jsg 147: <li>On i386 Intel CPU microcode is loaded on boot.
1.78 otto 148: <li>On i386 reduce the size of the area reserved for
149: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/brk.2">brk(2)</a>
150: to make more memory available to anonymous
151: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a> calls.
1.42 kn 152: <li>On sparc64 <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldomctl.8">ldomctl(8)</a>
1.77 tj 153: now supports more modern firmware found on SPARC T2+ and T3 machines in
1.42 kn 154: particular such as T1000, T5120 and T5240.
155: NVRAM variables can now be set per logical domain.
1.60 mortimer 156: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/com.4">com(4)</a>
157: better supports Synopsys Designware UARTs.
1.81 fcambus 158: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/islrtc.4">islrtc(4)</a>
1.60 mortimer 159: driver for Intersil ISL1208 Real Time Clock.
160: <li>Support for the Huawei k3772 in
1.77 tj 161: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umsm.4">umsm(4)</a>.
1.61 fcambus 162: <li>Support for the VIA VX900 chipset in
163: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/viapm.4">viapm(4)</a>.
1.74 landry 164: <li>Support for GNSS networks other than GPS in
165: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nmea.4">nmea(4)</a>.
1.76 mortimer 166: <li>Support for Elantech trackpoints in
167: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pms.4">pms(4)</a>.
168: <li>Added a sensor for port replicatior status to
169: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpithinkpad.4">acpithinkpad(4)</a>.
170: <li>Support for Allwinner H3 and A64 SoC in
171: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxitemp.4">scitemp(4)</a>.
1.1 benno 172: </ul>
173:
1.36 reyk 174: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> and
1.1 benno 175: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
176: <ul>
1.36 reyk 177: <li>Support for qcow2 disk and snapshot images.
178: <li>Support for VM templates and derived instances in
179: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5#VM_INSTANCES">vm.conf(5)</a> and
180: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
1.23 ccardena 181: <li>Added initial <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
1.36 reyk 182: support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>
1.23 ccardena 183: along with general cleanups.
1.36 reyk 184: <li>Various bug fixes and improvements.
1.1 benno 185: </ul>
186:
187: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
188: <ul>
1.45 benno 189: <li>With the new 'join' feature (managed with <a
190: href="http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig#IEEE_802.11_(WIRELESS_DEVICES)">
191: ifconfig(8)</a>), the kernel manages automatic switching between
1.81 fcambus 192: different WiFi networks.
1.76 mortimer 193: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
194: scan performance has been improved for many devices.
1.1 benno 195: </ul>
196:
197: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
198: <ul>
1.65 mpi 199: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
1.77 tj 200: now has LACP administrative knobs for mode, timeout, system priority,
1.23 ccardena 201: port priority, and ifq priority.
1.65 mpi 202: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.77 tj 203: now has the ability to adjust LACP administrative knobs
1.23 ccardena 204: <code>lacpmode</code> and <code>lacptimeout</code>.
1.65 mpi 205: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendmsg.2">sendmsg(2)</a>,
206: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendto.2">sendto(2)</a>,
207: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvfrom.2">recvfrom(2)</a> and
208: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvmsg.2">recvmsg(2)</a> are
1.66 sthen 209: run without KERNEL_LOCK.
1.65 mpi 210: <li>New global IPsec counters are available via
211: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a>.
1.76 mortimer 212: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/eoip.4">eoip(4)</a>
213: interface for the MikroTik Ethernet over IP (EoIP)
214: encapsulation protocol.
1.1 benno 215: </ul>
216:
217: <li>Installer improvements:
218: <ul>
1.43 kn 219: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/installurl.5">installurl(5)</a> now
220: defaults to
1.77 tj 221: <a href="ftp.html">cdn.openbsd.org</a> if
222: no mirror was chosen during installation.
1.43 kn 223: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> and
1.77 tj 224: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8">syspatch(8)</a>
225: will thus work out of the box.
1.46 abieber 226: <li>DUID can be used to answer the "Which disk is the root disk?"
1.53 benno 227: question during upgrade.
1.75 fcambus 228: <li>Installing a
1.68 krw 229: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/diskless.8">diskless(8)</a>
230: setup can be done over interfaces configured with
231: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>.
1.87 solene 232: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
233: now creates a /usr/obj partition with a minimum size of 5G when using
234: automatic disk allocation.
235: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
236: now creates a /usr/local partition with a maximum size of 20G when
237: using automatic disk allocation.
1.1 benno 238: </ul>
239:
1.33 claudio 240: <li>Security improvements:
241: <ul>
242: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
243: system call to restrict file system access of the calling
244: process to the specified files and directories. It is most
245: powerful when properly combined with privilege separation
246: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
1.58 mortimer 247: <li>Implemented MAP_STACK option for
248: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>.
249: At pagefaults and syscalls the kernel will check that the
250: stack pointer points to MAP_STACK memory, which mitigates
251: against attacks using stack pivots.
1.54 beck 252: <li>New RETGUARD security mechanism on amd64 and arm64:
1.33 claudio 253: use per-function random cookies to protect access to function
254: return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets.
1.58 mortimer 255: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang-local.1">clang(1)</a>
1.77 tj 256: includes a pass that identifies common instructions which
1.58 mortimer 257: may be useful in ROP gadgets and replaces them with safe
258: alternatives on amd64 and i386.
259: <li>The Retpoline mitigation against Spectre Variant 2 has been
260: enabled in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang.1">clang(1)</a>
1.76 mortimer 261: and in assembly files on amd64 and i386.
1.84 mortimer 262: <li>Added SpectreRSB mitigation on amd64.
263: <li>Added Intel L1 Terminal Fault mitigation on amd64.
1.86 bcook 264: <li>When available, PCIDs are used on amd64 to separate user
1.84 mortimer 265: and kernel thread TLB entries.
1.60 mortimer 266: <li>Meltdown mitigation was added to i386.
1.76 mortimer 267: <li>amd64 now uses eager-FPU switching to prevent FPU state
268: information speculatively leaking across protection boundaries.
1.77 tj 269: <li>Because Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) uses core resources in
270: a shared and unsafe manner, it is now disabled by default.
1.80 kn 271: It can be enabled with the new <code>hw.smt</code>
1.33 claudio 272: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
273: <li>Audio recording is now disabled by default and can be enabled
274: with the new <code>kern.audio.record</code>
275: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
1.64 deraadt 276: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwnam(3)</a> and
277: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwuid(3)</a> no
278: longer return a pointer to static storage but a managed allocation
279: which gets unmapped. This allows detection of access to stale entries.
1.77 tj 280: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> includes
1.60 mortimer 281: improved defence against user enumeration attacks.
1.33 claudio 282: </ul>
283:
1.1 benno 284: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
285: <ul>
1.48 remi 286: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now set
287: the metric for a route depending on the status of an interface.
288: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now be
289: bound into an alternate routing domain.
1.2 benno 290: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> is
291: now pledged.
1.86 bcook 292: <li>Prevent <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a> and
293: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> from being
1.80 kn 294: started more than once (in the same routing domain).
1.11 florian 295: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is now fully
296: pledged.
297: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is informed by
298: the kernel when Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) fails and generates
299: different addresses when possible.
300: <li>When <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> detects
1.77 tj 301: roaming between networks, it deprecates all configured IPs. IPs from
1.75 fcambus 302: newly advertised prefixes will be preferred.
1.77 tj 303: <li>A new daemon, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a>, sends
1.11 florian 304: IPv6 Router Advertisement messages and replaces the old rtadvd(8)
305: daemon from KAME.
1.16 schwarze 306: <li>The anachronistic
307: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/networks.5">networks(5)</a>
308: configuration file is no longer supported.
1.17 kn 309: <li>More robust <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
310: parsing routines and corner case fixes around table and anchor
311: handling.
312: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a> now errors out
1.105 ! bentley 313: on bad <code>-netmask/-prefixlen</code> usage instead of configuring
1.38 sthen 314: ambiguous routes.
1.67 krw 315: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
316: now adds a direct route to the default route gateway when the
317: gateway is not reachable via the address/netmask provided by the
318: lease.
319: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
320: now updates
321: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>,
322: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>,
323: and any '-L'
1.77 tj 324: file before daemonizing and returning control
1.67 krw 325: to invoking scripts.
1.77 tj 326: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>'s
1.67 krw 327: '-i' option now discards any previously defined values for the options
328: to be ignored.
1.75 fcambus 329: <li>Any change to any interface now causes
1.67 krw 330: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
331: to appropriately update
332: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>.
333: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
334: now always records the client identifier used to obtain a lease,
335: enabling better conformance to RFC 6842.
336: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
1.77 tj 337: now has the '-r' option to release the current lease and exit.
1.67 krw 338: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
339: now avoids inappropriate changes to
340: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>
341: by ignoring
342: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>
343: for interfaces that cannot report their link status.
1.1 benno 344: </ul>
345:
346: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> improvements:
347: <ul>
1.77 tj 348: <li>The default filter action was changed from allow to deny.
1.32 claudio 349: <li>The config option 'announce (all|self|none|default-route)'
350: has been deprecated and superseded by filter configuration.
351: <li>Improved prefix-sets both in speed and user experience.
352: <li>Introduced as-sets to match ASPATH against large lists of AS numbers.
1.77 tj 353: <li>Support for BGP Origin Validation
1.32 claudio 354: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6811">RFC 6811</a>
355: through the <code>roa-set</code> directive.
356: <li>Added origin-sets for matching prefix / origin AS pairs efficently.
1.77 tj 357: <li>Some syntax cleanups: newlines are optional inside expansion
358: lists (previously newlines needed to be escaped) but, in neighbor,
1.32 claudio 359: group and rdomain blocks multiple statements have to be on new lines.
360: <li>Reduce the amount of work done during a configuration reload.
1.77 tj 361: <li>Config reloading no longer blocks other event handling in the
1.32 claudio 362: route decision engine.
363: <li>Better support and bugfixes for multiple bgpd processes
1.72 benno 364: running in different rdomains.
1.1 benno 365: </ul>
366:
367: <li>Assorted improvements:
368: <ul>
1.27 jcs 369: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rasops.9">rasops(9)</a>-backed
1.3 jcs 370: framebuffer consoles such as
1.59 brynet 371: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>,
372: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a> and
1.3 jcs 373: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now support
374: scrollback.
1.7 anton 375: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>
376: gained support for permanent A records, similiar to
1.105 ! bentley 377: <code>local-data</code>
1.7 anton 378: supported by
379: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.8">unbound(8)</a>.
380: <li>New
381: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
382: driver used for collection of code coverage inside the kernel.
383: It's used in an ongoing effort to fuzz the kernel.
1.16 schwarze 384: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uid_from_user.3">uid_from_user(3)</a>
385: and
386: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gid_from_group.3">gid_from_group(3)</a>
1.77 tj 387: were added to the C library and are now used in several programs
1.16 schwarze 388: to speed up repeated lookups.
1.21 schwarze 389: <li>New semaphore implementation making
390: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sem_post.3">sem_post(3)</a>
391: async-safe.
392: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_set_immediate_mode.3"
393: >pcap_set_immediate_mode(3)</a> was imported from mainline libpcap,
394: allowing programs to process packets as soon as they arrive.
1.16 schwarze 395: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now supports
1.81 fcambus 396: 64-bit integers on all architectures.
1.7 anton 397: <li>A bug in
398: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
1.75 fcambus 399: related to variable expansion of read-only variables has been fixed.
1.14 schwarze 400: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lam.1">lam(1)</a>
401: now provides UTF-8 support.
1.23 ccardena 402: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a> and
403: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> on arm64 RAMDISK.
1.34 bluhm 404: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> IP fragment
405: reassembly uses a better algorithm to make it robust against
406: denial of service attacks.
1.39 reyk 407: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldap.1">ldap(1)</a>
1.81 fcambus 408: tool implementing a simple LDAP search client.
1.60 mortimer 409: <li>A bug in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/init.8">init(8)</a>
410: that caused hangs on i386 under VMware has been fixed.
411: <li>TFTP boot support was added for U-Boot based arm64 and armv7 platforms
412: via EFI Simple Network protocol.
413: <li>Support was added for the EFI Random Number Generator Protocol
414: to insert additional entropy into the kernel at boot.
415: <li>Support for RFC 3430 (TCP connections) was added to
1.81 fcambus 416: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a>.
1.85 stsp 417: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a> on amd64,
418: i386, arm64 and armv7. Also on loongson and macppc for USB devices.
1.61 fcambus 419: <li>New "Spleen 5x8" font added to wsfont, targetted at small OLED displays.
1.65 mpi 420: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/usbdevs.8">usbdevs(8)</a> now reports
421: USB port statuses.
422: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/top.1">top(1)</a> and
423: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a> now report
424: the time spent by each CPU waiting on spinning locks.
425: <li>Improved read speed on MSDOSFS via clustering.
426: <li>Access to NFS nodes is now serialized.
1.69 krw 427: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a>
428: has a new uvm view that displays statistics relevant to the UVM subsystem.
429: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>
430: now handles carriage returns during incremental search by setting the
431: mark and exiting the search, as modern emacsen do.
1.70 krw 432: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
433: improved the rounding of partition offsets and
434: sizes to cylinder boundaries.
435: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
1.86 bcook 436: now range checks all user input.
1.70 krw 437: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
438: no longer allows FS_RAID partitions to be given a mount point.
439: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
440: now changes partition information only when all user
441: input is valid.
1.71 benno 442: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a> has
1.77 tj 443: improved log directives in its configuration file for finer
1.71 benno 444: grained control of what gets logged.
1.76 mortimer 445: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>
446: now handles terminfo colors greater than 256 correctly.
447: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>
448: now supports client certificate authentication.
1.86 bcook 449: <li>Numerous improvements to the
1.76 mortimer 450: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fuse.4">fuse(4)</a> subsystem.
1.78 otto 451: <li>Improvements to the way the kernel searches for available
452: memory to satisfy anonymous
453: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>
454: calls.
1.82 fcambus 455: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now remaps
456: the EFI framebuffer early to use a write combining mapping, speeding
457: things up considerably.
1.1 benno 458: </ul>
459:
1.57 benno 460: <li>OpenSMTPD
1.1 benno 461: <ul>
1.19 schwarze 462: <li>Incompatible change to the
463: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf.5">smtpd.conf(5)</a>
464: grammar: separate envelope matching, which happens during the
465: SMTP dialogue while receiving a message and merely results
466: in assigning an action name, from delivery actions, which do
467: not take effect until the queue runner makes a delivery attempt.
468: This gets rid of several different roadblocks in OpenSMTPD
469: development.
1.73 gilles 470: <li>Improve SMTP server engine with a new RFC 5322 message parser.
471: <li>Remove limitations preventing
472: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>
473: from dealing with clients submitting long lines.
474: <li>Improve security by moving expansion of .forward file variables
475: into the users' MDA process.
476: <li>Introduce MDA wrappers allowing recipient MDA commands to be
477: transparently wrapped inside global commands.
1.76 mortimer 478: <li>A new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtp.1">smtp(1)</a>
479: command line client has been added.
1.73 gilles 480: <li>Assorted documentation improvements, cleanups and minor bug fixes.
1.1 benno 481: </ul>
482:
1.95 deraadt 483: <li><a href="https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.9">OpenSSH 7.9</a>
1.1 benno 484: <ul>
1.49 benno 485: <li>New features:
1.1 benno 486: <ul>
1.50 benno 487: <li>In most places
488: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
489: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> where
490: port numbers are used, service names (from /etc/services) can
491: now be used.
492: <li>The <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
493: IdentityAgent configuration directive now accepts environment
494: variable names. This supports the use of multiple agent
495: sockets without needing to use fixed paths.
1.49 benno 496: <li>Support signalling sessions via the SSH protocol in
497: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>.
1.50 benno 498: <li>"ssh -Q sig" can be used to list supported signature
499: options. Also "ssh -Q help" will show the full set of
500: supported queries.
501: <li>The new CASignatureAlgorithms option
502: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
503: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.75 fcambus 504: controls the allowed signature formats for CAs to sign
1.50 benno 505: certificates with. For example, this allows banning CAs that
506: sign certificates using the RSA-SHA1 signature algorithm.
507: <li>Key revocation lists (KRLs) can now contain keys specified
508: by SHA256 hash. These lists are managed
509: by <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.8">ssh-keygen(8)</a>. In
1.49 benno 510: addition, KRLs can now be created from base64-encoded SHA256
1.50 benno 511: fingerprints, i.e. from only the information contained
512: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
513: authentication log messages.
1.1 benno 514: </ul>
1.77 tj 515: <li>Non-exhaustive list of bug fixes:
1.86 bcook 516: <ul>
1.77 tj 517: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.55 benno 518: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
519: avoid spurious "invalid format" errors when attempting to load
520: PEM private keys while using an incorrect passphrase.
521: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: when a
522: channel closed message is received from a client, close the
523: stderr file descriptor at the same time stdout is closed. This
524: avoids stuck processes if they were waiting for stderr to
525: close and were insensitive to stdin/out closing.
1.52 benno 526: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: allow
527: ForwardX11Timeout=0 to disable the untrusted X11 forwarding
528: timeout and support X11 forwarding indefinitely. Previously
529: the behaviour of ForwardX11Timeout=0 was undefined.
530: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: do not
531: fail closed when configured with a text key revocation list
532: that contains a too-short key.
1.77 tj 533: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: treat
1.52 benno 534: connections with ProxyJump specified the same as ones with a
535: ProxyCommand set with regards to hostname canonicalisation
536: (i.e. don't try to canonicalise the hostname unless
537: CanonicalizeHostname is set to 'always').
538: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: fix
539: regression in OpenSSH 7.8 that could prevent public-key
540: authentication using certificates hosted in
1.55 benno 541: a <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a> or
1.52 benno 542: against <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.105 ! bentley 543: from OpenSSH <7.8.
1.52 benno 544: </ul>
1.1 benno 545: </ul>
1.86 bcook 546:
1.60 mortimer 547: <li>LibreSSL 2.8.2
1.86 bcook 548: <ul>
549: <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
550: <ul>
551: <li>X509 verification is now more strict so
552: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.3">X509_VERIFY_PARAM</a>
553: host, ip or email failure will cause future
1.88 bcook 554: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_verify_cert.3">X509_verify_cert(3)</a>
1.86 bcook 555: calls to fail.
556: <li>Support for single DES cipher suites is removed.
557: <li>Support for RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 (RFC 8017) is added to
558: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man3/RSA_sign.3">RSA_sign(3)</a>
1.88 bcook 559: <li>Modified signature of <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/CRYPTO_mem_leaks.3">CRYPTO_mem_leaks_*(3)</a> to return -1. This function
1.86 bcook 560: is a no-op in LibreSSL, so this function returns an error to not
561: indicate the (non-)existence of memory leaks.
1.88 bcook 562: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/SSL_copy_session_id.3">SSL_copy_session_id(3)</a>, PEM_Sign, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/EVP_EncodeUpdate.3">EVP_EncodeUpdate(3)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/BIO_set_cipher.3">BIO_set_cipher(3)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count.3">X509_OBJECT_up_ref_count(3)</a> now return an int for error handling, matching OpenSSL.
1.86 bcook 563: <li>Converted a number of #defines into proper functions, matching
1.88 bcook 564: OpenSSL's ABI (e.g. <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_CRL_get_issuer.3">X509_CRL_get_issuer(3)</a> and other X509_*get*(3) functions)
565: <li>Added X509_get0_serialNumber(3) from OpenSSL.
566: <li>Removed EVP_PKEY2PKCS8_broken(3) and PKCS8_set_broken(3), while adding
567: PKCS8_pkey_add1_attr_by_NID(3) and PKCS8_pkey_get0_attrs(3), matching
1.86 bcook 568: OpenSSL.
1.88 bcook 569: <li>Removed broken pkcs8 formats from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a>.
570: <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/RSA_meth_get_finish.3">RSA_meth_get_finish(3)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/RSA_meth_set1_name.3">RSA_meth_set1_name(3)</a> from OpenSSL.
571: <li>Added new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/EVP_CIPHER_CTX_get_iv.3">EVP_CIPHER_CTX_(get|set)_iv(3)</a> API that allows the IV to be retrieved and set with appropriate validation.
1.86 bcook 572: <li>Extensive documentation updates and additional API history.
573: <li>Removed SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG buggy client workarounds.
1.88 bcook 574: <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ENGINE_finish.3">ENGINE_finish(3)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ENGINE_free.3">ENGINE_free(3)</a> succeed on NULL and simplify callers and matching OpenSSL behavior, rewrote ENGINE_* documentation.
1.86 bcook 575: <li>Added const annotations to many existing APIs from OpenSSL, making
576: interoperability easier for downstream applications.
1.88 bcook 577: <li>Documented <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/BN_set_flags.3#BUGS">security pitfalls</a> with BN_FLG_CONSTTIME and constant-time operation of BN_* functions.
1.86 bcook 578: </ul>
579: <li>Testing and Proactive Security
580: <ul>
581: <li>Added Wycheproof test support for ECDH, RSASSA-PSS, AES-GCM,
582: AES-CMAC, AES-CCM, AES-CBC-PKCS5, DSA, ChaCha20-Poly1305, ECDSA, and
583: X25519 test vectors. Applied appropriate fixes for errors uncovered by
584: tests.
585: <li>Added more cipher tests, including all TLSv1.2 ciphers.
586: <li>Added a blinding value when generating DSA and ECDSA signatures, in
587: order to reduce the possibility of a side-channel attack leaking the
588: private key.
589: <li>Added timing-safe compares for checking results of signature
590: verification.
591: <li>Added ECC constant time scalar multiplication support.
592: From Billy Brumley and his team at Tampere University of Technology.
593: </ul>
594:
595: <li>Internal Improvements
596: <ul>
597: <li>Simplified key exchange signature generation and verification.
598: <li>Converted more code paths to use CBB/CBS. All handshake messages are
599: now created by CBB. RSA key exchange is simplified and uses dedicated
600: buffers for secrets.
601: <li>Simplified session ticket parsing and handling, inspired by
602: BoringSSL.
603: <li>Stopped handing AES-GCM in ssl_cipher_get_evp, since they use the
604: EVP_AEAD interface.
605: <li>Stopped using composite EVP_CIPHER AEADs.
606: <li>Removed unused SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED and
607: SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER flags in write path, simplifying IO paths.
608: <li>Updated BN_clear to use explicit_bzero.
609: <li>Cleaned up BN_* implementations following changes made in OpenSSL by
610: Davide Galassi and others.
611: <li>Revised the implementation of RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 to match the
612: specification in RFC 8017. Based on an OpenSSL commit by David
613: Benjamin.
614: </ul>
615:
616: <li>Bug Fixes
617: <ul>
618: <li>Fixed a one-byte buffer overrun in callers of EVP_read_pw_string
619: <li>Fixed various memory leaks found by Coverity.
620: <li>Converted more functions in public API to use const arguments.
621: <li>Correctly clear the current cipher state, when changing cipher state.
1.90 bcook 622: This fixed an issue where renegotiation of cipher suites would fail
1.86 bcook 623: when switched from AEAD to non-AEAD or vice-versa.
624: Issue reported by Bernard Spil.
625: <li>Fixed a pair of 20+ year-old bugs in X509_NAME_add_entry
626: <li>Fixed a potential memory leak on failure in ASN1_item_digest
627: <li>Fixed a potential memory alignment crash in asn1_item_combine_free
628: <li>Fixed small timing side-channels in ecdsa_sign_setup and
629: dsa_sign_setup.
630: <li>Added a missing bounds check in c2i_ASN1_BIT_STRING.
631: <li>Fixed a potential leak/incorrect return value in DSA signature
632: generation.
633: </ul>
1.14 schwarze 634: </ul>
635:
636: <li>Mandoc 1.14.4
637: <ul>
638: <li>In HTML output, many
639: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> macros
640: now use more fitting HTML elements.
641: <li>In HTML output, almost all "style" attributes and a number of
642: redundant "class" attributes were removed.
643: <li>Baby steps towards responsive design: use a @media query in
644: mandoc.css, use the HTML meta viewport element, and remove all
645: hard-coded widths and heights from the generated HTML code.
646: <li>Many style improvements in
647: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.css">mandoc.css</a>.
648: <li>More than 15 new low level
649: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a>
650: and GNU man-ext features.
651: Mandoc can now format the manuals of the groff port.
1.1 benno 652: </ul>
653:
1.105 ! bentley 654: <li><p>Ports and packages:
1.1 benno 655: <ul>
1.41 espie 656: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/update-plist.1">update-plist(1)</a>
657: has been entirely rewritten and now figures out MULTI_PACKAGES and
658: variable substitution almost 100%.
1.86 bcook 659: <li>New packages now run maintenance database tools like
660: update-desktop-database just once instead of after
1.41 espie 661: every package addition/removal.
1.89 danj 662: <li>Ports infrastructure manuals
663: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bulk.8">bulk(8)</a>,
664: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dpb.1">dpb(1)</a> and others) are now
665: included in the base install and are therefore readable without the
666: ports tree.
1.1 benno 667: </ul>
1.105 ! bentley 668:
! 669: <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.1 benno 670: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
1.105 ! bentley 671: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.62 naddy 672: <li>aarch64: 8319
1.44 naddy 673: <li>amd64: 10304
1.98 phessler 674: <li>arm: 8324
1.44 naddy 675: <li>i386: 10230
1.97 naddy 676: <li>mips64: 7181
1.100 naddy 677: <li>mips64el: 7255
1.99 landry 678: <li>powerpc: 8737
1.96 naddy 679: <li>sparc64: 7327
1.105 ! bentley 680: </ul>
1.1 benno 681:
1.105 ! bentley 682: <p>Some highlights:
! 683: <ul style="column-count: 2">
1.1 benno 684: <li>AFL 2.52b
685: <li>CMake 3.10.2
1.6 kirby 686: <li>Chromium 69.0.3497.100
687: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 26.1
1.1 benno 688: <li>GCC 4.9.4
689: <li>GHC 8.2.2
690: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
1.15 schwarze 691: <li>GNOME 3.28.2
1.6 kirby 692: <li>Go 1.11
1.1 benno 693: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.6 kirby 694: <li>JDK 8u172
695: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.1
696: <li>LibreOffice 6.1.1.2
697: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
698: <li>MariaDB 10.0.36
1.26 kirby 699: <li>Mono 5.14.0.177
1.31 kirby 700: <li>Mozilla Firefox 60.2.2esr and 62.0.3
701: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.2.1
1.6 kirby 702: <li>Mutt 1.10.1 and NeoMutt 20180716
703: <li>Node.js 8.12.0
1.81 fcambus 704: <li>OCaml 4.03.0
1.6 kirby 705: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.46
706: <li>PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
707: <li>Postfix 3.3.1 and 3.4-20180904
708: <li>PostgreSQL 10.5
709: <li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.6
710: <li>R 3.5.1
711: <li>Ruby 2.3.7, 2.4.4 and 2.5.1
1.37 lteo 712: <li>Rust 1.29.2
1.6 kirby 713: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.29
714: <li>SQLite3 3.24.0
715: <li>Sudo 1.8.25
1.1 benno 716: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
717: <li>TeX Live 2017
1.10 sthen 718: <li>Vim 8.1.438
1.1 benno 719: <li>Xfce 4.12
1.105 ! bentley 720: </ul>
1.1 benno 721:
722: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
723:
1.15 schwarze 724: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.1 benno 725: <ul>
726: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.6 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 727: freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 331,
1.1 benno 728: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
1.8 matthieu 729: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 730: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
731: <li>Perl 5.24.3 (+ patches)
1.9 florian 732: <li>NSD 4.1.25
1.37 lteo 733: <li>Unbound 1.8.1
1.1 benno 734: <li>Ncurses 5.7
735: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
736: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
737: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.8 matthieu 738: <li>Expat 2.2.6
1.1 benno 739: </ul>
740: </ul>
1.105 ! bentley 741: </section>
1.1 benno 742:
743: <hr>
744:
1.105 ! bentley 745: <section id=install>
! 746: <h3>How to install</h3>
1.1 benno 747:
748: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
749: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.4 on your machine:
750:
751: <ul>
752: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
753: .../OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
754: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
755: .../OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
756: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
757: .../OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
758: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
759: .../OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
760: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
761: .../OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
762: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
763: .../OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
764: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
765: .../OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
766: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
767: .../OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
768: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
769: .../OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
770: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
771: .../OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
772: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
773: .../OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
774: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
775: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
776: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
777: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
778: </ul>
779:
780: <hr>
781:
1.105 ! bentley 782: <section id=quickinstall>
1.1 benno 783: <p>
784: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
785: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
786: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
787: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
788:
1.105 ! bentley 789: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1.1 benno 790:
1.105 ! bentley 791: <p>
1.1 benno 792: Write <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
793: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
794: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1.105 ! bentley 795:
1.1 benno 796: <p>
797: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
798: will most likely fail.
799:
1.105 ! bentley 800: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1.1 benno 801:
1.105 ! bentley 802: <p>
1.1 benno 803: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
804: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
805: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1.105 ! bentley 806:
1.1 benno 807: <p>
808: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
809: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1.105 ! bentley 810:
1.1 benno 811: <p>
812: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
813: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
814: INSTALL.amd64 document.
1.105 ! bentley 815:
1.1 benno 816: <p>
817: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
818: read INSTALL.amd64.
819:
1.105 ! bentley 820: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
1.1 benno 821:
1.105 ! bentley 822: <p>
1.1 benno 823: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
824: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
825:
1.105 ! bentley 826: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
1.1 benno 827:
1.105 ! bentley 828: <p>
1.1 benno 829: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
830: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
831:
1.105 ! bentley 832: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
1.1 benno 833:
1.105 ! bentley 834: <p>
1.1 benno 835: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
836: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
837:
1.105 ! bentley 838: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
1.1 benno 839:
1.105 ! bentley 840: <p>
1.1 benno 841: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
842: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
843: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1.105 ! bentley 844:
1.1 benno 845: <p>
846: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
847: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1.105 ! bentley 848:
1.1 benno 849: <p>
850: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
851: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
852: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
1.105 ! bentley 853:
1.1 benno 854: <p>
855: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
856: read INSTALL.i386.
857:
1.105 ! bentley 858: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
1.1 benno 859:
1.105 ! bentley 860: <p>
1.1 benno 861: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the start of the CF
862: or disk, and boot normally.
863:
1.105 ! bentley 864: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
1.1 benno 865:
1.105 ! bentley 866: <p>
1.1 benno 867: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
868: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
869: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
870:
1.105 ! bentley 871: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
1.1 benno 872:
1.105 ! bentley 873: <p>
! 874: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1.1 benno 875: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
876: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
877:
1.105 ! bentley 878: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1.1 benno 879:
1.105 ! bentley 880: <p>
1.1 benno 881: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
882: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
883: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1.105 ! bentley 884:
1.1 benno 885: <p>
886: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
887: /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
888:
1.105 ! bentley 889: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
1.1 benno 890:
1.105 ! bentley 891: <p>
1.1 benno 892: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
893: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
894:
1.105 ! bentley 895: <h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>
1.1 benno 896:
1.105 ! bentley 897: <p>
1.1 benno 898: To install, burn cd64.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
899: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
900: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
901: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
902: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
903:
904: <p>
905: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
906: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
907: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
908:
1.105 ! bentley 909: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1.1 benno 910:
1.105 ! bentley 911: <p>
1.1 benno 912: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
913: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1.105 ! bentley 914:
1.1 benno 915: <p>
916: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
917: <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i>
918: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
919: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1.105 ! bentley 920:
1.1 benno 921: <p>
922: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
923: will most likely fail.
1.105 ! bentley 924:
1.1 benno 925: <p>
926: You can also write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the swap partition on
927: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1.105 ! bentley 928:
1.1 benno 929: <p>
930: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1.105 ! bentley 931:
! 932: </section>
1.1 benno 933:
934: <hr>
935:
1.105 ! bentley 936: <section id=upgrade>
! 937: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
1.1 benno 938:
1.105 ! bentley 939: <p>
1.1 benno 940: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
941: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
942: <a href="faq/upgrade64.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1.105 ! bentley 943: </section>
1.1 benno 944:
945: <hr>
946:
1.105 ! bentley 947: <section id=sourcecode>
! 948: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
1.1 benno 949:
1.105 ! bentley 950: <p>
! 951: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
1.1 benno 952: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
953: which are in a separate archive.
954: To extract:
955:
956: <blockquote><pre>
957: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
958: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
959: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
960: </pre></blockquote>
961:
1.105 ! bentley 962: <p>
! 963: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
1.1 benno 964: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
965: To extract:
966:
967: <blockquote><pre>
968: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
969: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
970: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
971: </pre></blockquote>
972:
1.105 ! bentley 973: <p>
1.1 benno 974: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
975: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
976: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
977: Using these files
978: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
979: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1.105 ! bentley 980: </section>
! 981: </section>
1.1 benno 982:
983: <hr>
984:
1.105 ! bentley 985: <section id=ports>
! 986: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1.1 benno 987:
1.105 ! bentley 988: <p>
1.1 benno 989: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
990:
991: <blockquote><pre>
992: # <b>cd /usr</b>
993: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
994: </pre></blockquote>
995:
1.105 ! bentley 996: <p>
1.1 benno 997: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
998: if you know nothing about ports
999: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1000: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1001: OpenBSD ports system.
1.105 ! bentley 1002:
1.1 benno 1003: <p>
1004: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
1005: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
1006: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1007: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
1008: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1009: with a command like:
1010:
1011: <blockquote><pre>
1012: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
1013: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_4</b>
1014: </pre></blockquote>
1015:
1.105 ! bentley 1016: <p>
1.1 benno 1017: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1018: server.]
1.105 ! bentley 1019:
1.1 benno 1020: <p>
1021: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1022: ports for the 6.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.105 ! bentley 1023:
1.1 benno 1024: <p>
1025: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1026: would like to know more, the mailing list
1027: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1.105 ! bentley 1028: </section>
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