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30: a list of mirror machines.
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33: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata64.html">the 6.4 errata page</a> for a list
34: of bugs and workarounds.
35: <li>See a <a href="plus64.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
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63:
1.105 bentley 64: <section id=new>
65: <h3>What's New</h3>
66: <p>
1.1 benno 67: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.4.
1.93 deraadt 68: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus64.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1 benno 69: to 6.4.
70:
71: <ul>
72:
73: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
74: <ul>
1.35 kettenis 75: <li>ACPI support on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.40 jsg 76: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
1.77 tj 77: driver was updated to code based on Linux 4.4.155, adding modesetting
1.40 jsg 78: support for KAVERI/KABINI/MULLINS APUs and
79: OLAND/BONAIRE/HAINAN/HAWAII GPUs.
1.35 kettenis 80: <li>Support for
81: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
82: on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.3 jcs 83: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umt.4">umt(4)</a> driver
84: for USB Windows Precision Touchpad devices.
1.22 schwarze 85: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4">bnxt(4)</a>
86: driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E PCI Express Ethernet
1.23 ccardena 87: adapters based on the Broadcom BCM573xx and BCM574xx chipsets. Enabled
88: on amd64 and arm64 platforms.
1.22 schwarze 89: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mue.4">mue(4)</a>
90: driver for Microchip LAN7500/LAN7505/LAN7515/LAN7850 USB 2.0
91: and LAN7800/LAN7801 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet devices.
92: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpisurface.4">acpisurface(4)</a>
93: driver providing ACPI support for Microsoft Surface Book laptops.
1.35 kettenis 94: <li>New
95: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/agintcmsi.4">agintcmsi(4/arm64)</a>
96: driver for the ITS component of the ARM GIC.
1.22 schwarze 97: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a>
98: driver for the Synopsys Designware PCIe controller,
99: which is built into various SoCs.
100: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpipci.4">acpipci(4/arm64)</a>
101: driver providing support for PCI host bridges
102: based on information provided by ACPI.
1.86 bcook 103: <li>New
1.22 schwarze 104: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvclock.4">mvclock(4)</a>,
105: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvgpio.4">mvgpio(4)</a>,
106: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvicu.4">mvicu(4)</a>,
107: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrng.4">mvrng(4)</a>,
108: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrtc.4">mvrtc(4)</a>, and
109: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvtemp.4">mvtemp(4)</a>
110: drivers for various components of the Marvell Armada SoCs.
111: <li>New
112: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hiclock.4">hiclock(4)</a>,
113: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hidwusb.4">hidwusb(4)</a>,
114: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hireset.4">hireset(4)</a>, and
115: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hitemp.4">hitemp(4)</a>
116: drivers for various components of the HiSilicon SoCs.
117: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccp.4">ccp(4)</a> and
118: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octcrypto.4">octcrypto(4/octeon)</a>
119: drivers for hardware-accelerated cryptography.
120: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccpmic.4">ccpmic(4)</a> and
121: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tipmic.4">tipmic(4)</a>
122: drivers for Intel Crystal Cove and Dollar Cove
123: TI Power Management ICs.
124: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxrtc.4">imxrtc(4)</a>
125: driver for the RTC integrated in Freescale i.MX7 and i.MX8 processors.
126: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fanpwr.4">fanpwr(4)</a>
127: driver for the Fairchild FAN53555 and Silergy SYR827/828
128: voltage regulators.
129: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pinctrl.4">pinctrl(4)</a>
130: driver for generic pin multiplexing.
131: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/plgpio.4">plgpio(4)</a>
132: driver for the ARM PrimeCell PL061 GPIO controller.
1.21 schwarze 133: <li>PIE support for the m88k platform.
1.101 bentley 134: <li>Support for some HID-over-I²C touchscreen devices in
1.28 jcs 135: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imt.4">imt(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 136: <li>Support for RTL8188EE and RTL8723AE in
137: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a>.
1.30 kevlo 138: <li>Support for RT3290 in
139: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ral.4">ral(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 140: <li>Support for SAS 3.5 controllers (SAS34xx and SAS35xx) in
141: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
142: <li>Support for drive and battery status sensors and bio in
143: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mfii.4">mfii(4)</a>.
1.40 jsg 144: <li>On i386 Intel CPU microcode is loaded on boot.
1.78 otto 145: <li>On i386 reduce the size of the area reserved for
146: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/brk.2">brk(2)</a>
147: to make more memory available to anonymous
148: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a> calls.
1.42 kn 149: <li>On sparc64 <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldomctl.8">ldomctl(8)</a>
1.77 tj 150: now supports more modern firmware found on SPARC T2+ and T3 machines in
1.42 kn 151: particular such as T1000, T5120 and T5240.
152: NVRAM variables can now be set per logical domain.
1.60 mortimer 153: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/com.4">com(4)</a>
154: better supports Synopsys Designware UARTs.
1.81 fcambus 155: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/islrtc.4">islrtc(4)</a>
1.60 mortimer 156: driver for Intersil ISL1208 Real Time Clock.
157: <li>Support for the Huawei k3772 in
1.77 tj 158: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umsm.4">umsm(4)</a>.
1.61 fcambus 159: <li>Support for the VIA VX900 chipset in
160: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/viapm.4">viapm(4)</a>.
1.74 landry 161: <li>Support for GNSS networks other than GPS in
162: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nmea.4">nmea(4)</a>.
1.76 mortimer 163: <li>Support for Elantech trackpoints in
164: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pms.4">pms(4)</a>.
165: <li>Added a sensor for port replicatior status to
166: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpithinkpad.4">acpithinkpad(4)</a>.
167: <li>Support for Allwinner H3 and A64 SoC in
168: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxitemp.4">scitemp(4)</a>.
1.1 benno 169: </ul>
170:
1.36 reyk 171: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> and
1.1 benno 172: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
173: <ul>
1.36 reyk 174: <li>Support for qcow2 disk and snapshot images.
175: <li>Support for VM templates and derived instances in
176: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5#VM_INSTANCES">vm.conf(5)</a> and
177: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
1.23 ccardena 178: <li>Added initial <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
1.36 reyk 179: support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>
1.23 ccardena 180: along with general cleanups.
1.36 reyk 181: <li>Various bug fixes and improvements.
1.1 benno 182: </ul>
183:
184: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
185: <ul>
1.45 benno 186: <li>With the new 'join' feature (managed with <a
187: href="http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig#IEEE_802.11_(WIRELESS_DEVICES)">
188: ifconfig(8)</a>), the kernel manages automatic switching between
1.81 fcambus 189: different WiFi networks.
1.76 mortimer 190: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
191: scan performance has been improved for many devices.
1.1 benno 192: </ul>
193:
194: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
195: <ul>
1.65 mpi 196: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
1.77 tj 197: now has LACP administrative knobs for mode, timeout, system priority,
1.23 ccardena 198: port priority, and ifq priority.
1.65 mpi 199: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.77 tj 200: now has the ability to adjust LACP administrative knobs
1.23 ccardena 201: <code>lacpmode</code> and <code>lacptimeout</code>.
1.65 mpi 202: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendmsg.2">sendmsg(2)</a>,
203: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendto.2">sendto(2)</a>,
204: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvfrom.2">recvfrom(2)</a> and
205: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvmsg.2">recvmsg(2)</a> are
1.66 sthen 206: run without KERNEL_LOCK.
1.65 mpi 207: <li>New global IPsec counters are available via
208: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a>.
1.76 mortimer 209: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/eoip.4">eoip(4)</a>
210: interface for the MikroTik Ethernet over IP (EoIP)
211: encapsulation protocol.
1.1 benno 212: </ul>
213:
214: <li>Installer improvements:
215: <ul>
1.43 kn 216: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/installurl.5">installurl(5)</a> now
217: defaults to
1.77 tj 218: <a href="ftp.html">cdn.openbsd.org</a> if
219: no mirror was chosen during installation.
1.43 kn 220: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> and
1.77 tj 221: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8">syspatch(8)</a>
222: will thus work out of the box.
1.46 abieber 223: <li>DUID can be used to answer the "Which disk is the root disk?"
1.53 benno 224: question during upgrade.
1.75 fcambus 225: <li>Installing a
1.68 krw 226: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/diskless.8">diskless(8)</a>
227: setup can be done over interfaces configured with
228: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>.
1.87 solene 229: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
230: now creates a /usr/obj partition with a minimum size of 5G when using
231: automatic disk allocation.
232: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
233: now creates a /usr/local partition with a maximum size of 20G when
234: using automatic disk allocation.
1.1 benno 235: </ul>
236:
1.33 claudio 237: <li>Security improvements:
238: <ul>
239: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
240: system call to restrict file system access of the calling
241: process to the specified files and directories. It is most
242: powerful when properly combined with privilege separation
243: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
1.58 mortimer 244: <li>Implemented MAP_STACK option for
245: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>.
246: At pagefaults and syscalls the kernel will check that the
247: stack pointer points to MAP_STACK memory, which mitigates
248: against attacks using stack pivots.
1.54 beck 249: <li>New RETGUARD security mechanism on amd64 and arm64:
1.33 claudio 250: use per-function random cookies to protect access to function
251: return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets.
1.58 mortimer 252: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang-local.1">clang(1)</a>
1.77 tj 253: includes a pass that identifies common instructions which
1.58 mortimer 254: may be useful in ROP gadgets and replaces them with safe
255: alternatives on amd64 and i386.
256: <li>The Retpoline mitigation against Spectre Variant 2 has been
257: enabled in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang.1">clang(1)</a>
1.76 mortimer 258: and in assembly files on amd64 and i386.
1.84 mortimer 259: <li>Added SpectreRSB mitigation on amd64.
260: <li>Added Intel L1 Terminal Fault mitigation on amd64.
1.86 bcook 261: <li>When available, PCIDs are used on amd64 to separate user
1.84 mortimer 262: and kernel thread TLB entries.
1.60 mortimer 263: <li>Meltdown mitigation was added to i386.
1.76 mortimer 264: <li>amd64 now uses eager-FPU switching to prevent FPU state
265: information speculatively leaking across protection boundaries.
1.77 tj 266: <li>Because Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) uses core resources in
267: a shared and unsafe manner, it is now disabled by default.
1.80 kn 268: It can be enabled with the new <code>hw.smt</code>
1.33 claudio 269: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
270: <li>Audio recording is now disabled by default and can be enabled
271: with the new <code>kern.audio.record</code>
272: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
1.64 deraadt 273: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwnam(3)</a> and
274: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwuid(3)</a> no
275: longer return a pointer to static storage but a managed allocation
276: which gets unmapped. This allows detection of access to stale entries.
1.77 tj 277: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> includes
1.60 mortimer 278: improved defence against user enumeration attacks.
1.33 claudio 279: </ul>
280:
1.1 benno 281: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
282: <ul>
1.48 remi 283: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now set
284: the metric for a route depending on the status of an interface.
285: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now be
286: bound into an alternate routing domain.
1.2 benno 287: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> is
288: now pledged.
1.86 bcook 289: <li>Prevent <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a> and
290: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> from being
1.80 kn 291: started more than once (in the same routing domain).
1.11 florian 292: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is now fully
293: pledged.
294: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is informed by
295: the kernel when Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) fails and generates
296: different addresses when possible.
297: <li>When <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> detects
1.77 tj 298: roaming between networks, it deprecates all configured IPs. IPs from
1.75 fcambus 299: newly advertised prefixes will be preferred.
1.77 tj 300: <li>A new daemon, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a>, sends
1.11 florian 301: IPv6 Router Advertisement messages and replaces the old rtadvd(8)
302: daemon from KAME.
1.16 schwarze 303: <li>The anachronistic
304: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/networks.5">networks(5)</a>
305: configuration file is no longer supported.
1.17 kn 306: <li>More robust <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
307: parsing routines and corner case fixes around table and anchor
308: handling.
309: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a> now errors out
1.105 bentley 310: on bad <code>-netmask/-prefixlen</code> usage instead of configuring
1.38 sthen 311: ambiguous routes.
1.67 krw 312: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
313: now adds a direct route to the default route gateway when the
314: gateway is not reachable via the address/netmask provided by the
315: lease.
316: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
317: now updates
318: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>,
319: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>,
320: and any '-L'
1.77 tj 321: file before daemonizing and returning control
1.67 krw 322: to invoking scripts.
1.77 tj 323: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>'s
1.67 krw 324: '-i' option now discards any previously defined values for the options
325: to be ignored.
1.75 fcambus 326: <li>Any change to any interface now causes
1.67 krw 327: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
328: to appropriately update
329: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>.
330: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
331: now always records the client identifier used to obtain a lease,
332: enabling better conformance to RFC 6842.
333: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
1.77 tj 334: now has the '-r' option to release the current lease and exit.
1.67 krw 335: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
336: now avoids inappropriate changes to
337: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>
338: by ignoring
339: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>
340: for interfaces that cannot report their link status.
1.1 benno 341: </ul>
342:
343: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> improvements:
344: <ul>
1.77 tj 345: <li>The default filter action was changed from allow to deny.
1.32 claudio 346: <li>The config option 'announce (all|self|none|default-route)'
347: has been deprecated and superseded by filter configuration.
348: <li>Improved prefix-sets both in speed and user experience.
349: <li>Introduced as-sets to match ASPATH against large lists of AS numbers.
1.77 tj 350: <li>Support for BGP Origin Validation
1.32 claudio 351: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6811">RFC 6811</a>
352: through the <code>roa-set</code> directive.
353: <li>Added origin-sets for matching prefix / origin AS pairs efficently.
1.77 tj 354: <li>Some syntax cleanups: newlines are optional inside expansion
355: lists (previously newlines needed to be escaped) but, in neighbor,
1.32 claudio 356: group and rdomain blocks multiple statements have to be on new lines.
357: <li>Reduce the amount of work done during a configuration reload.
1.77 tj 358: <li>Config reloading no longer blocks other event handling in the
1.32 claudio 359: route decision engine.
360: <li>Better support and bugfixes for multiple bgpd processes
1.72 benno 361: running in different rdomains.
1.1 benno 362: </ul>
363:
364: <li>Assorted improvements:
365: <ul>
1.27 jcs 366: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rasops.9">rasops(9)</a>-backed
1.3 jcs 367: framebuffer consoles such as
1.59 brynet 368: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>,
369: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a> and
1.3 jcs 370: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now support
371: scrollback.
1.7 anton 372: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>
373: gained support for permanent A records, similiar to
1.105 bentley 374: <code>local-data</code>
1.7 anton 375: supported by
376: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.8">unbound(8)</a>.
377: <li>New
378: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
379: driver used for collection of code coverage inside the kernel.
380: It's used in an ongoing effort to fuzz the kernel.
1.16 schwarze 381: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uid_from_user.3">uid_from_user(3)</a>
382: and
383: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gid_from_group.3">gid_from_group(3)</a>
1.77 tj 384: were added to the C library and are now used in several programs
1.16 schwarze 385: to speed up repeated lookups.
1.21 schwarze 386: <li>New semaphore implementation making
387: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sem_post.3">sem_post(3)</a>
388: async-safe.
389: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_set_immediate_mode.3"
390: >pcap_set_immediate_mode(3)</a> was imported from mainline libpcap,
391: allowing programs to process packets as soon as they arrive.
1.16 schwarze 392: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now supports
1.81 fcambus 393: 64-bit integers on all architectures.
1.7 anton 394: <li>A bug in
395: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
1.75 fcambus 396: related to variable expansion of read-only variables has been fixed.
1.14 schwarze 397: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lam.1">lam(1)</a>
398: now provides UTF-8 support.
1.23 ccardena 399: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a> and
400: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> on arm64 RAMDISK.
1.34 bluhm 401: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> IP fragment
402: reassembly uses a better algorithm to make it robust against
403: denial of service attacks.
1.39 reyk 404: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldap.1">ldap(1)</a>
1.81 fcambus 405: tool implementing a simple LDAP search client.
1.60 mortimer 406: <li>A bug in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/init.8">init(8)</a>
407: that caused hangs on i386 under VMware has been fixed.
408: <li>TFTP boot support was added for U-Boot based arm64 and armv7 platforms
409: via EFI Simple Network protocol.
410: <li>Support was added for the EFI Random Number Generator Protocol
411: to insert additional entropy into the kernel at boot.
412: <li>Support for RFC 3430 (TCP connections) was added to
1.81 fcambus 413: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a>.
1.85 stsp 414: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a> on amd64,
415: i386, arm64 and armv7. Also on loongson and macppc for USB devices.
1.61 fcambus 416: <li>New "Spleen 5x8" font added to wsfont, targetted at small OLED displays.
1.65 mpi 417: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/usbdevs.8">usbdevs(8)</a> now reports
418: USB port statuses.
419: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/top.1">top(1)</a> and
420: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a> now report
421: the time spent by each CPU waiting on spinning locks.
422: <li>Improved read speed on MSDOSFS via clustering.
423: <li>Access to NFS nodes is now serialized.
1.69 krw 424: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a>
425: has a new uvm view that displays statistics relevant to the UVM subsystem.
426: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>
427: now handles carriage returns during incremental search by setting the
428: mark and exiting the search, as modern emacsen do.
1.70 krw 429: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
430: improved the rounding of partition offsets and
431: sizes to cylinder boundaries.
432: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
1.86 bcook 433: now range checks all user input.
1.70 krw 434: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
435: no longer allows FS_RAID partitions to be given a mount point.
436: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
437: now changes partition information only when all user
438: input is valid.
1.71 benno 439: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a> has
1.77 tj 440: improved log directives in its configuration file for finer
1.71 benno 441: grained control of what gets logged.
1.76 mortimer 442: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>
443: now handles terminfo colors greater than 256 correctly.
444: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>
445: now supports client certificate authentication.
1.86 bcook 446: <li>Numerous improvements to the
1.76 mortimer 447: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fuse.4">fuse(4)</a> subsystem.
1.78 otto 448: <li>Improvements to the way the kernel searches for available
449: memory to satisfy anonymous
450: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>
451: calls.
1.82 fcambus 452: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now remaps
453: the EFI framebuffer early to use a write combining mapping, speeding
454: things up considerably.
1.1 benno 455: </ul>
456:
1.57 benno 457: <li>OpenSMTPD
1.1 benno 458: <ul>
1.19 schwarze 459: <li>Incompatible change to the
460: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf.5">smtpd.conf(5)</a>
461: grammar: separate envelope matching, which happens during the
462: SMTP dialogue while receiving a message and merely results
463: in assigning an action name, from delivery actions, which do
464: not take effect until the queue runner makes a delivery attempt.
465: This gets rid of several different roadblocks in OpenSMTPD
466: development.
1.73 gilles 467: <li>Improve SMTP server engine with a new RFC 5322 message parser.
468: <li>Remove limitations preventing
469: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>
470: from dealing with clients submitting long lines.
471: <li>Improve security by moving expansion of .forward file variables
472: into the users' MDA process.
473: <li>Introduce MDA wrappers allowing recipient MDA commands to be
474: transparently wrapped inside global commands.
1.76 mortimer 475: <li>A new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtp.1">smtp(1)</a>
476: command line client has been added.
1.73 gilles 477: <li>Assorted documentation improvements, cleanups and minor bug fixes.
1.1 benno 478: </ul>
479:
1.95 deraadt 480: <li><a href="https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.9">OpenSSH 7.9</a>
1.1 benno 481: <ul>
1.49 benno 482: <li>New features:
1.1 benno 483: <ul>
1.50 benno 484: <li>In most places
485: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
486: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> where
487: port numbers are used, service names (from /etc/services) can
488: now be used.
489: <li>The <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
490: IdentityAgent configuration directive now accepts environment
491: variable names. This supports the use of multiple agent
492: sockets without needing to use fixed paths.
1.49 benno 493: <li>Support signalling sessions via the SSH protocol in
494: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>.
1.50 benno 495: <li>"ssh -Q sig" can be used to list supported signature
496: options. Also "ssh -Q help" will show the full set of
497: supported queries.
498: <li>The new CASignatureAlgorithms option
499: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
500: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.75 fcambus 501: controls the allowed signature formats for CAs to sign
1.50 benno 502: certificates with. For example, this allows banning CAs that
503: sign certificates using the RSA-SHA1 signature algorithm.
504: <li>Key revocation lists (KRLs) can now contain keys specified
505: by SHA256 hash. These lists are managed
506: by <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.8">ssh-keygen(8)</a>. In
1.49 benno 507: addition, KRLs can now be created from base64-encoded SHA256
1.50 benno 508: fingerprints, i.e. from only the information contained
509: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
510: authentication log messages.
1.1 benno 511: </ul>
1.77 tj 512: <li>Non-exhaustive list of bug fixes:
1.86 bcook 513: <ul>
1.77 tj 514: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.55 benno 515: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
516: avoid spurious "invalid format" errors when attempting to load
517: PEM private keys while using an incorrect passphrase.
518: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: when a
519: channel closed message is received from a client, close the
520: stderr file descriptor at the same time stdout is closed. This
521: avoids stuck processes if they were waiting for stderr to
522: close and were insensitive to stdin/out closing.
1.52 benno 523: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: allow
524: ForwardX11Timeout=0 to disable the untrusted X11 forwarding
525: timeout and support X11 forwarding indefinitely. Previously
526: the behaviour of ForwardX11Timeout=0 was undefined.
527: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: do not
528: fail closed when configured with a text key revocation list
529: that contains a too-short key.
1.77 tj 530: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: treat
1.52 benno 531: connections with ProxyJump specified the same as ones with a
532: ProxyCommand set with regards to hostname canonicalisation
533: (i.e. don't try to canonicalise the hostname unless
534: CanonicalizeHostname is set to 'always').
535: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: fix
536: regression in OpenSSH 7.8 that could prevent public-key
537: authentication using certificates hosted in
1.55 benno 538: a <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a> or
1.52 benno 539: against <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.105 bentley 540: from OpenSSH <7.8.
1.52 benno 541: </ul>
1.1 benno 542: </ul>
1.86 bcook 543:
1.60 mortimer 544: <li>LibreSSL 2.8.2
1.86 bcook 545: <ul>
546: <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
547: <ul>
548: <li>X509 verification is now more strict so
549: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.3">X509_VERIFY_PARAM</a>
550: host, ip or email failure will cause future
1.88 bcook 551: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_verify_cert.3">X509_verify_cert(3)</a>
1.86 bcook 552: calls to fail.
553: <li>Support for single DES cipher suites is removed.
554: <li>Support for RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 (RFC 8017) is added to
555: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/man3/RSA_sign.3">RSA_sign(3)</a>
1.88 bcook 556: <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 557: is a no-op in LibreSSL, so this function returns an error to not
558: indicate the (non-)existence of memory leaks.
1.88 bcook 559: <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 560: <li>Converted a number of #defines into proper functions, matching
1.88 bcook 561: 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)
562: <li>Added X509_get0_serialNumber(3) from OpenSSL.
563: <li>Removed EVP_PKEY2PKCS8_broken(3) and PKCS8_set_broken(3), while adding
564: PKCS8_pkey_add1_attr_by_NID(3) and PKCS8_pkey_get0_attrs(3), matching
1.86 bcook 565: OpenSSL.
1.88 bcook 566: <li>Removed broken pkcs8 formats from <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a>.
567: <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.
568: <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 569: <li>Extensive documentation updates and additional API history.
570: <li>Removed SSL_OP_TLS_ROLLBACK_BUG buggy client workarounds.
1.88 bcook 571: <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 572: <li>Added const annotations to many existing APIs from OpenSSL, making
573: interoperability easier for downstream applications.
1.88 bcook 574: <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 575: </ul>
576: <li>Testing and Proactive Security
577: <ul>
578: <li>Added Wycheproof test support for ECDH, RSASSA-PSS, AES-GCM,
579: AES-CMAC, AES-CCM, AES-CBC-PKCS5, DSA, ChaCha20-Poly1305, ECDSA, and
580: X25519 test vectors. Applied appropriate fixes for errors uncovered by
581: tests.
582: <li>Added more cipher tests, including all TLSv1.2 ciphers.
583: <li>Added a blinding value when generating DSA and ECDSA signatures, in
584: order to reduce the possibility of a side-channel attack leaking the
585: private key.
586: <li>Added timing-safe compares for checking results of signature
587: verification.
588: <li>Added ECC constant time scalar multiplication support.
589: From Billy Brumley and his team at Tampere University of Technology.
590: </ul>
591:
592: <li>Internal Improvements
593: <ul>
594: <li>Simplified key exchange signature generation and verification.
595: <li>Converted more code paths to use CBB/CBS. All handshake messages are
596: now created by CBB. RSA key exchange is simplified and uses dedicated
597: buffers for secrets.
598: <li>Simplified session ticket parsing and handling, inspired by
599: BoringSSL.
600: <li>Stopped handing AES-GCM in ssl_cipher_get_evp, since they use the
601: EVP_AEAD interface.
602: <li>Stopped using composite EVP_CIPHER AEADs.
603: <li>Removed unused SSL3_FLAGS_DELAY_CLIENT_FINISHED and
604: SSL3_FLAGS_POP_BUFFER flags in write path, simplifying IO paths.
605: <li>Updated BN_clear to use explicit_bzero.
606: <li>Cleaned up BN_* implementations following changes made in OpenSSL by
607: Davide Galassi and others.
608: <li>Revised the implementation of RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 to match the
609: specification in RFC 8017. Based on an OpenSSL commit by David
610: Benjamin.
611: </ul>
612:
613: <li>Bug Fixes
614: <ul>
615: <li>Fixed a one-byte buffer overrun in callers of EVP_read_pw_string
616: <li>Fixed various memory leaks found by Coverity.
617: <li>Converted more functions in public API to use const arguments.
618: <li>Correctly clear the current cipher state, when changing cipher state.
1.90 bcook 619: This fixed an issue where renegotiation of cipher suites would fail
1.86 bcook 620: when switched from AEAD to non-AEAD or vice-versa.
621: Issue reported by Bernard Spil.
622: <li>Fixed a pair of 20+ year-old bugs in X509_NAME_add_entry
623: <li>Fixed a potential memory leak on failure in ASN1_item_digest
624: <li>Fixed a potential memory alignment crash in asn1_item_combine_free
625: <li>Fixed small timing side-channels in ecdsa_sign_setup and
626: dsa_sign_setup.
627: <li>Added a missing bounds check in c2i_ASN1_BIT_STRING.
628: <li>Fixed a potential leak/incorrect return value in DSA signature
629: generation.
630: </ul>
1.14 schwarze 631: </ul>
632:
633: <li>Mandoc 1.14.4
634: <ul>
635: <li>In HTML output, many
636: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> macros
637: now use more fitting HTML elements.
638: <li>In HTML output, almost all "style" attributes and a number of
639: redundant "class" attributes were removed.
640: <li>Baby steps towards responsive design: use a @media query in
641: mandoc.css, use the HTML meta viewport element, and remove all
642: hard-coded widths and heights from the generated HTML code.
643: <li>Many style improvements in
644: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.css">mandoc.css</a>.
645: <li>More than 15 new low level
646: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a>
647: and GNU man-ext features.
648: Mandoc can now format the manuals of the groff port.
1.1 benno 649: </ul>
650:
1.105 bentley 651: <li><p>Ports and packages:
1.1 benno 652: <ul>
1.41 espie 653: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/update-plist.1">update-plist(1)</a>
654: has been entirely rewritten and now figures out MULTI_PACKAGES and
655: variable substitution almost 100%.
1.86 bcook 656: <li>New packages now run maintenance database tools like
657: update-desktop-database just once instead of after
1.41 espie 658: every package addition/removal.
1.89 danj 659: <li>Ports infrastructure manuals
660: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bulk.8">bulk(8)</a>,
661: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dpb.1">dpb(1)</a> and others) are now
662: included in the base install and are therefore readable without the
663: ports tree.
1.1 benno 664: </ul>
1.105 bentley 665:
666: <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1.1 benno 667: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
1.105 bentley 668: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.62 naddy 669: <li>aarch64: 8319
1.44 naddy 670: <li>amd64: 10304
1.98 phessler 671: <li>arm: 8324
1.44 naddy 672: <li>i386: 10230
1.97 naddy 673: <li>mips64: 7181
1.100 naddy 674: <li>mips64el: 7255
1.99 landry 675: <li>powerpc: 8737
1.96 naddy 676: <li>sparc64: 7327
1.105 bentley 677: </ul>
1.1 benno 678:
1.105 bentley 679: <p>Some highlights:
680: <ul style="column-count: 2">
1.1 benno 681: <li>AFL 2.52b
682: <li>CMake 3.10.2
1.6 kirby 683: <li>Chromium 69.0.3497.100
684: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 26.1
1.1 benno 685: <li>GCC 4.9.4
686: <li>GHC 8.2.2
687: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
1.15 schwarze 688: <li>GNOME 3.28.2
1.6 kirby 689: <li>Go 1.11
1.1 benno 690: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.6 kirby 691: <li>JDK 8u172
692: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.1
693: <li>LibreOffice 6.1.1.2
694: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
695: <li>MariaDB 10.0.36
1.26 kirby 696: <li>Mono 5.14.0.177
1.31 kirby 697: <li>Mozilla Firefox 60.2.2esr and 62.0.3
698: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.2.1
1.6 kirby 699: <li>Mutt 1.10.1 and NeoMutt 20180716
700: <li>Node.js 8.12.0
1.81 fcambus 701: <li>OCaml 4.03.0
1.6 kirby 702: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.46
703: <li>PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
704: <li>Postfix 3.3.1 and 3.4-20180904
705: <li>PostgreSQL 10.5
706: <li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.6
707: <li>R 3.5.1
708: <li>Ruby 2.3.7, 2.4.4 and 2.5.1
1.37 lteo 709: <li>Rust 1.29.2
1.6 kirby 710: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.29
711: <li>SQLite3 3.24.0
712: <li>Sudo 1.8.25
1.1 benno 713: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
714: <li>TeX Live 2017
1.10 sthen 715: <li>Vim 8.1.438
1.1 benno 716: <li>Xfce 4.12
1.105 bentley 717: </ul>
1.1 benno 718:
719: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
720:
1.15 schwarze 721: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.1 benno 722: <ul>
723: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.6 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 724: freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 331,
1.1 benno 725: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
1.8 matthieu 726: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 727: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
728: <li>Perl 5.24.3 (+ patches)
1.9 florian 729: <li>NSD 4.1.25
1.37 lteo 730: <li>Unbound 1.8.1
1.1 benno 731: <li>Ncurses 5.7
732: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
733: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
734: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.8 matthieu 735: <li>Expat 2.2.6
1.1 benno 736: </ul>
737: </ul>
1.105 bentley 738: </section>
1.1 benno 739:
740: <hr>
741:
1.105 bentley 742: <section id=install>
743: <h3>How to install</h3>
1.106 deraadt 744: <p>
1.1 benno 745: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
746: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.4 on your machine:
747:
748: <ul>
749: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
750: .../OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
751: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
752: .../OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
753: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
754: .../OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
755: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
756: .../OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
757: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
758: .../OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
759: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
760: .../OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
761: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
762: .../OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
763: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
764: .../OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
765: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
766: .../OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
767: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
768: .../OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
769: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
770: .../OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
771: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
772: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
773: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
774: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
775: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 776: </section>
1.1 benno 777:
778: <hr>
779:
1.105 bentley 780: <section id=quickinstall>
1.1 benno 781: <p>
782: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
783: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
784: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
785: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
786:
1.105 bentley 787: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1.1 benno 788:
1.105 bentley 789: <p>
1.1 benno 790: Write <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
791: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
792: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1.105 bentley 793:
1.1 benno 794: <p>
795: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
796: will most likely fail.
797:
1.105 bentley 798: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1.1 benno 799:
1.105 bentley 800: <p>
1.1 benno 801: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
802: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
803: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1.105 bentley 804:
1.1 benno 805: <p>
806: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
807: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1.105 bentley 808:
1.1 benno 809: <p>
810: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
811: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
812: INSTALL.amd64 document.
1.105 bentley 813:
1.1 benno 814: <p>
815: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
816: read INSTALL.amd64.
817:
1.105 bentley 818: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
1.1 benno 819:
1.105 bentley 820: <p>
1.1 benno 821: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
822: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
823:
1.105 bentley 824: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
1.1 benno 825:
1.105 bentley 826: <p>
1.1 benno 827: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
828: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
829:
1.105 bentley 830: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
1.1 benno 831:
1.105 bentley 832: <p>
1.1 benno 833: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
834: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
835:
1.105 bentley 836: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
1.1 benno 837:
1.105 bentley 838: <p>
1.1 benno 839: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
840: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
841: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1.105 bentley 842:
1.1 benno 843: <p>
844: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
845: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1.105 bentley 846:
1.1 benno 847: <p>
848: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
849: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
850: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
1.105 bentley 851:
1.1 benno 852: <p>
853: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
854: read INSTALL.i386.
855:
1.105 bentley 856: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
1.1 benno 857:
1.105 bentley 858: <p>
1.1 benno 859: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the start of the CF
860: or disk, and boot normally.
861:
1.105 bentley 862: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
1.1 benno 863:
1.105 bentley 864: <p>
1.1 benno 865: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
866: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
867: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
868:
1.105 bentley 869: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
1.1 benno 870:
1.105 bentley 871: <p>
872: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1.1 benno 873: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
874: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
875:
1.105 bentley 876: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1.1 benno 877:
1.105 bentley 878: <p>
1.1 benno 879: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
880: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
881: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1.105 bentley 882:
1.1 benno 883: <p>
884: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
885: /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
886:
1.105 bentley 887: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
1.1 benno 888:
1.105 bentley 889: <p>
1.1 benno 890: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
891: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
892:
1.105 bentley 893: <h3>OpenBSD/sgi:</h3>
1.1 benno 894:
1.105 bentley 895: <p>
1.1 benno 896: To install, burn cd64.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
897: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
898: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
899: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
900: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
901:
902: <p>
903: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
904: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
905: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
906:
1.105 bentley 907: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1.1 benno 908:
1.105 bentley 909: <p>
1.1 benno 910: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
911: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1.105 bentley 912:
1.1 benno 913: <p>
914: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
915: <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i>
916: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
917: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1.105 bentley 918:
1.1 benno 919: <p>
920: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
921: will most likely fail.
1.105 bentley 922:
1.1 benno 923: <p>
924: You can also write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the swap partition on
925: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1.105 bentley 926:
1.1 benno 927: <p>
928: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1.105 bentley 929: </section>
1.1 benno 930:
931: <hr>
932:
1.105 bentley 933: <section id=upgrade>
934: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
935: <p>
1.1 benno 936: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
937: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
938: <a href="faq/upgrade64.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1.105 bentley 939: </section>
1.1 benno 940:
941: <hr>
942:
1.105 bentley 943: <section id=sourcecode>
944: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
945: <p>
946: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
1.1 benno 947: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
948: which are in a separate archive.
949: To extract:
950:
951: <blockquote><pre>
1.106 deraadt 952: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
953: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
954: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
1.1 benno 955: </pre></blockquote>
956:
1.105 bentley 957: <p>
958: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
1.1 benno 959: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
960: To extract:
961:
962: <blockquote><pre>
1.106 deraadt 963: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
964: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
965: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
1.1 benno 966: </pre></blockquote>
967:
1.105 bentley 968: <p>
1.1 benno 969: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
970: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
971: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
972: Using these files
973: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
974: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1.105 bentley 975: </section>
1.1 benno 976:
977: <hr>
978:
1.105 bentley 979: <section id=ports>
980: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
981: <p>
1.1 benno 982: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
983:
984: <blockquote><pre>
1.106 deraadt 985: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
986: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
1.1 benno 987: </pre></blockquote>
988:
1.105 bentley 989: <p>
1.1 benno 990: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
991: if you know nothing about ports
992: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
993: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
994: OpenBSD ports system.
995: <p>
996: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
997: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
998: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
999: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
1000: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1001: with a command like:
1002:
1003: <blockquote><pre>
1.106 deraadt 1004: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
1005: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_4</kbd>
1.1 benno 1006: </pre></blockquote>
1007:
1.105 bentley 1008: <p>
1.1 benno 1009: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1010: server.]
1011: <p>
1012: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1013: ports for the 6.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
1014: <p>
1015: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1016: would like to know more, the mailing list
1017: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1.105 bentley 1018: </section>
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