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23: Released Nov 1, 2018<br>
24: Copyright 1997-2018, Theo de Raadt.<br>
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27: 6.4 Song: Maybe...
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31: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
32: a list of mirror machines.
33: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/6.4/</font> directory on
34: one of the mirror sites.
35: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata64.html">the 6.4 errata page</a> for a list
36: of bugs and workarounds.
37: <li>See a <a href="plus64.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
38: 6.3 and 6.4 releases.
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40: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
41: pubkeys for this release:<br>
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44: fw: RWRoBbjnosJ/39llpve1XaNIrrQND4knG+jSBeIUYU8x4WNkxz6a2K97
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55:
56: <h3 id="new"><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
57:
58: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.4.
59: <!-- XXX worth keeping this line? -->For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus64.html">changelog</a> leading
60: to 6.4.
61:
62: <ul>
63:
64: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
65: <ul>
1.35 kettenis 66: <li>ACPI support on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.40 jsg 67: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
68: driver was updated to code based on Linux 4.4.155 adding modesetting
69: support for KAVERI/KABINI/MULLINS APUs and
70: OLAND/BONAIRE/HAINAN/HAWAII GPUs.
1.35 kettenis 71: <li>Support for
72: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
73: on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.3 jcs 74: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umt.4">umt(4)</a> driver
75: for USB Windows Precision Touchpad devices.
1.22 schwarze 76: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4">bnxt(4)</a>
77: driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E PCI Express Ethernet
1.23 ccardena 78: adapters based on the Broadcom BCM573xx and BCM574xx chipsets. Enabled
79: on amd64 and arm64 platforms.
1.22 schwarze 80: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mue.4">mue(4)</a>
81: driver for Microchip LAN7500/LAN7505/LAN7515/LAN7850 USB 2.0
82: and LAN7800/LAN7801 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet devices.
83: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpisurface.4">acpisurface(4)</a>
84: driver providing ACPI support for Microsoft Surface Book laptops.
1.35 kettenis 85: <li>New
86: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/agintcmsi.4">agintcmsi(4/arm64)</a>
87: driver for the ITS component of the ARM GIC.
1.22 schwarze 88: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a>
89: driver for the Synopsys Designware PCIe controller,
90: which is built into various SoCs.
91: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpipci.4">acpipci(4/arm64)</a>
92: driver providing support for PCI host bridges
93: based on information provided by ACPI.
94: <li>New
95: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvclock.4">mvclock(4)</a>,
96: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvgpio.4">mvgpio(4)</a>,
97: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvicu.4">mvicu(4)</a>,
98: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrng.4">mvrng(4)</a>,
99: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrtc.4">mvrtc(4)</a>, and
100: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvtemp.4">mvtemp(4)</a>
101: drivers for various components of the Marvell Armada SoCs.
102: <li>New
103: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hiclock.4">hiclock(4)</a>,
104: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hidwusb.4">hidwusb(4)</a>,
105: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hireset.4">hireset(4)</a>, and
106: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hitemp.4">hitemp(4)</a>
107: drivers for various components of the HiSilicon SoCs.
108: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccp.4">ccp(4)</a> and
109: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octcrypto.4">octcrypto(4/octeon)</a>
110: drivers for hardware-accelerated cryptography.
111: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccpmic.4">ccpmic(4)</a> and
112: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tipmic.4">tipmic(4)</a>
113: drivers for Intel Crystal Cove and Dollar Cove
114: TI Power Management ICs.
115: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxrtc.4">imxrtc(4)</a>
116: driver for the RTC integrated in Freescale i.MX7 and i.MX8 processors.
117: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fanpwr.4">fanpwr(4)</a>
118: driver for the Fairchild FAN53555 and Silergy SYR827/828
119: voltage regulators.
120: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pinctrl.4">pinctrl(4)</a>
121: driver for generic pin multiplexing.
122: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/plgpio.4">plgpio(4)</a>
123: driver for the ARM PrimeCell PL061 GPIO controller.
1.21 schwarze 124: <li>PIE support for the m88k platform.
1.28 jcs 125: <li>Support for some HID-over-I<sup>2</sup>C touchscreen devices in
126: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imt.4">imt(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 127: <li>Support for RTL8188EE and RTL8723AE in
128: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a>.
1.30 kevlo 129: <li>Support for RT3290 in
130: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ral.4">ral(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 131: <li>Support for SAS 3.5 controllers (SAS34xx and SAS35xx) in
132: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
133: <li>Support for drive and battery status sensors and bio in
134: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mfii.4">mfii(4)</a>.
1.40 jsg 135: <li>On i386 Intel CPU microcode is loaded on boot.
1.42 kn 136: <li>On sparc64 <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldomctl.8">ldomctl(8)</a>
137: now supports more modern firmwares found on SPARC T2+ and T3 machines in
138: particular such as T1000, T5120 and T5240.
139: NVRAM variables can now be set per logical domain.
1.1 benno 140: </ul>
141:
142: <p>
1.36 reyk 143: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> and
1.1 benno 144: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
145: <ul>
1.36 reyk 146: <li>Support for qcow2 disk and snapshot images.
147: <li>Support for VM templates and derived instances in
148: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5#VM_INSTANCES">vm.conf(5)</a> and
149: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
1.23 ccardena 150: <li>Added initial <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
1.36 reyk 151: support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>
1.23 ccardena 152: along with general cleanups.
1.36 reyk 153: <li>Various bug fixes and improvements.
1.1 benno 154: </ul>
155: <p>
156:
157: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
158: <ul>
1.45 benno 159: <li>With the new 'join' feature (managed with <a
160: href="http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig#IEEE_802.11_(WIRELESS_DEVICES)">
161: ifconfig(8)</a>), the kernel manages automatic switching between
162: different wifi networks.
1.1 benno 163: </ul>
164: <p>
165:
166: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
167: <ul>
1.23 ccardena 168: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
169: now has LACP administrative knobs for: mode, timeout, system priority,
170: port priority, and ifq priority.
171: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
172: now has the ability to adjust LACP administrative knobs:
173: <code>lacpmode</code> and <code>lacptimeout</code>.
1.1 benno 174: </ul>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li>Installer improvements:
178: <ul>
1.43 kn 179: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/installurl.5">installurl(5)</a> now
180: defaults to
181: <a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD">cdn.openbsd.org</a> if it
182: does not exist and no official mirror was used to get working
183: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> and
184: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8">syspatch(8)</a> experience
185: out of the box.
1.46 abieber 186: <li>DUID can be used to answer the "Which disk is the root disk?"
1.53 benno 187: question during upgrade.
1.1 benno 188: </ul>
189: <p>
190:
1.33 claudio 191: <li>Security improvements:
192: <ul>
193: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
194: system call to restrict file system access of the calling
195: process to the specified files and directories. It is most
196: powerful when properly combined with privilege separation
197: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
1.54 beck 198: <li>New RETGUARD security mechanism on amd64 and arm64:
1.33 claudio 199: use per-function random cookies to protect access to function
200: return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets.
201: <li>Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is now disabled by default
202: and can be enabled with the new <code>hw.smt</code>
203: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
204: <li>Audio recording is now disabled by default and can be enabled
205: with the new <code>kern.audio.record</code>
206: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
207: </ul>
208: <p>
209:
1.1 benno 210: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
211: <ul>
1.48 remi 212: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now set
213: the metric for a route depending on the status of an interface.
214: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now be
215: bound into an alternate routing domain.
1.2 benno 216: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> is
217: now pledged.
218: <li>Prevent ospfd(8) and ospf6d(8) to be started more than once
219: (in the same routing domain).
1.11 florian 220: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is now fully
221: pledged.
222: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is informed by
223: the kernel when Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) fails and generates
224: different addresses when possible.
225: <li>When <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> detects
226: roaming between networks it deprecates all configured IPs. IPs from
227: newly advertised prefixes will the preferred.
228: <li>A new daemon, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a> sends
229: IPv6 Router Advertisement messages and replaces the old rtadvd(8)
230: daemon from KAME.
1.16 schwarze 231: <li>The anachronistic
232: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/networks.5">networks(5)</a>
233: configuration file is no longer supported.
1.17 kn 234: <li>More robust <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
235: parsing routines and corner case fixes around table and anchor
236: handling.
237: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a> now errors out
238: on bad <tt>-netmask/-prefixlen</tt> usage instead of configuring
1.38 sthen 239: ambiguous routes.
1.1 benno 240: </ul>
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> improvements:
244: <ul>
1.32 claudio 245: <li>The default filter actions was changed from allow to deny.
246: <li>The config option 'announce (all|self|none|default-route)'
247: has been deprecated and superseded by filter configuration.
248: <li>Improved prefix-sets both in speed and user experience.
249: <li>Introduced as-sets to match ASPATH against large lists of AS numbers.
250: <li>Support for BGP Origin Validation
251: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6811">RFC 6811</a>
252: through the <code>roa-set</code> directive.
253: <li>Added origin-sets for matching prefix / origin AS pairs efficently.
254: <li>Some syntax cleanups; newlines are optional inside expansion
255: lists (previously newlines needed to be escaped), but in neighbor,
256: group and rdomain blocks multiple statements have to be on new lines.
257: <li>Reduce the amount of work done during a configuration reload.
258: <li>Make config reload not block other event handling in the
259: route decision engine.
260: <li>Better support and bugfixes for multiple bgpd processes
261: running in different rdomains
1.1 benno 262: </ul>
263: <p>
264:
265: <li>Assorted improvements:
266: <ul>
1.27 jcs 267: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rasops.9">rasops(9)</a>-backed
1.3 jcs 268: framebuffer consoles such as
269: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a> and
270: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now support
271: scrollback.
1.7 anton 272: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>
273: gained support for permanent A records, similiar to
274: <tt>local-data</tt>
275: supported by
276: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.8">unbound(8)</a>.
277: <li>New
278: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
279: driver used for collection of code coverage inside the kernel.
280: It's used in an ongoing effort to fuzz the kernel.
1.16 schwarze 281: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uid_from_user.3">uid_from_user(3)</a>
282: and
283: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gid_from_group.3">gid_from_group(3)</a>
284: were added to the C library and are now used in several programs,
285: to speed up repeated lookups.
1.21 schwarze 286: <li>New semaphore implementation making
287: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sem_post.3">sem_post(3)</a>
288: async-safe.
289: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_set_immediate_mode.3"
290: >pcap_set_immediate_mode(3)</a> was imported from mainline libpcap,
291: allowing programs to process packets as soon as they arrive.
1.16 schwarze 292: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now supports
293: 64 bit integers on all architectures.
1.7 anton 294: <li>A bug in
295: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
296: related to variable expansion of read-only varibles has been fixed.
1.14 schwarze 297: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lam.1">lam(1)</a>
298: now provides UTF-8 support.
1.23 ccardena 299: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a> and
300: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> on arm64 RAMDISK.
1.34 bluhm 301: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> IP fragment
302: reassembly uses a better algorithm to make it robust against
303: denial of service attacks.
1.39 reyk 304: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldap.1">ldap(1)</a>
305: tool implementing a simple ldap search client.
1.1 benno 306: </ul>
307: <p>
308:
309: <li>OpenSMTPD x.x.x
310: <ul>
1.19 schwarze 311: <li>Incompatible change to the
312: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf.5">smtpd.conf(5)</a>
313: grammar: separate envelope matching, which happens during the
314: SMTP dialogue while receiving a message and merely results
315: in assigning an action name, from delivery actions, which do
316: not take effect until the queue runner makes a delivery attempt.
317: This gets rid of several different roadblocks in OpenSMTPD
318: development.
319: <li> ...
1.1 benno 320: </ul>
321: <p>
322:
1.52 benno 323: <li><a href="https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.8">OpenSSH 7.8</a>
1.1 benno 324: <ul>
1.49 benno 325: <li>New features:
1.1 benno 326: <ul>
1.50 benno 327: <li>In most places
328: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
329: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> where
330: port numbers are used, service names (from /etc/services) can
331: now be used.
332: <li>The <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
333: IdentityAgent configuration directive now accepts environment
334: variable names. This supports the use of multiple agent
335: sockets without needing to use fixed paths.
1.49 benno 336: <li>Support signalling sessions via the SSH protocol in
337: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>.
1.50 benno 338: <li>"ssh -Q sig" can be used to list supported signature
339: options. Also "ssh -Q help" will show the full set of
340: supported queries.
341: <li>The new CASignatureAlgorithms option
342: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
343: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
344: controlls the allowed signature formats for CAs to sign
345: certificates with. For example, this allows banning CAs that
346: sign certificates using the RSA-SHA1 signature algorithm.
347: <li>Key revocation lists (KRLs) can now contain keys specified
348: by SHA256 hash. These lists are managed
349: by <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.8">ssh-keygen(8)</a>. In
1.49 benno 350: addition, KRLs can now be created from base64-encoded SHA256
1.50 benno 351: fingerprints, i.e. from only the information contained
352: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
353: authentication log messages.
1.1 benno 354: </ul>
1.52 benno 355: <li>Non-exhaustive list of Bugfixes:
356: <ul>
1.55 benno 357:
358: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>ssh(1),
359: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
360: avoid spurious "invalid format" errors when attempting to load
361: PEM private keys while using an incorrect passphrase.
362: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: when a
363: channel closed message is received from a client, close the
364: stderr file descriptor at the same time stdout is closed. This
365: avoids stuck processes if they were waiting for stderr to
366: close and were insensitive to stdin/out closing.
1.52 benno 367: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: allow
368: ForwardX11Timeout=0 to disable the untrusted X11 forwarding
369: timeout and support X11 forwarding indefinitely. Previously
370: the behaviour of ForwardX11Timeout=0 was undefined.
371: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: do not
372: fail closed when configured with a text key revocation list
373: that contains a too-short key.
374: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:treat
375: connections with ProxyJump specified the same as ones with a
376: ProxyCommand set with regards to hostname canonicalisation
377: (i.e. don't try to canonicalise the hostname unless
378: CanonicalizeHostname is set to 'always').
379: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: fix
380: regression in OpenSSH 7.8 that could prevent public-key
381: authentication using certificates hosted in
1.55 benno 382: a <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a> or
1.52 benno 383: against <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
384: from OpenSSH <7.8.
385: </ul>
1.1 benno 386: </ul>
1.52 benno 387:
1.1 benno 388: <p>
389:
390: <li>LibreSSL 2.x.x
391: <ul>
1.56 ! beck 392: <li>
1.14 schwarze 393: </ul>
394: <p>
395:
396: <li>Mandoc 1.14.4
397: <ul>
398: <li>In HTML output, many
399: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> macros
400: now use more fitting HTML elements.
401: <li>In HTML output, almost all "style" attributes and a number of
402: redundant "class" attributes were removed.
403: <li>Baby steps towards responsive design: use a @media query in
404: mandoc.css, use the HTML meta viewport element, and remove all
405: hard-coded widths and heights from the generated HTML code.
406: <li>Many style improvements in
407: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.css">mandoc.css</a>.
408: <li>More than 15 new low level
409: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a>
410: and GNU man-ext features.
411: Mandoc can now format the manuals of the groff port.
1.1 benno 412: </ul>
413: <p>
414:
415: <li>Ports and packages:
416: <ul>
1.41 espie 417: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/update-plist.1">update-plist(1)</a>
418: has been entirely rewritten and now figures out MULTI_PACKAGES and
419: variable substitution almost 100%.
420: <li>New packages now run maintenance database tools like
421: update-desktop-database just once instead of after
422: every package addition/removal.
1.1 benno 423: </ul>
424: <dl>
425: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
426: </dl>
427: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
428: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
429: <tr>
430: <td valign="top" width="25%">
431: <ul>
432: <li>aarch64:
433: <li>alpha:
1.44 naddy 434: <li>amd64: 10304
1.1 benno 435: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
436: <li>arm:
1.44 naddy 437: <li>i386: 10230
1.1 benno 438: <li>mips64:
439: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
440: <li>mips64el:
441: <li>powerpc:
442: </ul></td></tr></table>
443: <p>
444:
445: <dl>
1.15 schwarze 446: <dt>Some highlights:
1.1 benno 447: </dl>
448: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
449: <tr>
450: <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul>
451: <li>AFL 2.52b
452: <li>CMake 3.10.2
1.6 kirby 453: <li>Chromium 69.0.3497.100
454: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 26.1
1.1 benno 455: <li>GCC 4.9.4
456: <li>GHC 8.2.2
457: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
1.15 schwarze 458: <li>GNOME 3.28.2
1.6 kirby 459: <li>Go 1.11
1.1 benno 460: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.6 kirby 461: <li>JDK 8u172
462: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.1
463: <li>LibreOffice 6.1.1.2
464: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
465: <li>MariaDB 10.0.36
1.26 kirby 466: <li>Mono 5.14.0.177
1.31 kirby 467: <li>Mozilla Firefox 60.2.2esr and 62.0.3
468: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.2.1
1.1 benno 469: </ul></td><td valign=top width="50%"><ul>
1.6 kirby 470: <li>Mutt 1.10.1 and NeoMutt 20180716
471: <li>Node.js 8.12.0
1.1 benno 472: <li>Ocaml 4.03.0
1.6 kirby 473: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.46
474: <li>PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
475: <li>Postfix 3.3.1 and 3.4-20180904
476: <li>PostgreSQL 10.5
477: <li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.6
478: <li>R 3.5.1
479: <li>Ruby 2.3.7, 2.4.4 and 2.5.1
1.37 lteo 480: <li>Rust 1.29.2
1.6 kirby 481: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.29
482: <li>SQLite3 3.24.0
483: <li>Sudo 1.8.25
1.1 benno 484: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
485: <li>TeX Live 2017
1.10 sthen 486: <li>Vim 8.1.438
1.1 benno 487: <li>Xfce 4.12
488: </ul></td></tr></table>
489: <p>
490:
491: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
492: <p>
493:
1.15 schwarze 494: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.1 benno 495: <ul>
496: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.6 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 497: freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 331,
1.1 benno 498: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
1.8 matthieu 499: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 500: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
501: <li>Perl 5.24.3 (+ patches)
1.9 florian 502: <li>NSD 4.1.25
1.37 lteo 503: <li>Unbound 1.8.1
1.1 benno 504: <li>Ncurses 5.7
505: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
506: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
507: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.8 matthieu 508: <li>Expat 2.2.6
1.1 benno 509: </ul>
510: </ul>
511:
512: <hr>
513:
514: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
515:
516: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
517: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.4 on your machine:
518:
519: <ul>
520: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
521: .../OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
522: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
523: .../OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
524: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
525: .../OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
526: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
527: .../OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
528: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
529: .../OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
530: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
531: .../OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
532: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
533: .../OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
534: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
535: .../OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
536: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
537: .../OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
538: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
539: .../OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
540: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
541: .../OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
542: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
543: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
544: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
545: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
546: </ul>
547:
548: <hr>
549:
550: <p>
551: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
552: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
553: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
554: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
555:
556: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
557:
558: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
559: <li>
560: Write <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
561: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
562: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
563: <p>
564: <li>
565: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
566: will most likely fail.
567: </ul>
568:
569: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
570:
571: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
572: <li>
573: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
574: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
575: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
576: <p>
577: <li>
578: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
579: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
580: <p>
581: <li>
582: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
583: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
584: INSTALL.amd64 document.
585: <p>
586: <li>
587: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
588: read INSTALL.amd64.
589: </ul>
590:
591: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arm64:</font></h3>
592:
593: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
594: <li>
595: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
596: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
597: <p>
598: </ul>
599:
600: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7:</font></h3>
601:
602: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
603: <li>
604: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
605: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
606: <p>
607: </ul>
608:
609: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
610:
611: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
612: <li>
613: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
614: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
615: </ul>
616:
617: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
618:
619: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
620: <li>
621: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
622: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
623: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
624: <p>
625: <li>
626: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
627: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
628: <p>
629: <li>
630: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
631: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
632: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
633: <p>
634: <li>
635: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
636: read INSTALL.i386.
637: </ul>
638:
639: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
640:
641: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
642: <li>
643: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the start of the CF
644: or disk, and boot normally.
645: </ul>
646:
647: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
648:
649: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
650: <li>
651: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
652: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
653: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
654: </ul>
655:
656: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
657:
658: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
659: <li>
660: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
661: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
662: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
663: </ul>
664:
665: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
666:
667: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
668: <li>
669: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
670: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
671: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
672: <p>
673: <li>
674: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
675: /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
676: </ul>
677:
678: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
679:
680: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
681: <li>
682: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
683: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
684: </ul>
685:
686: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
687:
688: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
689: <li>
690: To install, burn cd64.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
691: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
692: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
693: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
694: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
695:
696: <p>
697: <li>
698: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
699: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
700: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
701: </ul>
702:
703: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
704:
705: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
706: <li>
707: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
708: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
709: <p>
710: <li>
711: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
712: <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i>
713: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
714: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
715: <p>
716: <li>
717: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
718: will most likely fail.
719: <p>
720: <li>
721: You can also write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the swap partition on
722: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
723: <p>
724: <li>
725: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
726: </ul>
727:
728: <hr>
729:
730: <h3 id="upgrade"><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
731:
732: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
733: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
734: <a href="faq/upgrade64.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
735: <p>
736:
737: <hr>
738:
739: <h3 id="sourcecode"><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
740:
741: <tt>src.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src</tt>.
742: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
743: which are in a separate archive.
744: To extract:
745:
746: <blockquote><pre>
747: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
748: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
749: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
750: </pre></blockquote>
751:
752: <tt>sys.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src/sys</tt>.
753: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
754: To extract:
755:
756: <blockquote><pre>
757: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
758: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
759: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
760: </pre></blockquote>
761:
762: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
763: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
764: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
765: Using these files
766: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
767: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
768: <p>
769:
770: <hr>
771:
772: <h3 id="ports"><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
773:
774: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
775:
776: <blockquote><pre>
777: # <b>cd /usr</b>
778: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
779: </pre></blockquote>
780:
781: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
782: if you know nothing about ports
783: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
784: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
785: OpenBSD ports system.
786: <p>
787: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
788: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
789: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
790: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
791: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
792: with a command like:
793:
794: <blockquote><pre>
795: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
796: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_4</b>
797: </pre></blockquote>
798:
799: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
800: server.]
801: <p>
802: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
803: ports for the 6.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
804: <p>
805: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
806: would like to know more, the mailing list
807: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
808: <p>
809: </body>
810: </html>
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