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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.
1.60 mortimer 140: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/com.4">com(4)</a>
141: better supports Synopsys Designware UARTs.
142: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/islrtc.4">islrtc</a>
143: driver for Intersil ISL1208 Real Time Clock.
144: <li>Support for the Huawei k3772 in
145: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umsm.4">umsm</a>.
1.61 fcambus 146: <li>Support for the VIA VX900 chipset in
147: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/viapm.4">viapm(4)</a>.
1.74 landry 148: <li>Support for GNSS networks other than GPS in
149: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nmea.4">nmea(4)</a>.
1.76 ! mortimer 150: <li>Support for Elantech trackpoints in
! 151: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pms.4">pms(4)</a>.
! 152: <li>Added a sensor for port replicatior status to
! 153: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpithinkpad.4">acpithinkpad(4)</a>.
! 154: <li>Support for monitor mode in
! 155: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a>.
! 156: <li>Support for Allwinner H3 and A64 SoC in
! 157: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxitemp.4">scitemp(4)</a>.
1.1 benno 158: </ul>
159:
160: <p>
1.36 reyk 161: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> and
1.1 benno 162: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
163: <ul>
1.36 reyk 164: <li>Support for qcow2 disk and snapshot images.
165: <li>Support for VM templates and derived instances in
166: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5#VM_INSTANCES">vm.conf(5)</a> and
167: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
1.23 ccardena 168: <li>Added initial <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
1.36 reyk 169: support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>
1.23 ccardena 170: along with general cleanups.
1.36 reyk 171: <li>Various bug fixes and improvements.
1.1 benno 172: </ul>
173: <p>
174:
175: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
176: <ul>
1.45 benno 177: <li>With the new 'join' feature (managed with <a
178: href="http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig#IEEE_802.11_(WIRELESS_DEVICES)">
179: ifconfig(8)</a>), the kernel manages automatic switching between
180: different wifi networks.
1.76 ! mortimer 181: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
! 182: scan performance has been improved for many devices.
1.1 benno 183: </ul>
184: <p>
185:
186: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
187: <ul>
1.65 mpi 188: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
1.23 ccardena 189: now has LACP administrative knobs for: mode, timeout, system priority,
190: port priority, and ifq priority.
1.65 mpi 191: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.23 ccardena 192: now has the ability to adjust LACP administrative knobs:
193: <code>lacpmode</code> and <code>lacptimeout</code>.
1.65 mpi 194: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendmsg.2">sendmsg(2)</a>,
195: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sendto.2">sendto(2)</a>,
196: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvfrom.2">recvfrom(2)</a> and
197: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recvmsg.2">recvmsg(2)</a> are
1.66 sthen 198: run without KERNEL_LOCK.
1.65 mpi 199: <li>New global IPsec counters are available via
200: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a>.
1.76 ! mortimer 201: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/eoip.4">eoip(4)</a>
! 202: interface for the MikroTik Ethernet over IP (EoIP)
! 203: encapsulation protocol.
1.1 benno 204: </ul>
205: <p>
206:
207: <li>Installer improvements:
208: <ul>
1.43 kn 209: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/installurl.5">installurl(5)</a> now
210: defaults to
211: <a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD">cdn.openbsd.org</a> if it
212: does not exist and no official mirror was used to get working
213: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> and
214: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8">syspatch(8)</a> experience
215: out of the box.
1.46 abieber 216: <li>DUID can be used to answer the "Which disk is the root disk?"
1.53 benno 217: question during upgrade.
1.75 fcambus 218: <li>Installing a
1.68 krw 219: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/diskless.8">diskless(8)</a>
220: setup can be done over interfaces configured with
221: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>.
1.1 benno 222: </ul>
223: <p>
224:
1.33 claudio 225: <li>Security improvements:
226: <ul>
227: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
228: system call to restrict file system access of the calling
229: process to the specified files and directories. It is most
230: powerful when properly combined with privilege separation
231: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
1.58 mortimer 232: <li>Implemented MAP_STACK option for
233: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mmap.2">mmap(2)</a>.
234: At pagefaults and syscalls the kernel will check that the
235: stack pointer points to MAP_STACK memory, which mitigates
236: against attacks using stack pivots.
1.54 beck 237: <li>New RETGUARD security mechanism on amd64 and arm64:
1.33 claudio 238: use per-function random cookies to protect access to function
239: return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets.
1.58 mortimer 240: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang-local.1">clang(1)</a>
241: includes a pass which identifies common instructions which
242: may be useful in ROP gadgets and replaces them with safe
243: alternatives on amd64 and i386.
244: <li>The Retpoline mitigation against Spectre Variant 2 has been
245: enabled in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang.1">clang(1)</a>
1.76 ! mortimer 246: and in assembly files on amd64 and i386.
1.60 mortimer 247: <li>Meltdown mitigation was added to i386.
1.76 ! mortimer 248: <li>amd64 now uses eager-FPU switching to prevent FPU state
! 249: information speculatively leaking across protection boundaries.
1.63 deraadt 250: <li>Because Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) uses core resources in
251: a shared and unsafe manner, it is now disabled by default
1.33 claudio 252: and can be enabled with the new <code>hw.smt</code>
253: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
254: <li>Audio recording is now disabled by default and can be enabled
255: with the new <code>kern.audio.record</code>
256: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
1.64 deraadt 257: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwnam(3)</a> and
258: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getpwnam.3">getpwuid(3)</a> no
259: longer return a pointer to static storage but a managed allocation
260: which gets unmapped. This allows detection of access to stale entries.
1.60 mortimer 261: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd</a> includes
262: improved defence against user enumeration attacks.
1.33 claudio 263: </ul>
264: <p>
265:
1.1 benno 266: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
267: <ul>
1.48 remi 268: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now set
269: the metric for a route depending on the status of an interface.
270: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now be
271: bound into an alternate routing domain.
1.2 benno 272: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> is
273: now pledged.
274: <li>Prevent ospfd(8) and ospf6d(8) to be started more than once
275: (in the same routing domain).
1.11 florian 276: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is now fully
277: pledged.
278: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is informed by
279: the kernel when Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) fails and generates
280: different addresses when possible.
281: <li>When <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> detects
282: roaming between networks it deprecates all configured IPs. IPs from
1.75 fcambus 283: newly advertised prefixes will be preferred.
1.11 florian 284: <li>A new daemon, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a> sends
285: IPv6 Router Advertisement messages and replaces the old rtadvd(8)
286: daemon from KAME.
1.16 schwarze 287: <li>The anachronistic
288: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/networks.5">networks(5)</a>
289: configuration file is no longer supported.
1.17 kn 290: <li>More robust <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
291: parsing routines and corner case fixes around table and anchor
292: handling.
293: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a> now errors out
294: on bad <tt>-netmask/-prefixlen</tt> usage instead of configuring
1.38 sthen 295: ambiguous routes.
1.67 krw 296: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
297: now adds a direct route to the default route gateway when the
298: gateway is not reachable via the address/netmask provided by the
299: lease.
300: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
301: now updates
302: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>,
303: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>,
304: and any '-L'
305: file before going daemon and returning control
306: to invoking scripts.
307: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
308: '-i' option now discards any previously defined values for the options
309: to be ignored.
1.75 fcambus 310: <li>Any change to any interface now causes
1.67 krw 311: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
312: to appropriately update
313: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>.
314: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
315: now always records the client identifier used to obtain a lease,
316: enabling better conformance to RFC 6842.
317: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
318: now has the option '-r' to release the current lease and exit.
319: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>
320: now avoids inappropriate changes to
321: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf.5">resolv.conf(5)</a>
322: by ignoring
323: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.leases.5">dhclient.leases(5)</a>
324: for interfaces that cannot report their link status.
1.1 benno 325: </ul>
326: <p>
327:
328: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> improvements:
329: <ul>
1.32 claudio 330: <li>The default filter actions was changed from allow to deny.
331: <li>The config option 'announce (all|self|none|default-route)'
332: has been deprecated and superseded by filter configuration.
333: <li>Improved prefix-sets both in speed and user experience.
334: <li>Introduced as-sets to match ASPATH against large lists of AS numbers.
1.72 benno 335: <li>Support for BGP Origin Validation.
1.32 claudio 336: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6811">RFC 6811</a>
337: through the <code>roa-set</code> directive.
338: <li>Added origin-sets for matching prefix / origin AS pairs efficently.
339: <li>Some syntax cleanups; newlines are optional inside expansion
340: lists (previously newlines needed to be escaped), but in neighbor,
341: group and rdomain blocks multiple statements have to be on new lines.
342: <li>Reduce the amount of work done during a configuration reload.
343: <li>Make config reload not block other event handling in the
344: route decision engine.
345: <li>Better support and bugfixes for multiple bgpd processes
1.72 benno 346: running in different rdomains.
1.1 benno 347: </ul>
348: <p>
349:
350: <li>Assorted improvements:
351: <ul>
1.27 jcs 352: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rasops.9">rasops(9)</a>-backed
1.3 jcs 353: framebuffer consoles such as
1.59 brynet 354: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>,
355: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a> and
1.3 jcs 356: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now support
357: scrollback.
1.7 anton 358: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>
359: gained support for permanent A records, similiar to
360: <tt>local-data</tt>
361: supported by
362: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.8">unbound(8)</a>.
363: <li>New
364: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
365: driver used for collection of code coverage inside the kernel.
366: It's used in an ongoing effort to fuzz the kernel.
1.16 schwarze 367: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uid_from_user.3">uid_from_user(3)</a>
368: and
369: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gid_from_group.3">gid_from_group(3)</a>
370: were added to the C library and are now used in several programs,
371: to speed up repeated lookups.
1.21 schwarze 372: <li>New semaphore implementation making
373: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sem_post.3">sem_post(3)</a>
374: async-safe.
375: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_set_immediate_mode.3"
376: >pcap_set_immediate_mode(3)</a> was imported from mainline libpcap,
377: allowing programs to process packets as soon as they arrive.
1.16 schwarze 378: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now supports
379: 64 bit integers on all architectures.
1.7 anton 380: <li>A bug in
381: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
1.75 fcambus 382: related to variable expansion of read-only variables has been fixed.
1.14 schwarze 383: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lam.1">lam(1)</a>
384: now provides UTF-8 support.
1.23 ccardena 385: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a> and
386: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> on arm64 RAMDISK.
1.34 bluhm 387: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> IP fragment
388: reassembly uses a better algorithm to make it robust against
389: denial of service attacks.
1.39 reyk 390: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ldap.1">ldap(1)</a>
391: tool implementing a simple ldap search client.
1.60 mortimer 392: <li>A bug in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/init.8">init(8)</a>
393: that caused hangs on i386 under VMware has been fixed.
394: <li>TFTP boot support was added for U-Boot based arm64 and armv7 platforms
395: via EFI Simple Network protocol.
396: <li>Support was added for the EFI Random Number Generator Protocol
397: to insert additional entropy into the kernel at boot.
398: <li>Support for RFC 3430 (TCP connections) was added to
399: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd</a>.
1.76 ! mortimer 400: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a>
! 401: on amd64, arm64 and armv7. Also enabled on loongson for USB devices.
1.61 fcambus 402: <li>New "Spleen 5x8" font added to wsfont, targetted at small OLED displays.
1.65 mpi 403: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/usbdevs.8">usbdevs(8)</a> now reports
404: USB port statuses.
405: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/top.1">top(1)</a> and
406: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a> now report
407: the time spent by each CPU waiting on spinning locks.
408: <li>Improved read speed on MSDOSFS via clustering.
409: <li>Access to NFS nodes is now serialized.
1.69 krw 410: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a>
411: has a new uvm view that displays statistics relevant to the UVM subsystem.
412: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>
413: now handles carriage returns during incremental search by setting the
414: mark and exiting the search, as modern emacsen do.
1.70 krw 415: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
416: improved the rounding of partition offsets and
417: sizes to cylinder boundaries.
418: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
419: now range checks all user input.
420: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
421: no longer allows FS_RAID partitions to be given a mount point.
422: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
423: now changes partition information only when all user
424: input is valid.
1.71 benno 425: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a> has
426: improved log directives in it's configuration file for finer
427: grained control of what gets logged.
1.76 ! mortimer 428: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>
! 429: now handles terminfo colors greater than 256 correctly.
! 430: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>
! 431: now supports client certificate authentication.
! 432: <li>Numerous improvements to the
! 433: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fuse.4">fuse(4)</a> subsystem.
1.1 benno 434: </ul>
435: <p>
436:
1.57 benno 437: <li>OpenSMTPD
1.1 benno 438: <ul>
1.19 schwarze 439: <li>Incompatible change to the
440: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf.5">smtpd.conf(5)</a>
441: grammar: separate envelope matching, which happens during the
442: SMTP dialogue while receiving a message and merely results
443: in assigning an action name, from delivery actions, which do
444: not take effect until the queue runner makes a delivery attempt.
445: This gets rid of several different roadblocks in OpenSMTPD
446: development.
1.73 gilles 447: <li>Improve SMTP server engine with a new RFC 5322 message parser.
448: <li>Remove limitations preventing
449: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>
450: from dealing with clients submitting long lines.
451: <li>Improve security by moving expansion of .forward file variables
452: into the users' MDA process.
453: <li>Introduce MDA wrappers allowing recipient MDA commands to be
454: transparently wrapped inside global commands.
1.76 ! mortimer 455: <li>A new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtp.1">smtp(1)</a>
! 456: command line client has been added.
1.73 gilles 457: <li>Assorted documentation improvements, cleanups and minor bug fixes.
1.1 benno 458: </ul>
459: <p>
460:
1.52 benno 461: <li><a href="https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#7.8">OpenSSH 7.8</a>
1.1 benno 462: <ul>
1.49 benno 463: <li>New features:
1.1 benno 464: <ul>
1.50 benno 465: <li>In most places
466: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
467: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a> where
468: port numbers are used, service names (from /etc/services) can
469: now be used.
470: <li>The <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
471: IdentityAgent configuration directive now accepts environment
472: variable names. This supports the use of multiple agent
473: sockets without needing to use fixed paths.
1.49 benno 474: <li>Support signalling sessions via the SSH protocol in
475: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>.
1.50 benno 476: <li>"ssh -Q sig" can be used to list supported signature
477: options. Also "ssh -Q help" will show the full set of
478: supported queries.
479: <li>The new CASignatureAlgorithms option
480: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>
481: and <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.75 fcambus 482: controls the allowed signature formats for CAs to sign
1.50 benno 483: certificates with. For example, this allows banning CAs that
484: sign certificates using the RSA-SHA1 signature algorithm.
485: <li>Key revocation lists (KRLs) can now contain keys specified
486: by SHA256 hash. These lists are managed
487: by <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.8">ssh-keygen(8)</a>. In
1.49 benno 488: addition, KRLs can now be created from base64-encoded SHA256
1.50 benno 489: fingerprints, i.e. from only the information contained
490: in <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
491: authentication log messages.
1.1 benno 492: </ul>
1.52 benno 493: <li>Non-exhaustive list of Bugfixes:
1.71 benno 494: <ul>
1.55 benno 495: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>ssh(1),
496: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
497: avoid spurious "invalid format" errors when attempting to load
498: PEM private keys while using an incorrect passphrase.
499: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: when a
500: channel closed message is received from a client, close the
501: stderr file descriptor at the same time stdout is closed. This
502: avoids stuck processes if they were waiting for stderr to
503: close and were insensitive to stdin/out closing.
1.52 benno 504: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: allow
505: ForwardX11Timeout=0 to disable the untrusted X11 forwarding
506: timeout and support X11 forwarding indefinitely. Previously
507: the behaviour of ForwardX11Timeout=0 was undefined.
508: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>: do not
509: fail closed when configured with a text key revocation list
510: that contains a too-short key.
511: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:treat
512: connections with ProxyJump specified the same as ones with a
513: ProxyCommand set with regards to hostname canonicalisation
514: (i.e. don't try to canonicalise the hostname unless
515: CanonicalizeHostname is set to 'always').
516: <li><a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>: fix
517: regression in OpenSSH 7.8 that could prevent public-key
518: authentication using certificates hosted in
1.55 benno 519: a <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a> or
1.52 benno 520: against <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
521: from OpenSSH <7.8.
522: </ul>
1.1 benno 523: </ul>
1.52 benno 524:
1.1 benno 525: <p>
526:
1.60 mortimer 527: <li>LibreSSL 2.8.2
1.1 benno 528: <ul>
1.60 mortimer 529: <li>X509 verification was made more strict so
530: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.3">X509_VERIFY_PARAM</a>
531: host, ip or email failure will cause future
532: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/X509_verify_cert.3">X509_verify_cert</a>
533: calls to fail.
1.76 ! mortimer 534: <li>Support for single DES cipher suites has been removed.
1.14 schwarze 535: </ul>
536: <p>
537:
538: <li>Mandoc 1.14.4
539: <ul>
540: <li>In HTML output, many
541: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> macros
542: now use more fitting HTML elements.
543: <li>In HTML output, almost all "style" attributes and a number of
544: redundant "class" attributes were removed.
545: <li>Baby steps towards responsive design: use a @media query in
546: mandoc.css, use the HTML meta viewport element, and remove all
547: hard-coded widths and heights from the generated HTML code.
548: <li>Many style improvements in
549: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.css">mandoc.css</a>.
550: <li>More than 15 new low level
551: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a>
552: and GNU man-ext features.
553: Mandoc can now format the manuals of the groff port.
1.1 benno 554: </ul>
555: <p>
556:
557: <li>Ports and packages:
558: <ul>
1.41 espie 559: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/update-plist.1">update-plist(1)</a>
560: has been entirely rewritten and now figures out MULTI_PACKAGES and
561: variable substitution almost 100%.
562: <li>New packages now run maintenance database tools like
563: update-desktop-database just once instead of after
564: every package addition/removal.
1.1 benno 565: </ul>
566: <dl>
567: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
568: </dl>
569: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
570: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
571: <tr>
572: <td valign="top" width="25%">
573: <ul>
1.62 naddy 574: <li>aarch64: 8319
1.44 naddy 575: <li>amd64: 10304
1.62 naddy 576: <li>arm:
1.1 benno 577: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.44 naddy 578: <li>i386: 10230
1.1 benno 579: <li>mips64:
1.62 naddy 580: <li>mips64el:
1.1 benno 581: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
582: <li>powerpc:
1.62 naddy 583: <li>sparc64:
1.1 benno 584: </ul></td></tr></table>
585: <p>
586:
587: <dl>
1.15 schwarze 588: <dt>Some highlights:
1.1 benno 589: </dl>
590: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
591: <tr>
592: <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul>
593: <li>AFL 2.52b
594: <li>CMake 3.10.2
1.6 kirby 595: <li>Chromium 69.0.3497.100
596: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 26.1
1.1 benno 597: <li>GCC 4.9.4
598: <li>GHC 8.2.2
599: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
1.15 schwarze 600: <li>GNOME 3.28.2
1.6 kirby 601: <li>Go 1.11
1.1 benno 602: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.6 kirby 603: <li>JDK 8u172
604: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.1
605: <li>LibreOffice 6.1.1.2
606: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
607: <li>MariaDB 10.0.36
1.26 kirby 608: <li>Mono 5.14.0.177
1.31 kirby 609: <li>Mozilla Firefox 60.2.2esr and 62.0.3
610: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.2.1
1.1 benno 611: </ul></td><td valign=top width="50%"><ul>
1.6 kirby 612: <li>Mutt 1.10.1 and NeoMutt 20180716
613: <li>Node.js 8.12.0
1.1 benno 614: <li>Ocaml 4.03.0
1.6 kirby 615: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.46
616: <li>PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
617: <li>Postfix 3.3.1 and 3.4-20180904
618: <li>PostgreSQL 10.5
619: <li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.6
620: <li>R 3.5.1
621: <li>Ruby 2.3.7, 2.4.4 and 2.5.1
1.37 lteo 622: <li>Rust 1.29.2
1.6 kirby 623: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.29
624: <li>SQLite3 3.24.0
625: <li>Sudo 1.8.25
1.1 benno 626: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
627: <li>TeX Live 2017
1.10 sthen 628: <li>Vim 8.1.438
1.1 benno 629: <li>Xfce 4.12
630: </ul></td></tr></table>
631: <p>
632:
633: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
634: <p>
635:
1.15 schwarze 636: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.1 benno 637: <ul>
638: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.6 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 639: freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 331,
1.1 benno 640: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
1.8 matthieu 641: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 642: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
643: <li>Perl 5.24.3 (+ patches)
1.9 florian 644: <li>NSD 4.1.25
1.37 lteo 645: <li>Unbound 1.8.1
1.1 benno 646: <li>Ncurses 5.7
647: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
648: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
649: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.8 matthieu 650: <li>Expat 2.2.6
1.1 benno 651: </ul>
652: </ul>
653:
654: <hr>
655:
656: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
657:
658: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
659: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.4 on your machine:
660:
661: <ul>
662: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
663: .../OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
664: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
665: .../OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
666: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
667: .../OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
668: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
669: .../OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
670: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
671: .../OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
672: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
673: .../OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
674: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
675: .../OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
676: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
677: .../OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
678: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
679: .../OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
680: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
681: .../OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
682: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
683: .../OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
684: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
685: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
686: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
687: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
688: </ul>
689:
690: <hr>
691:
692: <p>
693: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
694: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
695: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
696: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
697:
698: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
699:
700: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
701: <li>
702: Write <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
703: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
704: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
705: <p>
706: <li>
707: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
708: will most likely fail.
709: </ul>
710:
711: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
712:
713: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
714: <li>
715: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
716: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
717: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
718: <p>
719: <li>
720: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
721: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
722: <p>
723: <li>
724: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
725: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
726: INSTALL.amd64 document.
727: <p>
728: <li>
729: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
730: read INSTALL.amd64.
731: </ul>
732:
733: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arm64:</font></h3>
734:
735: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
736: <li>
737: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
738: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
739: <p>
740: </ul>
741:
742: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7:</font></h3>
743:
744: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
745: <li>
746: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
747: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
748: <p>
749: </ul>
750:
751: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
752:
753: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
754: <li>
755: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
756: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
757: </ul>
758:
759: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
760:
761: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
762: <li>
763: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
764: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
765: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
766: <p>
767: <li>
768: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
769: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
770: <p>
771: <li>
772: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
773: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
774: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
775: <p>
776: <li>
777: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
778: read INSTALL.i386.
779: </ul>
780:
781: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
782:
783: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
784: <li>
785: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the start of the CF
786: or disk, and boot normally.
787: </ul>
788:
789: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
790:
791: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
792: <li>
793: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
794: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
795: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
796: </ul>
797:
798: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
799:
800: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
801: <li>
802: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
803: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
804: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
805: </ul>
806:
807: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
808:
809: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
810: <li>
811: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
812: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
813: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
814: <p>
815: <li>
816: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
817: /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
818: </ul>
819:
820: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
821:
822: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
823: <li>
824: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
825: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
826: </ul>
827:
828: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
829:
830: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
831: <li>
832: To install, burn cd64.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
833: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
834: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
835: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
836: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
837:
838: <p>
839: <li>
840: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
841: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
842: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
843: </ul>
844:
845: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
846:
847: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
848: <li>
849: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
850: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
851: <p>
852: <li>
853: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
854: <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i>
855: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
856: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
857: <p>
858: <li>
859: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
860: will most likely fail.
861: <p>
862: <li>
863: You can also write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the swap partition on
864: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
865: <p>
866: <li>
867: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
868: </ul>
869:
870: <hr>
871:
872: <h3 id="upgrade"><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
873:
874: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
875: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
876: <a href="faq/upgrade64.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
877: <p>
878:
879: <hr>
880:
881: <h3 id="sourcecode"><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
882:
883: <tt>src.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src</tt>.
884: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
885: which are in a separate archive.
886: To extract:
887:
888: <blockquote><pre>
889: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
890: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
891: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
892: </pre></blockquote>
893:
894: <tt>sys.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src/sys</tt>.
895: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
896: To extract:
897:
898: <blockquote><pre>
899: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
900: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
901: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
902: </pre></blockquote>
903:
904: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
905: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
906: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
907: Using these files
908: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
909: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
910: <p>
911:
912: <hr>
913:
914: <h3 id="ports"><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
915:
916: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
917:
918: <blockquote><pre>
919: # <b>cd /usr</b>
920: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
921: </pre></blockquote>
922:
923: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
924: if you know nothing about ports
925: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
926: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
927: OpenBSD ports system.
928: <p>
929: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
930: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
931: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
932: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
933: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
934: with a command like:
935:
936: <blockquote><pre>
937: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
938: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_4</b>
939: </pre></blockquote>
940:
941: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
942: server.]
943: <p>
944: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
945: ports for the 6.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
946: <p>
947: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
948: would like to know more, the mailing list
949: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
950: <p>
951: </body>
952: </html>