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<i><font color="#0000ff">Open</font></i><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
<font color="#e00000">6.5</font>
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Released XXX XX, 2019<br>
Copyright 1997-2019, Theo de Raadt.<br>
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<br>
<ul>
<li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
    a list of mirror machines.
<li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/6.5/</font> directory on
    one of the mirror sites.
<li>Have a look at <a href="errata65.html">the 6.5 errata page</a> for a list
    of bugs and workarounds.
<li>See a <a href="plus65.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
    6.4 and 6.5 releases.
<p>
<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
    pubkeys for this release:<br>
<pre>
base:     RWSZaRmt1LEQT9CtPygf9CvONu8kYPTlVEJdysNoUR62/NkeWgdkc3zY
fw:       RWQYdGVtTv5IvpH2c+TLQAC4iV7RjoGZ/v75q8MCuC9Mca7nFVCXRefy
pkg:      RWS5D4+188RI6jULDOFzga0Cm1zrXYUAHT6xu0mLrZidbn6xrMB5aZeR
syspatch: RWT8U2yd3Aq5DnetILjmSoCQxmyt3VqfGS7GBh19oh4Xre4ywc31PEpw
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All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
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<hr>

<h3 id="new"><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>

This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.5.
For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus65.html">changelog</a> leading
to 6.5.

<ul>

<li>Improved hardware support, including:
    <ul>
    <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang.1">clang(1)</a>
        is now provided on mips64.
    <li>The default linker has been switched from the binutils bfd-based linker
        to lld on amd64 and i386.
    <li>The radeonsi Mesa driver is now included for hardware acceleration
        on Southern Islands and Sea Islands
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a> devices.
    <li>octeon: Now the system automatically detects the number of available
        cores. However, manual setting of the numcores, or coremask,
        boot parameter is still needed to enable secondary cores.
    <li>octeon: It is now possible to use the root disk's DUID as the value
        of the rootdev boot parameter.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octeon/octgpio.4">octgpio(4)</a>
        driver for the OCTEON GPIO controller.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pvclock.4">pvclock(4)</a>
        driver for KVM paravirtual clock.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ixl.4">ixl(4)</a>
        driver for Intel Ethernet 700 series controller devices.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/abcrtc.4">abcrtc(4)</a>
        driver for Abracon AB1805 real-time clock.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxsrc.4">imxsrc(4)</a>
        driver for i.MX system reset controller.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uxrcom.4">uxrcom(4)</a>
        driver for Exar XR21V1410 USB serial adapters.
    <li>Support for QCA AR816x/AR817x in
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/alc.4">alc(4)</a>.
    <li>Support for isochronous transfers in
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xhci.4">xhci(4)</a>.
    <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uaudio.4">uaudio(4)</a> has
        been replaced by a new driver which supports USB audio class v2.0.
    </ul>

<p>

<li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
<p>

<li>Generic network stack improvements:
    <ul>
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bpe.4">bpe(4)</a>
        Backbone Provider Edge pseudo-device.
    <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpip.4">mpip(4)</a>
        MPLS IP layer 2 pseudowire.
    </ul>
<p>

<li>Installer improvements:
<p>

<li>Security improvements:
  <ul>
      <li>
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a> has been
        improved to understand and find covering unveil matches above the
        working directory of the running process for relative path accesses.
        As a result many programs now can use unveil in broad ways such as
        unveil("/", "r");
      <li>
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a> no longer
        silently allows
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stat.2">stat(2)</a> and
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/access.2">access(2)</a> to work on any
        unveiled path component.
  </ul>
<p>

<li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
    <ul>
    <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplg.8">bgplg(8)</a> and
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplgsh.8">bgplgsh(8)</a> can
        now filter on Origin Validation State and Extended Communities.
    <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplgsh.8">bgplgsh(8)</a> can
        now [clear|destroy|down|refresh|up] and show groups of neighbors.
    <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap-filter.3">pcap-filter(3)</a> can
        now filter on MPLS packets.
    </ul>
<p>

<li>Assorted improvements:
  <ul>
  <li>
    <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
    gained support for
    <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov#KCOV_MODE_TRACE_CMP">KCOV_MODE_TRACE_CMP</a>.
  <li>
    A 'video' promise was added to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
  <li>
    The <code>kern.witnesswatch</code>
    <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.8">sysctl(8)</a>
    has been renamed to <code>kern.witness.watch</code>.
  </ul>
<p>

<li>OpenSMTPD
<p>

<li>LibreSSL 2.9.X
  <ul>
    <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
    <ul>
      <li>
        CRYPTO_LOCK is now automatically initialized, with the legacy
        callbacks stubbed for compatibility.
      <li>
        Added the SM3 hash function from the Chinese standard GB/T 32905-2016.
      <li>
        Added the SM4 block cipher from the Chinese standard GB/T 32907-2016.
      <li>
        Added more OPENSSL_NO_* macros for compatibility with OpenSSL.
      <li>
        Partial port of the OpenSSL EC_KEY_METHOD API for use by OpenSSH.
      <li>
        Implemented further missing OpenSSL 1.1 API.
      <li>
        Added support for XChaCha20 and XChaCha20-Poly1305.
      <li>
	Added support for AES key wrap constructions via the EVP interface.
    </ul>

    <li>Compatibility Changes
    <ul>
      <li>
        Added pbkdf2 key derivation support
        to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a> enc.
      <li>
        Changed the default digest type of
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a> enc
        to sha256.
      <li>
        Changed the default digest type of
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a> dgst
        to sha256.
      <li>
        Changed the default digest type of
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a>
        x509 -fingerprint to sha256.
      <li>
        Changed the default digest type of
        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1">openssl(1)</a>
        crl -fingerprint to sha256.
    </ul>

    <li>Testing and Proactive Security
    <ul>
      <li>
        Added extensive interoperability tests between LibreSSL and OpenSSL 1.0
        and 1.1.
      <li>
        Added additional Wycheproof tests and related bug fixes.
    </ul>

    <li>Internal Improvements
    <ul>
      <li>
        Simplified sigalgs option processing and handshake signing algorithm
        selection.
      <li>
        Added the ability to use the RSA PSS algorithm for handshake signatures.
      <li>
        Added bn_rand_interval() and use it in code needing ranges of random bn
        values.
      <li>
        Added functionality to derive early, handshake, and application secrets
        as per RFC8446.
      <li>
        Added handshake state machine from RFC8446.
      <li>
        Removed some ASN.1 related code from libcrypto that had not been used
        since around 2000.
      <li>
        Unexported internal symbols and internalized more record layer structs.
      <li>
        Removed SHA224 based handshake signatures from consideration for use in a TLS 1.2 handshake.
    </ul>

    <li>Portable Improvements
    <ul>
      <li>
        Added support for assembly optimizations on 32-bit ARM ELF targets.
    </ul>

    <li>Bug Fixes
    <ul>
      <li>
        Improved protection against timing side channels in ECDSA signature
        generation.
      <li>
        Coordinate blinding was added to some elliptic curves.
        This is the last bit of the work by Brumley et al. to protect against
        the Portsmash vulnerability.
      <li>
        Ensure transcript handshake is always freed with TLS 1.2.
    </ul>
  </ul>
<p>

<li>Mandoc
<p>

<li>Xenocara
  <ul>
     <li>
       <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/Xorg.1">Xorg(1)</a>, the
       X window server, is no longer installed setuid.
       <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xenodm.1">xenodm(1)</a> should be
       used to start X.
  </ul>
  <p>
   
<li>Ports and packages:
    <ul>
      <li>...
    </ul>
    <p>
    <dl>
    <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
    </dl>
    <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
    <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
    <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="25%">
    <ul>
      <li>aarch64:     XXXX
      <li>amd64:      XXXXX
      <li>arm:         XXXX
    </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
      <li>i386:       XXXXX
      <li>mips64:      XXXX
      <li>mips64el:    XXXX
    </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
      <li>powerpc:     XXXX
      <li>sparc64:     XXXX
    </ul></td></tr></table>
    <p>

    <dl>
    <dt>Some highlights:
    </dl>
    <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
    <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="25%"><ul>
	<li>AFL 2.52b
	<li>Asterisk 16.2.1
	<li>Audacity 2.3.1
	<li>CMake 3.10.2
	<li>Chromium 73.0.3683.86
	<li>Emacs 26.1
	<li>FFmpeg 4.1.2
	<li>GCC 4.9.4 and 8.3.0
	<li>GHC 8.2.2
	<li>GNOME 3.30.2.1
	<li>Go 1.12.1
	<li>Groff 1.22.4
	<li>JDK 8u202 and 11.0.2+9-2
    </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
	<li>LLVM/Clang 7.0.1
	<li>LibreOffice 6.2.2.2
	<li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
	<li>MariaDB 10.0.38
	<li>Mono 5.14.0.177
	<li>Mozilla Firefox 66.0.2 and ESR 60.6.1
	<li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.6.1
	<li>Mutt 1.11.4 and NeoMutt 20180716
	<li>Node.js 10.15.0
	<li>OCaml 4.07.1
	<li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.47
	<li>PHP 7.1.27 and 7.2.16
	<li>Postfix 3.3.3 and 3.4.20190106
    </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
	<li>PostgreSQL 11.2
	<li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.8
	<li>R 3.5.3
	<li>Ruby 2.4.5, 2.5.5 and 2.6.2
	<li>Rust 1.33.0
	<li>Sendmail 8.16.0.41
	<li>SQLite3 3.27.2
	<li>Sudo 1.8.27
	<li>Suricata 4.1.3
	<li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
	<li>TeX Live 2018
	<li>Vim 8.1.1048 and Neovim 0.3.4
	<li>Xfce 4.12
    </ul></td></tr></table>
<p>

<li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
<p>

<li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
    <ul>
    <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.7 + patches,
      freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 18.3.5, xterm 344,
      xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
    <li>LLVM/Clang 7.0.1 (+ patches)
    <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
    <li>Perl 5.28.1 (+ patches)
    <li>NSD 4.1.26
    <li>Unbound 1.9.0
    <li>Ncurses 5.7
    <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
    <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
    <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
    <li>Expat 2.2.6
    </ul>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>

Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.5 on your machine:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/i386/INSTALL.i386">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
<li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
	.../OpenBSD/6.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
</ul>

<hr>

<p>
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
INSTALL.* file as listed above!

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Write <i>floppy65.fs</i> or <i>floppyB65.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
<p>
<li>
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install65.iso</i> or
<i>cd65.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
<p>
<li>
If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install65.fs</i> or
<i>miniroot65.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
<p>
<li>
If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
INSTALL.amd64 document.
<p>
<li>
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arm64:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Write <i>miniroot65.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
<p>
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
<p>
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
<a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install65.iso</i> or
<i>cd65.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
<p>
<li>
If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install65.fs</i> or
<i>miniroot65.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
<p>
<li>
If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in
the included INSTALL.i386 document.
<p>
<li>
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.i386.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Write <i>miniroot65.fs</i> to the start of the CF
or disk, and boot normally.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Write <i>miniroot65.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
<p>
<li>
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
/6.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
To install, burn cd65.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.

<p>
<li>
If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
</ul>

<h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>

<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
<i>boot cdrom</i>.
<p>
<li>
If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
<i>floppy65.fs</i> or <i>floppyB65.fs</i>
(depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
<p>
<li>
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
<p>
<li>
You can also write <i>miniroot65.fs</i> to the swap partition on
the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
<p>
<li>
If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
</ul>

<hr>

<h3 id="upgrade"><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>

If you already have an OpenBSD 6.4 system, and do not want to reinstall,
upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
<a href="faq/upgrade65.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
<p>

<hr>

<h3 id="sourcecode"><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>

<tt>src.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src</tt>.
This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
which are in a separate archive.
To extract:

<blockquote><pre>
# <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
# <b>cd /usr/src</b>
# <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
</pre></blockquote>

<tt>sys.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src/sys</tt>.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:

<blockquote><pre>
# <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
# <b>cd /usr/src</b>
# <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
</pre></blockquote>

Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
<p>

<hr>

<h3 id="ports"><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>

A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:

<blockquote><pre>
# <b>cd /usr</b>
# <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
</pre></blockquote>

Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
if you know nothing about ports
at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
OpenBSD ports system.
<p>
The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
<a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
with a command like:

<blockquote><pre>
# <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
# <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_5</b>
</pre></blockquote>

[Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
server.]
<p>
Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
ports for the 6.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
<p>
If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
would like to know more, the mailing list
<a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
<p>
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