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13: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
14: 7.0
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1.6 deraadt 23: Released Nov 1, 2021. (51st OpenBSD release)<br>
1.1 benno 24: Copyright 1997-2021, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <br>
26: 7.0 Song:
27: <a href="lyrics.html#70">XXX</a>.
28: <br>
29: Artwork by XXX.
30: <br>
31: <ul>
32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
33: a list of mirror machines.
34: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/7.0/</code> directory on
35: one of the mirror sites.
36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata70.html">the 7.0 errata page</a> for a list
37: of bugs and workarounds.
38: <li>See a <a href="plus70.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.4 jsg 39: 6.9 and 7.0 releases.
1.1 benno 40: <p>
41: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
42: pubkeys for this release:<p>
43:
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63: </ul>
64: <p>
65: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
66: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
67: files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
68: </table>
69:
70: <hr>
71:
72: <section id=new>
73: <h3>What's New</h3>
74: <p>
75: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.0.
76: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus70.html">changelog</a> leading
77: to 7.0.
78:
79: <ul>
80:
81: <li>New/extended platforms:
82: <ul>
1.3 jsg 83: <li>New <a href="riscv64.html">riscv64</a> platform for 64-bit RISC-V
84: systems.
1.1 benno 85: <li>Support for the <a href="powerpc64.html">powerpc64</a> platform was improved:
86: <ul>
87: <li>...
88: </ul>
89: <li>The arm64 platform support was improved with the following changes:
90: <ul>
91: <li>...
92: </ul>
93: </ul>
94:
95: <li>Various kernel improvements:
96: <ul>
97: <li>...
98: </ul>
99:
100: <li>SMP Improvements
101: <ul>
102: <li>...
103: </ul>
104:
105: <li>Direct Rendering Manager
106: <ul>
1.8 jsg 107: <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>
108: to Linux 5.10.65
109: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>:
110: better support for Tiger Lake
111: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">amdgpu(4)</a>:
112: support for Navi 12, Navi 21 "Sienna Cichlid", Arcturus
113: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">amdgpu(4)</a>:
114: support for Cezanne "Green Sardine" Ryzen 5000 APU
1.1 benno 115: </ul>
116:
117: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
118: <ul>
119: <li>...
120: </ul>
121:
122: <li>Various new userland features:
123: <ul>
124: <li>...
125: </ul>
126:
127: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
128: <ul>
129: <li>...
130: </ul>
131:
132: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
133: <ul>
134: <li>...
135: </ul>
136:
137: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
138: <ul>
139: <li>...
140: </ul>
141:
142: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
143: <ul>
144: <li>...
145: </ul>
146:
147: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
148: <ul>
149: <li>...
150: </ul>
151:
152: <li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:
153: <ul>
154: <li>...
155: </ul>
156:
157: <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
158: <ul>
159: <li>...
160: </ul>
161:
162: <li>Security improvements:
163: <ul>
164: <li>...
165: </ul>
166:
167: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
168: <ul>
169: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> daemon saw the following changes:
170: <ul>
171: <li>...
172: </ul>
173:
174: <li>...other routing daemons...
175:
176: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> packet filter and its userland utility:
177: <ul>
178: <li>...
179: </ul>
180:
181: <li>IPSEC support in the kernel and the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> userland daemon:
182: <ul>
183: <li>...
184: </ul>
185:
186: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> webserver saw numerous improvements:
187: <ul>
188: <li>...
189: </ul>
190:
191: <li><a
192: href="https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client.8">rpki-client(8)</a>
193: received the following new features and bugfixes:
194: <ul>
195: <li>...
196: </ul>
197:
198: <li>Changes to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>:
199: <ul>
200: <li>...
201: </ul>
202:
203: <li>XXX Two new daemons, <a
204: href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpleased.8">dhcpleased(8)</a> and <a
205: href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolvd.8">resolvd(8)</a> were added.
206: These work alongside with <a
207: href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> and <a
208: href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a> to provide a
209: coherent and simple automatic configuration of network interfaces and
210: DNS resolution.<br>
211: The two daemons are not enabled by default for now, but can be tested
212: by enabling them with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a>.
213: <ul>
214: <li>...
215: </ul>
216:
217: <li>Changes to snmp related tools:
218: <ul>
219: <li>...
220: </ul>
221:
222: <li>Other userland network changes:
223: <ul>
224: <li>...
225: </ul>
226: </ul>
227:
228: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
229: <ul>
230: <li>...
231: </ul>
232:
233: <li>OpenSMTPD 7.0.0
234: <ul>
235: <li>...
236: </ul>
237:
1.2 jsg 238: <li>LibreSSL 3.4.0 XXX
1.1 benno 239: <ul>
240: <li>New Features
241: <ul>
242: <li>...
243: </ul>
244:
245: <li>Portable Improvements
246: <ul>
247: <li>...
248: </ul>
249:
250: <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
251: <ul>
252: <li>...
253: </ul>
254:
255: <li>Compatibility Changes
256: <ul>
257: <li>...
258: </ul>
259:
260: <li>Testing and Proactive Security
261: <ul>
262: <li>...
263: </ul>
264:
265: <li>Internal Improvements
266: <ul>
267: <li>...
268: </ul>
269:
270: <li>Bug Fixes
271: <ul>
272: <li>...
273: </ul>
274: </ul>
275:
1.2 jsg 276: <li>OpenSSH 8.7 XXX
1.1 benno 277: <ul>
278: <li>Security fixes
279: <ul>
280: <li>...
281: </ul>
282: <li>Potentially incompatible changes
283: <ul>
284: <li>...
285: </ul>
286: <li>New Features
287: <ul>
288: <li>...
289: </ul>
290: <li>Bugfixes
291: <ul>
292: <li>...
293: </ul>
294: </ul>
295:
296: <li>Ports and packages:
297: <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
298: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
299: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.10 naddy 300: <li>aarch64: 11034
1.9 naddy 301: <li>amd64: 11325
1.1 benno 302: <li>arm: ...
1.10 naddy 303: <li>i386: 10248
1.1 benno 304: <li>mips64: ...
305: <li>mips64el: ...
306: <li>powerpc: ...
1.10 naddy 307: <li>powerpc64: 9273
1.1 benno 308: <li>sparc64: ...
309: </ul>
310:
311: <p>Some highlights:
312: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.2 jsg 313: <li>Asterisk 18.6.0
1.1 benno 314: <li>Audacity 2.4.2
1.2 jsg 315: <li>CMake 3.20.3
316: <li>Chromium 93.0.4577.82
1.1 benno 317: <li>Emacs 27.2
1.2 jsg 318: <li>FFmpeg 4.4
319: <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
320: <li>GHC 8.10.6
321: <li>GNOME 40.4
322: <li>Go 1.17
323: <li>JDK 8u302, 11.0.12 and 16.0.2
324: <li>KDE Applications 21.08.1
325: <li>KDE Frameworks 5.85.0
326: <li>Krita 4.4.8
327: <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0
1.7 jsg 328: <li>LibreOffice 7.2.1.2
1.1 benno 329: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.6
1.2 jsg 330: <li>MariaDB 10.6.4
1.1 benno 331: <li>Mono 6.12.0.122
1.2 jsg 332: <li>Mozilla Firefox 92.0 and ESR 91.1.0
1.7 jsg 333: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 91.1.1
1.2 jsg 334: <li>Mutt 2.1.3 and NeoMutt 20210205
335: <li>Node.js 12.22.6
1.1 benno 336: <li>OCaml 4.10.0
1.2 jsg 337: <li>OpenLDAP 2.4.59
338: <li>PHP 7.3.30, 7.4.23 and 8.0.10
1.7 jsg 339: <li>Postfix 3.5.12
1.2 jsg 340: <li>PostgreSQL 13.4
341: <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.8.12 and 3.9.7
342: <li>Qt 5.15.2 and 6.0.4
343: <li>R 4.1.1
344: <li>Ruby 2.6.8, 2.7.4 and 3.0.2
345: <li>Rust 1.55.0
346: <li>SQLite 3.35.5
1.1 benno 347: <li>Shotcut 21.01.29
1.2 jsg 348: <li>Sudo 1.9.7p2
349: <li>Suricata 6.0.2
1.1 benno 350: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
351: <li>TeX Live 2020
1.2 jsg 352: <li>Vim 8.2.3394 and Neovim 0.5.0
1.1 benno 353: <li>Xfce 4.16
354: </ul>
355: <p>
356:
357: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
358:
359: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
360: <ul>
1.2 jsg 361: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.20.13 + patches,
1.5 jsg 362: freetype 2.10.4, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 21.1.8, xterm 367,
1.2 jsg 363: xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
364: <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 365: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
366: <li>Perl 5.32.1 (+ patches)
1.2 jsg 367: <li>NSD 4.3.7
368: <li>Unbound 1.13.2
1.1 benno 369: <li>Ncurses 5.7
370: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
371: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
372: <li>Awk December 18, 2020 version
1.2 jsg 373: <li>Expat 2.4.1
1.12 ! benno 374: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a> from Linux 5.10.47.
! 375: <li>libdrm 2.4.107
1.1 benno 376: </ul>
377:
378: </ul>
379: </section>
380:
381: <hr>
382:
383: <section id=install>
384: <h3>How to install</h3>
385: <p>
386: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
387: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.0 on your machine:
388:
389: <ul>
390: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
391: .../OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
392: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
393: .../OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
394: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
395: .../OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
396: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
397: .../OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
398: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
399: .../OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
400: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386">
401: .../OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
402: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
403: .../OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
404: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
405: .../OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
406: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
407: .../OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
408: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
409: .../OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
410: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
411: .../OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
412: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
413: .../OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
1.3 jsg 414: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
415: .../OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
1.1 benno 416: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
417: .../OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
418: </ul>
419: </section>
420:
421: <hr>
422:
423: <section id=quickinstall>
424: <p>
425: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
426: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
427: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
428: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
429:
430: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
431:
432: <p>
433: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
434: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
435: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
436:
437: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
438:
439: <p>
440: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
441: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
442: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
443:
444: <p>
445: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
446: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
447:
448: <p>
449: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
450: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
451: INSTALL.amd64 document.
452:
453: <p>
454: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
455: read INSTALL.amd64.
456:
457: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
458:
459: <p>
460: Write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
461: after connecting to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
462: details.
463:
464: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
465:
466: <p>
467: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
468: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
469:
470: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
471:
472: <p>
473: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
474: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
475:
476: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
477:
478: <p>
479: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
480: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
481: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
482:
483: <p>
484: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
485: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
486:
487: <p>
488: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
489: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
490: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
491:
492: <p>
493: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
494: read INSTALL.i386.
495:
496: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
497:
498: <p>
499: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the start of the CF
500: or disk, and boot normally.
501:
502: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
503:
504: <p>
505: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
506: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
507: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
508:
509: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
510:
511: <p>
512: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
513: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
514: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
515:
516: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
517:
518: <p>
519: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
520: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
521: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
522:
523: <p>
524: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
525: /7.0/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
526:
527: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
528:
529: <p>
530: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
531: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
532:
533: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
534:
535: <p>
536: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
537: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
538: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
539: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
540:
1.3 jsg 541: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
1.1 benno 542:
543: <p>
1.3 jsg 544: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
545: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
546: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
547: HiFive Unmatched board.
548: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
1.1 benno 549:
550: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
551:
552: <p>
553: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
554: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
555:
556: <p>
557: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
558: <i>floppy70.img</i> or <i>floppyB70.img</i>
559: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
560: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
561:
562: <p>
563: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
564: will most likely fail.
565:
566: <p>
567: You can also write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the swap partition on
568: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
569:
570: <p>
571: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
572: </section>
573:
574: <hr>
575:
576: <section id=upgrade>
577: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
578: <p>
1.4 jsg 579: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.9 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 benno 580: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
581: <a href="faq/upgrade70.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
582: </section>
583:
584: <hr>
585:
586: <section id=sourcecode>
587: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
588: <p>
589: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
590: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
591: which are in a separate archive.
592: To extract:
593: <blockquote><pre>
594: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
595: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
596: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
597: </pre></blockquote>
598: <p>
599: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
600: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
601: To extract:
602: <blockquote><pre>
603: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
604: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
605: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
606: </pre></blockquote>
607: <p>
608: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
609: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
610: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
611: Using these files
612: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
613: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
614: </section>
615:
616: <hr>
617:
618: <section id=ports>
619: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
620: <p>
621: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
622: <blockquote><pre>
623: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
624: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
625: </pre></blockquote>
626: <p>
627: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
628: if you know nothing about ports
629: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
630: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
631: OpenBSD ports system.
632: <p>
633: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
634: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
635: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
636: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
637: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
638: with a command like:
639: <blockquote><pre>
640: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
641: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_0</kbd>
642: </pre></blockquote>
643: <p>
644: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
645: server.]
646: <p>
647: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
648: ports for the 7.0 release will be made available if problems arise.
649: <p>
650: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
651: would like to know more, the mailing list
652: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
653: </section>