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     <li>Changes on other architectures:      <li>Changes on other architectures:
     <ul>      <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Enabled enforcing of RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on powerpc64.
   </ul>    </ul>
 </ul>  </ul>
   
 <li>Various kernel improvements:  <li>Various kernel improvements:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Fixed memory leak in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/fuse.4">fuse(4)</a> when calling <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/namei.9">namei(9)</a>.
           <li>Made redistributable firmwares available across all architectures.
           <li>Fixed establishing legacy INTx interrupts on machines without a (usable) MSI interrupt controller.
           <li>Cleaned up irrelevant uses of 3rd mode_t parameter for <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/open.2">open(2)</a>/<a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/openat.2">openat(2)</a>, unused when not
                   creating files.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>SMP Improvements  <li>SMP Improvements
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Made pipe event filters MP-safe.
           <li>Set klist lock for sockets to make socket event filters MP-safe.
           <li>Implemented <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/poll.2">poll(2)</a>,
                   <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/select.2">select(2)</a>, <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/ppoll.2">ppoll(2)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/pselect.2">pselect(2)</a> on top of
                   kqueue.
           <li>Unlocked top part of UVM fault hander on mips64. <!--- XXX move? --->
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Direct Rendering Manager  <li>Direct Rendering Manager
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 <li>Various new userland features:  <li>Various new userland features:
   <ul>    <ul>
   
         <li>...          <li>Added <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/realpath.1">realpath(1)</a>, a wrapper
                   for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/realpath.3">realpath(3)</a> for
                   use in ports.
           <li>Removed an unused decoding of c/h/s from the MBR read from disk
                   by <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a>.
           <li>Removed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a>
                   "disk" editing command.
           <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a> "ls
                   rogue" to show daemons which are running but not set as "enabled" in
                   <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.conf.local.8">rc.conf.local(8)</a>.
           <li>Provided common <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/btrace.8">btrace(8)</a> scripts
                   kprofile.bt (to save kernel stackframes and produce flamegraphs) and
                   runqlat.bt (to measure the latency of the scheduler runqueues).
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:  <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...  
           <li>Removed the constraint that <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> -b specified block
                   count or block size must be greater than 63.
           <li>Stopped <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> from
                   communicating warnings starting with "XXX" which appeared to indicate
                   errors.
           <li>Merged bugfixes from upstream into <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/less.1">less(1)</a> including fixes for
                   the prompt hiding feature (CTRL-P) and an integer overflow.
           <li>Fixed file descriptor leak of /dev/tty on <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1">doas(1)</a> auth failure.
           <li>Replaced <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lrint.3">lrint(3)</a>,
                   <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lrintf.3">lrintf(3)</a>, <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/llrint.3">llrint(3)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/llrintf.3">llrintf(3)</a>
                   implementations from NetBSD with the existing FreeBSD implementations
                   we were already using for <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/lrintl.3">lrintl(3)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/llrintl.3">llrintl(3)</a>.
           <li>Renamed Pacific/Enderbury timezone to Pacific/Kanton.
           <li>Called <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>
                   later to prevent it from killing various games using ncurses when both
                   stdout and stderr are redirected to a non-tty.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:  <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Introduced <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/gpiocharger.4">gpiocharger(4)</a>, a
                   driver providing support for battery chargers connected to GPIO pins,
                   such as those found on the Pinebook Pro.
           <li>Introduced <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/gpioleds.4">gpioleds(4)</a> for arm64, a
                   driver providing support for LEDs connected to GPIO pins, such as
                   those found on the Pinebook Pro.
           <li>Added support to <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/pchgpio.4">pchgpio(4)</a> for Cannon
                   Lake H and Tiger Lake H platforms.
           <li>Ensured use of the correct encoding in xenocara when /etc/kbdtype
                   is present with an attached <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/ucc.4">ucc(4)</a> keyboard.
           <li>Fixed an interrupt storm on <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwge.4">dwge(4)</a> variants which
                   support Energy Efficient Ethernet when connected to a switch which
                   does so as well.
           <li>Added support for tpm2 CRB interface to <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tpm.4">tpm(4)</a>, fixing recent S4
                   regressions on the Surface Go 2 caused by a firmware change.
   `       <li>Ensured armv7 and arm64 efiboot allocate fresh memory for the
                   device tree with at least one page of free space to extend into. This
                   fixes booting on VMWare Fusion.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>New or improved network hardware support:  <li>New or improved network hardware support:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Added support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umb.4">umb(4)</a> for SIMCom SIM7600.
   
           <li>Fixed an interrupt storm on <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwge.4">dwge(4)</a> variants which
                   support Energy Efficient Ethernet when connected to a switch which
                   does so as well.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:  <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Reset the Tx timer upon validation of a BA notification sent by
                   <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> firmware.
           <li>Prevented <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> and
                   <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> attempts to
                   transition toward the same state where this would result in a
                   redundant or illegal state transition and a potential hang.
           <li>Fixed a panic when <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> cannot find firmware
                   at boot time.
           <li>Added relicensed wireless firmwares from Realtek for <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/rsu.4">rsu(4)</a>, <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/urtwn.4">urtwn(4)</a> devices, allowing
                   these devices to work without requiring a separate firmware download.
           <li>Added a workaround for buggy <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/athn.4">athn(4)</a> devices to prevent
                   filling up the node cache when used in hostap mode.
           <li>Applied a workaround in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvkpcie.4">mvkpcie(4)</a> to fix an
                   external abort under load with <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/athn.4">athn(4)</a>.
           <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a>
                   performance drop after roaming between APs in 11n mode.
           <li>Ensured <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> uses
                   only the HT (high throughput) frame format for data frames.
           <li>Allowed AUTH->AUTH state transitions in the <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> and <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> drivers again, needed
                   if the access point uses band-steering.
           <li>Added support for 802.11n 40MHz channels to the <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> driver.
           <li>Reverted to use <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> firmware v17 on Intel
                   AC 7265, fixing instability issues on X1 Carbon gen3.
           <li>Cached the old BSSID when roaming with <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a>.
           <li>Explicitly stopped <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> Rx block ack when
                   roaming between access points.
           <li>Added initial 40MHz support to the <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> driver.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:  <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> Tx aggregation support.
           <li>Added an ADDBA_OFFLOAD capability for wifi devices to manage Tx block ack sessions entirely in firmware.
           <li>Cached the old BSSID when roaming with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> so firmware commands can continue using it while roaming to a new AP.
           <li>Added support for 40MHz channels to net80211 RA.
           <li>Added monitoring of 20/40MHz channel width changes in beacons sent by our access point, notifying drivers when the channel width has changed.
   
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:  <li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a> $nr incorrect macro expansion.
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:  <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Corrected installer to use "inet autoconf" properly for <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/hostname.if.5">hostname.if(5)</a> files.
           <li>Stopped prompting whether to fall back to HTTP in the installer, making the fallback automatic.
           <li>Used <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
                   "join" command by default in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/hostname.if.5">hostname.if(5)</a> files,
                   replacing the old "nwid".
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Security improvements:  <li>Security improvements:
   <ul>    <ul>
         <li>...          <li>Cleared length of keys in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vnconfig.8">vnconfig(8)</a> alongside keys themselves.
           <li>Removed hifn(4), safe(4) and ubsec(4) crypto drivers.
           <li>Fixed double free after allocation failure in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bpf.4">bpf(4)</a>.
           <li>Added call to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a> to restrict <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stty.1">stty(1)</a> -f filesystem access.
           <li>Fixed a panic by prohibiting renames of tmpfs mount-points.
           <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vi.1">vi(1)</a> use after free with unsaved buffer. <!-- XXX move? -->
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:  <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
   <ul>    <ul>
     <li>...          <li>Modified <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syslog.conf.5">syslog.conf(5)</a> examples to use TLS rather than the plaintext protocols.
           <li>Stopped ignoring <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/carp.4">carp(4)</a> interfaces in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpleased.8">dhcpleased(8)</a>.
           <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> to respond with 400 Bad Request when a client sends header lines without a colon.
           <li>Added protocol version checking to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>.
           <li>Implemented <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rsync.1">rsync(1)</a> --compare-dest, allowing specification of additional directories to check for files to be available.
           <li>Ensured enabled resolvers are honored by <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a> to keep unused forwarders disabled properly.
           <li>Annotated an <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> 413 error with "request body too large" in the error log.
           <li>Stopped duplicating "Connection: close" headers in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>, only adding it if it's not a websocket response.
           <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a>, stopped sending content alongside responses to HEAD requests.
           <li>Switched <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nsd.8">nsd(8)</a> to enable default DNS cookies on, matching behavior as released in OpenBSD 7.0.
           <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> custom error page facility.
   
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:  <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
   <ul>    <ul>
           <li>Fixed a crash in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> when a session with
                   multiple clients is destroyed but tmux does not close completely due
                   to other sessions.
           <li>Fixed a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>
                   redraw problem on automargin terminals.
           <li>Fixed a problem with repeat in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> copy mode.
           <li>Added -T to set a popup title in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>.
           <li>Added -s and -S to <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> display-popup to set
                   popup and border style.
           <li>Fixed application-set fg and bg in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> panes.
           <li>Added a way to force a color to RGB in <a
                   href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> and a format to
                   display it.
   
   </ul>    </ul>
   
 <li>OpenSMTPD version <!--- XXX --->  <li>OpenSMTPD version <!--- XXX --->

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