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                     14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     15: 7.2
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                     24: Released Oct 20, 2022. (53rd OpenBSD release)<br>
                     25: Copyright 1997-2022, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     26: <br>
                     27: Artwork by Luc Houweling.
                     28: <br>
                     29: <ul>
                     30: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
                     31:     a list of mirror machines.
                     32: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/7.2/</code> directory on
                     33:     one of the mirror sites.
                     34: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata72.html">the 7.2 errata page</a> for a list
                     35:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     36: <li>See a <a href="plus72.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
                     37:     7.1 and 7.2 releases.
                     38: <p>
                     39: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
                     40:     pubkeys for this release:<p>
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                     61: </ul>
                     62: <p>
                     63: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
                     64: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
                     65: files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
                     66: </table>
                     67:
                     68: <hr>
                     69:
                     70: <section id=new>
                     71: <h3>What's New</h3>
                     72: <p>
                     73: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.2.
                     74: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus72.html">changelog</a> leading
                     75: to 7.2.
                     76:
                     77: <ul>
                     78:
                     79: <li>New/extended platforms:
                     80:   <ul>
1.4       jsg        81:   <li>Added support for Ampere Altra
                     82:   <li>Added support for Apple M2
                     83:   <li>Added support for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP)
1.1       deraadt    84:   <li>...
                     85:   </ul>
                     86:
                     87: <li>Various kernel improvements:
                     88:   <ul>
1.12      benno      89:   <li>Allowed bsd.rd and bsd/bsd.mp to boot on Oracle Cloud amd64 instances.
                     90:   <li>Added support for switching from glass console to serial console
                     91:        on arm64 systems that default to glass console.
1.16      jsg        92:   <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> automatically allows
                     93:     IGMP and ICMP6 MLD packets with router alert option.
1.9       bluhm      94:     Special allow-opts rules are no longer needed for multicast
                     95:     discovery.
1.19      benno      96:   <li>Fixed a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> NULL
                     97:        dereference panic triggered by <a
                     98:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>.
1.16      jsg        99:   <li>Implement "show all routes" to print routing tables in
                    100:       <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a>.
                    101:   <li>Count dropped network packets due to low memory in
                    102:       <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstat.1">netstat(1)</a>.
1.12      benno     103:   <li>Simplified machine command handling in <a
                    104:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a>.
                    105:   <li>Changed to a simpler formula to calculate a default kern.maxthread
                    106:        value: 2*NPROCESS.
                    107:   <li>Enabled <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kstat.4">kstat(4)</a>, a
                    108:        device that exports kernel statistics that can be read by <a
                    109:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/kstat.4">kstat(4)</a>.
1.13      benno     110:   <li>Added cpu frequency sensors for each core on CPUs that have MPERF/APERF support.
1.14      benno     111:   <li>Merged the UVM swap-backed and object-backed inactive page lists.
                    112:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rwlock.9">rwlock(9)</a>
                    113:        implementation to be fair to writers. Previously, readers could grab
                    114:        the lock even if writers were waiting first.
                    115:   <li>Made the CPU frequency scaling duration relative to the load
                    116:        when in automatic mode on battery.
                    117:   <li>Fixed luna88k MULTIPROCESSOR kernels booting with CPU modules
                    118:        installed in arbitrary slots.
1.19      benno     119:   <li>Added a missing <a
                    120:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/kqueue.2">kqueue(2)</a> wakeup, found by
                    121:        a Go testcase hang.
                    122:   <li>Bumped the maximum number of supported CPUs to 256 on arm64.
                    123:
1.1       deraadt   124:   </ul>
                    125:
                    126: <li>SMP Improvements
                    127:   <ul>
1.9       bluhm     128:   <li>Make route timer MP safe and use pool rttmr.
                    129:   <li>Use kernel lock to protect parts of ARP, ND6 and PPPoE that
                    130:     are not MP safe.
                    131:     Lookup of existing ARP entry is MP safe and can run in parallel.
                    132:   <li>Start up to 4 softnet tasks to run IP input and forwarding
                    133:     in parallel on multiple cores.
                    134:   <li>Run IPv4 packet reassembly in parallel.
                    135:   <li>Run IPv6 hop-by-hop options processing in parallel.
                    136:   <li>Add a mutex to rate limiting functions to make them MP safe.
                    137:   <li>Introduce mutex and reference counter for internet protocol
                    138:     control block.
                    139:   <li>Protect UDP, raw IP, and divert packet input routines
                    140:     with a per socket mutex.
1.16      jsg       141:   <li>Protect <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/recv.2">recv(2)</a> system call
                    142:     for UDP and raw IP packets with a per socket mutex and shared netlock.
1.9       bluhm     143:     Allows to receive packets while forwarding in parallel.
                    144:   <li>Protect multicast deliver loop for UDP and raw IP sockets with rwlock.
1.13      benno     145:   <li>Only grab netlock in IGMP and MLD timer when necessary.
1.9       bluhm     146:   <li>TCP slow timer runs without netlock.
                    147:   <li>Rework rwlock so that a writer will get the lock eventually.
                    148:     Readers cannot share the lock forever.
                    149:     This prevents starvation of the writer.
                    150:   <li>Run interface media ioctl with shared netlock so packets
1.16      jsg       151:     can be processed while running
                    152:     <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>.
                    153:   <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/btrace.8">btrace(8)</a> can be used
                    154:       to debug reference counting.
1.9       bluhm     155:   <li>Use MP safe refcount for interface addresses.
1.1       deraadt   156:   <li>...
                    157:   </ul>
                    158:
1.13      benno     159: <li>Direct Rendering Manager and graphics drivers
1.1       deraadt   160:   <ul>
1.5       jsg       161:   <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>
                    162:       to Linux 5.15.69
                    163:   <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>:
                    164:       support for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake
1.13      benno     165:   <li>Reimplemented the page allocation code using <a
                    166:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/bus_dma.9">bus_dma(9)</a> APIs to make
                    167:        sure DMA addresses are translated properly on architectures with an
                    168:        IOMMU. This fixed <a
                    169:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/amdgpu.4">amdgpu(4)</a> and <a
                    170:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a> on
                    171:        powerpc, sparc64, and arm64 machines.
1.1       deraadt   172:   </ul>
                    173:
                    174: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
                    175:   <ul>
1.11      benno     176:   <li>Improved error handling and logging in <a
                    177:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>
                    178:   <li>Unify all internal structures and interfaces between <a
                    179:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>, <a
                    180:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a> and <a
                    181:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> to use bytes for
1.13      benno     182:        memory and disk sizes.
1.18      jsg       183:   <li>Fix rebooting a received VM in <a
1.11      benno     184:         href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>.
                    185:   <li>Have <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> provide
                    186:        a copy of bios at 4g boundary, SeaBIOS and newer Linux kernels expect
                    187:        it there.
                    188:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>, fix off by
1.18      jsg       189:        one in VM memory range check.
1.11      benno     190:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>, add
1.18      jsg       191:        support for MMIO assist. In <a
                    192:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>, send all port I/O
1.11      benno     193:        emulation to userland.
                    194:   <li>Have <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> compute
                    195:        i8254 read-back command latch from singular timestamp.
                    196:   <li>Improve the command line parsing in <a
                    197:         href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
                    198:   <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> allow
                    199:        reading MSR_TSC on Intel hosts.
                    200:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>, reference
1.18      jsg       201:        count VMs and VCPUs.
1.11      benno     202:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>, zero
1.18      jsg       203:        virtual addresses of VCPU state pages after freeing.
1.11      benno     204:   <li>Fix `vmctl send` on Intel hosts by load the vmcs before reading
1.18      jsg       205:        VCPU registers in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>.
1.11      benno     206:   <li>Fix `vmctl receive` on Intel hosts by adding an additional fault
                    207:        type in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>.
                    208:   <li>Add additional <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dt.4">dt(4)</a>
                    209:        tracepoints in various <a
                    210:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> codepaths.
1.1       deraadt   211:   </ul>
                    212:
                    213: <li>Various new userland features:
                    214:   <ul>
1.12      benno     215:   <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kstat.1">kstat(1)</a>, a
                    216:        utility to display kernel statistics collected by <a
                    217:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/kstat.4">kstat(4)</a>.
1.14      benno     218:   <li>Replaced <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.d.8">rc.d(8)</a>
                    219:        $rcexec variable with an rc_exec function. <em>This will require a
                    220:        mechanical change from <code>${rcexec}</code> to <code>rc_exec</code>
                    221:        in rc.d scripts.</em> Kept compatibility to give people a chance to
                    222:        fix their custom scripts.
1.19      benno     223:   <li>Introduced a new daemon_execdir variable to <a
                    224:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.d.8">rc.d(8)</a> for changing to a
                    225:        specified directory before running rc_exec.  </ul>
1.1       deraadt   226:
                    227: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
                    228:   <ul>
1.12      benno     229:   <li>Changed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/compress">compress(1)</a>
                    230:        to print a more accurate message when -v is used with -k.
                    231:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync">openrsync(1)</a>
                    232:        on sparc64 by eliminating a redundant second conversion of the int
                    233:        value from little to host endian.
                    234:   <li>Made use of the fact that repositories are unique objects in <a
                    235:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add">pkg_add(1)</a> and annotated
                    236:        the quirks repository as cached, allowing for a large speed increase.
1.14      benno     237:   <li>Enabled <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> caching by default.
1.19      benno     238:   <li>Changed the tied algorithm in <a
                    239:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a> to prevent
                    240:        O(n^2) behavior when packages contain several hundred copies of the
                    241:        same file.
                    242:
1.12      benno     243:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kbd.8">kbd(8)</a> so it
                    244:        doesn't fail silently when executed by a regular user.
1.13      benno     245:   <li>Prevented a crash in <a
                    246:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/vi">vi(1)</a> when cursor key support is disabled.
                    247:   <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vi">vi(1)</a> to apply
                    248:        expandtab to the output of a ! command.
                    249:   <li>Added missing uuid_dec_le() to init_fp() so <a
                    250:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> -A works on
                    251:        big-endian architectures.
1.14      benno     252:   <li>Aligned <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a>
                    253:        logic with that used in the kernel to allow the protective EFI GPT
                    254:        partition to be in MBR partitions 0-3, not just 0.
                    255:   <li>Prevented use of "-u" when <a
                    256:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> is operating on
                    257:        GPT formatted disks.
                    258:   <li>Stopped telling <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> that macppc HAS_MBR.
                    259:
                    260:
                    261:   <li>In the <i>sndio</i> library, added the function <a
                    262:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/sio_flush.3">sio_flush(3)</a> to stop
                    263:        playback immediately. Altered <a
                    264:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/sndiod.8">sndiod(8)</a> to wait until
                    265:        the buffer is drained before closing the device.
                    266:   <li>Installed useful <a
                    267:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/btrace.8">btrace(8)</a> scripts in
                    268:        /usr/share/btrace.
1.19      benno     269:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/btrace.8">btrace(8)</a>
                    270:        execute the END probe upon receiving a SIGTERM signal.
1.14      benno     271:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xterm.1">xterm(1)</a> use a
                    272:        much safer FD-passing idiom for updating <a
                    273:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/utmp.5">utmp(5)</a>.
                    274:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>
                    275:        automatically delete trailing whitespace on RET in c-mode and
                    276:        auto-indent-mode.
1.19      benno     277:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/grep.1">grep(1)</a> provide
                    278:        full context when using match count (<code>-m</code>
                    279:   <li>Added the --null flag to <a
                    280:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/grep.1">grep(1)</a> which makes grep
                    281:        print an ASCII NUL byte after the file name to make the output
                    282:        unambiguous.
                    283:
                    284:   <li>Fixed multiple memory leaks in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/awk.1">awk(1)</a>.
                    285:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gzip.1">gzip(1)</a> byte counts with 32-bit integers.
                    286:   <li>Moved the wait for autoconf interfaces from <a
                    287:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/rc.8">rc(8)</a> to <a
                    288:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/netstart.8">netstart(8)</a> to fix
                    289:        tunnel interfaces that depend on working autoconf interfaces.
1.14      benno     290:
1.1       deraadt   291:   </ul>
                    292:
                    293: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
                    294:   <ul>
1.7       jsg       295:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplaudio.4">aplaudio(4)</a>
                    296:       driver for Apple audio subsystem.
                    297:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplmca.4">aplmca(4)</a>
                    298:       driver for Apple MCA controller.
                    299:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplsart.4">aplsart(4)</a>
                    300:       driver for Apple SART address filter.
                    301:   <li>New alpdc, apldchidev, apldckbd, apldcms, and aplrtk drivers for
                    302:       keyboard and trackpad on Apple M2 laptops.
                    303:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/qcgpio.4">qcgpio(4)</a>
                    304:       driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon GPIO controller.
                    305:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/qciic.4">qciic(4)</a>
                    306:       driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon GENI I2C controller.
                    307:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/sfgpio.4">sfgpio(4)</a>
                    308:       driver for SiFive GPIO controller.
                    309:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/stfclock.4">stfclock(4)</a>
                    310:       driver for StarFive JH7100 clock controller.
                    311:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/stfpinctrl.4">stfpinctrl(4)</a>
                    312:       driver for StarFive JH7100 pin configuration.
                    313:   <li>New stftemp
                    314:       driver for StarFive JH7100 temperature sensor.
                    315:   <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxirintc.4">sxirintc(4)</a>
                    316:       driver for Allwinner wakeup interrupt controller.
                    317:   <li>New gpiorestart
                    318:       driver for system reset via GPIO pin.
1.12      benno     319:   <li>Added support for more power sensors to <a
                    320:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipmi.4">ipmi(4)</a>.
1.14      benno     321:   <li>Added support for the <a
                    322:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/ehci.4">ehci(4)</a> controller on
1.18      jsg       323:        Marvell 3720 boards.
1.19      benno     324:   <li>Extended <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksmn.4">ksmn(4)</a> to show CCD temperatures if available.
                    325:   <li>Added <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sfgpio.4">sfgpio(4)</a>, a
                    326:        driver for the GPIO controller found on the SiFive FU740 SoC.
                    327:   <li>Fixed missing interrupts for trackpads on some machines after
                    328:        resume by making sure <a
                    329:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/amdgpio.4">amdgpio(4)</a> restores pin
                    330:        configuration on resume.
1.1       deraadt   331:   </ul>
                    332:
                    333: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
                    334:   <ul>
1.6       mbuhl     335:   <li>Enabled checksum offloads in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/igc.4"
                    336:       >igc(4)</a>.
1.19      benno     337:   <li>Increased rx buffer size on <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uaq.4">uaq(4)</a> to 62kB.
                    338:   <li>Repaired <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rge.4">rge(4)</a> hardware vlan tagging.
                    339:   <li>Provide statistics via kstats for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvneta.4">mvneta(4)</a>.
                    340:   <li>Enabled <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aq.4">aq(4)</a> on arm64.
                    341:   <li>Implemented and enabled IPv4, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading for
                    342:        <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/igc.4">igc(4)</a>.
                    343:   <li>Fixed a panic triggered by ifconfig bnxt0 down by changing <a
                    344:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4">bnxt(4)</a> devices to not run
                    345:        rx and tx interrupt handlers when the interface is not running.
1.1       deraadt   346:   </ul>
                    347:
                    348: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
                    349:   <ul>
1.19      benno     350:   <li>Made device matching in <a
                    351:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> more similar to linux
                    352:        iwlwifi.
1.14      benno     353:   <li>Added support for AX210/AX211 devices to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a>.
                    354:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> setting
                    355:        of HT/VHT bits in rate flags of the Tx command that could cause a
                    356:        firmware panic.
1.19      benno     357:   <li>Updated various wireless drivers to use <a
                    358:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/memset.3">memset(3)</a> to initialize
                    359:        ieee80211_rxinfo struct properly.
                    360:   <li>Added handling of 9k devices which do not support antenna B to <a
                    361:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a>.
                    362:   <li>Fixed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4">bwfm(4)</a>
                    363:        ifconfig media display on devices with sta_info command version 3.
1.18      jsg       364:   <li>Repaired <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rge.4">rge(4)</a> hardware VLAN tagging.
1.20    ! jsg       365:   <li>Make sure drivers initialize all of ieee80211_rxinfo struct.
1.13      benno     366:   <li>Increased rx buffer size on <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uaq.4">uaq(4)</a> to 62kB.
1.1       deraadt   367:   </ul>
                    368:
                    369: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
                    370:   <ul>
                    371:   <li>...
                    372:   </ul>
                    373:
                    374: <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
                    375:   <ul>
1.14      benno     376:   <li>Fixed the watchdog in the installer so that the watchdog is reset
                    377:        after each download and each set installation.
1.19      benno     378:   <li>Ensured that when running <a
                    379:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade.8">sysupgrade(8)</a> on
                    380:        -stable that it will move to the next release, not -current.
                    381:   <li>Added the -b option to <a
                    382:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade.8">sysupgrade(8)</a> to set
                    383:        an alternative base directory to which the installation files will be
                    384:        downloaded to.
                    385:   <li>Increased the <a
                    386:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a> auto
                    387:        partitioner's maximum size for /usr to 30G.
1.1       deraadt   388:   </ul>
                    389:
                    390: <li>Security improvements:
                    391:   <ul>
1.19      benno     392:   <li>Implemented privilege separation in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xlock.1">xlock(1)</a>.
1.1       deraadt   393:   </ul>
                    394:
1.12      benno     395: <li>Changes in the network stack:
                    396:   <ul>
1.13      benno     397:   <li>Relaxed address availability check for <a
                    398:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/multicast.4">multicast(4)</a> binds so
                    399:        processes listening for the same multicast address do not need to be
                    400:        the same UID.
                    401:   <li>Introduced dedicated link entries for snapshots to <a
                    402:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfsync.4">pfsync(4)</a>.
1.14      benno     403:   <li>Changed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> handling
                    404:        of IGMP and ICMP6 MLD packets to allow multicast control packets to
                    405:        work by default.
                    406:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> more paranoid about IGMP/MKP messages.
1.19      benno     407:   <li>Fixed a logic bug in pf_find_state() that could cause <a
                    408:         href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> to incorrectly block a
                    409:         packet.
1.14      benno     410:   <li>Allow forwarding to and from IPs in the 240/4 range.
1.18      jsg       411:   <li>Corrected the Virtual Ethernet Bridge <a
1.14      benno     412:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/veb.4">veb(4)</a> to avoid calling
                    413:        if_enqueue from an smr critical section.
                    414:   <li>Fixed a kernel panic in <a
                    415:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> if IP options with an
                    416:        ICMP payload were truncated. Such packets will now be dropped instead.
1.12      benno     417:   </ul>
                    418:
1.1       deraadt   419: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
                    420:   <ul>
1.11      benno     421:   <li>IPsec support was improved:
                    422:   <ul>
                    423:   </ul>
                    424:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.conf.5">bgpd(8)</a>,
                    425:   <ul>
                    426:        <li>Implement max-communities filter to limit the number of allowed
                    427:                communities, ext-communities and large-communities.
                    428:        <li>Fix insertion of additional non-transitive extended communities when
                    429:                sending out prefixes.
                    430:        <li>Relax IP address limitation by allowing prefixes in 240/4.
                    431:        <li>Implement RFC 9234 - Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles
                    432:                in UPDATE and OPEN Messages.
                    433:        <li>Full support for RFC 7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP.
                    434:        <li>Improve FIB code, handle IPv6 scoped addresses properly.
                    435:        <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgplgd.8">bgplgd(8)</a>,
1.18      jsg       436:                a FastCGI server providing a REST API of bgpctl.
1.16      jsg       437:        <li>Bugfix: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> could
                    438:            fail to invalidate nexthops and incorrectly leave them in the FIB or
                    439:            Adj-RIB-Out.
1.11      benno     440:        <li>Speedup <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpctl.8">bgpctl</a>
                    441:                <code>show rib 10/8 or-longer</code> and <code>show rib 10/8
                    442:                or-shorter</code>
                    443:        <li>Switch various static hash tables to RB trees improving
                    444:                performance on large systems
                    445:        <li>Export per neighbor pending update and withdraw statistics
                    446:        <li>Fix race between a neighbor session reset and its update message
                    447:                backlog
                    448:        <li>Improve handling of nexthop reachability state changes
                    449:   </ul>
                    450:   <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client.8">rpki-client(8)</a> saw some changes:
                    451:   <ul>
1.12      benno     452:        <li>Allowed more than one CRL URI in certificates.
1.11      benno     453:        <li>Do not apply timezone offsets when converting X509 times.  X509
                    454:                times are in UTC and comparing them to times in different timezones
                    455:                would cause validity problems.
                    456:        <li>Add support for an operator-configurable skiplist facility.
                    457:                Operators can specify a list of FQDNs which should not be contacted
                    458:                when synchronizing the local cache to the network.
                    459:        <li>Emit a warning when a RRDP session serial number decreases.
                    460:        <li>DER decoding functions were refactored to leverage ASN.1 templates.
                    461:        <li>Add support to validate & inspect .sig files containing RPKI Signed
                    462:                Checklists in filemode (-f). (draft-ietf-sidrops-rpki-rsc-08)
                    463:        <li>Print various statistics after the completion of the main process.
                    464:        <li>Add support to decode & print TAL (RFC 8630) details in filemode (-f).
                    465:        <li>Emit objects in Concatenated JSON format when filemode (-f) and the JSON
                    466:                output flag (-j) are combined.
1.13      benno     467:        <li>Add support for validating Autonomous System Provider Authorization
1.11      benno     468:                (ASPA) objects conforming to draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-10.
                    469:                Validated ASPA payloads are visible in JSON and filemode (-f) output.
                    470:        <li>Set rsync connection I/O idle timeout to 15 seconds.
1.13      benno     471:        <li>Unify the maximum idle I/O and connect timeouts for rsync & HTTPS.
1.18      jsg       472:        <li>rpki-client now performs stricter EE certificate validation:
1.11      benno     473:        <ul>
                    474:                <li>Disallow AS Resources extensions in ROA EE certificates.
                    475:                <li>Disallow Subject Information Access (SIA) extensions in RPKI
                    476:                        Signed Checklist (RSC) EE certs.
                    477:                <li>Check the resources in ROAs and RSCs against EE certs.
                    478:        </ul>
                    479:        <li>Improve readability and add various information being printed in
                    480:                verbose mode.
                    481:        <li>Extend filemode (-f) output and print X.509 certificates in PEM
                    482:                format when increased verbosity (-vv) is specified.
                    483:        <li>Shorten the RRDP I/O idle timeout.
                    484:        <li>Introduce a deadline timer that aborts all repository synchronization
                    485:                after seven eights of timeout (-s). With this rpki-client has improved
1.13      benno     486:                chances to complete and produce an output even when a CA is excessively
1.11      benno     487:                slow.
                    488:        <li>Abort a currently running RRDP request process when the per-repository
                    489:                timeout is reached.
                    490:        <li>Permit multiple AccessDescription entries in SIA X.509 extensions. While
                    491:                fetching from secondary locations is not yet supported, rpki-client will
1.13      benno     492:                not treat occurrence as a fatal error.
1.11      benno     493:        <li>Resolve a potential for a race condition in non-atomic RRDP deltas.
                    494:        <li>Fix some memory leaks.
                    495:        <li>Improve compliance with the HTTP protocol specification.
                    496:   </ul>
                    497:
1.14      benno     498:   <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospfd.8">ospfd(8)</a>,
1.11      benno     499:        relax the limitations on what is an acceptable unicast IP. There are no
                    500:        more experiments in IPv4 and so there is less reason for network
                    501:        daemons to deny formerly experimental IP space.  Multicast IPs
1.13      benno     502:        (224/4) and loopback (127/8) are still disallowed.
1.14      benno     503:   <li>Added check to <a
                    504:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/acme-client.1">acme-client(1)</a> to
                    505:        ensure the challenge token is turned into a filename that is base64url
                    506:        encoded.
                    507:   <li>Added RFC 9234 "BGP Role" support to <a
                    508:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a>
1.19      benno     509:   <li>Have <a
                    510:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdump.8">tcpdump(8)</a> print
                    511:        ASnumbers in 'asplain' format instead the old 'asdot' format.
                    512:   <li>Fixed a crash in libpcap when it would walk off the end of the array performing frees.
                    513:   <li>Made -X connect SOCKS work with IPv6 adresses in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/nc.1">nc(1)</a>.
                    514:
1.11      benno     515:
1.1       deraadt   516:   </ul>
                    517:
                    518: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
                    519:   <ul>
1.19      benno     520:   <li>Added an ACL list for multiple users attaching to the <a
                    521:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> socket.
                    522:   <li>Ensured cursor remains on selected item on menu in <a
                    523:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a>.
                    524:
1.1       deraadt   525:   </ul>
                    526:
1.2       jsg       527: <li>LibreSSL version 3.6.0
1.1       deraadt   528:   <ul>
                    529:   <li>New Features
                    530:     <ul>
                    531:     <li>...
                    532:     </ul>
                    533:
                    534:   <li>Portable Improvements
                    535:     <ul>
                    536:     <li>...
                    537:     </ul>
                    538:
                    539:   <li>Compatibility Changes
                    540:     <ul>
                    541:     <li>...
                    542:     </ul>
                    543:
                    544:   <li>Bug fixes
                    545:     <ul>
                    546:     <li>...
                    547:     </ul>
                    548:
                    549:   <li>Internal Improvements
                    550:     <ul>
                    551:     <li>...
                    552:     </ul>
                    553:
                    554:   <li>Documentation improvements
                    555:     <ul>
                    556:     <li>...
                    557:     </ul>
                    558:   </ul>
                    559:
1.2       jsg       560: <li>OpenSSH 9.1
1.1       deraadt   561:   <ul>
                    562:   <li>...
                    563:   </ul>
                    564:
                    565: <li>mandoc 1.14.6 plus several bugfixes, including:
                    566:   <ul>
1.12      benno     567:   <li>Fixed calculation of the width of spanned columns in <a
                    568:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc">mandoc(1)</a>.
1.14      benno     569:   <li>Made <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>'s
                    570:        roff_expand() parse left-to-right rather than right-to-left.
1.19      benno     571:   <li>Implemented a rudimentary version of the <a
                    572:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a> <code>\A</code>
                    573:        escape sequence for <a
                    574:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>.
                    575:   <li>Matched groff behavior to allow arbitrary argument delimiters for
                    576:        \C in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a>.
                    577:   <li>Improved accessibility of <a
                    578:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.1">mandoc(1)</a> -T html -O toc
                    579:        output by using the &lt;nav&gt; element in the DPUB-ARIA doc-toc role.
1.1       deraadt   580:   </ul>
                    581:
                    582: <li>Ports and packages:
                    583:   <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    584:   <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
                    585:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
                    586:     <li>aarch64:     XXXX
                    587:     <li>amd64:       XXXX
                    588:     <li>arm:         XXXX
                    589:     <li>i386:        XXXX
                    590:     <li>mips64:      XXXX
                    591:     <li>powerpc:     XXXX
                    592:     <li>powerpc64:   XXXX
                    593:     <li>riscv64:     XXXX
                    594:     <li>sparc64:     XXXX
                    595:   </ul>
                    596:
                    597:   <p>Some highlights:
                    598:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.3       sthen     599:     <li>Asterisk 16.28.0, 18.14.0 and 19.6.0
1.1       deraadt   600:     <li>Audacity 2.4.2
1.3       sthen     601:     <li>CMake 3.24.2
                    602:     <li>Chromium 105.0.5195.125
                    603:     <li>Emacs 28.2
                    604:     <li>FFmpeg 4.4.2
1.1       deraadt   605:     <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
1.3       sthen     606:     <li>GHC 9.2.4
                    607:     <li>GNOME 42.4
                    608:     <li>Go 1.19.1
                    609:     <li>JDK 8u342, 11.0.16 and 17.0.4
                    610:     <li>KDE Applications 22.08.1
                    611:     <li>KDE Frameworks 5.98.0
                    612:     <li>Krita 5.1.1
1.1       deraadt   613:     <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0
1.3       sthen     614:     <li>LibreOffice 7.4.1.2
1.1       deraadt   615:     <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.6
1.3       sthen     616:     <li>MariaDB 10.9.3
                    617:     <li>Mono 6.12.0.182
                    618:     <li>Mozilla Firefox 105.0.1 and ESR 102.3.0
                    619:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.0
                    620:     <li>Mutt 2.2.7 and NeoMutt 20220429
                    621:     <li>Node.js 16.17.1
1.1       deraadt   622:     <li>OCaml 4.12.1
1.3       sthen     623:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.6.3
                    624:     <li>PHP 7.4.30, 8.0.23 and 8.1.10
                    625:     <li>Postfix 3.7.2
                    626:     <li>PostgreSQL 14.5
                    627:     <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.9.14 and 3.10.7
                    628:     <li>Qt 5.15.6 and 6.3.1
                    629:     <li>R 4.2.1
                    630:     <li>Ruby 2.7.6, 3.0.4 and 3.1.2
                    631:     <li>Rust 1.63.0
                    632:     <li>SQLite 3.39.3
                    633:     <li>Shotcut 22.06.23
                    634:     <li>Sudo 1.9.11.2
                    635:     <li>Suricata 6.0.6
                    636:     <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.12
1.1       deraadt   637:     <li>TeX Live 2021
1.3       sthen     638:     <li>Vim 9.0.0192 and Neovim 0.7.2
1.1       deraadt   639:     <li>Xfce 4.16
                    640:   </ul>
                    641:   <p>
                    642:
                    643: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    644:
                    645: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    646:   <ul>
1.2       jsg       647:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 21.1.4 + patches,
1.15      jsg       648:         freetype 2.12.1, fontconfig 2.13.94, Mesa 22.1.7, xterm 372,
1.1       deraadt   649:         xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
                    650:     <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0 (+ patches)
                    651:     <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
                    652:     <li>Perl 5.32.1 (+ patches)
1.2       jsg       653:     <li>NSD 4.6.0
                    654:     <li>Unbound 1.16.3
1.1       deraadt   655:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    656:     <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
                    657:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.2       jsg       658:     <li>Awk September 12, 2022
                    659:     <li>Expat 2.4.9
1.1       deraadt   660:   </ul>
                    661:
                    662: </ul>
                    663: </section>
                    664:
                    665: <hr>
                    666:
                    667: <section id=install>
                    668: <h3>How to install</h3>
                    669: <p>
                    670: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
                    671: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.2 on your machine:
                    672:
                    673: <ul>
                    674: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
                    675:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
                    676: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
                    677:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
                    678: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
                    679:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
                    680: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
                    681:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
                    682: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
                    683:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
                    684: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/i386/INSTALL.i386">
                    685:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
                    686: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
                    687:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.8       jsg       688: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
                    689:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.1       deraadt   690: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
                    691:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
                    692: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
                    693:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
                    694: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
                    695:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
                    696: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
                    697:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
                    698: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
                    699:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
                    700: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
                    701:        .../OpenBSD/7.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
                    702: </ul>
                    703: </section>
                    704:
                    705: <hr>
                    706:
                    707: <section id=quickinstall>
                    708: <p>
                    709: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
                    710: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
                    711: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
                    712: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    713:
                    714: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
                    715:
                    716: <p>
                    717: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
                    718: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    719: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    720:
                    721: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
                    722:
                    723: <p>
                    724: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
                    725: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    726: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    727:
                    728: <p>
                    729: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install72.img</i> or
                    730: <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    731:
                    732: <p>
                    733: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    734: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    735: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    736:
                    737: <p>
                    738: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    739: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    740:
                    741: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
                    742:
                    743: <p>
                    744: Write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
                    745: after connecting to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
                    746: details.
                    747:
                    748: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
                    749:
                    750: <p>
                    751: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
                    752: to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
                    753:
                    754: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
                    755:
                    756: <p>
                    757: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    758: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    759:
                    760: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
                    761:
                    762: <p>
                    763: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
                    764: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    765: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    766:
                    767: <p>
                    768: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install72.img</i> or
                    769: <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    770:
                    771: <p>
                    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:
                    776: <p>
                    777: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    778: read INSTALL.i386.
                    779:
                    780: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
                    781:
                    782: <p>
                    783: Write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to the start of the CF
                    784: or disk, and boot normally.
1.8       jsg       785:
                    786: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
                    787:
                    788: <p>
                    789: Write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    790: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    791: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1.1       deraadt   792:
                    793: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
                    794:
                    795: <p>
                    796: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
                    797: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
                    798: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
                    799:
                    800: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
                    801:
                    802: <p>
                    803: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
                    804: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
                    805: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    806:
                    807: <p>
                    808: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    809: /7.2/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    810:
                    811: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
                    812:
                    813: <p>
                    814: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    815: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
                    816:
                    817: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
                    818:
                    819: <p>
                    820: To install, write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a
                    821: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
                    822: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
                    823: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
                    824:
                    825: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
                    826:
                    827: <p>
                    828: To install, write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a
                    829: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
                    830: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
                    831: HiFive Unmatched board.
                    832: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
                    833:
                    834: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
                    835:
                    836: <p>
                    837: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
                    838: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    839:
                    840: <p>
                    841: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    842: <i>floppy72.img</i> or <i>floppyB72.img</i>
                    843: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    844: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    845:
                    846: <p>
                    847: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    848: will most likely fail.
                    849:
                    850: <p>
                    851: You can also write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to the swap partition on
                    852: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    853:
                    854: <p>
                    855: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    856: </section>
                    857:
                    858: <hr>
                    859:
                    860: <section id=upgrade>
                    861: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
                    862: <p>
1.10      benno     863: If you already have an OpenBSD 7.1 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       deraadt   864: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    865: <a href="faq/upgrade72.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    866: </section>
                    867:
                    868: <hr>
                    869:
                    870: <section id=sourcecode>
                    871: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
                    872: <p>
                    873: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
                    874: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
                    875: which are in a separate archive.
                    876: To extract:
                    877: <blockquote><pre>
                    878: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
                    879: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    880: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
                    881: </pre></blockquote>
                    882: <p>
                    883: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
                    884: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    885: To extract:
                    886: <blockquote><pre>
                    887: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
                    888: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    889: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
                    890: </pre></blockquote>
                    891: <p>
                    892: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    893: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    894: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    895: Using these files
                    896: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    897: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    898: </section>
                    899:
                    900: <hr>
                    901:
                    902: <section id=ports>
                    903: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
                    904: <p>
                    905: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    906: <blockquote><pre>
                    907: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
                    908: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
                    909: </pre></blockquote>
                    910: <p>
                    911: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    912: if you know nothing about ports
                    913: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    914: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    915: OpenBSD ports system.
                    916: <p>
                    917: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
                    918: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
                    919: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
                    920: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
                    921: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
                    922: with a command like:
                    923: <blockquote><pre>
                    924: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
                    925: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_2</kbd>
                    926: </pre></blockquote>
                    927: <p>
                    928: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
                    929: server.]
                    930: <p>
                    931: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
                    932: ports for the 7.2 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    933: <p>
                    934: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    935: would like to know more, the mailing list
                    936: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
                    937: </section>
                    938: </body>
                    939: </html>