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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 7.4.
74: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus74.html">changelog</a> leading
75: to 7.4.
76:
77: <ul>
78:
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1.1 deraadt 85:
86: <li>Various kernel improvements:
87: <ul>
1.26 kn 88: <li>On arm64, show BTI and SBSS features in
1.21 schwarze 89: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dmesg.8">dmesg(8)</a>.
1.47 schwarze 90: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kqueue1">kqueue1(2)</a>
91: system call supporting the <code>O_CLOEXEC</code> flag.
1.21 schwarze 92: <li>Map device tree read/write to unbreak root on
93: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>.
1.34 krw 94: <li>Correctly recognize <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umass.4">umass(4)</a>.
95: floppy disk devices as floppy disks.
1.44 schwarze 96: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a>,
97: catch up with box drawing characters which have
1.35 benno 98: been standardized in unicode after the original wscons code was
99: written and chose placeholder values.
1.81 benno 100: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a>,
101: make sure we do not increase the escape sequence argument count beyond
102: usable bounds.
1.62 schwarze 103: <li>Implement <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dt.4">dt(4)</a>
104: utrace support on amd64 and i386.
1.61 benno 105: <li>Correct undefined behavior when using MS-DOS filesystems, fixes imported from FreeBSD.
1.63 benno 106: <li>Make the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fstab.5">softdep</a>
107: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mount.8">mount(8)</a> option a no-op.
108: Softdep was a significant impediment to improving the vfs layer.
1.77 benno 109: <li>Allow <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>ed
110: programs to dump <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/core.5">core(5)</a>
111: into the current working directory.
112: <li>Address incomplete validation of ELF program headers in <a
113: href="https://man.openbsd.org/execve.2">execve(2)</a>.
114: <li>On arm64, use the deep idle state available on Apple M1/M2 cores
115: in the idle loop and for suspend, resulting in power savings.
1.81 benno 116: <li>Update AMD CPU microcode if a newer patch is available.
117: <li>Enable a workaround for the 'Zenbleed' AMD CPU bug.
118: <li>Report speculation control bits in dmesg cpu lines.
119: <li>To give the primary CPU an opportunity to perform clock interrupt
120: preparation in a machine-independent manner we need to separate the
121: "initialization" parts of cpu_initclocks() from the "start the clock
122: interrupt" parts. Separate cpu_initclocks() from cpu_startclock().
123: <li>Fix a problem where CPU time accounting and RLIMIT_CPU was
124: unreliable on idle systems.
125: <li>Improve the output of the "show proc" command of the kernel
126: debugger <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ddb.4">ddb(4)</a> and show
127: both the PID and TID of the proc.
1.1 deraadt 128: </ul>
129:
130: <li>SMP Improvements
131: <ul>
1.66 schwarze 132: <li>Rewrite <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfsync.4">pfsync(4)</a>,
133: in particular to improve locking and to help with unlocking more
134: of <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> and with
135: parallelisation of the network stack in the future.
1.82 benno 136: The protocol remains compatible with the older version.
1.28 benno 137: <li>Removed kernel locks from the ARP input path.
138: <li>Pulled MP-safe arprequest() out of kernel lock.
1.51 benno 139: <li>Remove the kernel lock from IPv6 neighbor discovery.
1.82 benno 140: <li>Unlock more parts of <a
141: href="https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2">ioctl(2)</a> and the <a
142: href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.4">routing</a> code in the network
143: stack.
1.1 deraadt 144: </ul>
145:
146: <li>Direct Rendering Manager and graphics drivers
147: <ul>
1.18 jsg 148: <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>
149: to Linux 6.1.55
150: <li>Don't change end marker in sg_set_page(). Caused bad memory accesses
151: when using page flipping on Alder Lake and Raptor Lake.
1.1 deraadt 152: </ul>
153:
154: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
155: <ul>
1.38 dv 156: <li>Allowed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> guests to
157: enable and use supervisor IBT.
1.39 jsg 158: <li>Suppressed AMD hardware p-state visibility to
1.38 dv 159: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> guests.
1.21 schwarze 160: <li>Avoid use of uninitialised memory in
161: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>.
1.15 benno 162: <li>Migrate vmd_vm.vm_ttyname to char array allowing a vmd_vm
1.30 dv 163: object to be transmitted over an ipc channel.
164: <li>Cleaned up file descriptor closing in
165: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> vmm process.
166: <li>Fixed vm send/receive, restoring device virtqueue addresses on
167: receive.
168: <li>Introduced <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/execvp.3">execvp(3)</a>
169: after fork for child vm processes.
1.32 schwarze 170: <li>No longer generate an error in
171: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> if
172: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vm.conf.5">vm.conf(5)</a> is absent.
1.30 dv 173: <li>Split <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a> into MI/MD
174: parts.
175: <li>Introduced multi-process model for
176: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> virtio block and
177: network devices.
178: <li>Allowed vm owners to override boot kernel when using
179: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a> to start a
180: vm.
181: <li>Changed staggered start of vms to number of online CPUs.
182: <li>Fixed a segfault on vm creation.
183: <li>Switched to anonymous shared memory mappings for
184: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> vm processes,
185: introducing a new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>
186: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2">ioctl(2)</a>.
187: <li>Relaxed absolute path requirements for
188: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> configtest mode (-n).
189: <li>Adjusted shutdown logic by vm id to function similarly as by name.
190: <li>Moved validation of local network prefixes for the internal
191: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> DHCP service into
192: the config parser.
193: <li>Fixed QCOW2 base images when used with the
194: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> multi-process device
195: model.
196: <li>Fixed setting verbose logging in child processes.
197: <li>Fixed a race condition related to the emulated i8259 interrupt controller
198: by ignoring interrupt masks on assert.
199: <li>Inlined pending interrupts in the
200: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>
201: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2">ioctl(2)</a> for running the
202: vcpu, reducing vm latency.
203: <li>Added zero-copy, vectored io to the
204: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> virtio block device.
205: <li>Changed to logging <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a>
206: vm ids in the vcpu run loop on error and not the ids used by
207: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>.
208: <li>Fixed a vm pause deadlock.
209: <li>Changed <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> logging format
210: to disambiguate vm and device process by names and indices.
211: <li>Fixed dynamically toggling verbose logging mode with
212: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 213: </ul>
214:
215: <li>Various new userland features:
216: <ul>
1.20 schwarze 217: <li>New ISO C11 header <code><uchar.h></code> declaring the
218: types <code>char32_t</code> and <code>char16_t</code> and the
219: functions <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/c32rtomb.3">c32rtomb(3)</a>,
220: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mbrtoc32.3">mbrtoc32(3)</a>,
221: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/c16rtomb.3">c16rtomb(3)</a>, and
222: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mbrtoc16.3">mbrtoc16(3)</a>.
1.72 schwarze 223: <li>Introduce a new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a>
224: option <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3#D">D</a>
225: for memory leak detection with
226: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ktrace.1">ktrace(1)</a> and
227: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kdump.1">kdump(1)</a>.
1.47 schwarze 228: <li>Add many new functions to the
229: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imsg_init.3">imsg_init(3)</a> API.
1.46 schwarze 230: <li>Support <code>${.VARIABLES}</code> in
231: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/make.1">make(1)</a>,
232: listing the names of all global variables that have been set.
233: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kdump.1">kdump(1)</a>
234: <code>-u</code> option to select
235: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/utrace.2">utrace(2)</a>
236: tracepoints by label.
237: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync.1">openrsync(1)</a>,
238: support the options <code>--size-only</code> and
239: <code>--ignore-times</code>
1.11 benno 240: <li>Update zoneinfo to tzdata2023c.
1.34 krw 241: <li>Accept the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ucom.4">ucom(4)</a> fixed
242: name format as a valid format for the
243: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cu.1">cu(1)</a> -l option.
1.62 schwarze 244: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cron.8">cron(8)</a> and
245: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/crontab.5">crontab(5)</a>,
246: add support for random offsets when
1.51 benno 247: using ranges with a step value in cron. This extends the random range
248: syntax to support step values. Instead of choosing a random number
249: between the high and low values, the field is treated as a range with
250: a random offset less than the step value. This can be used to avoid
251: thundering herd problems where multiple machines contact a server all
252: at the same time via cron jobs.
1.61 benno 253: <li>Extend and improve the ibuf API in <a
254: href="https://man.openbsd.org/ibuf_add_buf.3">libutil</a> and add
255: function for more specific data types, for modifying data at specific
256: offsets, for getting and setting the filedescriptor stored on the ibuf
257: and for efficient wrapping of ibufs into imesgs. The ibuf API is
258: mostly used in network daemons.
1.59 schwarze 259: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wsconsctl.8">wsconsctl(8)</a>,
260: add button mappings for two- and three-finger clicks on clickpads.
1.81 benno 261: <li>Implement a non-interactive mode (-s) in <a
262: href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a> for use in
263: scripts.
264: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>, use
265: a hardware based number of KDF rounds by default for passphrases.
266: Motivation is to provide a saner and more modern default, especially
267: for fresh installations utilizing new disk encryption question.
268:
269:
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271:
272: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
273: <ul>
1.33 schwarze 274: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pax.1">pax(1)</a> and
275: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tar.1">tar(1)</a>,
276: speed up archive creation when many files are skipped.
1.77 benno 277: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pax.1">pax(1)</a>,
278: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tar.1">tar(1)</a>, and
279: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cpio.1">cpio(1)</a> terminal
280: output, escape non-printable characters in messages that may
281: include file names.
282: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pax.1">pax(1)</a>, when
283: creating an archive file, don't open files that will be skipped.
1.46 schwarze 284: <li>Better diagnostics from
285: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/make.1">make(1)</a>
286: when a makefile exists but cannot be opened.
287: <li>Prevent a buffer underflow in
288: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/patch.1">patch(1)</a>
289: that could occur with lines longer than 32kB.
290: <li>Prevent a segmentation fault in
291: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/patch.1">patch(1)</a>
292: that occurred when a patch specified a file name so long that
293: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/basename.3">basename(3)</a> failed.
294: <li>Prevent a read buffer overrun in
295: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/patch.1">patch(1)</a>
296: that could occur when a patch specified a file name ending in a slash.
297: <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stat.1">stat(1)</a>
298: correctly print mtimes after 2038.
1.21 schwarze 299: <li>Refactoring and documenting of
300: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> code,
301: to make it easier to maintain.
1.34 krw 302: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a>
303: no longer adds extra blanks at the end of lines, eliminating
304: spurious line wrapping.
1.21 schwarze 305: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/clang.1">clang(1)</a>,
306: allow out-of-class defaulting of comparison operators,
1.11 benno 307: by ways of backporting an upstream commit.
1.21 schwarze 308: <li>Improve the code of
309: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>
310: and fix spelling mistakes.
1.11 benno 311: <li>Improve the code quality of find(1).
1.21 schwarze 312: <li>Many changes in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1">mg(1)</a>:
1.11 benno 313: <ul>
1.46 schwarze 314: <li>New command
315: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1#set-tab-width">set-tab-width</a>
316: to change the tabulator width on a per-buffer basis.
317: <li>Let the <code>space-to-tabstop</code> command move to the right
318: position even if the line contains tabs, control characters,
319: or non-ASCII bytes.
1.21 schwarze 320: <li>Improve the readability of the code.
1.46 schwarze 321: <li>Fall back to <code>/bin/sh</code> if <code>$SHELL</code> is undefined.
1.21 schwarze 322: <li>Fix parsing of tag files with duplicate entries.
1.11 benno 323: Instead of erroring out ignore duplicates. Fixes using
1.46 schwarze 324: <code>/var/db/libc.tags</code> again.
325: <li>Change the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1#visit-tags-table"
326: >visit-tags-table</a> command to immediately
1.11 benno 327: load the tag file, and drop the lazy mechanics.
1.46 schwarze 328: <li>Do not leak memory in
329: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1#pop-tag-mark">pop-tag-mark</a>
330: if it fails to switch buffers.
331: <li>Fix a read buffer overrun caused by <code>-u</code> arguments
332: longer than 1023 bytes.
333: <li>Fix a write buffer overrun on the stack caused by
334: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mg.1#blink-and-insert"
335: >blink-and-insert</a> matching a very long line
336: that is not currently visible in the window.
1.11 benno 337: <li>Skip checking permissions of conffile with access(2).
1.61 benno 338: <li>Resurrect no-tab-mode and add it to the list of modes that can
339: be set with set-default-mode.
1.35 benno 340: <li>Added a missing void.
1.11 benno 341: </ul>
1.16 jsg 342: <li>On aarch64 architectures improve how BTI control flow integrity
1.11 benno 343: enforcement is implemented in the executable entry point and enable
1.16 jsg 344: support for BTI control flow integrity checks in libc assembly
1.11 benno 345: functions.
1.28 benno 346: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ld.so.1">ld.so(1)</a> treat
347: symlinks in $ORIGIN determination the same way as other OS linkers do.
1.34 krw 348: <li>Fix a segfault when the
349: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
350: simple editor encounters an incomplete partition line.
351: <li>Fix <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
352: handling of templates with partitions after a "N-* 100" entry.
353: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
354: regress tests to work on sparc64.
355: <li>Fix <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a>
356: initialization of CHS/LBA fields in an MBR, allowing machines with
357: a BIOS that uses CHS to boot from disks >8G.
358: <li>Retire <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
359: -E expert mode.
360: <li>When displaying GPT partition attributes
361: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> prefixes
362: Microsoft partition attribute names with 'MS'.
363: <li>In the absence of the 'disktype' command line parameter
364: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
365: always uses the current media type provided by the kernel.
366: <li>Ensure <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fdisk.8">fdisk(8)</a> handles
367: the case where a GPT partition name is not a valid C string.
1.59 schwarze 368: <li>When creating new crypto volumes with
369: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>,
370: by default use a hardware based number of KDF rounds for passphrases.
371: <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>
372: gracefully prompt again during interactive creation and
373: passphrase change on CRYPTO and 1C volumes.
374: <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8">bioctl(8)</a>
375: read passphrases without prompts or confirmation
376: in <code>-s</code> mode.
377: <li>Allow the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/atactl.8">atactl(8)</a>
378: command <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/atactl.8#readattr">readattr</a>
379: to succeed even for disks where <code>ATA_SMART_READ</code> and
380: <code>ATA_SMART_THRESHOLD</code> revisions mismatch, as long as
381: checksums are OK.
1.44 schwarze 382: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ld.so.1">ld.so(1)</a>,
383: avoid an overflow in the ELF SYSV ABI hash function.
1.47 schwarze 384: <li>Make sure <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/modf.3">modf(3)</a> and
385: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/modff.3">modff(3)</a>
386: return correct values for infinities.
387: <li>Do not fail in
388: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ober_scanf_elements.3"
389: >ober_scanf_elements(3)</a> when encountering empty sequences.
1.62 schwarze 390: <li>Remove broken special handling of <code>test -t</code> in
391: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>.
1.57 sthen 392: <li>The caching mechanism used by
1.60 sthen 393: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_add.1">pkg_add(1)</a>
1.57 sthen 394: to speed up <tt>pkg_add -u</tt> now also works if -stable packages
395: are available.
1.81 benno 396: <li>Significantly increase the speed of <a
397: href="https://man.openbsd.org/pkg-config.1">pkg-config(1)</a>.
1.61 benno 398: <li>In seq(1), fix a check for rounding error and truncation.
399: <li>In cron(8), introduce upstream fixes in the handling of @yearly, @monthly,
400: @weekly, @daily and @hourly entries.
1.78 benno 401: <li>Fix a bug in <a
402: href="https://man.openbsd.org/cron.8">cron(8)</a> where whitespace
403: after usernames would not be completly skipped while parsing the
404: href="https://man.openbsd.org/crontab.5">crontab(5)</a> file.
1.77 benno 405: <li>In pax(1), safely escape characters when displaying messages
406: that may include file names, and truncate times to the correct maximum
407: value.
408: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/patch.1">patch(1)</a>,
409: increase the maximum line length from 32768 to 9223372036854775807
410: (ssize_t) characters.
411: <li>Make <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a>
412: check if a daemon exists before trying to disable it, thereby avoiding
413: parsing and printing of bogus characters.
1.81 benno 414: <li>Print to the console the fingerprint of a newly generated <a
415: href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a> host key of the
416: preferred type (currently ED25519), typically when booting for the
417: first time. This simplifies a secure first ssh connection to a
418: freshly installed machine.
1.1 deraadt 419: </ul>
420:
421: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
422: <ul>
1.20 schwarze 423: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a>
424: nodes for battery management, <code>hw.battery.charge*</code>.
1.64 schwarze 425: Support them with
426: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpithinkpad.4">acpithinkpad(4)</a>
427: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aplsmc.4">aplsmc(4)</a>.
1.20 schwarze 428: <li>Define fixed names for
429: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ucom.4">ucom(4)</a> USB serial
1.34 krw 430: ports, display them in attach messages and via the new
431: <code>hw.ucomnames</code>
432: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2#HW_UCOMNAMES~2">sysctl(2)</a>.
1.63 benno 433: <li>Add support for the RK3568 32k RTC, RK3588, and other clocks in
1.21 schwarze 434: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkclock.4">rkclock(4)</a>.
435: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a>,
436: attach Baikal-M PCIe.
1.11 benno 437: <li>In openfirmware, implement regulator notifiers which get called
438: when the voltage/current for a regulator is changed or when the
439: regulator gets initialized when it attaches for the first time. The
440: latter makes it possible to register a notifier for a regulator that
441: hasn't attached yet.
1.21 schwarze 442: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkiovd.4">rkiovd(4)</a>,
443: a driver for the I/O voltage domains on Rockchip SoCs.
444: <li>Add support for TEMPerGold 3.4 temperature sensor to
445: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ugold.4">ugold(4)</a>.
1.15 benno 446: <li>Ignore duplicate ACPI lid transitions as they can happen on Dell
447: Precision 5510 systems.
448: <li>Make RK3568 PCIe controllers run at the maximum possible speed
449: by using dwpcie_link_config() when initializing.
450: <li>In the Universal Flash Storage Host Controller Interface
1.21 schwarze 451: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ufshci.4">ufshci(4)</a>),
452: enable Force Unit Access (FUA) for write commands.
1.28 benno 453: <li>Make SATA (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ahci.4">ahci(4)</a>)
454: work on a Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro.
455: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umcs.4">umcs(4)</a>, set
456: parity bits correctly.
1.35 benno 457: <li>Enabled the caps lock LED on modern Apple laptop keyboards.
1.44 schwarze 458: <li>Add support for Rockchip "cryptov2-rng" random number generator in
459: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkrng.4">rkrng(4)</a>.
1.62 schwarze 460: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcrng.4">qcrng(4)</a>,
461: a driver for the Qualcomm RNG device found on the Thinkpad X13s.
1.35 benno 462: <li>Fixed cpuperf on the Apple M2 Pro/Max.
1.36 jsg 463: <li>Add support for the PCIe controller found on Apple M2 Pro/Max SoCs.
1.40 jsg 464: <li>Add support for enabling both the USB2 and USB3 PHYs in
465: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/xhci.4">xhci(4)</a> with device tree.
1.43 jsg 466: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkusbphy.4">rkusbphy(4)</a>,
467: a driver for the usb2phy on Rockchip SoCs.
1.62 schwarze 468: <li>Support AP806/CP110 SoCs in
469: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvtemp.4">mvtemp(4)</a>.
470: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwmshc.4">dwmshc(4)</a>
471: to support Designware Mobile Storage Host Controllers
1.50 benno 472: found on rk356x and rk3588 SoCs.
1.62 schwarze 473: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iosf.4">iosf(4)</a>,
474: a driver for the Intel OnChip System Fabric.
475: <li>In the SCSI tape driver
476: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/st.4">st(4)</a>, add support
477: for I/O statistics so that tape speeds can be observed with
478: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iostat.8">iostat(8)</a>.
479: <li>Add support for the RTL8153D chipset in
480: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ure.4">ure(4)</a>.
1.56 benno 481: <li>Add support for the Peripheral Authentication Service SMC
1.62 schwarze 482: interface in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcscm.4">qcscm(4)</a>.
483: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcmtx.4">qcmtx(4)</a>,
484: a driver for the hardware spinlock on Qualcomm
1.56 benno 485: SoCs that is used to synchronize access to the shared memory table.
1.62 schwarze 486: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcsmptp.4">qcsmptp(4)</a>,
487: a driver to share 32-bit values between (co-)processors.
488: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcaoss.4">qcaoss(4)</a>,
489: a driver for the Always On Subsystem found on Qualcomm SoCs.
490: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcpas.4">qcpas(4)</a>,
491: a driver for the Peripheral Authentication Service
492: found on Qualcomm SoCs. Enable AC detection.
493: <li>Fix use of MMC/SD/SDIO on RK3588 ARM SoC in
494: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwmmc.4">dwmmc(4)</a>.
495: <li>Support thermal sensors on Ryzen 9 79xx in
496: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksmn.4">ksmn(4)</a>.
497: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qctsens.4">qctsens(4)</a>,
498: a driver for the Temperature Sensor found on Qualcomm SoCs.
499: <li>Add support for JH7110 to
500: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwmmc.4">dwmmc(4)</a>,
501: making eMMC and microSD mostly work on the Starfive VisionFive 2.
502: <li>Add driver <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qccpu.4">qccpu(4)</a>
503: for QC CPU Power States.
1.81 benno 504: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/qcsdam.4">qcsdam(4)</a>,
505: a driver for the PMIC Shared Direct Access Memory found on
506: Qualcomm SoCs.
1.74 schwarze 507: <li>Add support for the RK3588 PCIe3 PHY to
508: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rkpciephy.4">rkpciephy(4)</a>.
509: The PHY controls 4 lanes that can be routed to 4 of 5 PCIe controllers.
510: <li>Add mute control to
511: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sncodec.4">sncodec(4)</a>.
512: This makes the mute button work on laptops using this driver.
1.77 benno 513: <li>Add mute control to <a
514: href="https://man.openbsd.org/tascodec.4">tascodec(4)</a>. This makes
515: the mute button on laptops that use tascodec(4) work.
1.81 benno 516: <li>Improve the suspend/resume behavior of several drivers, reducing
517: power consumption during suspend.
518: <li>Add support for the Synopsys DesignWare I2C controller
519: (dwiic(4)) and the X-Powers AXP Power Management IC (axppmic(4)).
520: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/stfrng.4">stfrng(4)</a>, a
521: driver for the random number generator on the risc-v JH7110 SoC.
522: <li>Enable the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mbg.4">mbg(4)</a>
523: timedelta sensor on amd64 and match the Meinberg PZF180PEX.
1.1 deraadt 524: </ul>
525:
526: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
527: <ul>
1.21 schwarze 528: <li>Fix <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwqe.4">dwqe(4)</a>
529: on several boards that use
530: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rgephy.4">rgephy(4)</a> by configuring
1.11 benno 531: the RGMII interface before taking the PHY out of reset.
1.28 benno 532: <li>Improve <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwqe.4">dwqe(4)</a> and
533: determine PHY mode and pass the appropriate flags down to the PHY when
1.80 deraadt 534: attaching.
1.31 schwarze 535: <li>Report in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dmesg.8">dmesg(8)</a> on
536: which gmac the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwqe.4">dwqe(4)</a>
537: driver is attaching to.
1.21 schwarze 538: <li>Document that Intel i226 adapters are supported by
539: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/igc.4">igc(4)</a>.
540: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ngbe.4">ngbe(4)</a>,
541: a driver for WangXun WX1860 PCI Express 10/100/1Gb Ethernet devices.
542: Also support it on amd64 install media.
543: <li>Add support for the RTL8211F-VD PHY in
544: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rgephy.4">rgephy(4)</a>.
1.15 benno 545: <li>In openfirmware, add glue for network interfaces to be found by
546: fdt/ofw node or phandle in order to support "switch chips" like the
547: marvell link street.
1.37 kevlo 548: <li>Add support for RTL8153D devices to
549: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ure.4">ure(4)</a>.
1.62 schwarze 550: <li>Provide byte and packet counter statistics in some
551: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwge.4">dwge(4)</a> implementations.
1.74 schwarze 552: <li>On <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bge.4">bge(4)</a>, make hardware
553: counters available via kstats for BCM5705 and newer controller chips.
1.81 benno 554: <li>Make several improvements to <a
555: href="https://man.openbsd.org/vmx.4">vmx(4)</a>, the VMware VMXNET3
556: Virtual Interface Controller.
557: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/em.4">em(4)</a>, stop
558: putting multicast addresses into the Receive Address Registers.
559: Instead hash them all into the Multicast Table Array.
560: <li>Support Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx in <a
561: href="https://man.openbsd.org/mcx.4">mcx(4)</a>.
562: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mcx.4">mcx(4)</a>, add 100GB
563: LR4 Ethernet capability and map it to IFM_100G_LR4.
1.1 deraadt 564: </ul>
565:
566: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
567: <ul>
1.21 schwarze 568: <li>Improve how Quectel LTE&5G devices attach to
569: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umb.4">umb(4)</a>.
1.62 schwarze 570: <li>Add initial support for Atlantic 2 hardware in
571: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/aq.4">aq(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 572: </ul>
573:
574: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
575: <ul>
1.27 stsp 576: <li> Add support for RTL8188FTV devices to the
577: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/urtwn.4">urtwn(4)</a> driver.
578: <li>Attach Intel wireless devices with PCI product ID 0x51f1 to
579: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a>.
580: <li>Fix a bug where <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a> and
581: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> background
582: scan tasks were added to the wrong task queue.
583: <li>Fix a firmware error that occurred when an
584: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> interface
585: was brought down.
586: <li>Fix <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwx.4">iwx(4)</a> firmware errors
587: triggered during background scans.
588: <li>Fix a crash in the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iwm.4">iwm(4)</a>
589: driver when userland attempts to inject frames via bpf in monitor mode.
1.1 deraadt 590: </ul>
591:
592: <li>Installer, upgrade and bootloader improvements:
593: <ul>
1.11 benno 594: <li>In the arm64 ramdisk, simplify apple firmware copying to make it
595: easier to add new firmware.
1.21 schwarze 596: <li>On armv7 and arm64, silence informational messages from
597: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>
1.11 benno 598: when zeroing a disk's first 1MB. Use character not block devices with
599: dd(1) like on other architectures.
600: <li>Refactor the code of md_installboot() on armv7 and arm64 to be
601: more in line with other architectures.
602: <li>Improve the dialogue of the installer without affecting
1.21 schwarze 603: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/autoinstall.8">autoinstall(8)</a>
604: files.
605: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ufshci.4">ufshci(4)</a>
606: on arm64 install media.
1.15 benno 607: <li>On arm64 pine64 boards, stop writing pine64 firmware to disk.
1.81 benno 608: <li>When media has neither a GPT nor an MBR
609: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/installboot.8">installboot(8)</a>,
610: assume OpenBSD occupies the entire disk starting at sector 0.
611: <li>Attempt to not overflow the ramdisk when extracting firmware on
612: Apple arm64 systems.
613: <li>Add support for loading files from the EFI System Partition.
614: <li>Fix a bug in the handling of SCSI drives in the bootloader on the luna88k architecture.
615: <li>On luna88k, implement the chmod() signaling mechanism for
616: <code>/bsd.upgrade</code> to prevent re-upgrade, like other
617: architectures.
618: <!--- add here --->
619: <li>Support for <a
620: href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a> disks in the
621: installer was improved:
622: <ul>
623: <li>Make root on
1.21 schwarze 624: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>
625: installations boot out of the box on Raspberry Pis (arm64).
1.81 benno 626: <li>Support installations with root on
1.28 benno 627: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>
628: on arm64, tested on Pinebook Pro, Raspberry Pi 4b, and SolidRun CEX7.
1.81 benno 629: <li>On riscv64, enable softraid(4) in the ramdisk kernel and support
1.50 benno 630: installations with root on
631: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>
1.81 benno 632: <li>When installing on encrypted
1.28 benno 633: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>, determine
634: the disk for placing the root device automatically and make it default
635: as it is the only legit choice.
1.81 benno 636: <li>Add arm64 to the list of architectures with support for guided disk
637: encryption.
638: <li>Retain existing EFI System partitions on systems with APFSISC
1.26 kn 639: partitions (arm64 Apple M1/M2) during installation with root on
640: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a>.
1.81 benno 641: <li>Enable <a
642: href="https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4">softraid(4)</a> in ramdisk
643: on the powerpc64 architecture.
644: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 645: </ul>
646:
647: <li>Security improvements:
648: <ul>
1.80 deraadt 649: <li>Enabled support for branch target identification (BTI) in both
1.79 benno 650: the kernel and userland. On hardware that supports this feautre, it
651: helps enforcing control flow integrety by making sure malicious code
652: cannot jump into the middle of a function.
1.80 deraadt 653: <li>Enabled support for pointer authentication (PAC) in userland. On
1.79 benno 654: hardware that supports this feature it helps enforcing control flow
655: integrety by making sure malicious code cannot manipulate a
656: function's return address.
1.80 deraadt 657: <li>On the amd64 architecture, enabled support for indirect
1.79 benno 658: branch tracking (IBT) in both the kernel and userland. On hardware
659: that supports this feature, it helps enforcing control flow integrety
660: by making sure malicious code cannot jump into the middle of a
661: function.
1.80 deraadt 662: <li>On the arm64 architecture, enabled support for branch target
1.79 benno 663: identification (BTI) in both the kernel and userland. On hardware
664: that supports this feature, it helps enforcing control flow integrety
665: by making sure malicious code cannot jump into the middle of a
666: function.
1.80 deraadt 667: <li>On the arm64 architecture, enabled support for pointer
1.79 benno 668: authentication (PAC) in userland. On hardware that supports this
669: feature it helps enforcing control flow integrety by making sure
670: malicious code cannot manipulate a function's return address.
671: </ul>
672:
673: Together with retguard these features protect against ROP attacks.
674:
675: Compiler defaults for base clang, ports clang and ports gcc (as well
676: as some other non-C language family compilers in ports) have been
677: changed to enable these features by default. As a result the vast
678: majority of programs on OpenBSD (and all programs in the base system)
679: run with these security features enabled.
680:
681: <ul>
1.21 schwarze 682: <li>Change <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a>
1.24 otto 683: chunk sizes to be fine grained: chunk sizes are closer to the
684: requested allocation size.
1.21 schwarze 685: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/malloc.3">malloc(3)</a>,
686: check all chunks in the delayed free list for write-after-free.
1.59 schwarze 687: <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/shutdown.8">shutdown(8)</a>
1.71 schwarze 688: program can now only be executed by members of the new
1.59 schwarze 689: <code>_shutdown</code> group. The idea is that system
690: administrators can now remove most users from the excessively
691: powerful <code>operator</code> group, which in particular
692: provides read access to disk device nodes.
1.46 schwarze 693: <li>Restrict <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/patch.1">patch(1)</a>
694: to the current directory including subdirectories, TMPDIR,
695: and file names given on the command line using
696: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>.
1.70 schwarze 697: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>, consistently
698: escape control characters when displaying file name completions,
1.33 schwarze 699: even when there are multiple matches.
700: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pax.1">pax(1)</a>,
701: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tar.1">tar(1)</a>, and
702: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cpio.1">cpio(1)</a> terminal
1.73 schwarze 703: output, safely escape non-printable characters
704: in messages that may include file names,
705: and truncate times to the correct maximum value.
1.1 deraadt 706: </ul>
707:
708: <li>Changes in the network stack:
709: <ul>
1.21 schwarze 710: <li>Sync the use of
711: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getuptime.9">getuptime(9)</a>
712: in the Neighbour Discovery (ND) code with ARP.
713: <li>In the IPv6 forwarding code, call
714: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/getuptime.9">getuptime(9)</a>
715: once for consistency with IPv4.
1.28 benno 716: <li>ARP has a queue of packets that should be sent after name
717: resolution. Neighbor discovery (ND6) did only hold a single packet.
718: Unified the code, added a queue to ND6 and made the code MP safe.
1.31 schwarze 719: <li>Implement a new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a>
720: <code>net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_queued</code> to show the number of packets
721: waiting for an ND6 response, analogous to ARP.
1.50 benno 722: <li>When configuring a new IPv6 address on an interface, an upstream router
723: doesn't know where to send traffic. Send an unsolicited
724: neighbor advertisement, as described in RFC9131, to the all-routers
725: multicast address so all routers on the same link will learn the path
726: back to the address.
1.51 benno 727: <li>Inbound portion of RFC9131. Routers can create new neighbor cache entries
728: when receiving a valid Neighbor Advertisement.
729: <li>Implement RFC9131 and create new neighbor cache entries
730: when receiving a valid Neighbor Advertisement.
1.81 benno 731:
732: <li>Initial support for TCP segmentation offload (TSO) and TCP large receive offload (LRO) was implemented:
733: <ul>
734: <li>If the driver of a network interface supports TCP segmentation
1.69 schwarze 735: offload (TSO), do not chop the packet in the network stack,
736: but pass it down to the interface layer for TSO.
1.81 benno 737: <li>Provide a software TSO implementation, to be used as a fallback
1.69 schwarze 738: if network hardware does not support TSO.
1.81 benno 739: <li>Provide a new <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a>
1.69 schwarze 740: node <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2#tcp.tso"
741: >net.inet.tcp.tso</a> such that TSO can be globally disabled.
742: By default, it is enabled on all interfaces supporting it.
1.81 benno 743: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>,
1.69 schwarze 744: display separate
745: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8#hwfeatures">hwfeatures</a>
746: for TCP segmentation offload (TSOv4, TSOv6)
747: and TCP large receive offload (LRO) and provide a
748: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8#tcplro">-tcplro</a>
749: parameter to disable LRO.
1.81 benno 750: <li>Enable TSO and forwarding of LRO packets via TSO in
1.69 schwarze 751: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ix.4">ix(4)</a>.
1.81 benno 752: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ix.4">ix(4)</a>, allocate
1.77 benno 753: less memory for tx buffers.
1.81 benno 754: <li>Speed up TCP transfer on
1.69 schwarze 755: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lo.4">lo(4)</a>
756: interfaces by using TSO and LRO.
1.81 benno 757: <li>Enable Large Receive Offload (LRO) for TCP per default in network
1.78 benno 758: drivers. LRO allows to receive aggregated packets larger than the MTU.
759: Receiving TCP streams becomes much faster. Currently only <a
760: href="https://man.openbsd.org/ix.4">ix(4)</a> and <a
761: href="https://man.openbsd.org/lo.4">lo(4)</a> devices support LRO, and
762: ix(4) is limited to IPv4 and hardware newer than the old 82598 model.<br>
763: LRO can be turned off per interface with ifconfig <code>-tcplro</code>.
1.81 benno 764: </ul>
765:
766: <li>The following changes were made to the <a
767: href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> firewall:
768: <ul>
769: <li>Speed up the
1.67 schwarze 770: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2">ioctl(2)</a> request
771: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4#DIOCGETRULE">DIOCGETRULE</a>
772: such that <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
773: can retrieve all <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>
774: rules from the kernel in linear rather than in quadratic time.
775: To protect the kernel from memory exhaustion,
776: userland processes now have to release tickets obtained with
777: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4#DIOCGETRULES">DIOCGETRULES</a>
778: by issuing the new
779: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2">ioctl(2)</a> request
780: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4#DIOCXEND">DIOCXEND</a>.
781: In particular, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/snmpd.8">snmpd(8)</a>
782: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/systat.1">systat(1)</a>
783: now do that.
1.81 benno 784: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>,
1.67 schwarze 785: relax the implementation of the <code>pass all</code> rule so all
786: forms of neighbor advertisements are allowed in either direction.
1.81 benno 787: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>,
1.67 schwarze 788: when redirecting locally generated IP packets to userland with
789: <code>divert-packet</code> rules, the packets may have no checksum
790: due to hardware offloading. Calculate the checksum in that case.
1.81 benno 791: <li>Fix a bug in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>
1.67 schwarze 792: where <code>nat-to</code> could fail to insert a state
793: due to conflict on chosen source port number.
1.81 benno 794: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> ignored 'keep
795: state' and 'nat-to' actions for unsolicited icmp error responses. With
796: OpenBSD 7.4, the rule matching logic is tightened so icmp error
797: responses no longer match 'keep state' rule. In typical scenarios icmp
798: errors (if solicited) should match existing state. The change is
799: going to bite firewalls which deal with asymmetric routes. In those
800: cases the 'keep state' action should be relaxed to sloppy or new 'no
801: state' rule to explicitly match icmp errors should be added.
802: </ul>
803: <li>Do not calculate IP, TCP, and UDP checksums on
804: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lo.4">lo(4)</a> interfaces.
1.63 benno 805: <li>Convert the tcp_now() time counter to 64 bits to avoid 32 bits
806: wrap around after changing tcp_now() ticks to milliseconds.
1.81 benno 807: <li>Added initial support for route-based ipsec vpns.<br>
808: Rather than use ipsec flows (aka, entries in the ipsec security
809: policy database) to decide which traffic should be encapsulated in
810: ipsec and sent to a peer, this changes security associations (SAs)
811: so they can also refer to a tunnel interface. When traffic is routed
812: over that tunnel interface, an ipsec SA is looked up and used to
813: encapsulate traffic before being sent to the peer on the SA. When
814: traffic is received from a peer using an interface SA, the specified
815: interface is looked up and the packet is handed to it so it looks
816: like packets come out of the tunnel.
817: <li>Add <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sec.4">sec(4)</a> to support
818: route based ipsec vpns.
819: <li>Introduce reference counting for TCP syn cache entries.
820: <li>Have <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wg.4">wg(4)</a> copy the
821: priority from the inner packet to the outer encrypted packet, so that
822: higher priority packets are picked from hfsc queues for earlier
823: transmission.
1.1 deraadt 824: </ul>
825:
826: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
827: <ul>
828: <li>IPsec support was improved:
829: <ul>
1.21 schwarze 830: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
1.59 schwarze 831: support route-based
832: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sec.4">sec(4)</a> tunnels.
833: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
834: add support to verify X.509 chain from CERT payloads.
835: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
836: do not leak memory when receiving a CERT payload for pubkey auth
837: or for an invalid CERT Encoding.
838: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
839: do not leak a file descriptor if
840: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/open_memstream.3"
841: >open_memstream(3)</a> fails while trying to enable a child SA.
842: <li>While trying to verify an ECDSA signature in
843: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a>,
844: correctly detect failure of DER encoding with
1.21 schwarze 845: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i2d_ECDSA_SIG.3"
1.59 schwarze 846: >i2d_ECDSA_SIG(3)</a>.
847: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ipsecctl.8">ipsecctl(8)</a>,
848: support route-based IPSec VPN negotiation with
849: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sec.4">sec(4)</a>.
850: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a>,
851: support configuring interface SAs for route-based IPSec VPNs.
852: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a>
853: quick mode, do not crash with a <code>NULL</code> pointer
854: access when a group description is specified but it is invalid,
855: unsupported, or memory allocation or key generation fails.
1.21 schwarze 856: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a>,
1.59 schwarze 857: avoid a double free in the unlikely event that
858: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/EC_KEY_check_key.3"
859: >EC_KEY_check_key(3)</a> fails right after generating
860: a new key pair.
861: <li>Allow building
862: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a>
863: with a libcrypto library that has
864: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-7.3/EC_GROUP_new.3"
865: >binary field support</a> ("GF2m") removed.
1.1 deraadt 866: </ul>
1.83 benno 867:
1.1 deraadt 868: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>,
869: <ul>
1.22 claudio 870: <li>Add first version of flowspec support. Right now only announcement
871: of flowspec rules is possible.
872: <li>Update ASPA support to follow draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification-16
873: and draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-16 by making the ASPA lookup
874: tables AFI-agnostic.
875: <li>Rework UPDATE message generation to use the new ibuf API instead
876: of the hand-rolled solution before.
877: <li>Fix <code>ext-community * *</code> matching which also affects
1.29 jsg 878: filters removing all ext-communities.
1.22 claudio 879: <li>Improve and extend the bgpctl parser to handle commands like
880: <code>bgpctl show rib 192.0.2.0/24 detail</code>.
881: Also add various flowspec specific commands.
882: <li>Introduce a semaphore to protect intermittent RTR session data
883: from being published to the RDE.
884: <li>Limit the socket buffer size to 64k for all sessions.
885: Limiting the buffer size to a reasonable size ensures that not
886: too many updates end up queued in the TCP stack.
887: <li>Adjusted example <code>GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN</code> filter rule in
888: the example config to only match on ebgp sessions.
1.1 deraadt 889: </ul>
1.83 benno 890:
1.1 deraadt 891: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client.8">rpki-client(8)</a> saw some changes:
892: <ul>
1.23 claudio 893: <li>A 30%-50% performance improvement was achieved through libcrypto's
894: partial chains certificate validation feature. Already validated
895: non-inheriting CA certificates are now marked as trusted roots. This
896: way it can be ensured that a leaf's delegated resources are properly
897: covered, and at the same time most validation paths are
898: significantly shortened.
899: <li>Support for gzip and deflate HTTP Content-Encoding compression was
900: added. This allows web servers to send RRDP XML in compressed form,
901: saving around 50% of bandwidth.
902: <li>ASPA support was updated to draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-profile-16.
903: As part of supporting AFI-agnostic ASPAs, the JSON syntax for
904: Validated ASPA Payloads changed in both filemode and normal output.
905: <li>In filemode (-f option) the applicable manifests are now shown as
906: part of the signature path.
907: <li>A new -P option was added to manually specify a moment in time
908: to use when parsing the validity window of certificates. Useful
909: for regression testing. Default is invocation time of rpki-client.
910: <li>The -A option will now also exclude ASPA data from the JSON output.
911: <li>The synchronisation protocol used to sync the repository is now
912: included in the OpenMetrics output.
913: <li>Improved accounting by tracking objects both by repo and tal.
914: <li>Check whether products listed on a manifest were issued by the same
915: authority as the manifest itself.
916: <li>File modification timestamps of objects retrieved via RRDP are now
917: deterministically set to prepare the on-disk cache for seamless
918: failovers from RRDP to RSYNC.
919: <li>Improved detection of RRDP session desynchronization: a check was
920: added to compare whether the delta hashes associated to previously
921: seen serials are different in newly fetched notification files.
922: <li>Improved handling of RRDP deltas in which objects are published,
923: withdrawn, and published again.
924: <li>Disallow X.509 v2 issuer and subject unique identifiers in certs.
925: RPKI CAs will never issue certificates with V2 unique identifiers.
926: <li>A check to disallow duplicate X.509 certificate extensions was
927: added.
928: <li>A check to disallow empty sets of IP Addresses or AS numbers in RFC
929: 3779 extensions was added.
930: <li>A warning is printed when the CMS signing-time attribute in a Signed
931: Object is missing.
932: <li>Warnings about unrecoverable message digest mismatches now include
933: the manifestNumber to aid debugging the cause.
934: <li>A check was added to disallow multiple RRDP publish elements for the
935: same file in RRDP snapshots. If this error condition is encountered,
936: the RRDP transfer is failed and the RP falls back to rsync.
937: <li>A compliance check for the proper X.509 Certificate version and CRL
938: version was added.
939: <li>A compliance check was added to ensure CMS Signed Objects contain
940: SignedData, in accordance to RFC 6488 section 3 checklist item 1a.
941: <li>Compliance checks were added for the version, KeyUsage, and
942: ExtendedKeyUsage of EE certificates in Manifest, TAK, and GBR Signed
943: Objects.
944: <li>A CMS signing-time value being after the X.509 notAfter timestamp
945: was downgraded from an error to a warning.
946: <li>A bug was fixed in the handling of CA certificates which inherit IP
947: resources.
948: <li>A compliance check was added to ensure the X.509 Subject only
949: contains commonName and optionally serialNumber.
950: <li>A compliance check was added to ensure the CMS SignedData and
951: SignerInfo versions to be 3.
952: <li>Fisher-Yates shuffle the order in which Manifest entries are
953: processed. Previously, work items were enqueued in the order the CA
954: intended them to appear on a Manifest. However, there is no obvious
955: benefit to third parties deciding the order in which things are
956: processed.
1.1 deraadt 957: </ul>
958:
1.41 op 959: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.8">smtpd(8)</a>,
960: <ul>
961: <li>Swapped link-auth filter arguments to avoid ambiguities with user
962: names containing a "|" character.
963: <li>Bumped <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd-filters.7">smtpd-filters(7)</a>
964: protocol version.
965: <li>Fixed potential truncation of filtered data lines.
966: <li>Allowed arguments on NOOP.
967: </ul>
968:
1.83 benno 969: <li>Many other changes in various network programms and libraries:
970: <ul>
971: <li>Allow libpcap to read files with some additional link-layer type values.
972: <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_fopen_offline.3"
973: >pcap_fopen_offline(3)</a> correctly interpret some
974: <code>LINKTYPE_*</code> values in pcap headers written
975: on foreign operating systems.
976: <li>Make <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dig.1">dig(1)</a>
977: use less deprecated LibreSSL API.
978:
979: <li>Remove stylistic differences between
980: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arp.8">arp(8)</a> and
981: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ndp.8">ndp(8)</a> delete()
982: function. This makes it easier to spot real changes in behavior.
983: <li>Make <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ndp.8">ndp(8)</a>
984: not remove cloning routes when no neighbor entry is
985: found with <code>ndp -d</code>.
986:
987:
988: <li>Improved error handling in the <a
989: href="https://man.openbsd.org/asr_run.3">asr</a> resolver.
990:
991: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a>,
992: handle SERVFAIL results on name resolution better.
993: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a>,
994: fix a use-after-free bug triggered by fatal write errors
995: while sending TCP responses.
996:
997: <li>In the router advertisement daemon
998: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a>, update the default
999: timers for prefix preferred and valid lifetimes to use the values from
1000: RFC 9096.
1001: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a>,
1002: remove artificial limit of 2 hours on a PIO lifetime.
1.81 benno 1003:
1.83 benno 1004: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ypldap.8">ypldap(8)</a>,
1005: reduce memory usage when updating larger directories.
1006: <li>Make <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ypldap.8">ypldap(8)</a>
1007: more resilient when some servers are
1008: misbehaving: keep trying LDAP servers until full results arrive
1009: rather than just until one accepts the TCP connection.
1010:
1011: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8#wgdescription"
1012: >wgdescription</a> parameter to
1013: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1014: to set a string describing the
1015: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wg.4">wg(4)</a> peer.
1016:
1017: <li>Let <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1018: prefix the interface name to many error and warning messages.
1019:
1020: <li>Make the <code>tlsv1.0</code> and <code>tlsv1.1</code> options
1021: in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>
1022: do nothing, as one should use the default <code>tlsv1.2</code>
1023: instead.
1024: <li>Fix IPv6 routes being changed by
1025: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>
1026: with Routers configuration.
1027:
1028: <li>In <a
1029: href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcrelay6.8">dhcrelay6(8)</a>, do not
1030: ignore the AF_LINK entries of <a
1031: href="https://man.openbsd.org/carp.4">carp(4)</a> interfaces.
1032:
1033: <li>Improve the config parser of radiusd(8) to better handle
1034: comments, improve error messages and plug a memory leak.
1035: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radiusd.8">radiusd(8)</a>,
1036: add request or response decoration feature which is used through the
1037: radiusd module interface. This makes additional modules can modify
1038: RADIUS request or response messages. Also add new "radius_standard"
1039: module which uses this new feature, provides some generic features
1040: like "strip-atmark-realm" which removes the realm part from the
1041: User-Name attribute.
1042:
1043: <li>Allow UDP for built-in <a
1044: href="https://man.openbsd.org/inetd.8">inetd(8)</a> services on
1045: 127.0.0.1. This restriction was added in year 2000 due to IPv6 compatibleand
1046: mapped addresses. Nowadays our kernel does not support these IPv6
1047: features and blocks localhost addresses on non-loopback interfaces.
1048: Make IPv4 127.0.0.1/8 and IPv6 ::1 behave identically and provide
1049: local services if configured.
1050:
1051: <li>In <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/spamd.8">spamd(8)</a>, log a
1052: dummy "<unknown>" IP address in the unlikely event that getnameinfo(3)
1053: fails.
1054: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1055: </ul>
1056:
1057: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux.1">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
1058: <ul>
1.11 benno 1059: <li>For passthrough, don't write to clients attached to different sessions.
1060: <li>Add a format to show if there are unseen changes while in a mode.
1.50 benno 1061: <li>Discard mouse sequences that have the right form but actually
1062: are invalid.
1063: <li>Invalidate cached tty state after changing features since they may
1064: change what the terminal can do and need mouse sequences or similar to
1065: be sent again.
1.51 benno 1066: <li>Add options to change the confirm key and default behaviour of
1067: confirm-before.
1.81 benno 1068: <li>Add iked support for route based sec(4) tunnels.
1069: <li>Add an option menu-selected-style to configure the currently
1070: selected menu item.
1071: <li>Add -c to run-shell to set working directory.
1072: <li>Add detach-on-destroy previous and next,
1073: <li>Set visited flag on last windows when linking session.
1.1 deraadt 1074: </ul>
1075:
1.7 tb 1076: <li>LibreSSL version 3.8.2
1.1 deraadt 1077: <ul>
1.7 tb 1078: <li>Security fixes
1079: <ul>
1080: <li>Disabled TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 in libssl so that they may no longer
1081: be selected for use.
1082: <li>BN_is_prime{,_fasttest}_ex() refuse to check numbers larger than
1083: 32 kbits for primality. This mitigates various DoS vectors.
1084: <li>Restricted the RFC 3779 code to IPv4 and IPv6. It was not written
1085: to be able to deal with anything else.
1086: </ul>
1087: <li>Portable changes
1088: <ul>
1089: <li>Extended the endian.h compat header with hto* and *toh macros.
1090: <li>Adapted more tests to the portable framework.
1091: <li>Internal tools are now statically linked.
1092: <li>Applications bundled as part of the LibreSSL package internally,
1093: nc(1) and openssl(1), now are linked statically if static libraries
1094: are built.
1095: <li>Internal compatibility function symbols are no longer exported from
1096: libcrypto. Instead, the libcompat library is linked to libcrypto,
1097: libssl, and libtls separately. This increases size a little, but
1098: ensures that the libraries are not exporting symbols to programs
1099: unintentionally.
1100: <li>Selective removal of CET implementation on platforms where it is
1101: not supported (macOS).
1102: <li>Integrated four more tests.
1103: <li>Added Windows ARM64 architecture to tested platforms.
1104: <li>Removed Solaris 10 support, fixed Solaris 11.
1105: <li>libtls no longer links statically to libcrypto / libssl unless
1106: <code>--enable-libtls-only</code> is specified at configure time.
1107: <li>Improved Windows compatibility library, namely handling of files vs
1108: sockets, correcting an exception when operating on a closed socket.
1109: <li>CMake builds no longer hardcode <code>-O2</code> into the compiler flags,
1110: instead using flags from the CMake build type instead.
1111: <li>Set the CMake default build type to <code>Release</code>. This can be overridden
1112: during configuration.
1113: <li>Fixed broken ASM support with MinGW builds.
1114: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1115: <li>New features
1116: <ul>
1.7 tb 1117: <li>Added support for truncated SHA-2 and for SHA-3.
1118: <li>The BPSW primality test performs additional Miller-Rabin rounds
1119: with random bases to reduce the likelihood of composites passing.
1120: <li>Allow testing of ciphers and digests using badly aligned buffers
1121: in openssl speed using -unalign.
1122: <li>Ed25519 certificates are now supported in openssl(1) ca and req.
1123: Prepared Ed25519 support in libssl.
1124: <li>Add branch target information (BTI) support to amd64 and arm64
1125: assembly.
1.1 deraadt 1126: </ul>
1127: <li>Compatibility changes
1128: <ul>
1.7 tb 1129: <li>Added a workaround for a poorly thought-out change in OpenSSL 3 that
1130: broke privilege separation support in libtls.
1131: <li>Moved libtls from ECDSA_METHOD to EC_KEY_METHOD.
1132: <li>Removed GF2m support: BIGNUM no longer supports binary extension
1133: field arithmetic and all binary elliptic builtin curves were removed.
1134: <li>Removed dangerous, "fast" NIST prime and elliptic curve implementations.
1135: In particular, EC_GFp_nist_method() is no longer available.
1136: <li>Removed most public symbols that were deprecated in OpenSSL 0.9.8.
1137: <li>Removed the public X9.31 API (RSA_X931_PADDING is still available).
1138: <li>Removed Cipher Text Stealing mode.
1139: <li>Removed ENGINE support, including ECDH_METHOD and ECDSA_METHOD.
1140: <li>Removed COMP, DSO, dynamic loading of conf modules and support for
1141: custom ex_data and error stacks.
1142: <li>Removed proxy certificate (RFC 3820) support.
1143: <li>Removed SXNET and NETSCAPE_CERT_SEQUENCE support including the
1.8 tb 1144: openssl(1) nseq command.
1.7 tb 1145: <li>ENGINE support was removed and OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE is set. In spite
1146: of this, some stub functions are provided to avoid patching some
1147: applications that do not honor OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE.
1148: <li>The POLICY_TREE and its related structures and API were removed.
1149: <li>In X509_VERIFY_PARAM_inherit() copy hostflags independently of the
1150: host list.
1151: <li>Made CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index() not return 0 to allow applications
1152: to use *_{get,set}_app_data() and *_{get,set}_ex_data() alongside
1153: each other.
1154: <li>X509_NAME_get_text_by_{NID,OBJ}() now only succeed if they contain
1155: valid UTF-8 without embedded NUL.
1156: <li>The explicitText user notice uses UTF8String instead of VisibleString
1157: to reduce the risk of emitting certificates with invalid DER-encoding.
1158: <li>Initial fixes for RSA-PSS support to make the TLSv1.3 stack more
1159: compliant with RFC 8446.
1160: <li>Fixed EVP_CIPHER_CTX_iv_length() to return what was set with
1161: EVP_CTRL_AEAD_SET_IVLEN or one of its aliases.
1.1 deraadt 1162: </ul>
1.7 tb 1163: <li>Internal improvements
1.1 deraadt 1164: <ul>
1.7 tb 1165: <li>Improved sieve of Eratosthenes script used for generating a table
1166: of small primes.
1167: <li>Removed incomplete and dangerous BN_RECURSION code.
1168: <li>Imported RFC 5280 policy checking code from BoringSSL and used it
1169: to replace the old exponential time code.
1170: <li>Converted more of libcrypto to use CBB/CBS.
1171: <li>Started cleaning up and rewriting SHA internals.
1172: <li>Reduced the dependency of hash implementations on many layers of
1173: macros. This results in significant speedups since modern compilers
1174: are now less confused.
1175: <li>Improved BIGNUM internals and performance.
1176: <li>Significantly simplified the BN_BLINDING internals used in RSA.
1177: <li>Made BN_num_bits() independent of bn->top.
1178: <li>Rewrote and simplified bn_sqr().
1179: <li>Significantly improved Montgomery multiplication performance.
1180: <li>Rewrote and improved BN_exp() and BN_copy().
1181: <li>Changed ASN1_item_sign_ctx() and ASN1_item_verify() to work with
1182: Ed25519 and fixed a few bugs in there.
1183: <li>Lots of cleanup for DH, DSA, EC, RSA internals. Plugged numerous
1184: memory leaks, fixed logic errors and inconsistencies.
1185: <li>Cleaned up and simplified various ECDH and ECDSA internals.
1186: <li>Removed EC_GROUP precomp machinery.
1187: <li>Fixed various issues with EVP_PKEY_CTX_{new,dup}().
1188: <li>Rewrote OBJ_find_sigid_algs() and OBJ_find_sigid_by_algs().
1189: <li>Improved X.509 certificate version checks.
1190: <li>Ensure no X.509v3 extensions appear more than once in certificates.
1191: <li>Replaced ASN1_bn_print with a cleaner internal implementation.
1192: <li>Fix OPENSSL_cpuid_setup() invocations on arm/aarch64.
1193: <li>Improved checks for commonName in libtls.
1194: <li>Fixed error check for X509_get_ext_d2i() failure in libtls.
1195: <li>Removed code guarded by #ifdef ZLIB.
1196: <li>Plug a potential memory leak in ASN1_TIME_normalize().
1197: <li>Fixed a use of uninitialized in i2r_IPAddrBlocks().
1198: <li>Rewrote CMS_SignerInfo_{sign,verify}().
1.1 deraadt 1199: </ul>
1.7 tb 1200: <li>Bug fixes
1.1 deraadt 1201: <ul>
1.7 tb 1202: <li>Correctly handle negative input to various BIGNUM functions.
1203: <li>Ensure ERR_load_ERR_strings() does not set errno unexpectedly.
1204: <li>Fix error checking of i2d_ECDSA_SIG() in ossl_ecdsa_sign().
1.8 tb 1205: <li>Fixed aliasing issue in BN_mod_inverse(). Disallowed aliasing of result
1206: and modulus in various BN_mod_* functions.
1.7 tb 1207: <li>Fixed detection of extended operations (XOP) on AMD hardware.
1208: <li>Ensure Montgomery exponentiation is used for the initial RSA blinding.
1209: <li>Policy is always checked in X509 validation. Critical policy extensions
1210: are no longer silently ignored.
1211: <li>Fixed error handling in tls_check_common_name().
1212: <li>Add missing pointer invalidation in SSL_free().
1213: <li>Fixed X509err() and X509V3err() and their internal versions.
1214: <li>Ensure that OBJ_obj2txt() always returns a C string again.
1215: <li>Made EVP_PKEY_set1_hkdf_key() fail on a NULL key.
1216: <li>On socket errors in the poll loop, netcat could issue system calls
1217: on invalidated file descriptors.
1218: <li>Allow IP addresses to be specified in a URI.
1219: <li>Fixed a copy-paste error in ASN1_TIME_compare() that could lead
1220: to two UTCTimes or two GeneralizedTimes incorrectly being compared
1221: as equal.
1222: </ul>
1223: <li>Documentation improvements
1224: <ul>
1225: <li>Improved documentation of BIO_ctrl(3), BIO_set_info_callback(3),
1226: BIO_get_info_callback(3), BIO_method_type(3), and BIO_method_name(3).
1227: <li>Marked BIO_CB_return(), BIO_cb_pre(), and BIO_cb_post() as intentionally
1228: undocumented.
1229: <li>Made it very explicit that the verify callback should not be used.
1230: <li>Called out that the CRL lastUpdate is standardized as thisUpdate.
1231: <li>Documented the RFC 3779 API and its shortcomings.
1232: </ul>
1233: <li>Testing and Proactive Security
1234: <ul>
1235: <li>Significantly improved test coverage of BN_mod_sqrt() and GCD.
1236: <li>As always, new test coverage is added as bugs are fixed and subsystems
1237: are cleaned up.
1.1 deraadt 1238: </ul>
1239: </ul>
1240:
1.13 dtucker 1241: <li>OpenSSH 9.5 and OpenSSH 9.4
1.1 deraadt 1242: <ul>
1.12 dtucker 1243: <li>Potentially incompatible changes
1.1 deraadt 1244: <ul>
1.12 dtucker 1245: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1246: generate Ed25519 keys by default. Ed25519 public keys
1247: are very convenient due to their small size. Ed25519 keys are
1248: specified in RFC 8709 and OpenSSH has supported them since version 6.5
1249: (January 2014).
1250: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1251: the Subsystem directive now accurately preserves quoting of
1252: subsystem commands and arguments. This may change behaviour for exotic
1253: configurations, but the most common subsystem configuration
1254: (sftp-server) is unlikely to be affected.
1.13 dtucker 1255: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1256: PKCS#11 modules must now be specified by their full
1257: paths. Previously dlopen(3) could search for them in system
1258: library directories.
1.1 deraadt 1259: </ul>
1.12 dtucker 1260: <li>New features
1.1 deraadt 1261: <ul>
1.12 dtucker 1262: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1263: add keystroke timing obfuscation to the client. This attempts
1264: to hide inter-keystroke timings by sending interactive traffic at
1265: fixed intervals (default: every 20ms) when there is only a small
1266: amount of data being sent. It also sends fake "chaff" keystrokes for
1267: a random interval after the last real keystroke. These are
1268: controlled by a new ssh_config ObscureKeystrokeTiming keyword.
1269: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>,
1270: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1271: Introduce a transport-level ping facility. This adds
1272: a pair of SSH transport protocol messages SSH2_MSG_PING/PONG to
1273: implement a ping capability. These messages use numbers in the "local
1274: extensions" number space and are advertised using a "ping@openssh.com"
1275: ext-info message with a string version number of "0".
1.13 dtucker 1276: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1277: allow override of Subsystem directives in sshd Match blocks.
1278: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1279: allow forwarding Unix Domain sockets via ssh -W.
1280: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1281: add support for configuration tags to ssh(1).
1282: This adds a ssh_config(5) "Tag" directive and corresponding
1283: "Match tag" predicate that may be used to select blocks of
1284: configuration similar to the pf.conf(5) keywords of the same
1285: name.
1286: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1287: add a "match localnetwork" predicate. This allows matching
1288: on the addresses of available network interfaces and may be used to
1289: vary the effective client configuration based on network location.
1290: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>,
1291: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>,
1292: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1293: infrastructure support for KRL
1294: extensions. This defines wire formats for optional KRL extensions
1295: and implements parsing of the new submessages. No actual extensions
1296: are supported at this point.
1297: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1298: AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand and AuthorizedKeysCommand now
1299: accept two additional %-expansion sequences: %D which expands to
1300: the routing domain of the connected session and %C which expands
1301: to the addresses and port numbers for the source and destination
1302: of the connection.
1303: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1304: increase the default work factor (rounds) for the
1305: bcrypt KDF used to derive symmetric encryption keys for passphrase
1306: protected key files by 50%.
1.1 deraadt 1307: </ul>
1308: <li>Bugfixes
1309: <ul>
1.12 dtucker 1310: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>:
1311: fix scp in SFTP mode recursive upload and download of
1312: directories that contain symlinks to other directories. In scp mode,
1313: the links would be followed, but in SFTP mode they were not.
1314: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1315: handle cr+lf (instead of just cr) line endings in
1316: sshsig signature files.
1317: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1318: interactive mode for ControlPersist sessions if they
1319: originally requested a tty.
1320: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1321: make PerSourceMaxStartups first-match-wins
1322: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1323: limit artificial login delay to a reasonable maximum (5s)
1324: and don't delay at all for the "none" authentication mechanism.
1.13 dtucker 1325: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1326: Log errors in kex_exchange_identification() with level
1.12 dtucker 1327: verbose instead of error to reduce preauth log spam. All of those
1328: get logged with a more generic error message by sshpkt_fatal().
1329: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1330: correct math for ClientAliveInterval that caused the probes
1331: to be sent less frequently than configured.
1.13 dtucker 1332: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
1333: improve isolation between loaded PKCS#11 modules
1334: by running separate ssh-pkcs11-helpers for each loaded provider.
1335: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1336: make -f (fork after authentication) work correctly with
1337: multiplexed connections, including ControlPersist.
1338: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1339: make ConnectTimeout apply to multiplexing sockets and not
1340: just to network connections.
1341: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
1342: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1343: improve defences against invalid PKCS#11
1344: modules being loaded by checking that the requested module
1345: contains the required symbol before loading it.
1346: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>:
1347: fix AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand when AuthorizedKeysCommand
1348: appears before it in sshd_config. Since OpenSSH 8.7 the
1349: AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand directive was incorrectly ignored in
1350: this situation.
1351: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>,
1352: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>,
1353: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1.16 jsg 1354: remove vestigial support for KRL
1.13 dtucker 1355: signatures When the KRL format was originally defined, it included
1356: support for signing of KRL objects. However, the code to sign KRLs
1.16 jsg 1357: and verify KRL signatures was never completed in OpenSSH. This
1.13 dtucker 1358: release removes the partially-implemented code to verify KRLs.
1359: All OpenSSH tools now ignore KRL_SECTION_SIGNATURE sections in
1360: KRL files.
1361: <li>All: fix a number of memory leaks and unreachable/harmless integer
1362: overflows.
1363: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-agent.1">ssh-agent(1)</a>,
1364: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1365: don't truncate strings logged from PKCS#11 modules
1366: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>,
1367: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1368: better validate CASignatureAlgorithms in
1369: ssh_config and sshd_config. Previously this directive would accept
1370: certificate algorithm names, but these were unusable in practice as
1371: OpenSSH does not support CA chains.
1372: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1373: make <code>ssh -Q CASignatureAlgorithms</code> only list signature
1374: algorithms that are valid for CA signing. Previous behaviour was
1375: to list all signing algorithms, including certificate algorithms.
1376: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keyscan.1">ssh-keyscan(1)</a>:
1377: gracefully handle systems where rlimits or the
1378: maximum number of open files is larger than INT_MAX
1379: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh-keygen.1">ssh-keygen(1)</a>:
1380: fix "no comment" not showing on when running
1381: <code>ssh-keygen -l</code> on multiple keys where one has a comment
1382: and other following keys do not.
1383: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>,
1.14 dtucker 1384: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sftp.1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.13 dtucker 1385: adjust ftruncate() logic to handle servers that
1386: reorder requests. Previously, if the server reordered requests then
1387: the resultant file would be erroneously truncated.
1388: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ssh.1">ssh(1)</a>:
1389: don't incorrectly disable hostname canonicalization when
1.16 jsg 1390: CanonicalizeHostname=yes and ProxyJump was explicitly set to
1.13 dtucker 1391: "none".
1392: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp.1">scp(1)</a>:
1393: when copying local to remote, check that the source file
1394: exists before opening an SFTP connection to the server.
1.1 deraadt 1395: </ul>
1396: </ul>
1397:
1398: <li>Ports and packages:
1399: <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
1400: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
1401: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.25 naddy 1402: <li>aarch64: 11508
1403: <li>amd64: 11845
1.1 deraadt 1404: <li>arm:
1.25 naddy 1405: <li>i386: 10603
1.1 deraadt 1406: <li>mips64:
1407: <li>powerpc:
1408: <li>powerpc64:
1409: <li>riscv64:
1.55 naddy 1410: <li>sparc64: 8469
1.1 deraadt 1411: </ul>
1412:
1413: <p>Some highlights:
1.7 tb 1414: <ul style="column-count: 3"><!-- XXX all need to be checked/updated 2023-03-04 -->
1.6 matthieu 1415: <li>Asterisk 16.30.1, 18.19.0 and 20.4.0
1.5 matthieu 1416: <li>Audacity 3.3.3
1417: <li>CMake 3.27.5
1.10 matthieu 1418: <li>Chromium 117.0.5838.149
1.5 matthieu 1419: <li>Emacs 29.1
1420: <li>FFmpeg 4.4.4
1.1 deraadt 1421: <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
1.5 matthieu 1422: <li>GHC 9.2.7
1423: <li>GNOME 44
1424: <li>Go 1.21.1
1425: <li>JDK 8u382, 11.0.20 and 17.0.8
1426: <li>KDE Applications 23.08.0
1.1 deraadt 1427: <li>KDE Frameworks 5.98.0
1.5 matthieu 1428: <li>Krita 5.1.5
1429: <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0 and 16.0.6
1430: <li>LibreOffice 7.6.2.1
1431: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4, 5.3.6 and 5.4.6
1432: <li>MariaDB 10.9.6
1433: <li>Mono 6.12.0.199
1434: <li>Mozilla Firefox 118.0.1 and ESR 115.3.1
1435: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 115.3.1
1436: <li>Mutt 2.2.12 and NeoMutt 20230517
1437: <li>Node.js 18.18.0
1.1 deraadt 1438: <li>OCaml 4.12.1
1.5 matthieu 1439: <li>OpenLDAP 2.6.6
1440: <li>PHP 7.4.33, 8.0.30, 8.1.24 and 8.2.11
1441: <li>Postfix 3.7.3
1442: <li>PostgreSQL 15.4
1443: <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.9.18, 3.10.13 and 3.11.5
1444: <li>Qt 5.15.10 and 6.5.2
1445: <li>R 4.2.3
1446: <li>Ruby 3.0.6, 3.1.4 and 3.2.2
1447: <li>Rust 1.72.1
1.9 lteo 1448: <li>SQLite 3.42.0
1.5 matthieu 1449: <li>Shotcut 23.07.29
1450: <li>Sudo 1.9.14.2
1451: <li>Suricata 6.0.12
1452: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.13
1453: <li>TeX Live 2022
1454: <li>Vim 9.0.1897 and Neovim 0.9.1
1455: <li>Xfce 4.18
1.1 deraadt 1456: </ul>
1457: <p>
1458:
1459: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
1460:
1461: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.7 tb 1462: <ul><!-- XXX all need to be checked/updated 2023-03-04 -->
1.5 matthieu 1463: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 21.1.8 + patches,
1464: freetype 2.13.0, fontconfig 2.14.2, Mesa 22.3.7, xterm 378,
1.1 deraadt 1465: xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
1466: <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0 (+ patches)
1467: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.5 matthieu 1468: <li>Perl 5.36.1 (+ patches)
1469: <li>NSD 4.7.0
1470: <li>Unbound 1.18.0
1.1 deraadt 1471: <li>Ncurses 5.7
1472: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
1473: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.5 matthieu 1474: <li>Awk September 12, 2023
1475: <li>Expat 2.5.0
1.49 schwarze 1476: <li>zlib 1.3 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 1477: </ul>
1478:
1479: </ul>
1480: </section>
1481:
1482: <hr>
1483:
1484: <section id=install>
1485: <h3>How to install</h3>
1486: <p>
1487: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
1488: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.4 on your machine:
1489:
1490: <ul>
1491: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
1.2 jsg 1492: .../OpenBSD/7.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
1.1 deraadt 1493: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.2 jsg 1494: .../OpenBSD/7.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
1.1 deraadt 1495: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
1.2 jsg 1496: .../OpenBSD/7.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
1.1 deraadt 1497: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
1.2 jsg 1498: .../OpenBSD/7.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
1.1 deraadt 1499: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
1.2 jsg 1500: .../OpenBSD/7.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
1.1 deraadt 1501: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
1.2 jsg 1502: .../OpenBSD/7.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 1503: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
1.2 jsg 1504: .../OpenBSD/7.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.1 deraadt 1505: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
1.2 jsg 1506: .../OpenBSD/7.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.1 deraadt 1507: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
1.2 jsg 1508: .../OpenBSD/7.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
1.1 deraadt 1509: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
1.2 jsg 1510: .../OpenBSD/7.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
1.1 deraadt 1511: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
1.2 jsg 1512: .../OpenBSD/7.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
1.1 deraadt 1513: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
1.2 jsg 1514: .../OpenBSD/7.4/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
1.1 deraadt 1515: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
1.2 jsg 1516: .../OpenBSD/7.4/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
1.1 deraadt 1517: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
1.2 jsg 1518: .../OpenBSD/7.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
1.1 deraadt 1519: </ul>
1520: </section>
1521:
1522: <hr>
1523:
1524: <section id=quickinstall>
1525: <p>
1526: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
1527: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
1528: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
1529: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
1530:
1531: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1532:
1533: <p>
1534: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install74.iso</i> or
1535: <i>cd74.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
1536: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
1537:
1538: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1539:
1540: <p>
1541: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install74.iso</i> or
1542: <i>cd74.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
1543: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1544:
1545: <p>
1546: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install74.img</i> or
1547: <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1548:
1549: <p>
1550: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1551: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
1552: INSTALL.amd64 document.
1553:
1554: <p>
1555: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1556: read INSTALL.amd64.
1557:
1558: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
1559:
1560: <p>
1561: Write <i>install74.img</i> or <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
1562: after connecting to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
1563: details.
1564:
1565: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
1566:
1567: <p>
1568: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
1569: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
1570:
1571: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
1572:
1573: <p>
1574: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
1575: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1576:
1577: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
1578:
1579: <p>
1580: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install74.iso</i> or
1581: <i>cd74.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
1582: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
1583:
1584: <p>
1585: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install74.img</i> or
1586: <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
1587:
1588: <p>
1589: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
1590: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
1591: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
1592:
1593: <p>
1594: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1595: read INSTALL.i386.
1596:
1597: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
1598:
1599: <p>
1600: Write <i>miniroot74.img</i> to the start of the CF
1601: or disk, and boot normally.
1602:
1603: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
1604:
1605: <p>
1606: Write <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
1607: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
1608: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1609:
1610: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
1611:
1612: <p>
1613: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
1614: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
1615: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1616:
1617: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1618:
1619: <p>
1620: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
1621: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
1622: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
1623:
1624: <p>
1625: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
1.2 jsg 1626: /7.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.1 deraadt 1627:
1628: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
1629:
1630: <p>
1631: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
1632: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
1633:
1634: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
1635:
1636: <p>
1637: To install, write <i>install74.img</i> or <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a
1638: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
1639: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
1640: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
1641:
1642: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
1643:
1644: <p>
1645: To install, write <i>install74.img</i> or <i>miniroot74.img</i> to a
1646: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
1647: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
1648: HiFive Unmatched board.
1649: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
1650:
1651: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1652:
1653: <p>
1654: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
1655: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
1656:
1657: <p>
1658: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1659: <i>floppy74.img</i> or <i>floppyB74.img</i>
1660: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1661: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
1662:
1663: <p>
1664: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
1665: will most likely fail.
1666:
1667: <p>
1668: You can also write <i>miniroot74.img</i> to the swap partition on
1669: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
1670:
1671: <p>
1672: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
1673: </section>
1674:
1675: <hr>
1676:
1677: <section id=upgrade>
1678: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
1679: <p>
1.3 jsg 1680: If you already have an OpenBSD 7.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 1681: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
1682: <a href="faq/upgrade74.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1683: </section>
1684:
1685: <hr>
1686:
1687: <section id=sourcecode>
1688: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
1689: <p>
1690: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
1691: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
1692: which are in a separate archive.
1693: To extract:
1694: <blockquote><pre>
1695: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
1696: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
1697: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
1698: </pre></blockquote>
1699: <p>
1700: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
1701: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
1702: To extract:
1703: <blockquote><pre>
1704: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
1705: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
1706: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
1707: </pre></blockquote>
1708: <p>
1709: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
1710: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
1711: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
1712: Using these files
1713: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
1714: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1715: </section>
1716:
1717: <hr>
1718:
1719: <section id=ports>
1720: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1721: <p>
1722: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
1723: <blockquote><pre>
1724: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
1725: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
1726: </pre></blockquote>
1727: <p>
1728: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
1729: if you know nothing about ports
1730: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
1731: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
1732: OpenBSD ports system.
1733: <p>
1734: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
1735: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
1736: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
1737: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
1738: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
1739: with a command like:
1740: <blockquote><pre>
1741: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
1.2 jsg 1742: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_4</kbd>
1.1 deraadt 1743: </pre></blockquote>
1744: <p>
1745: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
1746: server.]
1747: <p>
1748: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
1749: ports for the 7.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
1750: <p>
1751: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1752: would like to know more, the mailing list
1753: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
1754: </section>
1755: </body>
1756: </html>
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