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We are working on OpenBSD-current.
+- Fix xim problems with zh_CN locale in xf86(4).
+
- Enable Apache httpd(8) modules on ELF-based architectures.
+
- Disallow ftpd(8) logins to accounts lacking passwords.
+
- Log control signals on the IDE bus in wdc(4), obtainable through atactl(8).
+
- Move xautolock into the ports(7) system.
+
- Import pmdb(1).
+
- Imrove ALTIVEC support in OpenBSD/macppc and powerpc.
+
- Begin to split authorization in sshd(8).
+
- Protect against overflows and null dereferences in OpenBSD/i386 CPU probing.
+
- Morph ptrace(2) into one of the kernel config(8) options(4).
+
- Repair some of the problems in the new ahc(4) driver.
+
- Prefer the MAC address found in the local-mac-address property of hme(4), falling back on myetheraddr().
+
- Rewrite the powerpc pmap handling.
+
- Realize that suffixes given to gzip(1) may be longer than 3 characters and account for this in buffer sanity checks.
+
- Permit user and group names to start with a numeral in identd(8).
+
- Enable altq(9) support in more drivers.
+
- Update to zlib 1.1.4, fixing a security hole.
+
- Support reverse lookups when displaying states in pfctl(8).
+
- Add the PT_IO API for reading and writing traced processes memory with ptrace(2).
+
- Don't listen(2) on a port nc(1) really doesn't have.
+
- Ensure tcp(4) code doesn't operate on freed memory.
+
- Schedule tcp(4) timers with timeout(9) instead of tcp_slowtimo.
+
- Phase in use of red-black tree(3) algorithms for uvm(9).
+
- Implement a shutdown hook for raid(4) devices, allowing safe use of swap.
+
- Export sha1(3) and md5(3) interfaces through crypto(4).
+
- General crypto(4) and openssl(1) related work.
+
- Recognize a preserve flag in mtree(8) to disable attribute modification.
+
- Repair and off by one error in sshd(8).
+
- Differentiate a closing connection from a bad greeting during read of the protocol version string in ssh(1).
+
- Many improvments and cleanups to the trap handling in the installation system.
+
- Implement machine specific commands to the bootblocks on OpenBSD/hppa.
+
- Provide a toggle for immediate ack behaviour on tcp(4) TH_PUSH segments.
+
- Use timeout(9) instead of tcp_fasttimo for delayed acks in the tcp(4) subsystem.
+
- Vanquish a race condition in pciide(4) interrupt sharing.
+
- Avoid rejecting valid leases in dhclient(8).
+
- Add SOCKS4 support to nc(1).
+
- Import the 4.4BSD deroff(1) and spell(1) programs.
+
- Enhance the handling of quirky scsi(4) devices.
+
- Improve debugability of unloaded pf(4) rules by printing meaningful rule numbers.
+
- Safen SPLAY_MIN and SPLAY_MAX on an empty tree(3).
+
- Support an optional pool(9) memory hard limit in pf(4).
+
- Guard against pool_sethardlimit() decreasing the limit below the current size of the pool(9).
+
- Disable Nagle in ssh(1) port forwarding.
+
- Implement the splay and red-black tree(3) algorithms.
+
- nwkey and powersave support in ifconfig(8).
+
- Deal with groups in adduser(8) more thoroughly.
+
- Optimize OpenBSD/vax sources with -O2.
+
- Support an aperture driver on OpenBSD/macppc.
+
- Add a sysctl(3) interface kern.usercrypto that allows userland programs to utilize hardware crypto(4) devices.
+
- Send kind regards to the pool(9) option POOL_EXPOSE, as it's no longer with us.
+
- Add extattr(9) (Extended Attribute) support.
+
- Include a siginfo_t structure with ktrace(2) containing the fault address among other useful information.
+
- Clean up and debug the iommu driver.
+
- Remove flawed assumptions about memory layout in the stack sharing code in FORK_VMNOSTACK.
+
- Account for process signal masks when dealing with signals in pthreads(3).
+
- Reorder the network components initialization in netstart(8).
+
- Fix some signal races in rbootd(8).
+
- Improve mg(1) in many ways, including lots of buffer cleanups and undo support.
+
- Enable beeper(4) on OpenBSD/sparc64 when pckbd(4) is enabled.
+
- Silence the raid(4) subsystem a bit.
+
- Include support for generic 802.11 ioctl(2) calls in the wi(4) driver.
+
- Repair a fcntl(2) F_GETOWN issue on LP64 BE architectures.
+
- Install "right" zoneinfo timezone(3) files in addition to the "posix" ones.
+
- Remove xebec code.
+
- Enable echo in adduser(8) signal(3) handlers.
+
- Don't require -n in conjunction with -x in xargs(1).
+
- Use mktemp(1) in security(8).
+
- Switch ssh(1) cipher operations to use the openssl(1) EVP API.
+
- Allocate some in-kernel memory from a kmem_map-backed pool to avoid deadlocks and MAX_KMAPENT panics.
+
- Avoid a possible panic on reboot(8) with mfs(8) file systems.
+
- New trm(4) driver.
+
- Remove a permissions loosening chmod(2) in pkg_install.
+
- open(2) the console with O_NONBLOCK in syslog(3) to avoid blocking on a locked console.
+
- Provide config(8) accessible hooks for modifying the NMBCLUSTERS, BUFCACHEPERCENT, and NKMEMPAGES options(4).
+
- Calculate ip(4) checksums and copy back modified headers before logging a packet in pf(4) to ensure the integrity of logging.
+
- Enable vnode(9) caching in the kernfs(8) code.
+
- Support for nc(1) connecting to and listening on an AF_UNIX socket(2).
+
- Treat the pound symbol (#) as an escaped character during vi/emacs filename completion in ksh(1).
+
- New port of the ahc(4) driver.
+
- Remove the getpw(3), vlimit(3), and vtimes(3) functions.
+
- Simplify PID selection algorithm.
+
- Immunize nanosleep(2) against system time changes.
+
- Minimize time spent doing time management in pf(4).
- New tvtohz(9) function.
- Add skip steps for rule action and direction in pf(4), considerably hastening rule set evaluation.
- altq(9) fixes and improvements through a sync with KAME.
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$OpenBSD: plus.html,v 1.815 2002/02/22 21:18:47 horacio Exp $
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$OpenBSD: plus.html,v 1.816 2002/03/21 10:27:41 horacio Exp $