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1.424 deraadt 18: <h2>Changes made between OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD-current</h2>
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1.29 deraadt 21: This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
22: (ie. these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
23: specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
24: in the pages for the specific <a href=plat.html>ports</a> if you
1.392 deraadt 25: are interested in further port-specific details. Many ports
1.29 deraadt 26: have had architecture-specific enhancements relative to NetBSD,
27: but when they do not they certainly have plenty of platform-independent
28: changes, starting with those listed below..
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1.185 deraadt 31: Note: <font color=#e00000>Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.
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1.186 deraadt 34: <h3>
1.424 deraadt 35: <a href=plus20.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.
1.240 deraadt 36: <br>
1.424 deraadt 37: <a href=plus21.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.
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1.424 deraadt 39: <a href=plus22.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.
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1.424 deraadt 41: <a href=plus23.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.
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1.424 deraadt 43: <a href=plus24.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.
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1.424 deraadt 47: <a href=plus.html>For changes in OpenBSD-current, click here</a>.
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1.186 deraadt 53: <p>
1.422 deraadt 54: <h3><font color=#0000e0>We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
55: <ul>
1.454 deraadt 56: <li>Make IDE work again on the alpha.
57: <li>PCI ESS Solo-1 PCI audio card driver, see eso(4).
58: <li>Make poll(2) system call a tiny bit faster for trivial calls.
59: <li>Enable emacs tab completion by default in ksh(1).
60: <li>/tmp race repairs in yacc(1).
61: <li>Propogate TMPDIR better into locate.updatedb(8).
62: <li>Kill gzip sub-processes in pax(1) instead of letting them die from SIGPIPE.
1.455 ! deraadt 63: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>SECURITY ISSUE: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir. <a href=errata.html#rc>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
1.454 deraadt 64: <li>Support for 3c515 isapnp 100mbit ethernet card, in ef(4).
65: <li>Chown/chmod all of the pty devices.
66: <li>If /etc/fstab is 0-length or not a regular file, have setfsent(3) fail.
67: <li>Import of mailwrapper(8) into the tree.
68: <li>Games updated.
1.453 deraadt 69: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>SECURITY ISSUE: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) character or block devices.<a href=errata.html#chflags>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
1.452 deraadt 70: <li>New raidframe code.
71: <li>Make sure install scripts remove async mount conditions before attempting to installboot(8).
72: <li>Have <strong>route flush</strong> skip PF_KEY flows.
73: <li>tcpdump 3.4 merged.
74: <li>Have pkg_create(1) use tar -T.
75: <li>Add -T option to tar(1).
76: <li>Fix fgetln(3) issue in pax(1).
1.453 deraadt 77: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>SECURITY ISSUE: Make nroff(1) call groff(1) with the -S option.<a href=errata.html#nroff>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
1.452 deraadt 78: <li>If src file does not exist, have <strong>mv -i</strong> complain immediately.
79: <li>Bug fix to pkg_add(8).
80: <li>More man page cleanups.
81: <li>Clean dmesg output from various drivers.
82: <li>Make rc.shutdown work from single-user mode too.
83: <li>PCI Tigon I and Tigon II driver, ti(4).
84: <li>Disable DMA on Acer Labs PCI IDE chipset, for now.
85: <li>Switch to new ATA/ATAPISCSI code for most architectures.
1.451 deraadt 86: <li>Make the i386 dkcsum stuff be quieter for empty removeable media devices.
87: <li>Do installs faster by mounting the filesystems async.
88: <li>Fix various bugs in bridging support, especially SIOCBRDGRTS.
89: <li>Make tun(4) return EMSGSIZE for zero-length writes.
90: <li>Fix a field count bug in join(1).
91: <li>In ipnat(8), fix -n to work with -v.
92: <li>Missing newline in id(1).
93: <li>New drivers for the force CPU-5V (vme, sys config, D/A board driver, flash).
94: <li>Handle _POSIX_VDISABLE better in telnet(1).
95: <li>Run i386 audio at higher IPL.
96: <li>Take greater care in head(1).
1.450 deraadt 97: <li>Less dmesg verbosity from media routines.
98: <li>Various atapi/scsi/ide changes being worked on (LS-120 works).
99: <li>powerpc ieeefp library routines.
100: <li>insque is no longer in libiberty.
101: <li>egcs-990718.
102: <li>Bring back TCP_SIGNATURE support.
103: <li>1000baseXX media support.
104: <li>For isapnp drivers, we can do more resource checking in the xxmatch() function, and less in the xxattach() function.
105: <li>Add fparseln(3).
106: <li>new swap16_multi() macro in sys/endian.h.
107: <li>More man pages.
1.449 deraadt 108: <li>wdc(4) on isapnp(4).
109: <li>inetd(8)-started daemons should syslog(3) on startup failure.
110: <li>wdc(4) on pcmcia(4).
111: <li>More sparc keyboards in kbd(1).
112: <li>rc.shutdown(8) manpage.
113: <li>Add fpuparseln(3) to -lutil.
114: <li>First cut at isapnp mpu, and ym mpu.
115: <li>Document and complete skey(1) support in telnet(1).
1.448 deraadt 116: <li>Correct os_mask handling in OLF execve code.
117: <li>Accomodations in the vm system for backward growing stack architectures.
118: <li>Do not cache page tables on microsparc1 either.
119: <li>Many more man page fixes.
120: <li>Support floating accent and compose in sparc kbd driver.
1.447 deraadt 121: <li>libpcap 0.4 changes brought in.
122: <li>In pcap library, fix pcap_open_offline() to handle snaplengths of -1.
123: <li>Fix a memory mishandling in mixerctl(1).
124: <li>Further fixes for some strange wss isapnp variants.
125: <li>Create /var/db/host.random at install time.
126: <li>Complete /etc/rc.shutdown support in reboot(8) and shutdown(8).
127: <li>Lock ARP entries to an interface, and provide more diagnostics.
128: <li>Import of PCI ATA/IDE stuff from NetBSD.
129: <li>Retire libm_i387.
130: <li>Remove some shared libraries that are better used in static form.
131: <li>Support non-US sparc keyboards using kbd(8) command.
132: <li>At execve() time, clear the P_NOCLDWAIT flag.
133: <li>egcs 990629
134: <li>Finer timing interval and standard deviation additions to ping(8).
135: <li>Add pci_mapreg*() interfaces.
1.446 deraadt 136: <li>Implement more linux compat ioctl's.
137: <li>Undo recent tcp_input changes which caused crashes.
138: <li>Fix panic bug in readdisklabel() on several architectures.
139: <li>Improve IPSEC SA hashing function.
140: <li>New mii code that does async negotiation.
141: <li>Default ksh(1) and sh(1) to emacs editing mode.
142: <li>Generalize bc wrapper program.
143: <li>Move /etc/host.random to /var/db.
144: <li>In ipsec, demand keying for PF_KEY.
145: <li>In disklabel(8), put in check for architectures that require partition a to start at sector 0.
146: <li>For sparc svr4 emulation, put sun4X cpu class into SVR4_SI_PLATFORM.
147: <li>pdksh-5.2.14
148: <li>Introduce fdremove() kernel API; makes fdalloc() faster by making sure fd_freefile is correct.
149: <li>Some small improvements to adduser(8) and rmuser(8).
150: <li>pcmcia wavelan driver, wi(4).
151: <li>Extend pcmcia IO space.
152: <li>ncurses-990710
153: <li>Fix a SIGSEGV in vi(1).
1.444 deraadt 154: <li>Many man page improvements.
1.445 aaron 155: <li>Newer version of isakmpd(8).
1.444 deraadt 156: <li>Support PAGER properly in pkg_install(8).
1.455 ! deraadt 157: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>Fix an ipsec_in_use out-of-sync condition.<a href=errata.html#ipsec_in_use>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
1.444 deraadt 158: <li>Add support for TCP MD5 (RFC 2385) option called TCP_SIGNATURE used for authenticating BGP sessions.
1.443 deraadt 159: <li>Support SIGUSR1 in init(8), used by i386 keyboard halt code, and make init(8) smart enough to run /etc/rc.shutdown
160: <li>On i386 pcvt console, have CTRL-ALT-DEL sent a SIGUSR1 to init.
161: <li>Improve ipf.conf file parsing in ipf(8).
162: <li>New -q option for tar(1).
163: <li>ncurses-5.0-990703
164: <li>For identd(8) token support, constrain characters in the tokens more.
165: <li>Have the resolver ignore SIGs in the answer section for now.
166: <li>Many more man page tweaks.
167: <li>Use getprotobynumber(3) in fstat(8)
168: <li>SVR4 emulation fixes to systeminfo() system call.
169: <li>m_apply() function permits a function to be run on an mbuf.
170: <li>lmc(4) T1/T3 driver.
171: <li>tzcode 1999d.
172: <li>Support nullfs in fstat(1).
173: <li>More man page improvements.
174: <li>Fix a bug in savecore(8).
1.442 deraadt 175: <li>Add joliet support to the iso9660 filesystem.
176: <li>Improve libm man pages.
177: <li>Split out more crypto algorithm knowledge from the actual IPSEC engine.
178: <li>Fix bpf attachment of bridges.
179: <li>Fix arc4random(3) to still work correctly inside a chroot space, by adding a sysctl somewhat equivelant to /dev/arandom.
1.441 deraadt 180: <li>Permit tcpdump(8) of address-less interfaces.
181: <li>ncurses version of tput, finally.
1.443 deraadt 182: <li>More man page improvements.
1.441 deraadt 183: <li>Improvements to many pci ethernet drivers.
184: <li>ncurses-5.0-990626
185: <li>Add net_addrcmp(3) to libc.
186: <li>Add getaddrinfo(3), getnameinfo(3), if_indextoname(3), if_nameindex(3), and if_nametoindex(3) to libc.
187: <li>In ksh(1), avoid reusing fd 0-2 even moreso than before, since ksh caches
188: open files.
189: <li>Improved SYSV shared memory support.
190: <li>ESS audio driver.
191: <li>Move sparc bootblocks in memory, because possible kernel sizes have gone up.
192: <li>rangelan2 wireless network pcmcia driver.
193: <li>Split out ipsec crypto transform handling.
194: <li>egcs 990608
195: <li>Return to UDP NFS until TCP NFS is properly fixed.
196: <li>Fix breakpoint continues on the sparc.
197: <li>Constrain strlcat(3) from walking past the specified length.
198: <li>Fixed overflow issue in edquota(8).
1.440 espie 199: <li>Fix PIC label handling code in i386 as(1).
1.439 deraadt 200: <li>ncurses-5.0-990614
201: <li>Handle multicast packets in ipf, too.
202: <li>pdksh 5.2.13.7
203: <li>Improvements to units(1).
204: <li>In c++ mode, define NULL to be __null for better type checking.
205: <li>Remove TCPCOOKIE stuff, which never worked in differentially SYN-filtering environments.
206: <li>In various programs, handle PAGER environment variable according XPG.
207: <li>Some large partition fixes in scan_ffs(8).
208: <li>Bump maximum number of sockets in X server to 128.
1.438 deraadt 209: <li>Return ICMP_UNREACH_PROTOCOL for unimplemented protocols.
1.436 deraadt 210: <li>Fix an ipsec tdb_delete() bug.
211: <li>Replace pipe() in libc and kernel with new version which does the data copy in kernel, making EFAULT possible.
212: <li>Do not leak file descriptors in socketpair(2).
1.437 espie 213: <li>Propagate more build variables in the gnu sub-tree.
1.435 deraadt 214: <li>Add struct sockaddr_storage per RFC2553.
215: <li>Drop a volatile into the ncr(4) driver; who knows how it worked before.
216: <li>Crank sparc DFLDSIZ to 24MB.
217: <li>Make adjtime(2) return an EFAULT for a bad olddelta ptr.
218: <li>Permit non-broadcast replies in dhclient(8).
219: <li>ncurses-4.2-990605
220: <li>In sed(1), make 'G' create a newline if the hold buffer is empty.
221: <li>Add dot_quad_addr_new() API to libwrap, which uses inet_aton(3) instead of inet_addr(3), and hence can handle masks of 255.255.255.255.
222: <li>Sparc cs4231 audio support (SS5 audio).
223: <li>Use inet_aton(3) instead of inet_addr(3) in many programs.
224: <li>Use mkstemp(3) in httpd(8).
225: <li>In the resolver, permit '/' in CNAMES to PTRs, same as forward references permit.
226: <li>Use __builtin_next_arg() for va_start(), on i386 and m68k, to handle unaligned stdarg processing.
227: <li>Support subject inclusion in vacation(1).
228: <li>In ipnat, decode interface aliaseses before hostnames.
229: <li>Handle misaligned file struct's coming out of the KERN_FILE sysctl(3) call.
1.434 deraadt 230: <li>More isakmpd(8) improvements.
231: <li>Use auto mode by default in ukphy.
232: <li>Avoid gcc fixinc (We do not want to run it, and even 1 second of machine time skew would screw up the previous avoidance tactic).
233: <li>Another memory leak fix in the ipsec kernel code.
234: <li>Change struct statfs use in the kernel, so that mount(8) can print more info.
235: <li>For NFSv3, prefer TCP connections.
236: <li>Fix a few more mkstemp(3) checks.
1.437 espie 237: <li>Make install(1) compare work for files > 8G in size.
1.434 deraadt 238: <li>Tons of man page improvements.
239: <li>For crontab(1) and vipw(8), check file size change as well as mtime to detect change.
240: <li>Better headphone/speaker handling in am7930 driver on sparc.
1.433 deraadt 241: <li>Implement DLT_RAW, DLT_SLIP, and DLT_PPP in bpf
242: <li>egcs replaces gcc
243: <li>Some improvements to the libc_r threading code.
244: <li>Further keynote documentation improvements.
245: <li>Move bsd.port.mk and friends into the ports tree.
246: <li>On hp300, handle hil configuration more robustly.
247: <li>Numerous -mandoc man page upgrades.
248: <li>Permit mixed PIC/pic relocations on the sparc.
249: <li>Change bridge code to use a NETISR. Significant performance improvement.
250: <li>Set close-on-exec flag in vi, on files that are opened.
251: <li>*NULL dereference in wall(1).
252: <li>Permit threading using libutil/pty.c
253: <li>Fix exit code in sa(8).
254: <li>Dynamically allocate memory in sort(1), so that -k has no limit.
255: <li>Correct handling of out-of-window SYNs in our TCP code.
1.432 deraadt 256: <li>Fix poll(2) return value.
257: <li>Add Keynote trust management system.
258: <li>Support mac68k Classic II video.
259: <li>swapctl(8) and the neccessary kernel support.
260: <li>Longer delay in the i386 pms(4) probe routine, for Thinkpads.
261: <li>Correct some DTR handling in pccom(4).
262: <li>Add <strong>-p</strong> flag to encrypt(1).
263: <li>Newer version of bktr(4) driver.
264: <li>ncurses-4.2-990516
265: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>Correct some realloc(3) misuses in the fts(3) routines.<a href=errata.html#fts>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
266: <li>Add xe(4) xircom ethernet driver.
267: <li>Add support for static arp entries that cannot be overwritten.
268: <li>Many man page fixes.
269: <li>Numerous performance and reliability fixes to isakmpd(8) and IPSEC.
270: <li>Some more pthreads fixes.
271: <li>Fix blowfish CBC mode.
272: <li>Fix some more ipsec and tcp interaction bugs.
273: <li>In vmstat(8), increase width of -i field.
274: <li>Final unicast check ethernet driver fixes for bridging.
275: <li>Fix bounds control in msgs(1).
276: <li>Fix 'X' check in gcc printf format checker.
277: <li>Fix divide by zero in libcurses.
1.431 deraadt 278: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>A reliability patch for TCP over IPSEC ESP tunnels. <a href=errata.html#ipsec1>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
279: <li>Improvements to the ss(4) driver.
280: <li>Fix various endian related problems in nm(1), ranlib(1), strip(1), and size(1).
281: <li>Do not rotate kerberos logs using newsyslog.conf
282: <li>Fix xxsize() routines so that they do not call xxopen() and xxclose().
283: <li>On i386, handle apm segments in low memory.
284: <li>Add libcurses++.
285: <li>ncurses-4.2-990424
286: <li>More improvements to isakmpd(8), and ppp(8).
287: <li>In sparc cgsix(4) driver, turn off sync so that monitors will go into standby.
288: <li>Various improvements to the xl(4) driver.
289: <li>Repair TIOCFLUSH use in telnet(1).
290: <li>Fix an unlink related bug in cp(1).
291: <li>For sparc, delay in cpu-forced power-down, so that serial port output does not get garbled.
1.430 deraadt 292: <li>Move perl lib files to /usr/libdata/perl5.
293: <li>For make(1), permit embedded : or ! in target names.
294: <li>Better range checking in inet_addr(3) functions.
295: <li>gzip 1.2.4a
296: <li>Support Vadem pcmcia controllers.
297: <li>Add 3p man page sub-tree for perl pages.
298: <li>In ls(1), defer conversion for non-printables till after symbolic link lookup.
299: <li>For msdosfs, do not require the boot signatures in a filesystem.
1.428 deraadt 300: <li>Add support for new pipes to fstat(8).
301: <li>Newer version of AFS code.
302: <li>perl5.005_03
303: <li>Y2K improvement in shutdown(8).
304: <li>solve blocking daemon problem in ftpd(8).
305: <li>Check for failure of strdup(3) in pax(1).
306: <li>Greater care in tail(1), when going backwards.
307: <li>Add wdt(4) driver for Industrial Computer Source PCI-WDT50x watchdog timers.
1.429 alex 308: <li>Implement <strong>-U username</strong> in ps(1).
1.428 deraadt 309: <li>Add "verbose" command to boot_config(8).
310: <li>Check correct argument in sliplogin(8).
311: <li>New kernel hashinit().
312: <li>More ppp(8) improvements and bug fixes.
313: <li>More isakmpd(8) improvements and bug fixes.
1.427 deraadt 314: <li>In calendar(1), fix offset bug for yearly events.
315: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>A reliability patch for ext2fs. <a href=errata.html#bmap_trap>A patch is available</a></strong></font>.
316: <li>Repair a mis-handling of non-terminated utmp strings in w(1).
317: <li>m68k optimized asm version of strlcpy(3).
1.426 deraadt 318: <li>Do not accept incoming packets on a down interface.
319: <li>More strict isapnp detection for the isa ep(8) cards.
320: <li>kcore handling for the m68k ports.
1.425 deraadt 321: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>A serious reliability patch for the powerpc port, regarding traps and signals. <a href=errata.html#powerpc_trap>Patches are available</a></strong></font>.
322: <li>Support power-down mode in the mac68k port.
323: <li>Fix a retransmission problem in tcp_newreno.
324: <li>Fix a sequence wraparound bug in very large tcp transfers.
325: <li>Greater care with arguments in pwd_mkdb(8).
326: <li>Support the -susv2 macro in nroff tmac doc-syms.
327: <li>Save a copy of the dmesg(8) output in /var/run/dmesg.boot.
1.423 deraadt 328: <li>Improve ddb ps output.
329: <li>Repair filesystem mounting failure message in mount_msdos(8).
330: <li>Merge IP-in-IP tunnel code so that both MROUTING and IPSEC versions work together, properly.
331: <li>Do not let calendar(1) assume that it is run as root.
332: <li>Fix /tmp cleanup code in lynx(1).
333: <li>Move ipfstat(8) output files to /var/run to avoid a race.
334: <li>Reenable TCP_SACK and TCP_FACK, so that development cycle can test them sufficiently.
1.422 deraadt 335: <li>Various man page fixes.
336: <li>Various isakmpd(8) fixes and improvements.
337: <li>Fix probing of ISA ex(4) cards.
338: <li>More amiga keymaps.
339: <li>Add yyfix(1), from 4.4BSD.
340: <li>Merge mkfifo into mknod, so that mknod ends up having support for the <strong>-p</strong> option.
341: <li>Fix a output buffer overflow in msgrcv(2).
342: <li>Fix odbm support and permit opening a zero-length hash file.
1.423 deraadt 343: <li>new true awk, April 16 release.
1.422 deraadt 344: <li>Support sparc xbox sbus expansion box.
345: <li>Bug fixes to sparc spif(4), hme(4), be(4) drivers.
346: <li>Updated distrib/notes which shipped with the 2.5 release.
347: </ul>
348: <p>
1.203 deraadt 349:
1.95 deraadt 350: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
351: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
352: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
353: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.424 deraadt 356: <p>
357: <h3>
358: <a href=plus20.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.
359: <br>
360: <a href=plus21.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.
361: <br>
362: <a href=plus22.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.
363: <br>
364: <a href=plus23.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.
365: <br>
366: <a href=plus24.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.
367: <br>
368: <a href=plus25.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.5, click here</a>.
369: <br>
370: <a href=plus.html>For changes in OpenBSD-current, click here</a>.
371: <br>
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