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                     15: <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
                     16: <hr>
                     17: <h3>Changes Relative to other *BSD's.</h3>
                     18:
                     19: <p>
1.29      deraadt    20: The OpenBSD project was spawned from NetBSD (ie. a member of the
                     21: 4.4BSD family) and is developed seperately.  As well as developments
                     22: by our development group, good changes from the other free operating
                     23: systems are evaluated and merged into OpenBSD (of course, depending on
                     24: various factors like developer time for example.)  OpenBSD tracks bug
                     25: reports and source tree changes from the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects
                     26: fairly closely.  Even pieces of code from the Linux projects have been
                     27: used.
1.14      deraadt    28:
                     29: <p>
1.29      deraadt    30: In the early days of OpenBSD, it was possible to be able to say
                     31: "OpenBSD is NetBSD <b>PLUS MORE STUFF</b>" Now, after substantial
1.30      deraadt    32: work OpenBSD is very much is it's own thing.  Too much stuff has been
1.29      deraadt    33: added and fixed.  OpenBSD is OpenBSD.
                     34:
                     35: <p>
                     36: This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
                     37: (ie. these are the changes people ask about most often).  Port
                     38: specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
                     39: in the pages for the specific <a href=plat.html>ports</a> if you
                     40: are interested in for further port-specific details.  Many ports
                     41: have had architecture-specific enhancements relative to NetBSD,
                     42: but when they do not they certainly have plenty of platform-independent
                     43: changes, starting with those listed below..
1.14      deraadt    44:
1.17      deraadt    45: <p>
                     46: <h3>Life for the OpenBSD project begins...</h3>
                     47: <p>
1.14      deraadt    48: <ul>
                     49: <li>Many many NetBSD PR's fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)
                     50: <li>New curses library, including libform, libpanel and libmenu.
                     51: <li>a termlib library which understands termcap.db, needed for new curses.
                     52: <li>The FreeBSD ports subsystem was integrated and is usable by you!
1.35      kstailey   53: <li>ipfilter for filtering dangerous packets and Network Address Translation
                     54:        for IP masquerading.
1.14      deraadt    55: <li>better ELF support
                     56: <li>nlist() that understands ELF, ECOFF, and a.out, allowing non-a.out ports
                     57:         to use kvm utilies
                     58: <li>Verbatim integration of the GNU tools (using a wrapper Makefile)
                     59: <li>All the pieces needed for cross compilation are in the source tree.
                     60: <li>Some LKM support in the tree.
                     61: <li>ATAPI support (should work on all ISA busses)
                     62: <li>new scsi, md5, pkg_* commands
                     63: <li>Numerous security related fixes
                     64: <li>Kerberos and other crypto in the source tree that is exportable
                     65: <li>Solid YP master, server, and client capabilities.
                     66: <li>/dev/*random -- a device driver providing some kinds of random data
                     67: <li>In-kernel update(8) with an adaptive algorithm
                     68: <li>Some ddb improvements and extensions
                     69: <li>Numerous scsi fixes
                     70: <li>ncheck utility for ffs
                     71: <li>/sbin/init now deals with non-existant ttys, no longer spins gettys madly.
                     72: <li>new system calls: rfork(), minherit(), poll().
                     73: <li>select() that can handle any amount of file descriptors.
                     74: <li>kernfs extensions
                     75: <li>ATM support (support for one company's sparc & i386 cards available)
                     76: <li>Boot kernels with "-c" to edit/enable/disable device configuration tables
                     77: <li>pax as tar, gnutar is toast
                     78: <li>using AT&T awk, gawk is toast
                     79: <li>Even more security fixes.
                     80: <li>Accepts FreeBSD MD5 passwords in password maps, soon will be able to
                     81:         generate them too
                     82: <li>Linux ext2fs and BSD4.4 LFS support being worked on.
                     83: <li>Working ATAPI audio support for multiple architectures.
                     84: <li>terminfo database support.
                     85: <li>Fortran in the tree.
                     86: <li>The most secure rdist support anywhere.
                     87: <li>randomized port allocation in bind(), bindresvport(), and rresvport() --
                     88:         security via unpredictability.
                     89: <li>Protection from the udp spamming and ftp bounce attacks.
                     90: <li>Significantly improved ftp daemon.
                     91: <li>Numerous more security policy and implimentation improvements (OpenBSD
                     92:         defaults to installing in a very secure mode)
                     93: <li>zlib (non-GPL'd gzip-compatible library)
                     94: <li>Newest version of pppd.
                     95: <li>_POSIX_SAVED_IDS behaviour with permitted BSD extensions.
                     96: <li>Fixed long-standing vm swap-leak.
                     97: <li>FreeBSD malloc() that uses mmap() and is able to free unused memory.
                     98: <li>Numerous FreeBSD userland fixes and improvements incorporated.
                     99: <li>new rdisc Router Discovery daemon
                    100: <li>generic protection against the bind() takeover problem.
                    101: <li>at -f security fix.
                    102: <li>20 or so more security fixes
                    103: <li>install now supports -C, -p, and -S flags.
                    104: <li>a real adduser program, which can even be used uninteractively.
                    105: <li>POSIX & C2 requirement; lose setuid/setgid bits if owner/group changed
                    106:         by chown(). This can be turned off with sysctl.
                    107: <li>partial protection against tcp SYN attacks.
                    108: <li>added /etc/fbtab support to login & init.
                    109: <li>RCS version 5.7
                    110: <li>much newer join command (4.4lite2 with other fixes)
                    111: <li>scsi subsystem security fix
                    112: <li>Kerberos is much more silent if not configured
                    113: <li>arc4-based random support in kernel
                    114: <li>ncr53cXXX scsi scripts assembler
                    115: <li>Numerous ftpd improvements and fixes, including multihomed and skey support.
                    116: <li>`lsof'-style features in fstat.
                    117: <li>rudimentary support for ISA Plug-and-Play cards
                    118: <li>Fixed timeout support in RPC library, and also fixed it to support more
                    119:         than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
                    120: <li>improved locate command
                    121: <li>a good start at NETIPX support
                    122: <li>vim version 4.5
                    123: <li>gcc 2.7.2.1 (to get closer to native alpha support ar gcc
                    124:         bugs).
                    125: <li>latest version of perl, and a lndir command.
                    126: <li>Even more security fixes.
                    127: <li>cdio command for using CD audio.
1.40      gvf       128: <li>Kernel warns if /dev/console does not exist; nice warning for booting with
                    129:        an unpopulated /dev directory.
1.41      deraadt   130: <li>libgnumalloc is gone; our malloc() is better.
1.14      deraadt   131: <li>FreeBSD pipe() system call; quite a bit faster.
                    132: <li>Some serial driver support for /dev/cuaXX devices to support transparent
                    133:       out+dial
1.40      gvf       134: <li>DDB can now access symbol tables from LKM modules
1.14      deraadt   135: <li>Say goodbye to dump, restore, and mt security holes: They are no longer
                    136:         setuid.
                    137: <li>*Hobbit*'s netcat utility. The crackers use it, so should you.
                    138: <li>New routed from SGI.
                    139: <li>Complete in-tree development for MIPS/Alpha systems (ie. binutils).
                    140: <li>ftp command modified for easily scripted ftp & http downloads.
                    141: <li>And of course... more security related bugfixes... (ie. dump,
                    142:         restore, mt).
                    143: <li>vim is replacing nvi, since nvi does not have a pure BSD license, and vim
                    144:         also works better.
                    145: <li>16 partitions working on sparc and i386 (yipee!)
                    146: <li>Nice sample files in /etc
                    147: <li>sendmail gecos hole fixed (in a number of ways; other programs in the
                    148:        source tree were also vulnerable.)
                    149: <li>secure multicast tools against possible security problems.
                    150: <li>latest GNU groff, incorporated in a clean wrapperized form.
                    151: <li>mopd for networking booting Digital machines
                    152: <li>less version 2.90
                    153: <li>deal with the SYN bomb problem (denial of service attack) as well known.
                    154: <li>Another kerberos security fix.
                    155: <li>Almost a hundred more security fixes, including /tmp races because of strncpy.
                    156: <li>Compile time option to compile the source tree almost completely dynamic.
                    157: <li>A 7% reduction in size of static binaries.
                    158: <li>FreeBSD's adduser(8) command. Also an rmuser(8) command.
                    159: <li>We have completed security reviews of almost all userland programs and
                    160:         libraries except for the gnu stuff (where, based on preliminary
                    161:         inspection there is poor handling of temp files).
                    162: <li>Working Linux ext2fs.
                    163: <li>Added sudo (which is maintained by one of our developers)
                    164: <li>CTM is now a supported way of obtaining OpenBSD source code.
1.17      deraadt   165: </ul>
                    166: <p>
                    167: <h3>OpenBSD 2.0 released.</h3>
                    168: <p>
1.15      deraadt   169: <ul>
1.14      deraadt   170: <li>The NIST Posix test suite became free. As a result we have been correcting
                    171:        numerous problems in the source tree, and expect to be completely
                    172:        POSIX compliant very soon.
                    173: <li>upgrade to CVS version 1.9.
                    174: <li>A number of security fixes to the way coredumping works.
                    175: <li>The /dev/*random devices are now default on all architectures.
                    176: <li>Add stack tracebacks to Arc port's kernel debugger.
                    177: <li>Skey revamped into full OTP (RFC1938) support, including sha1 and
                    178:        md5 support.
                    179: <li>GPL i387 emulator added.
                    180: <li>Crank kvm space on the i386 port, also limit buffer cache useage
                    181:        so that 512MB machines may work (untested :-)
                    182: <li>Numerous fixes to the lpr suite, including security.
                    183: <li>More ftpd raging paranoia security fixes.
                    184: <li>The NIST suite showed numerous errors in libraries and the kernel.
                    185:        Only a few small errors remain now, mostly regarding serial
                    186:        ports.
                    187: <li>In numerous utilities: prefer $LOGNAME, but also accept $USER.
                    188: <li>OLF binary type added.  This is like ELF, but includes an OS-dependent
                    189:        tag. elf2olf(1) converts an elf binary to a tagged OLF binary which
                    190:        the kernel can recognize correctly.
                    191: <li>Beware $HOME overflows throughout the source tree.
                    192: <li>Integration of the pmax port.
                    193: <li>Import of ctm.
                    194: <li>Various repairs to the scsi scanner support.
                    195: <li>Numerous more difficult-to-exploit-but-possible-if-someone-really-wanted-to
                    196:        buffer overflows found in system utilities..
                    197: <li>Memory leak paranoia in cron.
                    198: <li>Make login get more consistantly upset about failed logins, and tell user
                    199:        about these failures at the next successfull login.
                    200: <li>pdksh version is now 5.2.11
                    201: <li>New bsd.*.mk feature: DEBUG=-g.  Try it, you'll like it.
                    202: <li>The Arc port family has a new member: The rPC44 works!
                    203: <li>lpt driver is now bus-independent.
                    204: <li>com driver is now bus-independent.
                    205: <li>Numerous small security fixes again...
                    206: <li>Use pdksh as our /bin/sh.  This provides excellent POSIX compliance.
                    207: <li>Prevent generic users from mounting filesystems by default.
                    208: <li>Added -C option to pax/tar. Also made -z support compressed files too.
                    209: <li>Increased compatibility in the pccons driver with BSDi features.
                    210: <li>Imported FreeBSD's calendar.
                    211: <li>GNU gdb works on the mips-based platforms.
                    212: <li>Add FreeBSD md5 diffs to mtree(8).  This can be used to implement a
                    213:        tripwire-like system.
                    214: <li>Some YP and bootparamd security changes.
                    215: <li>Hundreds of little fixes all over the place.
                    216: <li>Multiple updates for GNU software
                    217: <li>Add disklabels to the floppy device drivers.
                    218: <li>At boottime, have (*mountroot)() look at the root device's disklabel
                    219:        to determine which filesystem type is to be mounted.
                    220: <li>If disklabel reading code discovers an ISOFS filesystem underlying,
                    221:        spoof a nice disklabel (enough to fool mountroot).
                    222: <li>tcpdump 3.3
                    223: <li>Fix information gathering attack in ping(8).
                    224: <li>Add NetBSD's "route show" implementation, and at the samet time fix
                    225:        the new buffer overflows that this provided.
                    226: <li>Fix a few setgroups() related security holes.
                    227: <li>sendmail 8.8.4
                    228: <li>texinfo 3.9
                    229: <li>f77 0.5.19
                    230: <li>Repair some more KerberosIV buffer overflows.  Hard to believe this is
                    231:        supposed to be security software.
                    232: <li>Add XCASE/IUCLC/OLCUC/OCRNL/ONOCR/ONLRET tty subsystem flags for
                    233:        backwards compatibility.
                    234: <li>Permit NFS attribute cache to be configured on a per-mount basis.
                    235: <li>Properly split fsck, mount, and newfs into multiple pieces.  Use
                    236:        disklabel information if it is available.
                    237: <li>Add disklabels to the vnd device driver.
                    238: <li>Change the games to be run setgid games, not setuid games.  This closes
                    239:        a whole slew of fascinating security holes.
                    240: <li>Import of the powerpc port.
                    241: <li>Properly use _POSIX_SAVED_IDS throughout the source tree.
                    242: <li>Permit building of kernels without a.out support.
                    243: <li>ppp 2.3b3
                    244: <li>libcrypt goes away. We do not need this stub library anymore. Do not link
                    245:        against it on OpenBSD, all the pieces you need are in libc.
1.18      deraadt   246: <li>new aucat command.
                    247: <li>Fix a fairly nasty security hole in all of the games.
1.20      downsj    248: <li>Support for the <a href="hp300.html">hp300</a> added.
                    249: <li>Upgrade of awk(1), integration of BSD tsort(1), getopt fixes.
                    250: <li>Sendmail upgraded to version 8.8.5.
1.21      downsj    251: <li>Added lchown(2) for compatibility with SVR4 implementations.
1.23      deraadt   252: <li>New gnu cpio 2.4.2
                    253: <li>Support lchown(2) in dump(8), cp(1), pax(1), cpio(1), chown(8), and
                    254:        restore(8).
                    255: <li>No buffer lengths in fmt(1).
                    256: <li>various adjtime() corrections inside the kernel.
                    257: <li>Prevent stat() from disclosing inode generation numbers to non-root userland.
                    258: <li>pax in tar mode will understand multiple -v options to generate ls-like output.
                    259: <li>Repair many uses of the SIOCGIFCONF code for machines with an outrageous
                    260:        number of network interfaces.
1.22      deraadt   261: <li>More kerberosIV security patches.
                    262: <li>A working fsirand.
1.56      deraadt   263: <li>Completely in-tree <a href="powerpc.html">PowerPC</a> port for non-Apple
1.28      deraadt   264:        hardware.  This port requires nothing outside the in-tree development
                    265:        environment to build (except mkisofs for building distributions).
                    266: <li>Some ypbind(8) tightening up, includes a method to specify a list of
                    267:        valid servers
1.25      niklas    268: <li>Bug fixed that prevented bufpages/nbuf > 1 setups.  This allows large
                    269:        buffer caches even when available kvm space is low, like for i386
                    270:        & sparc.
1.26      deraadt   271: <li>Changed netinet IP_HDRINCL option to require ip_len and ip_off in network
                    272:        byte order. This is a compatibility/portability fix and we expect
                    273:        other BSD systems to eventually follow suit.
                    274: <li>amd (the automounter) is now 64-bit and working on the alpha.
                    275: <li>The <a href="alpha.html">Alpha</a> port and all it's utilities now compiles
                    276:        using in-tree versions of all tools.  Yipee!
1.34      deraadt   277: <li>A SA_SIGINFO implementation for sigaction() and signal handlers.  This is a
                    278:        small part of POSIX 1003.1b and permits the signal handler to figure
                    279:        out the exact cause of a signal; such as fault address information
                    280:        for SIGSEGV or more detailed information for SIGFPE.
1.31      downsj    281: <li>config.old(8) has been removed from the tree, as the <a href="hp300.html">
                    282:        hp300</a> port switches to config(8).
1.32      deraadt   283: <li>/sbin/dump -a saves you from needing to deal with finicky tape length
                    284:        options (from FreeBSD)
1.34      deraadt   285: <li>Added RFC-1812 ICMP unreachable codes to ip_icmp.h, traceroute, and ping.
1.36      deraadt   286: <li>Be more careful if some fool decides to enable source routing ;-)
                    287: <li>Support for gzip'd kernels in some bootblocks.
                    288: <li>New wgrisc port for Willowglen embedded r3081-based machine with ISA slots.
                    289: <li>Add cdev and partition support to the ramdisk driver.
                    290: <li>Merge new ftp(1) changes from NetBSD.
1.37      deraadt   291: <li>Change mktemp(3) and family to generate more random filenames, yet still
                    292:        as collision free as possible.
                    293: <li>Have libc/rpc save you from yourself if you do enable source routing.
1.38      downsj    294: <li>The <a href="hp300.html">hp300</a> joins many other ports in supporting
                    295:        16 disk partitions.
1.55      kstailey  296: <li>IPF 3.1.7 which includes fully working NAT support (ie. IP masquerading).
1.39      deraadt   297: <li>Use lots more XXXX characters in calls to the few remaining mktemp() calls
                    298:        in the source tree. This cuts out a whole class of races.
                    299: <li>Improved NFS filehandle creation.
1.42      deraadt   300: <li>Make dd(1) work fine with our 64-bit off_t types, now you can copy very
                    301:        large disks using it.
                    302: <li>add RPC service name generation to netstat -a
1.43      deraadt   303: <li>Fix pax & tar to be POSIX compliant.
1.42      deraadt   304: <li>Fix a few netinet kernel crash problems.
                    305: <li>Fix so that stack limits which are not a multiple of the pagesize work.
                    306: <li>fix some more memory and file descriptor leaks in libc/rpc
1.43      deraadt   307: <li>New scalable BLOWFISH-based crypt algorithm for passwd file entries. It
                    308:        uses a very large strong-random `salt' and the number of rotor
                    309:        runs is configurable.  Hence if you have faster machines you can
                    310:        slow the crypt routine down and make harder keys.
                    311: <li>Add support for /etc/passwd.conf which controls the format and strength
                    312:        of passwd entries for the next time a user changes their password.
                    313:        These options can be set per-user.
1.44      deraadt   314: <li>Working kadmind for kerberosIV.
                    315: <li>IPSEC package from John Ioannidis and Angelos D. Keromytis.
                    316: <li>cvs 1.9.2
                    317: <li>Fix weak symbol support in ld.
                    318: <li>libg++ pulls in libcurses automatically.
                    319: <li>Replace which(1) with a C program.
1.45      millert   320: <li>newfs(8) now has an inline fsirand(8) with no noticable speed decrease.
                    321: <li>settimeofday(2) won't roll back the date if securelevel > 0 (from lite2).
1.46      kstailey  322: <li>deroff(1) 1.0 from Debian (a Linux).
1.47      downsj    323: <li>BIND 4.9.5-P1.
1.48      deraadt   324: <li>Add support for FreeBSD md5 to /etc/passwd.conf.
                    325: <li>Import of the mvme88k kernel port.
                    326: <li>Import of libwrap and tcpd (tcp wrappers).
                    327: <li>Numerous improvements to pax, including full support for cpio and
                    328:        a lot of fixes to tar mode.
                    329: <li>Let fsck and fsirand automatically work on very large filesystems.
                    330: <li>Various fixes to the fsck tools.
                    331: <li>ipsecadm as an initial cut at controlling IPSEC sessions.
                    332: <li>Fix pcmcia on the i386.
                    333: <li>Merged changes from at 2.9 into our own at.
                    334: <li>pccon(1) to control the pccons driver.
                    335: <li>Bye bye tahoe bits.
                    336: <li>noaccesstime option for filesystems (saves batteries on laptops)
                    337: <li>Substantial changes and fixes to the scsi scanner support.
                    338: <li>Support for "secure" YP password maps.
                    339: <li>Various atm fixes.
                    340: <li>The NE2000 if_ed driver now works on the alpha, too.
                    341: <li>ddb improvements for 64 bit machines.
                    342: <li>Fixes to fts(3).
                    343: <li>A few ypbind fixes.
                    344: <li>sysctl kern.osrevision gives OpenBSD date.
                    345: <li>gcc no longer defines -D__NetBSD__, only -D__OpenBSD__ now!
                    346: <li>Implement NOFILE_MAX--hard limit on max descriptors per proccess.
                    347: <li>Be more careful about modes of lost+found directories.
                    348: <li>New termcap and terminfo database files.
                    349: <li>Change mail.local -H behaviour slightly, and convince mail(1) to use it
                    350:        for correct locking!
                    351: <li>64 bit clean in.rarpd.
                    352: <li>cvs 1.9.6
1.49      millert   353: <li>16 partition support for the alpha port.
1.50      deraadt   354: <li>Add ./.message support to ftpd
                    355: <li>Numerous more pax/tar fixes.
                    356: <li>Add md5 & blowfish passwd support to adduser(8).
                    357: <li>Add support for YP v1 to ypserv.
                    358: <li>Fixed some more mktemp races (sigh, will this ever end!)
                    359: <li>More buffer overflows, but none in sensitive programs.
                    360: <li>getnetent() and friends now work a lot more like gethostent().
                    361: <li>Use 10 X characters in many remaining mktemp() calls which are
                    362:        hard to excise.
                    363: <li>Solve a few resolver problems after the recent 4.9.5-P1 integration,
                    364:        not all our fault.
                    365: <li>Fix patch to honour Index lines better.
                    366: <li>A whole bunch of 64 bit fixes in the source tree (hint: alpha).
                    367: <li>Once again, really correct the various source routing pieces of the
                    368:        userland source tree.
                    369: <li>Make real i386 cpu's work again. In case noone noticed, they didn't
                    370:        work for about 5 months.  The bug was very hard to find...
                    371: <li>For config(8), if any kernel options get added/deleted/changed since
                    372:        the previous commit, warn that the compile tree needs 'make clean'.
                    373: <li>Use in_addr_t and in_port_t all over the place.
                    374: <li>Correct DEV_BSIZE and lp->d_secsize confusion throughout the source
                    375:        tree. CD9660 is much happier now.
                    376: <li>Fix AFS string-to-key handling in kerberos.
1.51      kstailey  377: <li>NAT now gets started from /etc/netstart.
1.50      deraadt   378: <li>Various man page fixes.
                    379: <li>For the first time ever, an obj@ populated /usr/src tree compiles cleanly
                    380:        when mounted read-only.
1.54      kstailey  381: <li>The df(1) utility now has a human-readable "-h" option.
1.53      deraadt   382: <li>Always skip the first 8KB of all swap partitions (hint: disklabels &
                    383:     bootblocks)
                    384: <li>Repair some bugs in mail(1), especially regarding signal handling.
                    385: <li>Support .group entries in /etc/passwd.conf
                    386: <li>PCI aic7860 scsi support improved.
                    387: <li>Support /etc/rc.shutdown from halt(8).
                    388: <li>Support extended partitions in fdisk(8).
                    389: <li>Various fixes to the YP utilities.
                    390: <li>Signal handling fix to crontab(1).
                    391: <li>Unify naming of archictecture names between gcc & binutils.
                    392: <li>Some more userland 64 bit fixes.
                    393: <li>Support for PCI NE2000 clones.
                    394: <li>libpthread works on the m68k.
                    395: <li>Significantly improved the unpredictability of the DNS packet id's
                    396:        in the resolver and named.
                    397: <li>newfs_msdos(8) can has enough brains to find the partition size itself.
                    398: <li>Split rc.local, creating rc.securelevel. (Securelevels look like a worse
                    399:        and worse idea every month).
                    400: <li>A bit more man page cleanup starting to happen...
1.57      kstailey  401: <li>GNU Groff 1.10 with (improved) Makefile wrapper.
1.58      kstailey  402: <li>sleep(3) and usleep(3) now call nanosleep(2) for significantly less
                    403:        overhead.
1.60      niklas    404: <li>The vnd(4) device has a new safer mode of operation called svnd
                    405:        where you can trust a disk-image right after it's unmounted,
                    406:        i.e. cache-coherency.
1.61      deraadt   407: <li>Repaired install stuff for most architectures significantly, improving
                    408:        ftp/http installs, single bootable install floppies, and in some
                    409:        cases CDROM booting.  Most floppies contain vi, too.
                    410: <li>Support crunch on arc (for bootable installs).
                    411: <li>Added gzip and cdrom support to the sparc and alpha bootblocks.
                    412: <li>Fix keyboard and delay timing in i386 bootfloppy bootblocks. Whee!
                    413: </ul>
                    414: <p>
                    415: <h3>OpenBSD 2.1 released.</h3>
                    416: <p>
                    417: <ul>
                    418: <li>Few quirky changes to the way ISO9660 disklabel spoofing works in
                    419:        some ports.
                    420: <li>Fix a few more libc functions to generate very large fd_set's properly
                    421:        for select(2).
                    422: <li>Import newer version of vax port.
                    423: <li>Newer version of ext2fs that is reliable for read/write operation.
                    424: <li>Make adduser understand /etc/passwd.conf
                    425: <li>Support SIGINFO in ping; also add more complete icmp reporting
                    426:        capabilities.
                    427: <li>New named root.cache from Internic.
                    428: <li>Lots of man page fixes.
                    429: <li>Fix more overflows and other bugs in mail(1).
                    430: <li>tail(1) can now notice if the file been replaced or truncated.
                    431: <li>getpgid(2) from XPG3(?)
                    432: <li>In ar(1), truncate uid & gid if too large.
                    433: <li>Add some more malloc options to malloc(3)
                    434: <li>tcp wrappers 7.6
                    435: <li>Fix lots more NetBSD PR's.
1.62    ! deraadt   436: <li>Few more fixes to pax(1).
        !           437: <li>kill process timers if execve'ing a setuid/setgid executable.
        !           438: <li>fix sendsmg() credential passing on 64 bit machines.
        !           439: <li>Kernel now generates random pid values in fork().
        !           440: <li>A few netinet fixes.
1.14      deraadt   441: </ul>
1.17      deraadt   442: <p>
                    443: <h3>Development is rapidly continuing...</h3>
                    444: <p>
1.14      deraadt   445:
                    446: This list only mentions platform-independent changes.  For a list of changes
                    447: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform.<br><br>
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