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1.682 krw 17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Changes made between OpenBSD 2.8 and OpenBSD-current</font><hr></h2>
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1.29 deraadt 20: This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
1.602 aaron 21: (i.e., these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
1.29 deraadt 22: specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
23: in the pages for the specific <a href=plat.html>ports</a> if you
1.392 deraadt 24: are interested in further port-specific details. Many ports
1.29 deraadt 25: have had architecture-specific enhancements relative to NetBSD,
26: but when they do not they certainly have plenty of platform-independent
1.490 ian 27: changes, starting with those listed below.
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1.185 deraadt 30: Note: <font color=#e00000>Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.
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1.684 deraadt 34: <a href="plus20.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.<br>
35: <a href="plus21.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.<br>
36: <a href="plus22.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.<br>
37: <a href="plus23.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.<br>
38: <a href="plus24.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.<br>
39: <a href="plus25.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.5, click here</a>.<br>
40: <a href="plus26.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.6, click here</a>.<br>
41: <a href="plus27.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.7, click here</a>.<br>
42: <a href="plus28.html">For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.8, click here</a>.<br>
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1.674 deraadt 49: <h3><font color=#0000e0>We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
1.422 deraadt 50: <ul>
1.684 deraadt 51: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>IMPLEMENTATION FIX: In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>, fix skey support in SSH1 protocol.<br>
52: <a href="errata.html#sshskey">A patch is available</a></strong></font>.<br>
53: <a href="stable.html"><font color=#00b000>[Applied to stable]</font></a>
54: <li><font color=#e00000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: Repair issues with sparc <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4">zs(4)</a> serial consoles.<br>
55: <a href="errata.html#zsconsole">A patch is available</a></strong></font>.<br>
56: <a href="stable.html"><font color=#00b000>[Applied to stable]</font></a>
57: <li>Correct free-before-reference bugs in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rshd&sektion=8">rshd(8)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rlogind&sektion=8">rlogind(8)</a>.
58: <li>Improve queue handling in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>.
59: <li>New Adaptec FSA RAID driver called <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>.
60: <li>Fix DMA error problems in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=adw&sektion=4">adw(4)</a>.
61: <li>If <b>MANPS</b> environment variable is set, the system will also build and install postscript manual pages into /usr/share/man/ps[1-9]/.
62: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=date&sektion=1">date(1)</a>, fix an off-by-one error which would happen when changing time over DST.
63: <li>Permit <b>-Tps</b> in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nroff&sektion=1">nroff(1)</a>.
1.686 ! jason 64: <li>Make some pfkeyv2 interfaces conform to RFC 2367 numbering.
1.685 jason 65: <a href="stable.html"><font color=#00b000>[Applied to stable]</font></a>
1.681 deraadt 66: <li>New timeouts in a couple of network drivers.
67: <li>Prevent <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nfsd&sektion=8">nfsd(8)</a> from swapping out.
68: <li>Use PHOLD/PRELE in various kernel components.
69: <li>Buffer overflow fix to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=telnet&sektion=1">telnet(1)</a>.
70: <li>Many man page improvements.
71: <li>Permit handling more than 6 arguments in a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostname.if&sektion=5">hostname.if(5)</a> file.
72: <li>kcore handling in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3">kvm(3)</a> for alpha.
73: <li>Update usb code.
74: <li>Update alpha architecture support. A snapshot will come out soon.
75: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pchb&sektion=4">pchb(4)</a>, for Intel random devices, do not busy wait for data.
76: <li>Switch amiga to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm&sektion=9">uvm(9)</a>.
77: <li>Fix amiga pmap module submap allocations.
78: <li>Centralized netisr dispatching.
79: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8">ppp(8)</a> updated.
80: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aue&sektion=4">aue(4)</a>, fix multicast filter programming.
81: <li>Repair an uninitialized variable bug in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">ipsec(4)</a> output.
82: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcibios&sektion=4">pcibios(4)</a> interrupt setup support for AMD750 chipset.
83: <li>In sparc <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zs&sektion=4">zs(4)</a>, when using serial console, the interrupt routine was unable to distinguish it's own interrupts.
84: <li>Generate new hashkey every time a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bridge&sektion=4">bridge(4)</a> is brought up.
85: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bridge&sektion=4">bridge(4)</a> code to use lower spl.
86: <li>Passive FTP support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lynx&sektion=1">lynx(1)</a>.
87: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>, downgrade to SSH1.3 if server is SSH1.4.
1.683 jufi 88: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>, do not disable rhosts(rsa) if server port greater 1024.
1.681 deraadt 89: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a> Agent forwarding and <b>-R</b> support for SSH2 protocol.
1.686 ! jason 90: <li>In pfkeyv2, send the message to registered promiscuous listeners.<br>
! 91: <a href="stable.html"><font color=#00b000>[Applied to stable]</font></a>
1.681 deraadt 92: <li>Some minor <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bridge&sektion=4">bridge(4)</a> fixes.
93: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a> support for the pmax.
94: <li>On powerpc, print out the size of the L2 cache size on G3 and G4 machines.
1.680 deraadt 95: <li>2.8 release builds are running, but some of us are already working on post-release hacking.
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1.95 deraadt 99: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
100: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
101: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
102: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.477 deraadt 107: <a href=plus20.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.<br>
108: <a href=plus21.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.<br>
109: <a href=plus22.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.<br>
110: <a href=plus23.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.<br>
111: <a href=plus24.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.<br>
112: <a href=plus25.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.5, click here</a>.<br>
113: <a href=plus26.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.6, click here</a>.<br>
1.560 deraadt 114: <a href=plus27.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.7, click here</a>.<br>
1.680 deraadt 115: <a href=plus28.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.8, click here</a>.<br>
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