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1.941 deraadt 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.7 and OpenBSD-current</font></h2>
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1.823 jsyn 21: This is a partial list of the major machine-independent changes
1.602 aaron 22: (i.e., these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
1.29 deraadt 23: specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
1.728 horacio 24: in the pages for the specific <a href="plat.html">platforms</a>.
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1.725 naddy 27: Changes to the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> collection are documented
1.747 naddy 28: <a href="portsplus/index.html">here</a>.
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1.863 naddy 31: Note: <font color="#e00000">Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.
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1.186 deraadt 34: <h3>
1.846 deraadt 35: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
36: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
37: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
38: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
39: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
40: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
41: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
42: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
43: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
44: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
45: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
46: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
47: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.868 deraadt 48: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.889 david 49: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 50: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 51: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 52: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
53: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
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1.863 naddy 58: <h3><font color="#0000e0">We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
1.946 ! cloder 59: The following list sums up (almost) all the changes made up to March 28.
1.847 deraadt 60: <p>
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1.422 deraadt 62: <ul>
1.946 ! cloder 63: <li>Clean up some <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=de&sektion=4">de(4)</a> code and fix Intel 21143 in full-duplex mode.
! 64: <li>OpenCVS: start using the public <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=yacc&sektion=1">yacc(1)</a> date parser. cvs dates can be ugly and this simplifies things quite a bit.
! 65: <li>Recognize Radeon 9200 PRO variants.
! 66: <li>Print UDF filesystem type in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a>.
! 67: <li>Fix an issue with ABNT2 keyboards that was stealing the slash key from .br users.
! 68: <li>Make linewrap computation more POSIX-compliant in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=1">dc(1)</a> programs. Adjust regression tests accordingly.
! 69: <li>Add support for relocation type R_ALPHA_SREL32 to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=Xserver&sektion=1">Xserver(1)</a>'s ELF loader.
! 70: <li>Rip out <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>'s homegrown md5 and sha-1 implementations, use ours.
! 71: <li>Change root login shell to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>. And there was much rejoicing.
! 72: <!-- ^ 2005/03/28 -->
1.944 deraadt 73: <li>Use USB timeout periods instead SCSI timeout periods in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a>.
74: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uhub&sektion=4">uhub(4)</a> less chatty at startup.
1.945 deraadt 75: <li>Use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getopt&sektion=3">getopt(3)</a> in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=logresolve&sektion=8">logresolve(8)</a>.
1.944 deraadt 76: <li>Dynamic call stack support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=1">dc(1)</a>.
77: <li>De-#ifdef the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a> driver because it just leads to bugs.
78: <li>Fix potential crash in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
79: <li>Utilize new <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbd&sektion=8">kbd(8)</a> -l support on the install media.
80: <li>Support another <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fxp&sektion=4">fxp(4)</a> varient.
81: <li>Provide support for the -l option in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbd&sektion=8">kbd(8)</a> even if kvm support is not compiled in.
1.945 deraadt 82: <li>Improve <a href="hppa.html">hppa</a> support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_hpux&sektion=8">compat_hpux(8)</a>.
1.944 deraadt 83: <li>Shrink handling of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kbd&sektion=8">kbd(8)</a> in the install scripts.
84: <li>Simplify privsep state engine in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>.
1.943 deraadt 85: <li>Add an Objective-C regression test.
86: <li>On the <a href="zaurus.html">zaurus</a>, delay slightly at reboot time to permit disk to de-cache or de-spin or whatever it is doing (attempting to avoid some filesystem corruptions).
87: <li>Repair boot argument parsing on the <a href="zaurus.html">zaurus</a>.
88: <li>Enable multicast support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&sektion=4">atw(4)</a>.
89: <li>Enable swap encryption by default. Use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl.conf&sektion=5">sysctl.conf(5)</a> to disable if you wish.
90: <li><a href="hppa.html">hppa</a> tape and cdrom booking now work.
91: <li>Use font adding on the SPARCbook; use the ROM font in the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pninek&sektion=4&arch=sparc">pninek(4)</a> so that the kernel messages line up with the rom messages.
92: <li>Enable font adding on <a href="sparc.html">sparc</a>.
93: <li>Ongoing development in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">osfpd(8)</a>.
94: <li>Fix a SIGCHLD signal race in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">osfpd(8)</a>.
95: <li>A variety-pack of shrinkage in the ramdisk install script.
1.942 deraadt 96: <li>Adjust wording in a few APIWARNings.
97: <li>Pad hppa ramdisk to 64K, resolves issues with some ROMS.
98: <li>Fix APIWARNS on i386; ie. cope with moving to version 3 of
99: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc&sektion=1">gcc(1)</a>.
100: <li>Prepare for more RAID-like functionality in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ccd&sektion=4">ccd(4)</a>.
101: <li>In a few programs, do not assume that optopt is valid in non-error return cases from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getopt&sektion=3">getopt(3)</a>.
102: <li>If the full memory window is not mappable in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcic&sektion=4">pcic(4)</a> (because of lots of BIOS mappings) try to use smaller mappings.
103: <li>Use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getopt&sektion=3">getopt(3)</a> in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=htpasswd&sektion=1">htpasswd(1)</a>.
104: <li>Since scsi START_STOP is an optional command, do not require it to work. This may help some <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> devices.
105: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4">vlan(4)</a> error counter repair.
106: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">ahc(4)</a> to prefer memory mapped IO.
107: <li>Use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=microuptimet&sektion=9">microuptime(9)</a> in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4">sppp(4)</a>, because mono_time is no longer always there.
1.941 deraadt 108: <li>If scsi disks are found to contain more than the maximum supported blocks, truncate known size.
109: <li>Support <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bcrypt&sektion=3">bcrypt(3)</a> passwords in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=htpasswd&sektion=1">htpasswd(1)</a>.
110: <li>Missing range check in vfs_hang_addrlist().
111: <li>Support another <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a> <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ne&sektion=4">ne(4)</a> variant.
112: <li>Continuing work on OpenCVS...
113: <!-- ^ 2005/03/23 -->
114: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=zx&sektion=4&arch=sparc">zx(4)</a>, use a shutdown hook to put display back in PROM-compatible mode.
115: <li>Fix 32-bit mode in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cgfourteen&sektion=4&arch=sparc">cgfourteen(4)</a>.
116: <li>On SPARCbooks, cope if the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pninek&sektion=4&arch=sparc">pninek(4)</a> blitter does not wakeup.
117: <li>Power control changes for SPARCbooks.
118: <li>Fix some detach crashes in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>.
119: <li>Packet counting fixes to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw&sektion=4">ipw(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a>, and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ural&sektion=4">ural(4)</a>.
120: <li>Print MAC address on startup in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ural&sektion=4">ural(4)</a>.
121: <li>Various improvements to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>, mostly catching up to shared <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> sections.
122: <li>Fix various bugs in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4">sppp(4)</a> that help the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=san&sektion=4">san(4)</a> T1 driver.
123: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a> chunks to /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf.
124: <li>Silence underrun/overrun errors in the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=auich&sektion=4">auich(4)</a> driver.
125: <li>Fix chipset version errors in the i810 agp driver.
126: <li>Handle :: effects in LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the i386 codepath through <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>.
127: <li>Let <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a> compile when nat traversal is disabled.
128: <li>bind 9.3.1.
129: <li>More sane interrupt priority levels, thereby fixing <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=com&sektion=4">com(4)</a> IO on the zaurus.
130: <li>Avoid leaking <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=keynote&sektion=3">keynote(3)</a> sessions in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>.
131: <li>Be more careful in sparc <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_svr4&sektion=8">compat_svr4(8)</a>.
132: <li>Crank to 3.7-current
133: <!-- ^ 2005/03/20 -->
1.422 deraadt 134: </ul>
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1.95 deraadt 137: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
138: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
139: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
140: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.846 deraadt 145: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
146: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
147: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
148: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
149: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
150: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
151: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
152: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
153: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
154: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
155: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
156: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
157: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.868 deraadt 158: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.889 david 159: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 160: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 161: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 162: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
163: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
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