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1.965 pvalchev 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.8 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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1.846 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>,
1.963 deraadt 53: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>,
54: <a href="plus38.html">3.8</a>.
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1.863 naddy 59: <h3><font color="#0000e0">We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
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1.966 ! pvalchev 63: <!-- 2005/09/15 -->
! 64: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
! 65: correctly handle loopback interfaces.
! 66: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a>
! 67: to follow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a>
! 68: with PTRACE_FORK.
! 69: <li>Support ATI IXP 200/300/400 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a> controllers.
! 70: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211_input&sektion=9">ieee80211_input(9)</a> and family,
! 71: replace node hash table with red-black tree. Fixes some bugs in the node table,
! 72: hash collisions are no longer a possibility, and it simplifies things.
! 73: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8">mountd(8)</a>,
! 74: fix a NFS race when mounting filesystems on nfs servers.
! 75: <li>X.Org fix for a buffer overrun observed as a crash by eclipse users,
! 76: also fix a possible integer overflow in pixmap creation code.
! 77: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>,
! 78: fake geometry for all UMASS devices since it's almost always fictitious,
! 79: reported to fix various devices.
! 80: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 81: fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
82: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
83: POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
84: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
85: add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
86: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
87: program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
88: changed, e.g. by
89: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
90: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
91: return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
1.966 ! pvalchev 92: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>
1.964 pvalchev 93: to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
94: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
95: fix a possible division by zero.
96: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
97: allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
1.966 ! pvalchev 98: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 99: reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
100: <li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
101: fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
102: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
103: fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
104: <li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
105: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
106: about the flac audio format.
107: <li>Many mvme88k improvements.
108: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
109: SysV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
110: <li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
111: corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
112: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
113: fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
114: affects custom programs using this ioctl.
115: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
116: change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
117: enabling some mass storage devices to work.
118: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
119: improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
120: all installed packages.
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1.95 deraadt 124: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
125: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
126: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
127: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.846 deraadt 132: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
133: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
134: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
135: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
136: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
137: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
138: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
139: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
140: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
141: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
142: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
143: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
144: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.868 deraadt 145: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.889 david 146: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 147: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 148: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 149: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
150: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
1.963 deraadt 151: <a href="plus38.html">3.8</a>.
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