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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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1.422 deraadt 62: <ul>
1.967 ! pvalchev 63: <!-- 2005/09/22 -->
! 64: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
! 65: remove the very basic rate control implementation and use
! 66: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rssadapt&sektion=9">rssadapt(9)</a> instead.
! 67: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
! 68: add the ability to disable EPSV/EPRT from the command line.
! 69: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a>,
! 70: add missing parenthesis which can problems with devices
! 71: not supporting TEST UNIT READY.
! 72: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
! 73: IPv6 support.
! 74: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
! 75: add initial bits for IBSS support and fix association with
! 76: APs not broadcasting their SSIDs.
! 77: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8">ppp(8)</a>
! 78: RFC 2472 compliant and fix various IPv6 problems as well as improve
! 79: radius support.
! 80: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
! 81: don't attach unsupported radio chipsets.
! 82: <li>Fix initialisation of net.inet.udp.baddynamic.
! 83: <li>Add amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdc&sektion=4">fdc(4)</a>
! 84: floppy support.
! 85: <li>Correctly close <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raid&sektion=4">raid(4)</a>
! 86: devices which fixes crashes.
! 87: <li>More OpenCVS improvements, RCS keyword expansion now works for
! 88: all keywords except $Log$.
! 89: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc.rstatd&sektion=8">rpc.rstatd(8)</a>,
! 90: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=yppush&sektion=8">yppush(8)</a>,
! 91: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8">ypserv(8)</a>
! 92: to use poll() instead of select().
! 93: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>,
! 94: rework symbol lookup to more closely match sun's documentation and treat
! 95: dlopens as load groups. Also cleanly handle the case where a dynamic object
! 96: is opened, but one of it's dependent libraries is missing. Do not promote
! 97: DT_NEEDED libs to RTLD_GLOBAL when being dlopen'ed. A few other
! 98: simplifications and behaviour improvements and regression tests to match.
1.966 pvalchev 99: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.967 ! pvalchev 100: correctly handle loopback interfaces and other fixes.
1.966 pvalchev 101: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a>
102: to follow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a>
103: with PTRACE_FORK.
104: <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.
105: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211_input&sektion=9">ieee80211_input(9)</a> and family,
106: replace node hash table with red-black tree. Fixes some bugs in the node table,
107: hash collisions are no longer a possibility, and it simplifies things.
108: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8">mountd(8)</a>,
109: fix a NFS race when mounting filesystems on nfs servers.
110: <li>X.Org fix for a buffer overrun observed as a crash by eclipse users,
111: also fix a possible integer overflow in pixmap creation code.
112: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>,
113: fake geometry for all UMASS devices since it's almost always fictitious,
114: reported to fix various devices.
115: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 116: fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
117: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
118: POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
119: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
120: add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
121: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
122: program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
123: changed, e.g. by
124: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
125: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
126: return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
1.966 pvalchev 127: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>
1.964 pvalchev 128: to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
129: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
130: fix a possible division by zero.
131: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
132: allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
1.966 pvalchev 133: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 134: reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
135: <li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
136: fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
137: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
138: fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
139: <li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
140: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
141: about the flac audio format.
142: <li>Many mvme88k improvements.
143: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
144: SysV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
145: <li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
146: corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
147: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
148: fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
149: affects custom programs using this ioctl.
150: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
151: change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
152: enabling some mass storage devices to work.
153: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
154: improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
155: all installed packages.
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1.95 deraadt 159: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
160: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
161: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
162: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.846 deraadt 167: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
168: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
169: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
170: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
171: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
172: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
173: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
174: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
175: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
176: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
177: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
178: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
179: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.868 deraadt 180: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.889 david 181: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 182: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 183: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 184: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
185: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
1.963 deraadt 186: <a href="plus38.html">3.8</a>.
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