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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
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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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1.970 ! pvalchev 63: <!-- 2005/09/30 -->
! 64: <li>OpenCVS: work keeps going, now with the help of cloudy weather
! 65: in the Caribbean!
! 66: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>,
! 67: implement a way to match IEEE 802.11 flooding, which helps detect known
! 68: DoS attacks.
! 69: <li>Beginning stages for macppc G5 support!
! 70: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
! 71: sync dirty data when going from read-write to read-only, fixes crashes.
! 72: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm_map&sektion=9">uvm_map(9)</a>,
! 73: grab a fresh page using the uvm_km_page allocator instead of calling panic()
! 74: when running out of static kernel map entries.
! 75: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodem&sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>,
! 76: add support for nokia 6680 with a ca-42 cable.
! 77: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=axe&sektion=4">axe(4)</a>,
! 78: enable support for gigabit adapters; only works reliably with USB1 for now.
! 79: <li>More <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>
! 80: fixes: fully unload dependant libraries, fixes bug exhibited with gphoto2.
! 81: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ehci&sektion=4">ehci(4)</a>,
! 82: force takeover of host ports after hibernate/resume, otherwise devices
! 83: will incorrectly attach to the companion controller.
! 84: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&sektion=4">atw(4)</a>,
! 85: handle needed operations specially to make ADM8211B devices work.
! 86: <li>Only allow root to run <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
! 87: it's needed for the chroot security.
! 88: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=art&sektion=4">art(4)</a>,
! 89: notify sppp about link state changes, which fixes PPP encoding.
1.967 pvalchev 90: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
91: remove the very basic rate control implementation and use
92: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rssadapt&sektion=9">rssadapt(9)</a> instead.
93: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
94: add the ability to disable EPSV/EPRT from the command line.
95: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a>,
96: add missing parenthesis which can problems with devices
97: not supporting TEST UNIT READY.
98: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
99: IPv6 support.
100: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
101: add initial bits for IBSS support and fix association with
102: APs not broadcasting their SSIDs.
103: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8">ppp(8)</a>
104: RFC 2472 compliant and fix various IPv6 problems as well as improve
105: radius support.
106: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
107: don't attach unsupported radio chipsets.
108: <li>Fix initialisation of net.inet.udp.baddynamic.
109: <li>Add amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdc&sektion=4">fdc(4)</a>
110: floppy support.
111: <li>Correctly close <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raid&sektion=4">raid(4)</a>
112: devices which fixes crashes.
113: <li>More OpenCVS improvements, RCS keyword expansion now works for
1.969 miod 114: all keywords except $Log$.
1.967 pvalchev 115: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc.rstatd&sektion=8">rpc.rstatd(8)</a>,
116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=yppush&sektion=8">yppush(8)</a>,
117: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8">ypserv(8)</a>
118: to use poll() instead of select().
119: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>,
120: rework symbol lookup to more closely match sun's documentation and treat
121: dlopens as load groups. Also cleanly handle the case where a dynamic object
122: is opened, but one of it's dependent libraries is missing. Do not promote
123: DT_NEEDED libs to RTLD_GLOBAL when being dlopen'ed. A few other
124: simplifications and behaviour improvements and regression tests to match.
1.966 pvalchev 125: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.967 pvalchev 126: correctly handle loopback interfaces and other fixes.
1.966 pvalchev 127: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a>
128: to follow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a>
129: with PTRACE_FORK.
130: <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.
131: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211_input&sektion=9">ieee80211_input(9)</a> and family,
132: replace node hash table with red-black tree. Fixes some bugs in the node table,
133: hash collisions are no longer a possibility, and it simplifies things.
134: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8">mountd(8)</a>,
135: fix a NFS race when mounting filesystems on nfs servers.
136: <li>X.Org fix for a buffer overrun observed as a crash by eclipse users,
137: also fix a possible integer overflow in pixmap creation code.
138: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>,
139: fake geometry for all UMASS devices since it's almost always fictitious,
140: reported to fix various devices.
141: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 142: fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
143: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
144: POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
145: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
146: add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
147: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
148: program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
149: changed, e.g. by
150: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
151: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
152: return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
1.966 pvalchev 153: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>
1.964 pvalchev 154: to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
155: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
156: fix a possible division by zero.
157: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
158: allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
1.966 pvalchev 159: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 160: reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
161: <li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
162: fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
163: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
164: fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
165: <li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
166: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
167: about the flac audio format.
168: <li>Many mvme88k improvements.
169: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
1.968 espie 170: SusV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
1.964 pvalchev 171: <li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
172: corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
173: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
174: fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
175: affects custom programs using this ioctl.
176: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
177: change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
178: enabling some mass storage devices to work.
179: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
180: improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
181: all installed packages.
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1.95 deraadt 185: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
186: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
187: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
188: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.846 deraadt 193: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
194: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
195: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
196: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
197: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
198: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
199: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
200: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
201: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
202: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
203: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
204: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
205: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.868 deraadt 206: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.889 david 207: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 208: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 209: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 210: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
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