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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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36: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</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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1.975 ! pvalchev 63: <!-- 2005/10/19 -->
! 64: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">sis(4)</a>,
! 65: do not reset timer while packets are queued for transmission,
! 66: fixes device stalls in certain scenarios.
1.974 pvalchev 67: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a>@usb,
68: fix command/write rid handling which makes scanning work to some
69: extent, and improves error reporting.
70: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wc&sektion=1">wc(1)</a>,
71: add -h option to display human-readable numbers.
72: <li>Some safety checks added to queue.h, to avoid accidents on certain
73: operations (eg. double list removal) being undetected.
74: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
75: use one mbuf tag instead of 6 distinct ones and optimize the
76: lookup code, thus helping performance.
77: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
78: fixup cache line on sii3114 controllers (as on sii3112). Also add VT8251 support.
79: <li>Sync with heimdal 0.7.
1.973 pvalchev 80: <li>Add v6 support to
1.974 pvalchev 81: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mygate&sektion=5">mygate(5)</a>.
1.973 pvalchev 82: <li>More <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rcs&sektion=1">rcs(1)</a>
83: improvements toward GNU compatibility as well as OpenCVS progress.
1.972 pvalchev 84: <li>Many fixes and
85: improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>.
86: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
87: fix mget directory traversal vulnerability, CAN-2002-1345.
88: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">usb(4)</a>,
89: make all usb1 controllers sleep until all the usb2 controllers have probed
90: and handed over any usb1 devices to the companion. For example
91: this enables usb keyboards to be used before the root is mounted,
92: eg. to enter the root device.
93: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=adjtime&sektion=2">adjtime(2)</a>,
94: fix arithmetic overflows which fixes adjusting in the wrong
95: direction for large offsets.
96: <li>macppc sysctl added to determine whether altivec is available
97: on the running CPU, with useful possibilities for applications.
98: <li>Beginning of macppc crashdump support added, as well
99: as much more macppc SMP progress.
1.971 pvalchev 100: <li>Various <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lge&sektion=4">lge(4)</a>
101: driver fixes, which turned it from a completely useless to a working driver,
102: now in GENERIC.
103: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
104: add a "best effort" MPLS decoder - since the protocol info is not always available
105: in the tag, a "guess" is done.
106: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
107: undo a very old change which was never quite finished, and could
108: cause severe corruption in the buffer lists by removing a buffer
109: from the hash twice.
110: <li>Fix msdos filesystem corruption when moving a directory under
111: a new parent.
112: <li>Sync to Intel's latest
113: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>
114: driver, which adds support for the 82571 and 82572 PCI Express chips.
115: <li>Add Spanning Tree Protocol support to
116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcap&sektion=3">pcap(3)</a>.
117: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
118: use firmware extended scan command (which doesn't crash) and enable
119: 802.11a scanning for 2915ABG adapters.
120: <li>In ext2fs, use part of the reserved space on the disk inode to scatter
121: 16 more bits for the UID/GID, making them 32-bit.
122: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mg&sektion=1">mg(1)</a>
123: undo much more emacs-like and correct.
124: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>,
125: introduce mknod as a built-in, which has significant speed gains in MAKEDEV.
126: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cardbus&sektion=4">cardbus(4)</a>/
127: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">pcmcia(4)</a>
128: support for AMD64.
129: <li>Add multicast routing to GENERIC, now it can be enabled/disabled
130: using the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl(8)</a>
131: interface.
132: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
133: make the syncer grab a reference for the vnode it uses, to avoid it from
134: being reclaimed while in this sensitive time frame. This fixes the
135: sched_sync: fsync failed panic often seen on MP machines.
136: <li>Add <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipmi&sektion=4">ipmi(4)</a>,
137: a driver for the Intelligent Platform Management Interface, an
138: autonomous monitoring and recovery mechanism implemented directly in
139: platform management hardware and firmware.
140: <li>Bump max array size in
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ksh&sektion=1">ksh(1)</a>,
142: needed for MAKEDEV speed-ups.
143: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lndir&sektion=1">lndir(1)</a>,
144: ignore the "special" .#* files left over by cvs/emacs.
145: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ami&sektion=4">ami(4)</a>,
146: eliminate possible I/O failures caused by ioctl/raw commands.
147: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
148: add a simple active "failover" trunk mode.
149: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hardclock&sektion=9">hardclock(9)</a>,
150: fix a race condition in process exit, which caused freed
151: memory to be left referenced in the master kernel timeout worklist,
152: leading to a possible uvm_fault crash.
153: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a>
154: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ural&sektion=4">ural(4)</a>,
155: fix a problem in packet enqueue function which prevented dhcpd to work
156: in standalone AP mode (without bridging).
1.970 pvalchev 157: <li>OpenCVS: work keeps going, now with the help of cloudy weather
158: in the Caribbean!
159: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>,
160: implement a way to match IEEE 802.11 flooding, which helps detect known
161: DoS attacks.
162: <li>Beginning stages for macppc G5 support!
163: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vfs&sektion=9">vfs(9)</a>,
164: sync dirty data when going from read-write to read-only, fixes crashes.
165: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uvm_map&sektion=9">uvm_map(9)</a>,
166: grab a fresh page using the uvm_km_page allocator instead of calling panic()
167: when running out of static kernel map entries.
168: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umodem&sektion=4">umodem(4)</a>,
169: add support for nokia 6680 with a ca-42 cable.
170: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=axe&sektion=4">axe(4)</a>,
171: enable support for gigabit adapters; only works reliably with USB1 for now.
172: <li>More <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>
173: fixes: fully unload dependant libraries, fixes bug exhibited with gphoto2.
174: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ehci&sektion=4">ehci(4)</a>,
175: force takeover of host ports after hibernate/resume, otherwise devices
176: will incorrectly attach to the companion controller.
177: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atw&sektion=4">atw(4)</a>,
178: handle needed operations specially to make ADM8211B devices work.
179: <li>Only allow root to run <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>,
180: it's needed for the chroot security.
181: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=art&sektion=4">art(4)</a>,
182: notify sppp about link state changes, which fixes PPP encoding.
1.967 pvalchev 183: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
184: remove the very basic rate control implementation and use
185: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rssadapt&sektion=9">rssadapt(9)</a> instead.
186: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ftp&sektion=1">ftp(1)</a>,
187: add the ability to disable EPSV/EPRT from the command line.
188: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a>,
189: add missing parenthesis which can problems with devices
190: not supporting TEST UNIT READY.
191: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>
192: IPv6 support.
193: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iwi&sektion=4">iwi(4)</a>,
194: add initial bits for IBSS support and fix association with
195: APs not broadcasting their SSIDs.
196: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8">ppp(8)</a>
197: RFC 2472 compliant and fix various IPv6 problems as well as improve
198: radius support.
199: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
200: don't attach unsupported radio chipsets.
201: <li>Fix initialisation of net.inet.udp.baddynamic.
202: <li>Add amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdc&sektion=4">fdc(4)</a>
203: floppy support.
204: <li>Correctly close <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raid&sektion=4">raid(4)</a>
205: devices which fixes crashes.
206: <li>More OpenCVS improvements, RCS keyword expansion now works for
1.969 miod 207: all keywords except $Log$.
1.967 pvalchev 208: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc.rstatd&sektion=8">rpc.rstatd(8)</a>,
209: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=yppush&sektion=8">yppush(8)</a>,
210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8">ypserv(8)</a>
211: to use poll() instead of select().
212: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ld.so&sektion=1">ld.so(1)</a>,
213: rework symbol lookup to more closely match sun's documentation and treat
214: dlopens as load groups. Also cleanly handle the case where a dynamic object
215: is opened, but one of it's dependent libraries is missing. Do not promote
216: DT_NEEDED libs to RTLD_GLOBAL when being dlopen'ed. A few other
217: simplifications and behaviour improvements and regression tests to match.
1.966 pvalchev 218: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a>
1.967 pvalchev 219: correctly handle loopback interfaces and other fixes.
1.966 pvalchev 220: <li>Allow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2">ptrace(2)</a>
221: to follow <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fork&sektion=2">fork(2)</a>
222: with PTRACE_FORK.
223: <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.
224: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ieee80211_input&sektion=9">ieee80211_input(9)</a> and family,
225: replace node hash table with red-black tree. Fixes some bugs in the node table,
226: hash collisions are no longer a possibility, and it simplifies things.
227: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mountd&sektion=8">mountd(8)</a>,
228: fix a NFS race when mounting filesystems on nfs servers.
229: <li>X.Org fix for a buffer overrun observed as a crash by eclipse users,
230: also fix a possible integer overflow in pixmap creation code.
231: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>,
232: fake geometry for all UMASS devices since it's almost always fictitious,
233: reported to fix various devices.
234: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=8">sasyncd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 235: fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
236: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
237: POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
238: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
239: add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
240: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
241: program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
242: changed, e.g. by
243: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
244: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
245: return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
1.966 pvalchev 246: <li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=8">hostapd(8)</a>
1.964 pvalchev 247: to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
248: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
249: fix a possible division by zero.
250: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
251: allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
1.966 pvalchev 252: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.964 pvalchev 253: reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
254: <li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
255: fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
256: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
257: fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
258: <li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
259: <li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
260: about the flac audio format.
261: <li>Many mvme88k improvements.
262: <li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
1.968 espie 263: SusV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
1.964 pvalchev 264: <li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
265: corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
266: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
267: fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
268: affects custom programs using this ioctl.
269: <li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
270: change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
271: enabling some mass storage devices to work.
272: <li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
273: improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
274: all installed packages.
1.422 deraadt 275: </ul>
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1.95 deraadt 278: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
279: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
280: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
281: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.846 deraadt 286: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
287: <a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
288: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
289: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
290: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
291: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
292: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
293: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
294: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
295: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
296: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
297: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
298: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
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1.889 david 300: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.916 david 301: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.935 miod 302: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.941 deraadt 303: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
304: <a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
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