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<h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.3 and OpenBSD-current</font></h2>
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This is a partial list of the major machine-independent changes
(i.e., these are the changes people ask about most often).  Port
specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
in the pages for the specific <a href="plat.html">platforms</a>.

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Changes to the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> collection are documented
<a href="portsplus/index.html">here</a>.

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Note: <font color="#e00000">Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.

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For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
<a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
<a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
<a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
<a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
<a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
<a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
<a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
<a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
<a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
<a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
<a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
<a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
<a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
<a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>.
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<h3><font color="#0000e0">We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
The following list sums up (almost) all the changes made up to March 29.
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<li>More fixes to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iha&amp;sektion=4">iha(4)</a>.
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<li>Stop pmdb dumping core on stripped executables.
<li>Show in log output the list against which <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&amp;sektion=8">spamd(8)</a> matched.
<li>Have <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&amp;sektion=8">spamd(8)</a> report exactly how much of the filthy spammer's time was wasted.
<li>Add a missing <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strdup&amp;sektion=3">strdup(3)</a> error check in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pwd_mkdb&amp;sektion=8">pwd_mkdb(8)</a>.
<li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=login_passwd&amp;sektion=8">login_passwd(8)</a> from setuid(root) to setuid(_shadow).
<li>Remove OCHIO* binary compatability hacks from <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ch&amp;sektion=4">ch(4)</a>. <!-- Warned about in the checkin on 17 Oct 2002 -->
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<li>When retrieving the size of a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ccd&amp;sektion=4">ccd(4)</a> device, check the device is initialised before attempting to open it.
<li>Add USER_LDT to the list of kernel <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=options&amp;sektion=4">options(4)</a> controllable via <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&amp;sektion=3">sysctl(3)</a>.
<li>Sync the SMP branch to 3.3.
<li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=iha&amp;sektion=4">iha(4)</a>'s REQUEST_SENSE handling based on hard-won experience with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=osiop&amp;sektion=4">osiop(4)</a>.
<li>Actually look for the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lpr&amp;sektion=1">lpr(1)</a> -q option when calling <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getopt&amp;sektion=3">getopt(3)</a>.
<li>Fix handling of -f and -h options to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lpr&amp;sektion=1">lpr(1)</a>.
<li>Improve error handling for invalid <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&amp;sektion=4">pf(4)</a> cbq and priq flags.
<li>3.3 -> 3.3-current.
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This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes.  For a list of changes
made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform.  If you
find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
(2) are documented here.<br><br>

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<h3>
For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
<a href="plus20.html">2.0</a>,
<a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
<a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
<a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
<a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
<a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
<a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
<a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
<a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
<a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
<a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
<a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
<a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
<a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>.
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