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<h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.8 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>,
<a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
<a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
<a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
<a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>,
<a href="plus38.html">3.8</a>.
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<h3><font color="#0000e0">We are working on OpenBSD-current.</font></h3><p>
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<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sasyncd&sektion=1">sasyncd(1)</a>,
fix transfers of very large SA/SPD snapshots.
<li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xargs&sektion=1">xargs(1)</a>
POSIX compliant, make it run programs even when zero arguments are specified.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=trunk&sektion=4">trunk(4)</a>,
add multicast, VLAN support and various improvements.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gem&sektion=4">gem(4)</a>,
program the MAC address correctly into the card after it has been
changed, e.g. by
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=1">ifconfig(1)</a>.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=2">shutdown(2)</a>,
return ENOTCONN if a socket is unconnected.
<li>Change <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hostapd&sektion=1">hostapd(1)</a>
to use red-black trees for the node tables instead of hash tables.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>,
fix a possible division by zero.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a>@pci,
allocate memory for the right structure, which fixes possible page faults.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bpgd&sektion=1">bgpd(1)</a>,
reload sessions every time the capabilities change.
<li>An <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a>
fix for a case where free(NULL, ...) was possible and lead to a crash.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umidi&sektion=4">umidi(4)</a>,
fix corruption to multi-byte MIDI messages when a single real time byte is inserted.
<li>Fix two hppa hardware erratas.
<li>Teach <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a>
about the flac audio format.
<li>Many mvme88k improvements.
<li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=m4&sektion=1">m4(1)</a>
SysV3-compliant and add various regression tests.
<li>OpenCVS: add support for the CVS/Tag file writing/parsing, fix
corrupt Entry files, various other improvements.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
fix the DIOCCHANGERULE ioctl to properly initialize the NAT table, only
affects custom programs using this ioctl.
<li>In <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>,
change matching code to only look at the PCI ID and ignoring the PCI class,
enabling some mass storage devices to work.
<li>Many <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">pkg_add(1)</a>
improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update
all installed packages.
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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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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>,
<a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
<a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
<a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
<a href="plus37.html">3.7</a>.
<a href="plus38.html">3.8</a>.
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