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! 18: <h2>Changes made between OpenBSD 2.0 and whatever existed before...</h2>
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! 21: This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
! 22: (ie. these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
! 23: specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
! 24: in the pages for the specific <a href=plat.html>ports</a> if you
! 25: are interested in further port-specific details. Many ports
! 26: have had architecture-specific enhancements relative to NetBSD,
! 27: but when they do not they certainly have plenty of platform-independent
! 28: changes, starting with those listed below..
! 29:
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! 31: Note: <font color=#e00000>Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.
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! 35: <a href=plus20.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.
! 36: <br>
! 37: <a href=plus21.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.
! 38: <br>
! 39: <a href=plus22.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.
! 40: <br>
! 41: <a href=plus23.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.
! 42: <br>
! 43: <a href=plus24.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.
! 44: <br>
! 45: <a href=plus25.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.5, click here</a>.
! 46: <br>
! 47: <a href=plus.html>For changes in OpenBSD-current, click here</a>.
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! 50:
! 51: <h3><font color=#0000e0>OpenBSD 2.0 released.</font></h3><p>
! 52: <ul>
! 53: <li>CTM is now a supported way of obtaining OpenBSD source code.
! 54: <li>Added sudo (which is maintained by one of our developers)
! 55: <li>Working Linux ext2fs.
! 56: <li>We have completed security reviews of almost all userland programs and libraries except for the gnu stuff (where, based on preliminary inspection there is poor handling of temp files).
! 57: <li>FreeBSD's adduser(8) command. Also an rmuser(8) command.
! 58: <li>A 7% reduction in size of static binaries.
! 59: <li>Compile time option to compile the source tree almost completely dynamic.
! 60: <li>Almost a hundred more security fixes, including /tmp races because of strncpy.
! 61: <li>Another kerberos security fix.
! 62: <li>deal with the SYN bomb problem (denial of service attack) as well known.
! 63: <li>less version 2.90
! 64: <li>mopd for networking booting Digital machines
! 65: <li>latest GNU groff, incorporated in a clean wrapperized form.
! 66: <li>secure multicast tools against possible security problems.
! 67: <li>sendmail gecos hole fixed (in a number of ways; other programs in the source tree were also vulnerable.)
! 68: <li>Nice sample files in /etc
! 69: <li>16 partitions working on sparc and i386 (yipee!)
! 70: <li>vim is replacing nvi, since nvi does not have a pure BSD license, and vim also works better.
! 71: <li>And of course... more security related bugfixes... (ie. dump, restore, mt).
! 72: <li>ftp command modified for easily scripted ftp & http downloads.
! 73: <li>Complete in-tree development for MIPS/Alpha systems (ie. binutils).
! 74: <li>New routed from SGI.
! 75: <li>*Hobbit*'s netcat utility. The crackers use it, so should you.
! 76: <li>Say goodbye to dump, restore, and mt security holes: They are no longer setuid.
! 77: <li>DDB can now access symbol tables from LKM modules
! 78: <li>Some serial driver support for /dev/cuaXX devices to support transparent out+dial
! 79: <li>FreeBSD pipe() system call; quite a bit faster.
! 80: <li>libgnumalloc is gone; our malloc() is better.
! 81: <li>Kernel warns if /dev/console does not exist; nice warning for booting with an unpopulated /dev directory.
! 82: <li>cdio command for using CD audio.
! 83: <li>Even more security fixes.
! 84: <li>latest version of perl, and a lndir command.
! 85: <li>gcc 2.7.2.1 (to get closer to native alpha support ar gcc bugs).
! 86: <li>vim version 4.5
! 87: <li>a good start at NETIPX support
! 88: <li>improved locate command
! 89: <li>Fixed timeout support in RPC library, and also fixed it to support more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
! 90: <li>rudimentary support for ISA Plug-and-Play cards
! 91: <li>`lsof'-style features in fstat.
! 92: <li>Numerous ftpd improvements and fixes, including multihomed and skey support.
! 93: <li>ncr53cXXX scsi scripts assembler
! 94: <li>arc4-based random support in kernel
! 95: <li>Kerberos is much more silent if not configured
! 96: <li>scsi subsystem security fix
! 97: <li>much newer join command (4.4lite2 with other fixes)
! 98: <li>RCS version 5.7
! 99: <li>added /etc/fbtab support to login & init.
! 100: <li>partial protection against tcp SYN attacks.
! 101: <li>POSIX & C2 requirement; lose setuid/setgid bits if owner/group changed by chown(). This can be turned off with sysctl.
! 102: <li>a real adduser program, which can even be used uninteractively.
! 103: <li>install now supports -C, -p, and -S flags.
! 104: <li>20 or so more security fixes
! 105: <li>at -f security fix.
! 106: <li>generic protection against the bind() takeover problem.
! 107: <li>new rdisc Router Discovery daemon
! 108: <li>Numerous FreeBSD userland fixes and improvements incorporated.
! 109: <li>FreeBSD malloc() that uses mmap() and is able to free unused memory.
! 110: <li>Fixed long-standing vm swap-leak.
! 111: <li>_POSIX_SAVED_IDS behaviour with permitted BSD extensions.
! 112: <li>Newest version of pppd.
! 113: <li>zlib (non-GPL'd gzip-compatible library)
! 114: <li>Numerous more security policy and implementation improvements (OpenBSD defaults to installing in a very secure mode)
! 115: <li>Significantly improved ftp daemon.
! 116: <li>Protection from the udp spamming and ftp bounce attacks.
! 117: <li>randomized port allocation in bind(), bindresvport(), and rresvport() -- security via unpredictability.
! 118: <li>The most secure rdist support anywhere.
! 119: <li>Fortran in the tree.
! 120: <li>terminfo database support.
! 121: <li>Working ATAPI audio support for multiple architectures.
! 122: <li>Linux ext2fs and BSD4.4 LFS support being worked on.
! 123: <li>Accepts FreeBSD MD5 passwords in password maps, soon will be able to generate them too
! 124: <li>Even more security fixes.
! 125: <li>using AT&T awk, gawk is toast
! 126: <li>pax as tar, gnutar is toast
! 127: <li>Boot kernels with "-c" to edit/enable/disable device configuration tables
! 128: <li>ATM support (support for one company's sparc & i386 cards available)
! 129: <li>kernfs extensions
! 130: <li>select() that can handle any amount of file descriptors.
! 131: <li>new system calls: rfork(), minherit(), poll().
! 132: <li>/sbin/init now deals with non-existant ttys, no longer spins gettys madly.
! 133: <li>ncheck utility for ffs
! 134: <li>Numerous scsi fixes
! 135: <li>Some ddb improvements and extensions
! 136: <li>In-kernel update(8) with an adaptive algorithm
! 137: <li>/dev/*random -- a device driver providing some kinds of random data
! 138: <li>Solid YP master, server, and client capabilities.
! 139: <li>Kerberos and other crypto in the source tree that is exportable
! 140: <li>Numerous security related fixes
! 141: <li>new scsi, md5, pkg_* commands
! 142: <li>ATAPI support (should work on all ISA busses)
! 143: <li>Some LKM support in the tree.
! 144: <li>All the pieces needed for cross compilation are in the source tree.
! 145: <li>Verbatim integration of the GNU tools (using a wrapper Makefile)
! 146: <li>nlist() that understands ELF, ECOFF, and a.out, allowing non-a.out ports to use kvm utilies
! 147: <li>better ELF support
! 148: <li>ipfilter for filtering dangerous packets and Network Address Translation for IP masquerading.
! 149: <li>The FreeBSD ports subsystem was integrated and is usable by you!
! 150: <li>a termlib library which understands termcap.db, needed for new curses.
! 151: <li>New curses library, including libform, libpanel and libmenu.
! 152: <li>Many many NetBSD PR's fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)
! 153: </ul>
! 154: <p>
! 155:
! 156: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
! 157: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
! 158: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
! 159: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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! 163: <h3>
! 164: <a href=plus20.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.0, click here</a>.
! 165: <br>
! 166: <a href=plus21.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.1, click here</a>.
! 167: <br>
! 168: <a href=plus22.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.2, click here</a>.
! 169: <br>
! 170: <a href=plus23.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.3, click here</a>.
! 171: <br>
! 172: <a href=plus24.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.4, click here</a>.
! 173: <br>
! 174: <a href=plus25.html>For changes leading up to OpenBSD 2.5, click here</a>.
! 175: <br>
! 176: <a href=plus.html>For changes in OpenBSD-current, click here</a>.
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