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1.18 naddy 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Changes made between birth and OpenBSD 2.0.</font></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..
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1.18 naddy 31: Note: <font color="#e00000">Problems for which patches exist are marked in red</font>.
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1.17 deraadt 35: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
36: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
37: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
38: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
39: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
40: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
41: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
42: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
43: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
44: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
45: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
46: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.21 deraadt 47: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.20 deraadt 48: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.22 david 49: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.25 deraadt 50: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.26 ! miod 51: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
1.17 deraadt 52: <a href="plus.html">current</a>.
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1.18 naddy 56: <h3><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD 2.0 released.</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 57: <ul>
58: <li>CTM is now a supported way of obtaining OpenBSD source code.
59: <li>Added sudo (which is maintained by one of our developers)
60: <li>Working Linux ext2fs.
61: <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).
62: <li>FreeBSD's adduser(8) command. Also an rmuser(8) command.
63: <li>A 7% reduction in size of static binaries.
64: <li>Compile time option to compile the source tree almost completely dynamic.
65: <li>Almost a hundred more security fixes, including /tmp races because of strncpy.
66: <li>Another kerberos security fix.
67: <li>deal with the SYN bomb problem (denial of service attack) as well known.
68: <li>less version 2.90
69: <li>mopd for networking booting Digital machines
70: <li>latest GNU groff, incorporated in a clean wrapperized form.
71: <li>secure multicast tools against possible security problems.
1.24 deraadt 72: <li>sendmail gecos hole fixed (in a number of ways; other programs in the source tree were also vulnerable).
1.1 deraadt 73: <li>Nice sample files in /etc
74: <li>16 partitions working on sparc and i386 (yipee!)
75: <li>vim is replacing nvi, since nvi does not have a pure BSD license, and vim also works better.
76: <li>And of course... more security related bugfixes... (ie. dump, restore, mt).
1.4 rohee 77: <li>ftp command modified for easily scripted ftp & http downloads.
1.1 deraadt 78: <li>Complete in-tree development for MIPS/Alpha systems (ie. binutils).
79: <li>New routed from SGI.
80: <li>*Hobbit*'s netcat utility. The crackers use it, so should you.
81: <li>Say goodbye to dump, restore, and mt security holes: They are no longer setuid.
82: <li>DDB can now access symbol tables from LKM modules
83: <li>Some serial driver support for /dev/cuaXX devices to support transparent out+dial
84: <li>FreeBSD pipe() system call; quite a bit faster.
85: <li>libgnumalloc is gone; our malloc() is better.
86: <li>Kernel warns if /dev/console does not exist; nice warning for booting with an unpopulated /dev directory.
87: <li>cdio command for using CD audio.
88: <li>Even more security fixes.
89: <li>latest version of perl, and a lndir command.
90: <li>gcc 2.7.2.1 (to get closer to native alpha support ar gcc bugs).
91: <li>vim version 4.5
92: <li>a good start at NETIPX support
93: <li>improved locate command
94: <li>Fixed timeout support in RPC library, and also fixed it to support more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
95: <li>rudimentary support for ISA Plug-and-Play cards
96: <li>`lsof'-style features in fstat.
97: <li>Numerous ftpd improvements and fixes, including multihomed and skey support.
98: <li>ncr53cXXX scsi scripts assembler
99: <li>arc4-based random support in kernel
100: <li>Kerberos is much more silent if not configured
101: <li>scsi subsystem security fix
102: <li>much newer join command (4.4lite2 with other fixes)
103: <li>RCS version 5.7
1.4 rohee 104: <li>added /etc/fbtab support to login & init.
1.1 deraadt 105: <li>partial protection against tcp SYN attacks.
1.4 rohee 106: <li>POSIX & C2 requirement; lose setuid/setgid bits if owner/group changed by chown(). This can be turned off with sysctl.
1.1 deraadt 107: <li>a real adduser program, which can even be used uninteractively.
108: <li>install now supports -C, -p, and -S flags.
109: <li>20 or so more security fixes
110: <li>at -f security fix.
111: <li>generic protection against the bind() takeover problem.
112: <li>new rdisc Router Discovery daemon
113: <li>Numerous FreeBSD userland fixes and improvements incorporated.
114: <li>FreeBSD malloc() that uses mmap() and is able to free unused memory.
115: <li>Fixed long-standing vm swap-leak.
116: <li>_POSIX_SAVED_IDS behaviour with permitted BSD extensions.
117: <li>Newest version of pppd.
118: <li>zlib (non-GPL'd gzip-compatible library)
119: <li>Numerous more security policy and implementation improvements (OpenBSD defaults to installing in a very secure mode)
120: <li>Significantly improved ftp daemon.
121: <li>Protection from the udp spamming and ftp bounce attacks.
122: <li>randomized port allocation in bind(), bindresvport(), and rresvport() -- security via unpredictability.
123: <li>The most secure rdist support anywhere.
124: <li>Fortran in the tree.
125: <li>terminfo database support.
126: <li>Working ATAPI audio support for multiple architectures.
127: <li>Linux ext2fs and BSD4.4 LFS support being worked on.
128: <li>Accepts FreeBSD MD5 passwords in password maps, soon will be able to generate them too
129: <li>Even more security fixes.
1.5 rohee 130: <li>using AT&T awk, gawk is toast
1.1 deraadt 131: <li>pax as tar, gnutar is toast
132: <li>Boot kernels with "-c" to edit/enable/disable device configuration tables
1.4 rohee 133: <li>ATM support (support for one company's sparc & i386 cards available)
1.1 deraadt 134: <li>kernfs extensions
135: <li>select() that can handle any amount of file descriptors.
136: <li>new system calls: rfork(), minherit(), poll().
1.19 david 137: <li>/sbin/init now deals with non-existent ttys, no longer spins gettys madly.
1.1 deraadt 138: <li>ncheck utility for ffs
139: <li>Numerous scsi fixes
140: <li>Some ddb improvements and extensions
141: <li>In-kernel update(8) with an adaptive algorithm
142: <li>/dev/*random -- a device driver providing some kinds of random data
143: <li>Solid YP master, server, and client capabilities.
144: <li>Kerberos and other crypto in the source tree that is exportable
145: <li>Numerous security related fixes
146: <li>new scsi, md5, pkg_* commands
1.12 jsyn 147: <li>ATAPI support (should work on all ISA buses)
1.1 deraadt 148: <li>Some LKM support in the tree.
149: <li>All the pieces needed for cross compilation are in the source tree.
150: <li>Verbatim integration of the GNU tools (using a wrapper Makefile)
1.11 pvalchev 151: <li>nlist() that understands ELF, ECOFF, and a.out, allowing non-a.out ports to use kvm utilities
1.1 deraadt 152: <li>better ELF support
153: <li>ipfilter for filtering dangerous packets and Network Address Translation for IP masquerading.
154: <li>The FreeBSD ports subsystem was integrated and is usable by you!
155: <li>a termlib library which understands termcap.db, needed for new curses.
156: <li>New curses library, including libform, libpanel and libmenu.
1.12 jsyn 157: <li>Many many NetBSD PRs fixed (which NetBSD has not yet fixed)
1.1 deraadt 158: </ul>
159: <p>
160:
161: This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
162: made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
163: find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
164: (2) are documented here.<br><br>
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1.17 deraadt 169: For changes in other releases, click below:<br>
170: <a href="plus21.html">2.1</a>,
171: <a href="plus22.html">2.2</a>,
172: <a href="plus23.html">2.3</a>,
173: <a href="plus24.html">2.4</a>,
174: <a href="plus25.html">2.5</a>,
175: <a href="plus26.html">2.6</a>,
176: <a href="plus27.html">2.7</a>,
177: <a href="plus28.html">2.8</a>,
178: <a href="plus29.html">2.9</a>,
179: <a href="plus30.html">3.0</a>,
180: <a href="plus31.html">3.1</a>,
1.21 deraadt 181: <a href="plus32.html">3.2</a>,
1.20 deraadt 182: <a href="plus33.html">3.3</a>,
1.22 david 183: <a href="plus34.html">3.4</a>,
1.25 deraadt 184: <a href="plus35.html">3.5</a>,
1.26 ! miod 185: <a href="plus36.html">3.6</a>,
1.17 deraadt 186: <a href="plus.html">current</a>.
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