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<h3><font color="#0000e0">Changes made between OpenBSD 3.6 and OpenBSD 3.7</font></h3><p>

The following list sums up (almost) all the changes made up to February 28.

The following list sums up (almost) all the changes made up to March 3.

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<li>.... more to be added, up to March 19, 2005<p>

<li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4">ath(4)</a> radiotap support.

<li>Add support for sysctl tweaking <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apm&sektion=4">apm(4)</a> powerchange messages for zaurus.

<li>Support a bunch more Nubus cards for mac68k, including the DaynaPORT E/II-3 card (from NetBSD).

<li>Move beacon allocation code into generic ieee80211 framework and out of some drivers.

<li>Implement hardware WEP support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu&sektion=4">atu(4)</a>.

<li>Import mbuf handling fixes for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu&sektion=4">atu(4)</a> from NetBSD.

<li>Support OQO model 01 internal USB wireless.

<li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> apply tags to all packets matching a state, rather than just the initial packet.

<li>Clean up memory leaks in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uucplock&sektion=3">uucplock(3)</a> and make uu_lock_txfr work as documented.

<li>More network randomness: use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc4random&sektion=3">arc4random(3)</a> instead of PIDs in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=login_radius&sektion=8">login_radius(8)</a>.

<li>Make <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=netstat&sektion=1">netstat(1)</a> counters work on amd64. (PR#4107)

<li>Add sparc support for SUNW,fas SCSI.</li>

<li>Allow only superuser to change timeslot ranges and ppp modes on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=san&sektion=4">san(4)</a> interfaces.

<li>Support radiotap in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw&sektion=4">rtw(4)</a> (mostly from NetBSD).

<li>Import <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rssadapt&sektion=9">rssadapt(9)</a> man page from NetBSD.

<li>Fix <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=san&sektion=4">san(4)</a> to not hang on large packets.

<li>Keep <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8">traceroute(8)</a> ttl from wrapping. (PR#4093)

<li>Improve msdosfs support: fix a panic when trying to write files larger than 4GB -1 byte. (PR#4090), reading files > 2GB now works, and ignore trailing dots and spaces in filenames to stay compatible with Windows. Add support for msdos filesystems > 128GB by using new hashing strategy. (PR#4119).

<li>Make sure errno does not get reset before returning from some libc functions.

<li>Increase default number of usb device nodes to 6 for systems with many onboard USB devices (like Mac minis).

<li>Fix integer wrapping in ffs that caused decreased performance reading past 2GB boundary in large files.

<li>Add support for hashing host names and addresses in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a> known_hosts files for more privacy.

<li>Allow optional specification of bind address for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a> port forwarding.

<li>Shrink Zaurus kernel significantly by removing inlines.

<li>Add radiotap, monitor, and promiscuous mode support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&sektion=4">ral(4)</a>.