To be released somwhere around May 1, 2017 plus or minus a couple months
Copyright 1997-2017, Theo de Raadt.
6.1 Song:
"xxx".
- See the information on the FTP page for
a list of mirror machines.
- Go to the pub/OpenBSD/6.1/ directory on
one of the mirror sites.
- Have a look at the 6.1 errata page for a list
of bugs and workarounds.
- See a detailed log of changes between the
6.0 and 6.1 releases.
- signify(1)
pubkeys for this release:
base: RWQEQa33SgQSEsMwwVV1+GjzdcQfRNV2Bgo48Ztd2KiZ9bAodz9c+Maa
fw: RWS91POk0QZXfsqi4aI7MotYz8CPzoHjYg4a1IDi56cftacjsq+ZL/KY
pkg: RWQbTjGFHEvnOckqY7u9iABhXAkEpF/6TQ3Mr6bMrWbT1wOM/HnbV9ov
All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
What's New
This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.1.
For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading
to 6.1.
- New/extended platforms:
- Improved hardware support, including:
- New octmmc(4)
driver for the OCTEON MMC host controller.
- ...
- IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
- Generic network stack improvements:
- Installer improvements:
- Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
- ping(8) and
ping6(8) are now the same
binary and share the engine.
- ripd(8) now supports
p2p links with addresses in different subnets.
- ospfd(8) and
ospf6d(8) now cope
with interface MTU change at runtime.
- support for the RES_USE_EDNS0 and RES_USE_DNSSEC flags has
been added to the
resolver(3)
implementation.
- ...
- Security improvements:
- Enforcement of userland W^X on OCTEON Plus and later.
- The size of user virtual address space has been increased
from 2GB to 1TB on mips64.
- ...
- Assorted improvements:
- acme-client(1) a
privilege seperated Automatic Certificate Management Environment
(ACME) client written by Kristaps Dzonsons has been imported.
- New, simplified
xenodm(1)
X11 display manager forked from
xdm(1).
- Unicode version 8 character properties in the C library.
- Partial UTF-8 line editing support for
ksh(1) Vi input mode.
- UTF-8 support in
column(1).
- ...
- OpenSMTPD 6.0.0
- OpenSSH 7.4
- LibreSSL 2.5.1
- mandoc 1.14.1
- Ports and packages:
- ...
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
- armv8: XXXX
- alpha: XXXX
- amd64: XXXX
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- hppa: XXXX
- i386: XXXX
- mips64: XXXX
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- mips64el: XXXX
- powerpc: XXXX
- sparc64: XXXX
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- Some highlights:
- Afl 2.19b
- Chromium 56.0.2924.87
- Emacs 21.4 and 5.1
- GCC 4.9.3
- GHC 7.10.3
- Gimp 2.8.18
- GNOME 3.32.1
- Go 1.8
- Groff 1.22.3
- JDK 7u80 and 8u121
- KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 (plus KDE4 core updates)
- LLVM/Clang 4.0.0
- LibreOffice 5.2.4.2
- Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4, and 5.3.4
- MariaDB 10.0.29
- Mono 4.6.2.6
- Mozilla Firefox 45.7.0esr and 51.0.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 45.7.1
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- Mutt 1.8.0
- Node.js 6.10.0
- Ocaml 4.3.0
- OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.44
- PHP 5.5.38, 5.6.30, and 7.0.16
- Postfix 3.2.0 and 3.3-20170218
- PostgreSQL 9.6.2
- Python 2.7.13, 3.4.5, 3.5.2 and 3.6.0
- R 3.3.2
- Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.1.9, 2.2.6, 2.3.3 and 2.4.0
- Rust 1.15.1
- Sendmail 8.15.2
- SQLite3 3.17.0
- Sudo 1.8.19.2
- Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
- TeX Live 2015
- Vim 8.0.0388
- Xfce 4.12
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- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
- The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
- Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.18.3 + patches,
freetype 2.7.1, fontconfig 2.12.1, Mesa 13.0.5, xterm 327,
xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
- GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
- Perl 5.24.1 (+ patches)
- NSD 4.1.15
- Unbound 1.6.1
- Ncurses 5.7
- Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
- Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
- Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
- Expat 2.1.1
How to install
Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
purchased a CDROM instead.
Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.1 on your machine:
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
the "disklabel -E" command.
If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
INSTALL.* file as listed above!
OpenBSD/i386:
-
The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
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If your machine can boot from USB, you can write install61.fs or
miniroot61.fs to a USB stick and boot from it.
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If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in
the included INSTALL.i386 document.
-
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.i386.
OpenBSD/amd64:
-
The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
-
If your machine can boot from USB, you can write install61.fs or
miniroot61.fs to a USB stick and boot from it.
-
If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
INSTALL.amd64 document.
-
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
OpenBSD/macppc:
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Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
while holding down the C key until the display turns on and
shows OpenBSD/macppc boot.
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Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter boot cd:,ofwboot
/6.1/macppc/bsd.rd
OpenBSD/sparc64:
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Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type boot cdrom.
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If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
CD3:6.1/sparc64/floppy61.fs or CD3:6.1/sparc64/floppyB61.fs
(depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with boot
floppy. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
-
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
-
You can also write CD3:6.1/sparc64/miniroot61.fs to the swap partition on
the disk and boot with boot disk:b.
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If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
OpenBSD/alpha:
-
Write FTP:6.1/alpha/floppy61.fs or
FTP:6.1/alpha/floppyB61.fs (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
enter boot dva0. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
-
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
OpenBSD/armv7:
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Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
OpenBSD/hppa:
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Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
hppa platform page.
OpenBSD/landisk:
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Write miniroot61.fs to the start of the CF
or disk, and boot normally.
OpenBSD/loongson:
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Write miniroot61.fs to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
OpenBSD/luna88k:
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Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
OpenBSD/octeon:
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After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
OpenBSD/sgi:
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To install, burn cd61.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
machine and select Install System Software from the System Maintenance
menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
-
If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
OpenBSD/socppc:
-
After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
How to upgrade
If you already have an OpenBSD 6.0 system, and do not want to reinstall,
upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
Upgrade Guide.
Notes about the source code
src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.
This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
which are in a separate archive.
To extract:
# mkdir -p /usr/src
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:
# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz
Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
described here.
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
Ports Tree
A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
# cd /usr
# tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz
Go read the ports page
if you know nothing about ports
at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
OpenBSD ports system.
The ports/ directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
AnonCVS.
So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
the ports/ tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
with a command like:
# cd /usr/ports
# cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_1
[Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
server.]
Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
ports for the 6.1 release will be made available if problems arise.
If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
would like to know more, the mailing list
ports@openbsd.org is a good place to know.