Released October 15, 2017
Copyright 1997-2017, Theo de Raadt.
6.2 Song:
XXX.
- See the information on the FTP page for
a list of mirror machines.
- Go to the pub/OpenBSD/6.2/ directory on
one of the mirror sites.
- Have a look at the 6.2 errata page for a list
of bugs and workarounds.
- See a detailed log of changes between the
6.1 and 6.2 releases.
- signify(1)
pubkeys for this release:
base: RWRVWzAMgtyg7g27STK1h1xA6RIwtjex6Vr5Y9q5SC5q5+b0GN4lLhfu
fw: RWSbA8C2TPUQLi48EqHtg7Rx7KGDt6E/2d8OeJinGZPbpoqGRxA0N2oW
pkg: RWRvEq+UPCq0VGI9ar7VMy+HYKDrOb4WS5JLhdUBiX3qvJgPQjyZSTxI
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 6.2.
For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading
to 6.2.
- New/extended platforms:
- Improved hardware support, including:
- arm: New rkgrf(4) driver for the Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 register file.
- arm: New rkclock(4) driver for Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 clocks.
- arm: New rkpinctrl(4) driver for controlling Rockchip RK3399/RK3288 pins.
- arm: New rkpgpio(4) driver for Rockchip RK3399 GPIO.
- arm: New rkptemp(4) driver for Rockchip RK3399 temperature sensors.
- arm: New rkiic(4) driver for Rockchip RK3399 I2C controllers.
- arm: New rkpmic(4) driver for the RK808 Power Management IC.
- arm: New dwmmc(4) driver for Synopsis Designware SD/MMC controllers.
- arm: New dwdog(4) driver for the Synopsys Designware watchdog timer.
- arm: New dwxe(4) driver for the Synopsys Designware Ethernet controller.
- arm: New sxitwi(4) driver for the two-wire bus on Allwinnder SoCs.
- arm: New axppmic(4) driver for the AXP209 I2C PMIC.
- arm: New bcmaux(4) driver for clocks and interrupts on the auxilliary UART on BCM2835 devices.
- arm: New mvpinctrl(4) driver to configure pins on Marvell SoCs (Armada 388).
- arm: New mvneta(4) driver the Ethernet controller on the Armada 38x series.
- octeon: New octsctl(4) driver for the OCTEON SATA controller bridge.
- octeon: New octxctl(4) driver for the OCTEON USB3 controller bridge.
- New hvs(4) driver for Hyper-V storage.
- New pcxrtc(4) driver for the NXP PCF8563 Real Time Clock.
- New urng(4) driver for USB random number generator devices.
- Intel 8265 and 3168 support was added to the iwm(4) driver.
- RTL8192CE support was added to the rtwn(4) driver.
- RT5360 support was added to the ral(4) driver.
- RTS525A support was added to the rtsx(4) driver.
- The acpibat(4) driver now supports _BIX entries from ACPI 4.0.
- ACPI hibernate support was added to the nvme(4) driver.
- Substantially improved ACPI hibernate performance in the ahci(4) driver.
- The inteldrm(4) driver was updated to code based on Linux 4.4.70. It now supports Skylake, Kabylake, and Cherryview devices and has better support for Broadwell and Valleyview devices.
- The pucdata(4) driver now supports ASIX AX99100 devices.
- ...
- New vmm(4)/
vmd(8):
- IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
- MiRA 802.11n TX rate scaling now supports devices with unequal numbers of Tx and Rx streams. Fixes 11n mode for some athn(8) devices.
- The iwn(8) and iwm(8) drivers will now start scanning for a new access point if they no longer receive beacons from their current AP.
- Prefer the 5GHz band over the 2GHz band during access point selection.
- Improved debug output in dmesg(8) when a wireless interface is put into debug mode with ifconfig(8).
- Generic network stack improvements:
- The kernel no longer handles IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration (RFC 4862), allowing cleanup and simplification
of the IPv6 network stack.
- The kernel sends IPv6 router solicitations for link local addresses
with a link local source address.
- ...
- Installer improvements:
- The installer now uses the Allotment Routing Table (ART).
- A unique kernel is now created by the installer to boot from after install/upgrade.
- On release installs of architectures supported by syspatch "syspatch -c" is added to rc.firsttime.
- Backwards compatibility code to support the 'rtsol' keyword in hostname.if(5) has been removed.
- The install.site and upgrade.site scripts are now executed at the end of the install/upgrade process.
- More detailed information is shown to identify disks.
- The IPv6 default router selection has been fixed.
- ...
- Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
- Security improvements:
- A new function
freezero(3)
to easily clear and free memory holding sensitive data has been added.
- Double free detection has been improved when the F
malloc(3) option is used.
The existing S option now includes F.
- dhclient(8)/
dhcpd(8)/
dhcrelay(8) improvements:
- Assorted improvements:
- OpenSMTPD X.X.X
- OpenSSH 7.X
- Security:
- New/changed features:
- The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
- LibreSSL X.X.X
- mandoc X.XX.X
- Ports and packages:
- A massive amount of clang-related fixes happened between 6.1 and 6.2.
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
- alpha: XXXX
- amd64: XXXX
- arm: 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 2.51b
- Chromium 61.0.3163.100
- Emacs 21.4 and 25.3
- GCC 4.9.4
- GHC 7.10.3
- Gimp 2.8.22
- GNOME 3.24.2
- Go 1.9
- Groff 1.22.3
- JDK 8u144
- KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.10 (plus KDE4 core updates)
- LLVM/Clang 5.0.0
- LibreOffice 5.2.7.2
- Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4, and 5.3.4
- MariaDB 10.0.32
- Mozilla Firefox 52.4.0esr and 56.0.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird 52.2.1
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- Mutt 1.9.1 and NeoMutt 20170912
- Node.js 6.11.2
- Ocaml 4.03.0
- OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.45
- PHP 5.6.31, and 7.0.23
- Postfix 3.2.2 and 3.3-20170910
- PostgreSQL 9.6.5
- Python 2.7.14 and 3.6.2
- R 3.4.1
- Ruby 1.8.7.374, 2.1.9, 2.2.8, 2.3.5 and 2.4.2
- Rust 1.20.0
- Sendmail 8.16.0.21
- SQLite3 3.20.1
- Sudo 1.8.21.2
- Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.6
- TeX Live 2016
- Vim 8.0.0987
- 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 1.18.4 + patches,
freetype 2.8.0, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 330,
xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
- LLVM/Clang 4.0.0 (+ patches)
- GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
- Perl 5.24.1 (+ patches)
- NSD 4.1.17
- Unbound 1.6.6
- Ncurses 5.7
- Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
- Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
- Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
- Expat 2.1.1
How to install
Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.2 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/alpha:
-
Write floppy62.fs or floppyB62.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/amd64:
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If your machine can boot from CD, you can write install62.iso or
cd62.iso to a CD and boot from it.
You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
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If your machine can boot from USB, you can write install62.fs or
miniroot62.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.amd64 document.
-
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
OpenBSD/arm64:
-
Write miniroot62.fs to a disk and boot from it after connecting
to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
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/i386:
-
If your machine can boot from CD, you can write install62.iso or
cd62.iso to a CD and boot from it.
You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
-
If your machine can boot from USB, you can write install62.fs or
miniroot62.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.i386 document.
-
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.i386.
OpenBSD/landisk:
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Write miniroot62.fs to the start of the CF
or disk, and boot normally.
OpenBSD/loongson:
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Write miniroot62.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/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
/6.2/macppc/bsd.rd
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 cd62.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.
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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/sparc64:
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Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, 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
floppy62.fs or floppyB62.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 miniroot62.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.
How to upgrade
If you already have an OpenBSD 6.1 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 6.2 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.