Changes made between OpenBSD 2.7 and OpenBSD-current
This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
(ie. these are the changes people ask about most often). Port
specific changes have also been made, and are sometimes mentioned
in the pages for the specific ports if you
are interested in further port-specific details. Many ports
have had architecture-specific enhancements relative to NetBSD,
but when they do not they certainly have plenty of platform-independent
changes, starting with those listed below.
Note: Problems for which patches exist are marked in red.
OpenBSD 2.7 to be released June 15, 2000.
We are working on OpenBSD-current.
- Arrange to have ahc(4) support Adaptec 2930CU.
- SECURITY ISSUE: It was possible to bypass the learning flag on a bridge. A patch is available.
- In ftp(1), do not attach Host: directirve if we are using the proxy.
- Make almost all manual pages machine independent.
- DRIVER FIX: The isapnp(4) ef(4) driver failed to configure properly. A patch is available.
- Helper script cleanup in httpd(8).
- SECURITY ISSUE: Update to ipf 3.3.16. A patch is available.
- On i386, place extra byte at end of pcb so that the iomap works for last 8 ports.
- Fix some key parsing routines in ssh(1).
- Permit detach of audio devices.
- Properly configure multicast table in wi(4).
- Handle 64 bit architectures in pstat(8) -f.
- Update rtadvd(8).
- Remove nfsiod(8) and replace it with an in-kernel thread based implimentation.
- Make ssh(1) X11 forwarding work on localhost.
- Crank vnode use counts to 32 bits.
- Correct ifconfig(8) printing of gif physical address on non-IPV6 kernel.
- RELIABILITY FIX: Repair a routing table panic. A patch is available.
- Make ancontrol(8) act like our changed wicontrol(4) semantics.
- Use getifaddrs(3) in libc rpc code.
- For boot_config(8) code, save enable command in the history for config(8)'s -eu updating.
- Update multicasting support for ipv6.
- Fix usage printing in passwd(1).
- By default, do not vsync blank sparc cgsix(4) monitors, but provide a sysctl to do so.
- Start at a BlueSteel (Broadcom) 5[56]01 crypto accelerator driver.
- Accept empty shell specifications in sshd(8).
- In ssh(1), do non-blocking on ssh1 protocol sockets too.
- Some additions to keynote(3).
- Crank rt_refcnt to 32 bits.
- Supply entropy from i386 mouse drivers to the kernel random number generator.
- Correct p2p interface address handling and various other bugs in route6d(8).
- Few more tweaks to pcvt termcap definition.
- Ensure SIOCSETVLAN gets a valid vlan tag.
- After ftp(1) finishes downloading, change progress meter to show the total elapsed time.
- Handle 0-size files in ftp(1)'s progress meter.
- Parse RFC2732 ftp URLs in ftp(1).
- In ipv6, perform NUD on p2p link, only if the destination/gateway is real neighbor.
- RELIABILITY FIX: Parse IPv4 options more carefully. A patch is available.
- Translate DNS error codes in getaddrinfo(3).
- cardbus(4) com(4) driver.
- Support debugging libraries via DEBUGLIBS in /etc/mk.conf.
- Driver for tcic(4) style pcmcia adapters.
- Fix ipsec(4) ESP sanity checks that caused really short packets to be dropped. Only icmp was affected.
This list mentions mostly platform-independent changes. For a list of changes
made in a particular platform, please check the page for that platform. If you
find them not listed there, the changes are either (1) not being documented or
(2) are documented here.
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