Changes made between OpenBSD 2.9 and OpenBSD-current
This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
(i.e., 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 platforms.
Changes to the ports collection are documented
here.
Note: Problems for which patches exist are marked in red.
We are working on OpenBSD-current.
- Big USB code update.
- Fix a signed vs unsigned error in the gm(4) Ethernet driver.
- In wump(6), improve our cave topology algorithm. Don't ask.
- Force -h to override the BLOCKSIZE environment in du(1).
- Substantial updates to sup(1).
- Fix a register save/restore bug in clcs(4) so that suspend/resume works better.
- Allow the right CTRL+ALT keys to work as the left ones do in wskbd(4).
- Continue to hack our new txp(4) driver into shape.
- In ifconfig(8), implement support for removing tunnel outer IP address pair.
- Revert a buggy optimization in tsort(1).
- Use pread(2) in nlist(3) instead of abusing lseek(2) with read(2).
- Remove cruft leftover from the old PCVT console driver.
- Fix filename tab-completion in mg(1).
- Convert some more drivers to new the timeout(9) interface.
- Whack dtom() in the kernel. Fo'get about it.
- Avoid a NULL pointer dereference in faithd(8).
- Various reset and delay fixes in wdc(4) to help certain ATAPI devices.
- Deal with suspend/resume more cleanly in pccbb(4).
- Better hints handling and memory allocation in tsort(1).
- Correct an error condition in /etc/ksh.kshrc.
- Add a koi8-r keyboard layout for wskbd(4).
- Allow interoperability between OpenSSH and older ssh-2.0.x variants with weaker key generation.
- Instrument improved locking and rework SCSI a bit in ami(4).
- Cleanups to ancontrol(8).
- Add a -b option to ssh(1), similar to telnet(1)'s equivalent.
- Fix a memory handling bug in telnet(1).
- Use pool(9) interface for the VFS cache.
- Improve OpenSSH interoperability with ssh.com-2.0.x clients.
- In the mvme88k port, replace resource maps with extents.
- Numerous fixes and updates to sup(1).
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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