OpenBSD -current changelog
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.
There is a separate list of Changes to the ports collection.
Note: Problems for which patches exist are marked in red.
Changes made between OpenBSD 4.2 and OpenBSD 4.3
- Fix for sparc64 dmesg when printing more than 2G of memory.
- Update xterm(1) version to 229.
- Move xenocara expat to 2.0.1.
- Fix a bug leading to infinite recursion in the perl(1) AutoLoader(3p).
- Add new configuration directive to httpd(8), RLimitNOFILE to set the number of open file descriptors.
- Initial support for onboard Fast-Wide scsi on the 735 and 755 hppa machines in siop(4).
- Remove need for hardcoded address of sti(4) on hppa. Makes C180 models work.
- Add compatibility in X11 with the new XInput API.
- Continued development of the nxe(4) driver.
- Make pf(4) allow RST packets with th_seq equal to seqlo +-1. Reduces amount of 'loose state' messages.
- Make banner(1) check the result code from fgets(3) and do a proper newline strip.
- Make ssh(1) execute commands with $SHELL instead of /bin/sh.
- Support for "Banner=none" in sshd_config(5).
- Fix high-power charging on uberry(4) devices.
- Fix in wpi(4) RX code path which could block incoming traffic, only seen when running without WEP.
- Enable Xft support in xdm(1).
- Update the time zone data files and libc time zone code to 2007g.
- Make sure com(4) source compiles with KGDB enabled.
- Fix in OpenSSL for CVE-2007-3108.
- Add a -s option to sort(1) in order to make the radix sort a stable sort.
- Make sure bbc(4) on sparc64 does not repeat the device name on attach failure.
- Fix for sparc64 gdb(1).
- Make sure pf(4) does not access th_flags when it isn't available.
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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