We received a contribution from Sven G, about checking the temperature in the garage where his dog sleeps with OpenBSD:

I was inspired by the April 2017 article in undeadly.org about getting OpenBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. My goal was to use a Raspberry Pi running OpenBSD to monitor the temperature in my garage from my home. My dog has his own little "apartment" inside the garage, so I want to keep an eye on the temperature. (I don't rely on this device. He sleeps inside the house whenever he wants.)

If anything seems wrongheaded, please chalk it up to a frothy mixture of enthusiasm, ignorance, stubbornness, and "just-because-I-wanted-to-do-it-this-way-ness."

Dr. Brian Robert Callahan (bcallah@) blogged about his work in getting D compiler(s) working under OpenBSD.

The first paragraph reads:

I got GDC, the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD. Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here's the story of how we got here and where we need to go next.

Read the full post for all the details, including an explanation of why there isn't yet a port.

Hoping to be able to make a conference in Vienna in September (and doing it digitally if not), the EuroBSDCon is now accepting submissions for presentations and tutorials.
Read more at 2021.EuroBSDCon.org

In a recent blog post, OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne (solene@) offers an over view of the security features offered by a default OpenBSD installation.

The first paragraph of the introduction reads,

In this text I will explain what makes OpenBSD secure by default when you install it. Do not take this for a security analysis, but more like a guide to help you understand what is done by OpenBSD to have a secure environment. The purpose of this text is not to compare OpenBSD to other OSes but to say what you can honestly expect from OpenBSD.

A worthy reminder of how the system works, and a very handy piece to show to anybody who wonders why one would choose to use OpenBSD over anything else. You can read the whole thing here.

With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported dhcpleased(8), DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases from servers, plus dhcpleasectl(8), a utility to control the daemon:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	florian@cvs.openbsd.org	2021/02/26 09:16:37

Added files:
	sbin/dhcpleased: Makefile bpf.c bpf.h checksum.c checksum.h 
	                 control.c control.h dhcpleased.8 dhcpleased.c 
	                 dhcpleased.h engine.c engine.h frontend.c 
	                 frontend.h log.c log.h 
	usr.sbin/dhcpleasectl: Makefile dhcpleasectl.8 dhcpleasectl.c 
	                       parser.c parser.h 

Log message:
Import dhcpleased(8) - a dhcp daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases
from servers.

With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported resolvd(8), a daemon for handling nameserver configuration:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	florian@cvs.openbsd.org	2021/02/24 11:10:41

Added files:
	sbin/resolvd   : Makefile resolvd.8 resolvd.c 

Log message:
Import resolvd(8), a daemon to rewrite resolv.conf.
prodding deraadt

Since the initial import, resolvd(8) has seen:

1. some significant reworking
2. improvements to the man page
3. linking to the build

In this commit, David Gwynne (dlg@) adds a new veb(4) driver to the tree. David's goal is to replace the old bridge(4) driver:

Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) is teasing OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1 hardware:

So OpenBSD boots multi-user on the new Apple M1 hardware.  This still
has some hacks in it that need to be fixed, so don't expect support
for this in the tree right now.  But a big thank you to those that
contributed to the pool for getting us some hardware.

[…]

See the full post for the dmesg.

Congratulations to all those involved!

Recent noteworthy things commited to -current and not previously reported include:

• [2021-01-26] Patrick Wildt (patrick@) continues work [with help from Mark Kettenis (kettenis@)] on supporting the Apple M1.
• [2021-02-06] Solène Rapenne (solene@) blogged about using 2FA with TOTP.
• [2021-02-08] Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added a RAID1C (raid1 + crypto) softraid(8) discipline.
• [2021-02-09] Patrick Wildt (patrick@) added lldb(1) (for amd64 and arm64 platforms).
• [2021-02-09] maxburst feature removed from tcp_output by Jan Klemkov (jan@)
  [2021-02-09] PF_LOCK() activated by Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
  [2021-02-10] Vitaliy Makkoveev (mvs@) moved UNIX domain sockets out of the kernel lock
  
• [2021-02-11] Jonathan Gray (jsg@) upgraded libdrm to version 2.4.104, with changes to the relevant devices (see FAQ).
• [2021-02-12] Otto Moerbeek (otto@) has requested testing/review of a patch enhancing malloc(3) "junking".

All in all, this looks promising for the upcoming OpenBSD 6.9 release!