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1.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    In what can only be called a great stride forward in routing security, Sebastian Benoit (benno@) announced the availability of rpki-client version 9.0.The announcement reads, Subject: rpki-client 9.0 released From: Sebastian Benoit <benno openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-03-03 17:24:06 rpki-client 9.0 has just been released and will be available in the rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.
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2.  20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024 ...
    Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-04-07 from the 20 years a Puffyist dept. It's been 20 years since the first undeadly.org post appeared. At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April's Fool prank when ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953    2024-04-09T04:52:58.0000000
   
3.  OpenBSD 7.4 Released
    The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.4, the 55 th release of the OpenBSD operating system.. The new release contains a number of innovations and improvements across a number of areas, including Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets [See earlier report].; viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver [See earlier report]. vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4 ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20231016130614&ref=upstract.com    2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
   
4.  OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection
    As announced on the misc@ mailing list, Otto Moerbeek (otto@), the author of OpenBSD's malloc(3) implementation [a.k.a. "otto malloc"], has written a tutorial on the new malloc(3) leak detection available in OpenBSD 7.4 Read it at: OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection Since the publication of that write-up, Otto has committed further enhancements:
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231024064619    2023-10-20T00:00:00.0000000
   
5.  New versions of LibreSSL released
    The LibreSSL project has announced the release of versions 3.6.3 and 3.7.3, and (development) version 3.8.0 of the software. The announcement for versions 3.6.3 and 3.7.3 reads: We have released LibreSSL 3.6.3 and 3.7.3, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. They include the following fixes: * Bug fix - Hostflags in the verify parameters would not ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230528115900    2023-05-28T00:00:00.0000000
   
6.  Introducing dhcpleased(8)
    Now enabled by default on OpenBSD -current is dhcpleased (8), a dynamic host configuration protocol daemon written by florian@ (Florian Obser), who spoke with us about his work: I suppose this is either the KAME project 's fault, or if we don't want to go that far back, Theo's fault. At g2k16 he floated the idea of a network configuration daemon.
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7.  OpenBSD 7.5 released
    The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.5, the project's 56 th release, with numerous improvements and support for 14 hardware platforms . Notable enhancements and new features include. Updated versions of LibreSSL (version 3.9.0). OpenSSH (version 9.7), OpenSMTPD (version 7.5), rpki-client and more. All this along with added support for ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240405061622    2024-04-05T06:16:57.0000000
   
8.  OpenBGPD 7.5 released
    We have released OpenBGPD 7.5, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This release includes the following changes to the previous release: Implement RFC 9234 - Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages. Full support for RFC 7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP .
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220716101930    2022-07-15T00:00:00.0000000
   
9.  About the OpenBSD Journal
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. About the OpenBSD Journal Purpose. The OpenBSD Journal is a site dedicated to providing news and information of interest to members of the OpenBSD community.. The site is run by a small group of volunteers. Although several OpenBSD developers are registered users of the site, and the site receives frequent contributions ...
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10.  malloc leak detection available in -current
    OpenBSD-current just grew a new tool for developers working on OpenBSD to detect unsafe behaviors in their code.OpenBSD lets you more easily track memory allocations and whether allocations are properly freed after use. In a message to tech@, Otto Moerbeek (otto@) announced the new functionality: . Subject: malloc leak detection available in -current From: Otto Moerbeek <otto drijf ! net> Date ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230417074903    2023-04-17T00:00:00.0000000
   
11.  OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland ...
    In a September 1st post to tech@ titled immutable userland mappings, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) gave us a preview of code that may soon land in -current.The message leads in, In the last few years, I have been improving the strictness of userland memory layout. An example is the recent addition of MAP_STACK and msyscall().
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902100648    2022-09-02T00:00:00.0000000
   
12.  EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
    Coimbra! dept. EuroBSDCon 2023 has now ended, and slides for many of the OpenBSD developer presentations are now available in the usual place. Video of the presentations can be expected somewhat later. Slides from the tutorial "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" are also available. (Comments are closed)
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230919063240    2023-09-18T00:00:00.0000000
   
13.  OpenBSD KDE Status Report
    OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing. After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine.
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14.  AMD processor microcode support added to -current
    AMD processor microcode support added to -current. Contributed by rueda on 2023-07-23 from the filling-the-gaps dept. Thanks to a series of commits by Jonathan Gray ( jsg@ ), -current now has support for microcode (updates) for AMD (amd64 and i386) processors: CVSROOT:/cvs. Module name:src.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230723185853    2023-07-23T00:00:00.0000000
   
15.  Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
    Archive Index for. 2024. January. TSO for em(4) committed to -current. OpenBSD workstation hardening tips. DSA removal from OpenSSH. Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide. pinsyscalls(2) working in anger. KMS for Apple silicon machines.
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16.  Wayland on OpenBSD
    Wayland on OpenBSD. Contributed by rueda on 2023-07-10 from the way to go to land dept. Matthieu Herrb ( matthieu@) has written some notes on his work at the (recently-concluded) g2k23 hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia . His article, Wayland on OpenBSD , starts: These are my notes from experimenting with building Wayland bits on OpenBSD during ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230711113344    2023-07-10T00:00:00.0000000
   
17.  Help the OpenBSD Foundation Reach Its 2022 Funding Goal
    The OpenBSD Foundation, which is central to funding the OpenBSD project, needs your help to reach its 2022 Fundraising Goal of $300,000. At the time of writing, the amount raised in 2022 stands at a little over 50% of the stated goal. The Foundation needs your help to sustainably fund the project. Please head over to the Foundation's donations ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221202062601    2022-12-01T00:00:00.0000000
   
18.  Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest: Synthetic Memory Protections
    Contributed by rueda on 2023-03-25 from the Immutable synthetics dept. We recently reported that Theo de Raadt ( deraadt@ ) was scheduled to present at CanSecWest . That's now happened, and slides of Theo's presentation, Synthetic Memory Protections , can be found in the usual place . Video is available on the bird site. (Comments are closed)
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230325163416    2023-03-25T00:00:00.0000000
   
19.  DRM updated - undeadly.org
    Contributed by rueda on 2022-01-14 from the DRM me up before you go-go dept. Johathan Gray ( jsg@) has updated DRM to Linux 5.15.14 (with support for several additional chips): CVSROOT:/cvs. Module name:src. Changes by:jsg@cvs.openbsd.org2022/01/13 23:53:17. Modified files:
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20.  GSoC 2014: Systemd replacement utilities (systembsd)
    The purpose of this GSoC was (is) not to port systemd to *BSD in way, shape or form. Nor is it to replace the existing init (8), boot (8) or rc (8) programs. Systemd and *BSD differ fundamentally in terms of philosophy and development practices and special care was taken to only wrap the functionality of the aforementioned daemons and not ...
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21.  SMT Disabled by Default in -current
    Contributed by rueda on 2018-06-20 from the sedulously-mitigating-threats dept. As part of ongoing mitigations against CPU vulnerabilities, -current has gained a new sysctl, " hw.smt ", to control Simultaneous Multi Threading ( SMT ). This is disabled by default (only on Intel® CPUs, for now). The full commit was: sys/arch/amd64/amd64: cpu.c ...
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22.  Upcoming Synchronizaton for Spamd
    Bob Beck (beck@) recently committed some interesting changes with much help from reyk@. Namely, database synchronizaton for spamd & spamlogd. The spamd(8) daemon will be able to receive updates for GREY, WHITE, and TRAPPED tuples, and will be able to send updates for all but WHITE (which turns out not to be needed, as WHITE status can be inferred from GREY).
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