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1.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    A series of commits by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) has modified tar(1) such that its default write format (for archives) is that of pax(1).The message with the final commit captures the gist of the change: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: jca@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/04/16 17:09:35 Modified files: bin/pax : options.c tar.1 Log message: Switch tar(1) write default format to 'pax' Lets ...
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2.  OpenBSD 7.0 released
    Contributed by rueda on 2021-09-20 from the Undeadly-SYNs dept. The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.0 , the project's 51 st release. As usual, the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
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3.  OpenSSH 9.2/9.2p1 released! - undeadly.org
    OpenSSH 9.2 was released on 2023-02-02. It is available from the mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/. As should be of no surprise to undeadly readers, OpenSSH ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230202205608    2023-02-02T00:00:00.0000000
   
4.  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 ...
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5.  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
   
6.  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
   
7.  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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8.  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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9.  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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10.  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
   
11.  OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
    OpenSSH 9.3p2 released. Contributed by grey on 2023-07-19 from the It's Wednesday, but you should still patch this now. dept. As announced by Damien Miller: "We've just made an OpenSSH release to fix a remotely exploitable RCE vulnerability in ssh-agent's PKCS#11 support (CVE-2023-38408).
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230719180438    2023-07-19T00:00:00.0000000
   
12.  Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
    In a recent message to the tech mailing list, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarized the state of the new memory protections work.The thread also includes a followup from Otto Moerbeek (otto@) on consequent changes to the memory allocation mechanisms.. Theo writes, From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt openbsd ! org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:10:05 +0000 To: openbsd-tech Subject: More on mimmutable ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120115616    2022-11-19T00:00:00.0000000
   
13.  Index for 2022 - undeadly.org
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2022. January. DRM updated; LibreSSL update; A proof of concept: running OpenBSD on the PinePhone; February. New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published
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14.  Initial support for guided disk encryption in the installer
    The OpenBSD installer now has basic support for configuring disk encryption during the regular installation process. Previously, disk encryption needed to be set up manually by dropping to the shell from the installer. Initial support, likely to be expanded upon, was committed by Klemens Nanni ( kn@) on March 7, 2023 . The commit reads,
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230308063109    2023-03-07T00:00:00.0000000
   
15.  RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH
    In a message to tech@ Damien Miller (djm@) explained the consequences of his recent commit: RSA/SHA1, a.k.a the "ssh-rsa" signature type is now disabled by default in OpenSSH. While The SSH protocol confusingly uses overlapping names for key and signature algorithms, this does not stop the use of RSA keys and there is no need to regenerate "ssh-rsa" keys - most servers released in the last ...
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16.  HEADS UP: ntpd changing
    The ntpd options -s and -S are going to be removed soon and at startup. with print: -s option no longer works and will be removed soon. Please reconfigure to use constraints or trusted servers. Probably after 6.7 we'll delete the warning. Maybe for 6.8 we'll remove. -s and -S from getopt, and starting with those options will fail.
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17.  Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work
    A low key leak from the ongoing g2k23 hackathon comes the news that soft updates (aka softdep) will, for now, be a no-op on OpenBSD-current.. The commit message by Bob Beck (beck@) reads, . From: Bob Beck <beck cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2023-07-05 15:13:28 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: beck@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/07/05 09:13:28 Modified files: sys/kern : vfs_syscalls.c sys/sys ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554    2023-07-06T00:00:00.0000000
   
18.  sshd random relinking at boot
    As with library order randomisation (libc.so/libcrypto/ld.so) at boot and kernel relinking at boot, boot time relinking of sshd(8) is now implemented in -current.Theo de Raadt committed the changes: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/01/18 13:43:15 Modified files: usr.bin/ssh/sshd: Makefile Log message: Create and install sshd random relink kit. ../
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19.  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
   
20.  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
   
21.  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 ...
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22.  OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst
    OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst. Date: 2015-10-25. On October 18th 20 years ago the first commits to the OpenBSD project landed in the CVS repository. Today on the anniversary the beastie.pl team invites all readers to a series of interviews that our staff conducted with the project developers. We continue with our eight interview - Ted Unangst. 1.
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