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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.  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
   
4.  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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5.  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
   
6.  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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7.  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
   
8.  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
   
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.  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
   
11.  Index for 2021
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2021. January. Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio; Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool!
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12.  OpenBGPD 8.0 released
    The OpenBSD project has released a new version of OpenBGPD, the OpenBSD Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing daemon, version 8.0.The announcement reads, From: Claudio Jeker <claudio openbsd ! org> Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 16:24:30 +0000 To: openbsd-announce Subject: OpenBGPD 8.0 released We have released OpenBGPD 8.0, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror ...
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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.  September 30th, 2021 syspatches: some assembly might be required
    Did you just run syspatch(8) and see it fail? Here's the reason: one of the two root certificates behind the (excellent) Let's Encrypt CA service has expired. A bug in (the "legacy" verifier of) LibreSSL also contributed. The syspatches (for OpenBSD 6.8, 032, for OpenBSD 6.9, 018) mitigate the unfortunate situation. However, your syspatch may fail if your local mirror uses a Let's Encrypt ...
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16.  OpenBSD -current moves to 7.5-beta
    OpenBSD -current moves to 7.5-beta. Contributed by Janne Johansson on 2024-02-17 from the springtime for Puffy dept. It's that time of the year again. With this commit , Theo de Raadt ( deraadt@ ) changed the version string for the OpenBSD development branch ( i.e. -current) to 7.5-beta: CVSROOT:/cvs. Module name:src.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240218142251    2024-02-17T00:00:00.0000000
   
17.  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
   
18.  Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
    It's in -current only, so it will be available in 6.5, out in two months or so. Right now your options are: build it yourself (easy), port the port to 6.4 or upgrade to a snapshot (which is is 6.5-beta since last week).
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19.  Index for 2020
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2020. January. Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. [Updated] u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work
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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.  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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22.  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
   
23.  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