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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.  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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3.  April 21, 2022: OpenBSD 7.1 Released
    The long spring (or fall) wait is over, the OpenBSD project today formally released OpenBSD 7.1, the 52nd release of our favorite open source operating system.. As usual, the release page lists the main highlights of the new release, which include . OpenBSD/arm64 contains greatly improved support for Apple M1 systems [See earlier article].; loongson platform retired.
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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.  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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6.  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,
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7.  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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8.  OpenBSD 7.2 Released
    The OpenBSD project today announced the release of the most recent version of our favorite operating system, OpenBSD 7.2.. This is the 53 rd release from the OpenBSD project. Highlights of the new release include: Numerous SMP improvements in various parts of the network stack (including parallel IP forwarding [See earlier report]); A new timestamp utility, ts(1)
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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.  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().
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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).
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12.  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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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.  OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022 - undeadly.org
    Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2022-12-28 from the O-K6 dept. The end of the year is rapidly approaching, and Rafael Sadowski ( rsadowski@) has published the OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022 . The report leads in, A lot has happened since the last OpenBSD KDE Status Report in 2021. Let's split the report in four areas the good, the bad ...
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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 and you, the 6.8 update - undeadly.org
    I hope this will be useful in your advocacy or education on OpenBSD and why the project matters. In case you were wondering, this is an update on a talk we covered previously, with updates to cover the more recent OpenBSD 6.8 . (Comments are closed) Comments. By bgpepi (bgpepi) bgpepi@gmail.com on 2020-11-09 09:52.
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17.  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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18.  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 ...
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19.  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.
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20.  OpenSSH 9.3/9.3p1 released - undeadly.org
    On 2023-03-15 , the release of version 9.3 of OpenSSH was announced: […] This release fixes a number of security bugs. safety problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be. security bugs. * ssh-add(1): when adding smartcard keys to ssh-agent(1) with the. per-hop desination constraints (ssh-add -h ...) added in OpenSSH.
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21.  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 ...
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22.  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 ...
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