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1.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    The work to improve the capabilities of the network stack is about to take a noticeable step forward. In a message to tech@ titled parallel raw IP input, Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) posted a patch that he describes as. List: openbsd-tech Subject: parallel raw IP input From: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-04-11 20:24:39 Hi, As mvs@ mentioned, running raw IP in parallel is easier ...
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2.  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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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    2024-04-07T00:00:00.0000000
   
4.  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
   
5.  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    2024-02-29T00:00:00.0000000
   
6.  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
   
7.  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
   
8.  OpenSSH 9.6 released!
    As announced by Damien Miller OpenSSH 9.6/9.6p1 has been released.. The complete release notes may be found here: https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.6. Among ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231219122431    2023-12-18T00:00:00.0000000
   
9.  OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 released!
    OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 has been released. The complete release notes may be found here: https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.7p1 OpenSSH 9.7/9.7p1 (2024-03-11 ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240312065313    2024-03-11T00:00:00.0000000
   
10.  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
   
11.  Game of Trees 0.98 released
    The version control system gameoftrees 0.98 has been released and should soon show up in OpenBSD -current packages. An update for the -portable version will follow as well. The main improvements in the new release are listed in the release notes as. See the release notes for details. Stefan Sperling ( stsp@) provided some further description in ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240424043509    2024-04-23T00:00:00.0000000
   
12.  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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13.  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
   
14.  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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15.  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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16.  KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current
    KDE Plasma is now fully functional on OpenBSD and available via the package system. To install, a simple $ pkg_add kde-plasma is sufficient (also see the twitter post and the final commits here and here).. Congratulations to Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) on the completion of this mammoth effort.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231227120851    2023-12-26T00:00:00.0000000
   
17.  rpki-client 9.0 released
    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. It is recommended. that all users update to this version for improved reliability. rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource. Public Key Infrastructure ( RPKI) for Relying ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240304063233    2024-03-03T00:00:00.0000000
   
18.  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
   
19.  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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20.  Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide
    Rafael Sadowski ( rsadowski@) has added a new post to his Shut up and hack series, titled Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide , where he takes the reader through the steps needed to configure your OpenBSD system for audio and video recording. The post even includes a youtube video where he demonstrates recording while he ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240115170740    2024-01-15T00:00:00.0000000
   
21.  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.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230316040613    2023-03-15T00:00:00.0000000
   
22.  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. Changes by:jsg@cvs.openbsd.org2023/07/21 21:46:09.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230723185853    2023-07-23T00:00:00.0000000