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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.  OpenBSD 6.9 released
    The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 6.9, the project's 50th 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 The arm64 platform now has OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1; Numerous improvements to the relatively fresh ...
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4.  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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5.  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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6.  Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD
    Read the whole thing, Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD for a walkthrough of implementing queueing and QoS traffic shaping for your network. This was a nice read. Given that pf got rid of ALTQ a while ago, a lot of the older guides on ACK prioritization using pf which depended upon ALTQ were predictably, less ...
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7.  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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8.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    Hot on the heels of qwx(4) [see earlier report], and soon after going -beta, -current has gained another new wi-fi driver - mwx(4).Claudio Jeker (claudio@) committed the import:CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: claudio@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/02/21 03:48:10 Modified files: sys/dev/pci : files.pci Added files: sys/dev/pci : if_mwx.c if_mwxreg.h Log message: Import mwx(4) a driver for ...
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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.  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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12.  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 .
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13.  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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14.  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 ...
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15.  How to create a USB flash installer for OpenBSD
    The isolinux method is quite interesting, they provide an HD-compatible MBR and post-process the ISO with a program which searches for the location of the actual isolinux boot loader and patches it in.
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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.
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17.  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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18.  Interview with Nicholas Marriott on tmux
    We recently reported on the fact that tmux was imported into OpenBSD. By now, several changes have gone into the tree, including new features and some fixes from other developers. We spoke with Nicholas Marriott about tmux and his ideas for the future. OpenBSD Journal: Why did you write tmux when there is well known screen ?
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19.  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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20.  OpenBSD in Canada
    According to Theo de Raadt, we only have 4 active OpenBSD developers in Canada. Theo de Raadt and Bob Beck, both Canadian citizens and long-time OpenBSD developers, make a case that Canada isn't special with regards to OpenBSD. But that just isn't true, historically or currently. Like all open source software projects, OpenBSD is inherently an ...
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21.  EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
    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.
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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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23.  OpenSSH / AnonCVS port bouncing advisory
    Though this doesn't affect OpenBSD users by default, for those using OpenSSH with the "AllowTcpForwarding" option enabled, and who are using AnonCVS you should read this advisory. If you check /etc/ssh/sshd_config you'll see that the line reading: #AllowTcpForwarding yes while defaulted to yes is actually commented out, however, I have been ...
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