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It's the first release without an official CD set [1], and OpenBSD was probably one of the last operating systems to provide official installation discs. I wonder if they'll start recommending third-party sellers of installation CDs and DVDs like Debian does [2]. [1] https://www.openbsd.org/orders.html [2] https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
A (highly subjective) selection of things that seemed interesting, sorted from most to least noteworthy in my opinion -- - A lot of code has been removed or simplified to make the transition to multi-processor easier. - printf(3) family of formatting functions now report to syslog when the %s format is used with a NULL pointer. - When sending TCP streams they are locally stored in large mbuf clusters to improve memor…
- The iwm(4) driver now supports 802.11n MIMO (MCS 0-15).
- Enforcement of userland W^X on OCTEON Plus and later.
Is the EdgeRouter Lite an Octeon "Plus"?
- LLVM/Clang 4.0.0 (+ patches)
Looks like they shipped LLVM 4 into an actual stable release before FreeBSD! (because it's the first LLVM for them)
- New tpm(4) driver for Trusted Platform Module devices.
But that one was in FreeBSD since 2010 :P
This is a big help because now I can put in production the SuperMicro E200-8D I bought to replace our older gateway.
A (highly subjective) selection of things that seemed interesting, sorted from most to least noteworthy in my opinion -- - A lot of code has been removed or simplified to make the transition to multi-processor easier. - printf(3) family of formatting functions now report to syslog when the %s format is used with a NULL pointer. - When sending TCP streams they are locally stored in large mbuf clusters to improve memor…
Also: - The iwm(4) driver now supports 802.11n MIMO (MCS 0-15). - Enforcement of userland W^X on OCTEON Plus and later. Is the EdgeRouter Lite an Octeon "Plus"? - LLVM/Clang 4.0.0 (+ patches) Looks like they shipped LLVM 4 into an actual stable release before FreeBSD! (because it's the first LLVM for them) - New tpm(4) driver for Trusted Platform Module devices. But that one was in FreeBSD since 2010 :P
Note it's only in base for the ARM platform.
https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#61
That's usually my favourite part about new OpenBSD releases. :-)
Go also now supports pledge https://go.googlesource.com/sys/+/8fd966b47dbdd4faa03de0d06e...
New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.
Thanks for highlighting this. For me, OpenBSD releases needed so few fixes that keeping the system up to date wrapped around, and become more of a hassle to deal with! I'd get an email and have to manually rebuild something. Watching yet another flood of compiler output started feeling like a huge waste of time, despite only happening once every month or two.
For personal use, on debian I set a cron job and forget it. This utility hits the sweet spot to get me running OpenBSD again.
It's the first release without an official CD set [1], and OpenBSD was probably one of the last operating systems to provide official installation discs. I wonder if they'll start recommending third-party sellers of installation CDs and DVDs like Debian does [2]. [1] https://www.openbsd.org/orders.html [2] https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
Weren't these mostly just a nice way to contribute to the project and get something tangible in return, or did they not sell the disks at a profit?