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OpenBSD 6.4 released

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Re: OpenBSD 6.4 released

#7
Undeadly.org mentioned the following highlights:

"Selected highlights include:

* Support has been added for qcow2 images and external snapshots in vmm(4)/vmd(8).

* "join" has been added for Wi-Fi networks.

* Security enhancements include unveil(2), MAP_STACK, and RETGUARD. Meltdown/Spectre mitigations have been extended further, and SMT is disabled by default.

* rad(8) has replaced rtadvd(8).

* bgpd(8) has undergone numerous improvements, including the addition of support for BGP Origin Validation (RFC 6811). smtpd.conf(5) uses a new, more flexible grammar.

* For the first time, there are more than 10,000 (binary) packages (for amd64 and i386)." [1]

[1] https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=201810181400...

Re: OpenBSD 6.4 released

#9
post #5

in similar news openssh [0] released a new version recently. noticed 7.7 [1]applied to this openbsd release [0] https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.8 [1] https://www.openbsd.org/plus64.html

OpenSSH 7.9 should follow the OpenBSD release.
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