OpenBSD 6.6

#1

Post by liv-io » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:49 PM UTC

OpenBSD 6.6
openbsd.org

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#2

Post by roryrjb » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

Announcement email: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=157132045926047&w=2

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#3

Post by asveikau » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

I read about the "sysupgrade" tool and concluded that the upgrade to 6.7 in another 6 months will be awfully seamless... But I see from this that they backported the tool as a syspatch for 6.5! So from 6.5 we will be able to do syspatch && sysupgrade to get to 6.6. Sounds nice.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#4

Post by grenoire » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

Love the release poster for this one.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#5

Post by equalunique » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

roryrjb wrote: post #2

Announcement email: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=157132045926047&w=2

  o Added regular expression support for the format search, match andsubstitute modifiers in tmux(1).
  o Added a -v flag to source-file in tmux(1) to show the commands and line numbers.
  o Added simple menus usable with mouse or keyboard in tmux(1).
  o Introduced the command "display-menu" to show a menu bound to the mouse on status line by default, and added menus in tree, client and buffer modes.
  o Changed the behavior of swap-window -d in tmux(1) to match swap-pane.
  o Allow panes to be empty in tmux(1), and enabling output to be piped to them with split-window or display-message -I.
  o Adjusted tmux(1) to automatically scroll when dragging to create a selection with the mouse when the cursor reaches the top or bottom line.
  o Fixed a tmux(1) crash when killing the current window, and other bugfixes.

Would love to see a demo of these cool now tmux features. (sorry, I don't really know how to format that email text for HN)

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#6

Post by gautamcgoel » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

Just keeps getting better and better every release. I wish they would add an easy encryption option in the installer. You can enable full disk encryption, but you have to mess with the bioctl settings, which potentially scares off new users.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#7

Post by wglb » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

> Fixed support for amd64 machines with greater than 1023GB physical memory.

Don't I wish. What would be the memory test time for something like that?

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#8

Post by xyproto » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:00 PM UTC

grenoire wrote: post #4

Love the release poster for this one.

It can easily be misread as "OpenBSD la.la", though.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#9

Post by protomyth » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:01 PM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #3

I read about the "sysupgrade" tool and concluded that the upgrade to 6.7 in another 6 months will be awfully seamless... But I see from this that they backported the tool as a syspatch for 6.5! So from 6.5 we will be able to do syspatch && sysupgrade to get to 6.6. Sounds nice.

Tried on one of my machines. Seems to work fine. You still do the delete file step manually but that's minor. This is going to save a lot of effort on certain machines.

Re: OpenBSD 6.6

#10

Post by baq » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:04 PM UTC

wglb wrote: post #7

> Fixed support for amd64 machines with greater than 1023GB physical memory. Don't I wish. What would be the memory test time for something like that?

i've got servers just out of 5-year warranty with 768GB of RAM factory installed. they tend to take a while to boot but they aren't rebooted often enough to remember how long the POST takes.