Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted to tech@:
Sometime in the last week OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits (*) upon all
our repositories since starting at 1995/10/18 08:37:01 Canada/Mountain.
That’s a lot of commits by a lot of amazing people.
(*) b…
In a move bound to be greeted with great enthusiasm, the newly-released
Patch 012
for OpenBSD 6.5 adds
sysupgrade(8)
to the system.
Readers are encouraged to show their appreciation by
donating!
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
has changed
newvers.sh
to
6.6:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/10/01 11:19:04
Modified files:
sys/conf : newvers.sh
Log message:
stop this -current stuff
Wh…
Support for
the sgi hardware platform
has been discontinued:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: www
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/09/25 05:28:00
Modified files:
. : plat.html
Log message:
discontinue sgi.
(On the o3…
EuroBSDcon 2019
has concluded, and materials for the OpenBSD-related talks can be found in
the usual place.
At the time of writing, official video recordings are not yet available,
but the organisers assure us that they will be as soon as the edi…
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has recently
committed
changes
which restore a certain amount of
startx(1)/xinit(1)
functionality for non-root users.
The commit messages explain the situation:
Read more…
On his
blog,
Gilles Chehade (gilles@) has written
a very detailed article on running an
OpenSMTPD mail server.
The article begins:
TL;DR:
– NO TL;DR: this time, I spent hours writing, you should spend minutes reading.
– OK… I explain in WA…
On Monday, Otto (otto@) committed a small but significant change to the Firefox port.
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:50:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: Otto Moerbeek <otto@[elided]>
To: ports-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports
Send…
The arm64 architecture has
joined
amd64 and i386
in having -stable package updates
available.
In a very welcome development, Solene Rapenne (solene@) announced that binary package updates for the most popular platforms will be available for the latest OpenBSD release.
The announcement reads:
The OpenBSD base system has received binary …
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
has just
tagged
6.6-beta:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/08/09 21:56:02
Modified files:
etc/root : root.mail
share/mk : sys.mk
sys/arch/macppc/stand/tbxid…
Stefan Sperling (stsp@) is developing a version control system,
"Game of Trees".
From <https://gameoftrees.org/>:
Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility.
Got …
Martijn van Duren (martijn@) has
committed
a new
Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) client,
snmp(1):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: martijn@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/08/09 00:17:59
Added files:
usr.bin/snmp : Makefile mi…
David Gwynne (dlg@) has committed to -current another new network driver –
an 802.1Q Two-Port MAC Relay driver,
tpmr(4).
The
main commit message
explains the raison d’être:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: dlg@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/…
On his
blog,
Joshua Stein (jcs@) has written an
[another!]
excellent article on an involved investigation into a complex issue:
the non-arrival of interrupts for certain touchpad devices.
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) has
announced
the release of a new version of
OpenBGPD:
We have released OpenBGPD 6.5p1, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is
the first stable update for the 6.5 …
Andrew Fresh (afresh1@)
has
committed
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p),
a Perl interface to
unveil(2):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: afresh1@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/07/09 14:41:54
Added files:
gnu/usr.bin/perl/cpan/OpenBSD-Unveil: Unveil.x…
David Gwynne (dlg@) has
committed to -current
a dedicated
Link Aggregation (EEE 802.1AX)
driver,
aggr(4).
The
main commit message
explains the raison d’être:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: dlg@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/07/04 …
Ken Westerback wrote in with some good news:
The OpenBSD Foundation
is happy to announce that individual
contributions from the OpenBSD community have again exceeded
CDN$50,000, making the community the 1st
Platinum level donor for 2019!
These…
Ted Unangst (tedu@)
posted
to the tech@
mailing list regarding
recent changes to environment handling in
doas
(in -current):
[…]
After some reflection, I’ve been convinced that it’s unlikely everybody reads
the manuals, or that the manual…