Introduction
Pf-badhost
is a very practical, robust, stable and lightweight security script for network servers.
It’s compatible with BSD based operating systems such as {Open,Free,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and MacOS. It prevents potentially-bad IP addre…
OpenBSD developer Vadim Zhukov (zhukov@)
has added preliminary OpenBSD support to
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio release
26.1.0
and later. The changes come as part of an ongoing collaboration between the upstream
OBS
project and OpenBSD …
With the following
commit,
Marcus Glocker (mglocker@)
added an enhanced privacy control for video recording:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mglocker@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/12/28 11:28:11
Modified files:
sys/dev : video.c …
Undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying,
On Saturday November 7th I remote participated in OpenFest 2020 with an updated version of the OpenBSD and you talk.
Recordings will be released after the conference, but I was happy eno…
Solène Rapenne (solene@) has written a
blog entry
on the software system underlying the building of -stable packages:
In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details
of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastruct…
On its 25th birthday,
the OpenBSD project has released
OpenBSD 6.8,
the 49th release.
The new release comes with a large number of improvements and debuts a new architecture, OpenBSD/powerpc64, running on the POWER9 family of processors. The ful…
Introduction
Hitherto, releases of the
fwobac
software (which underlies
Undeadly)
have been unsigned.
This is overdue for change, so for the latest release [version 1.7], we are providing a digital signature.
As signing is being performed manua…
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
RETGUARD
(see
previous
coverage)
for the macppc (powerpc) and powerpc64 platforms:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mortimer@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/10/12 08:52:09
Modified files:
gnu/llvm…
Ingo (schwarze@) writes in about a side project he’s been working on to do his own accounting:
Sometimes, it happens to me that i make little progress with the
work i planned to do (so let’s not talk about the badly needed
mandoc release today)…
Fresh off the k2k20 hackathon, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@)
writes in:
Due to the pandemic, this hackathon seemed to be called very spontaneously.
Fortunately, the hackathon was over a weekend. This enabled me to attend
without missing any prof…
The fourth report from k2k20 comes from Florian Obser (florian@), who worked mostly on DNS related things:
I spent the week before the hackathon with monitoring the current
pandemic situation. Will ze germans let me in? Will I put people at
risk?…
Our next k2k20 report comes from Klemens Nanni (kn@):
I’d been looking forward to k2k20 just like my
other hackathon with its unique
atmosphere where getting work done in fact means holiday hacking with friends.
There was nothing big on my l…
Fresh off the just-finished k2k20 hackathon, here is a report from Bob Beck
(beck@):
We have a saying about hackathons – They are for starting something,
or for finishing something. This time for me was a "finishing
something" – I land…
The
k2k20 hackathon
concluded recently, and we are please to have
received a report from Martijn van Duren (martijn@):
I came to k2k20 on my motorcycle with my mask, a small backpack and a
stack of projects burning on my laptop to get pushed. A…
With
this commit,
Martijn van Duren (martijn@)
added
login_ldap(8)
to -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: martijn@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/09/12 09:06:12
Modified files:
libexec : Makefile
Added files:
libexec/lo…
Theo (deraadt@) has just committed the crank to 6.8-beta to CVS
From: Theo de Raadt
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:08:28 -0600 (MDT)
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Chang…
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has published an article on his blog about the work that has been done to improve the text-console experience on OpenBSD. Well worth a read if, as a proper UNIX-sysadmin, you enjoy working in a text-only environment; but al…
More than six years ago,
LibreSSL was forked from
OpenSSL, and almost two years ago,
i explained the status of LibreSSL documentation during
EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucuresti.
So it seems providing an update might be in order.
Read more…
With
this commit
and several more, Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
upgraded -current to version 10.0.0 of LLVM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: patrick@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/08/03 08:30:27
Log message:
Import LLVM 10.0.0 release in…
In this commit, Paul Irofti (pirofti@) added support for reading timecounters in userland without making a syscall.
Read more…