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…
Since we reported the first bits of powerpc64 support going into the tree on 16 May, work has progressed at a steady pace, resulting in snapshots now being available for this platform.
So, if you have a POWER9 system idling around, go to your neare…
In the following
commit
(and a bunch of others), David Gwynne (dlg@) imported most of the code submitted recently by Jason A. Donenfeld and Matt Dunwoodie to allow you to use WireGuard natively on OpenBSD:
Read more…
Wesley Mouedine Assaby who runs the OpenBSD Jumpstart webpage with hints and tips for beginners about OpenBSD in general has produced a visualization of how PCs boot into OpenBSD.
Read more…
I presented a talk on how I used OpenBGPd as a control plane for my ISP.
I cover areas such as Routing fundamentals, a lightning introduction to BGP.
An interesting aspect of the design is how the OpenBSD / OpenBGPd
is used to control the routing…
Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has just committed an update to the
DRM code to the tree.
This update brings support for newer AMD and Intel graphics parts.
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 22:48:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…