Interesting developments (in -current) since
OpenBSD 7.0 include:
Wireless drivers
iwm(4) and
iwx(4)
now support 40MHz channels –
see
commits.
On tech@, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) has
requested testing
of a diff to add such support to
iwn(4)…
The OpenBSD project
has released
OpenBSD 7.0,
the project’s 51st release.
As usual, the release page
offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to
other resources such as the
detailed changelog.
Notable improvem…
In the run-up to the OpenBSD 7.0 release, we note several recent interesting
things previously unreported:
The 7.0 release song
is available.
The loongson hardware platform
has been
retired.
The upcoming
OpenBSD 7.0
will be the last release…
As a result of a licence change by
Realtek,
that company’s wireless firmware images are now included in the tree.
The following
commit
by Kevin Lo (kevlo@)
explains the details:
Read more…
Did you just run
syspatch(8)
and see it fail?
Here’s the reason: one of the two root certificates
behind the (excellent)
Let’s Encrypt
CA service has expired.
A bug in (the "legacy" verifier of)
LibreSSL
also contributed.
The s…
EuroBSDCon 2021
was held [virtually] earlier this month.
Videos of the presentation are
now available.
Amongst the OpenBSD-related presentations is that by
Marc Espie (espie@) –
Debug Packages in OpenBSD
(slides,
video).
Thanks to a
commit
by Damien Miller (djm@),
scp(1) (in -current)
now defaults to using the
SFTP protocol:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/08 17:31:39
Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : scp.1 scp.c
…
In a recent
message
to tech@ Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) wrote about
analysis of kernel lock contention.
We reproduce the message(s) here, reformatted with his permission.
Unlocking UVM [virtual memory – Ed.]
faults makes build time decrease a lo…
Florian Obser (florian@)
has committed
a significant speed boost for
traceroute(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/03 03:13:00
Modified files:
usr.sbin/traceroute: Makefile traceroute.8 tracerou…
With the following
commit,
Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@)
gave
xterm(1)
some
unveil(2)
goodness:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: xenocara
Changes by: matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/02 03:31:38
Modified files:
app/xterm : main.c
Log …
With the following
commit,
Tobias Heider (tobhe@)
added client-side support for DNS configuration
to iked(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: tobhe@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/01 09:30:07
Modified files:
sbin/iked : config.c …
Job Snijders (job@)
imported
the
timeout(1)
utility from NetBSD:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: job@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/01 09:50:34
Added files:
usr.bin/timeout: Makefile timeout.1 timeout.c
Log message:
Import timeo…
OpenBSD Journal co-editor Solène Rapenne (solene@) writes,
I have a simple DSL line with 15 Mb/s in download and 900 kb/s upload rates and there are many devices using the Internet and two people in remote work. Some poorly designed software (mostl…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
committed
a change which significantly reduces
hibernate
time on machines with larger amounts of RAM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/30 03:45:29
Modified files:
sys/ker…
In a
message to tech@
Damien Miller (djm@)
explained the consequences of his recent
commit:
[…]
RSA/SHA1, a.k.a the "ssh-rsa" signature type is now disabled by default
in OpenSSH.
While The SSH protocol confusingly uses ov…
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) has
committed
support for simple include and exclude cases
in (open)rsync:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: claudio@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/29 07:43:46
Modified files:
usr.bin/rsync : Makefile extern.h …
OpenBSD Journal co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying
When Jonathan at SEMI_bug asked me whether I could do a talk for them, it took me a few moments to come up with a good subject and title. But for what would be a lunchtime session in the …
With the following
commit,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) moved -current
to version 7.0-beta:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/17 09:03:56
Modified files:
sys/conf : newvers.sh
etc/root :…
Now enabled by default on OpenBSD -current is dhcpleased(8), a dynamic host configuration protocol daemon written by florian@ (Florian Obser), who spoke with us about his work:
I suppose this is either the KAME project’s fault, or if we don’t wan…
Florian Obser (florian@) has enabled
dhcpleased(8)
and
resolvd(8)
[on both of which we
reported
earlier]
in base.
The commits are,
Read more…