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OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make lif...
You heard it here (or on tech@) first: Trapsleds are in, and it makes OpenBSD even safer. Work done by Todd Mortimer and submitted to tech@ in the Trapsleds thread was later committed by Theo de Raadt.
Todd\'s message to tech says,
I have attached a patch that converts NOP padding from the assembler
into INT3 padding on amd64. The [...]
KARL – kernel address randomize...
In a
message to the tech@ mailing list,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has announced a new randomization feature for
kernel protection:
Over the last three weeks I\'ve been working on a new randomization
feature which will protect the kernel.
[...]
Recently I moved all our kernels to a new mapping model, with patrick
and visa taking ca [...]
OpenBSD Daily, code review, and you
OpenBSD developer Adam Wolk (awolk@) talks about a community effort to read at least one C source file from OpenBSD every day at https://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/06/09/openbsd-daily.html.
I made a new years resolution to read at least one C source file from OpenBSD daily. The goal was to both get better at C and to contribute more to the b [...]
Running OpenBSD on Azure
A new Microsoft Azure blog entry, Running OpenBSD on Azure, describes OpenBSD support:
Today we are happy to share you that Azure supports OpenBSD 6.1 with the collaboration effort from Esdenera and Microsoft. Meanwhile Esdenera brings their firewall product based on OpenBSD on board Azure Marketplace now.
[Esdenera is Reyk (reyk@) Fl& [...]
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Florian Obser...
Florian Obser (florian@) kindly supplied a report on his d2k17 activities:
I wanted to take an overnight train from Amsterdam to Munich
but that service had been cancelled sometime last year. So I had
to fly to not lose too much time.
Read more...
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacou...
Our next d2k17 report comes from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@), who writes:
My name is Antoine Jacoutot. After five hours on a hellish train ride, I have
come to Starnberg with only one goal: to fix rc.d. But to do that, I can\'t be
the OpenBSD developer I once was. To honor systemd\'s memory, I must be someone else. (Read more...)
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerbac...
Our second d2k17 report is from Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
I arrived at Starnberg with a clear and overriding focus -- to
finally expunge the obsolete XS_NO_CCB construct from our SCSI
code. In fact I was so focused on this issue I walked right past my
pre-d2k17 hotel and wandered the streets of Starnberg for 30 minutes
(Read [...]
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperli...
The first report from the recently completed d2k17 hackathon comes from Stefan Sperling, who writes:
This hackathon I took time to kick off a project I have been wanting
to try for some time but never got around to: Adding sound support for
my laptop which uses an internal USB audio device wired to xhci(4).
Our xhci(4) driver lacks [...]
Ted Unangst on notable recent changes...
The flak reports by Ted Unangst (tedu@) continue with parts 620, 621, and 622.
As always, there are plenty of interesting developments.
Update: part 623
MWL’s “Relayd and Httpd M...
Relayd and Httpd Mastery, the latest book in the "Mastery" series by Michael W Lucas, is now available.
From the author\'s page for the book:
The httpd web server provides a fast, stable, secure environment for your web applications. The relayd load balancer lets you distribute Internet application load across multiple hosts. B [...]
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold
Kenneth R Westerback of The OpenBSD Foundation (aka krw@, when wearing his dev hat) writes:
Monthly paypal donations from the OpenBSD community have made the
community the OpenBSD Foundation\'s first Gold level contributor for
2017!
These monthly paypal commitments by the community are our most
reliable source of funds and thus the mo [...]
Official OpenBSD 6.1 CD – There...
OpenBSD 6.1 was announced as the first release with no CD available for purchase.
Now it turns out that in fact, exactly one CD set was made, and it can be yours if you are the successful bidder in the auction that ends on May 13, 2017.
Bob Beck (beck@) writes in to tell us
An \"Artisanally Made\" collector\'s edition (Read more... [...]
Errata and (First) Binary Patches Ann...
Errata for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0 have been announced. The message to announce@openbsd.org [from T.J. Townsend (tj@)] reads:
Errata patches for dhcpd, vmm, LibreSSL and softraid have been released
for OpenBSD 6.1 today.
Details can be found on this page: https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 pl [...]
OpenSSH Removes SSHv1 Support
In a series of commits starting here and ending with this one, Damien Miller completed the removal of all support for the now-historic SSHv1 protocol from OpenSSH.
The final commit message, for the commit that removes the SSHv1 related regression tests, reads:
Eliminate explicit specification of protocol in tests and loops over
pro [...]
The many ways of running firefox on O...
Landry Breuil, OpenBSD\'s firefox (and other Mozilla ports) maintainer, writes:
Maybe i haven\'t talked about it enough on the lists, but since i\'ve
been maintaining the various mozillas in the portstree (cvs log says i
started around firefox 3.6.something... 7 years ago. *sigh*) a
lot of things changed, so i wanted take the 6.1 relea [...]
OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released
Every OpenBSD release since 3.0 (back in 2001) has had at least one relase song, and OpenBSD 6.1 is no different. Today, Theo de Raadt released the OpenBSD 6.1. The Songs page has download links, lyrics and a background story, which reads:
OpenBSD was only a few months old when we realized that read-only repository access for everyone w [...]
clang(1) added to base on amd64 and i...
A series of commits, culminating in this one, have seen clang(1) added to the base system (as a non-default compiler) on
the amd64 and i386 platforms:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2017/04/18 08:03:08
Modified files:
share/mk : bsd.own.mk
Log message:
ship clang with i386 and amd [...]
OpenBSD 6.1 Released
April 11, 2017: The OpenBSD project has announced the availability of the newest release, OpenBSD 6.1:
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.1.
This is our 42nd release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
This release has several [...]
Getting OpenBSD running on Raspberry ...
Ian Darwin writes in about his work deploying the arm64 platform and the Raspberry Pi 3:
So I have this empty white birdhouse-like thing in the yard, open at the front. It was intended to house the wireless remote temperature sensor from a
low-cost weather station, which had previously been mounted on a dark-colored wall of the house (re [...]
e2k17 Nano hackathon report from Bob...
While the world largely wasn\'t looking, there was a nano hackathon last month, Hackathon report - e2k17 Hackathon, Edmonton Alberta. Bob Beck (beck@) writes,
So this was a small "nano" hackathon held a bit under the radar. Unlike the big ones this was not Foundation supported or anything really beyond my Visa card and my Darl [...]
