Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
posted to misc@
a useful summary of the state of play of FFS2
in the 6.7 release (and, to some extent, -current).
In his mail, Otto clarifies some things about the latest release:
In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for ne…
In a commit touching quite a few files, Theo recently renamed the installation images from installXX.fs to installXX.img:
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 11:04:29 -0600 (MDT)
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
…
The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 6.7, marking the 48th release of our favorite operating system. The announcement message and the release page both have detailed information.
These are some highlights of the improvements in the present rele…
In a set of commits to the tree on Saturday, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) added the early beginnings of support for the 64-bit PowerPC platform:
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 11:11:14 -0600 (MDT)
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…
After our article on TLS 1.3 server support in LibreSSL, we have decided to upgrade the machine running the undeadly website to newer LibreSSL.
Since earlier today the site supports TLS 1.3. Undeadly still gets an
A+ on
Qualys’
SSL Labs.
In a post to the ports@ mailing list, Landry Breuil (landry@) shared some of his notes on using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests. He made a few enhancements for Undeadly:
Read more…
In a post to tech@,
Matt Dunwoodie
announced
the availability of a
WireGuard
[VPN]
patchset for OpenBSD:
[…]
A while ago I wanted to learn more about OpenBSD development. So I
picked a project, in this case WireGuard, to develop a na…
With the following
commit,
Joel Sing (jsing@) enabled the
TLSv1.3 server code (in
LibreSSL) in -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: jsing@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/05/11 12:19:19
Modified files:
lib/libssl : ssl_locl.h
…
While many of us have been busy social distancing, OpenBSD development work
has continued.
Noteworthy things not previously reported here include:
The OpenBSD version has moved to 6.7-beta
Some 11 syscalls have been
unlocked
since the 6.6 rele…
Developer Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
has
been
working
on
support
to
boot
from
FFS2. He writes in with the below article, to give us a little insight into the challenges he faced while working on this.
FFS2 filesystem support has been in Open…
I had the pleasure of
sitting with Bob Beck
at EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucharest and asking him some questions about the
OpenBSD Project, its approaches and some of his favourite
aspects of the Operating System and its projects. Bob
patiently outline…
We have a new p2k19 report from Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@),
who writes:
My first OpenBSD hackathon
When
p2k19
was announced, I was quite happy that it was located in Bucharest.
A quick check of flight connections, showed that there is a di…
Ken Westerback (krw@) kindly wrote in with a report
from last month’s
a2k20
hackathon in Hobart, Australia:
tl;dr — excellent coffee fuelled lots of hacking in Hobart
I started my journey to Hobart via Sydney in a state of some anxiety.
A…
Ken Westerback [krw@ when wearing his OpenBSD hat]
wrote us with this update about the
OpenBSD Foundation’s work:
As the OpenBSD Foundation begins to prepare the 2020 fundraising
campaign we would like to thank all the contributors to our 2019
…
Video recordings from
FOSDEM 2020
are now available.
The OpenBSD presentations were:
Giovanni Bechis (giovanni@) – OpenSMTPD over the clouds,
the story of an HA setup
Florian Obser (florian@) – unwind(8),
A privilege-separated, validating D…
Fresh in from u2k20 is this report from Tracey Emery, who visited the hackathon in Uckermark, Germany after getting invited by Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
Stefan Sperling and I started a discussion in November about a CGI program, which would work in ht…
The first report from the just concluded u2k20 hackathon comes from Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), who writes:
How to read a commit message (a.k.a. thank you Thomas for u2k20)
Commit messages just capture the brief summary of changes. Believe i…
Solene@ writes:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen and rust dependencies) on the stable branch (as this would require testing all rust consumers), the 6.6-stable branch won’t receive updates for ww…
An update has now been committed to the -stable branch for the latest firefox version, and the package is available for updating!
Previously, solene@ wrote:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen an…
Tom Smyth writes in about an interview he did with Theo de Raadt in between g2k19, the general hackathon in Ottawa, and BSDCAN 2019:
Have you ever wondered about the whys and the hows Theo and his friends in OpenBSD relentlessly pursue security p…