Posts in category OpenBSD Journal
Support for 2TB of memory added
Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) just committed support for 2TB of physical memory on the amd64 platform:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mlarkin@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/20 23:18:37
Modified files:
sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c pmap.c
sys/arch/amd64/include: pmap.h
Log message:
Support 2TB phys [...]
join-ing any open wifi network is now...
Peter Hessler (phessler@) has
committed
changes
to make it possible to join any open wifi network:
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vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current
With
two
commits
by Pratik Vyas (pd@),
vmm(4) support for i386 host systems has been deleted (one can still run i386 guests under vmm on an amd64 host).
The commit messages explain the reasoning behind this move:
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OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Te...
Ian Darwin (ian@) wrote in to let us know that he\'s written
an article
which is a follow-up to an Undeadly
story from a decade ago!
The article provides a fine illustration of benefits of a bloat-free
OS.
Thanks very much for the pointer, Ian.
New console font Spleen made default
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has just changed the default console font to Spleen, a font of his own creation:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: fcambus@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/09 04:23:32
Modified files:
sys/dev/rasops : rasops.c
sys/dev/wsfont : wsfont.c
Log message:
Enable Spleen in wsfont [...]
Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML outpu...
Another major step forward just happened in
mandoc(1)
HTML output: paragraphs are now represented with real HTML
<p> elements, and a number of cases were fixed
in which mandoc used to generate output violating HTML syntax,
mostly related to macros and requests that control
line filling
in paragraphs of text.
Read more…
Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better document...
Tom Smyth has another article (and video) for us:
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) delivered a great talk on documentation in EuroBSDCon 2018.
Ingo\'s slides have been on-line since September at OpenBSD events.html under the EuroBSD Con 2018. Anyone who follows the mailing lists would see Ingo\'s consistent attention to detail. In this talk [...]
Video of Todd Mortimer Removing ROP g...
This contribution comes directly from Tom Smyth:
Todd Mortimer (mortimier@) gives an excellent presentation on ROP Gadgets, and some of the mitigation strategies he has recently contributed to OpenBSD.
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OpenBSD 6.2 song: A 3 line diff
With the following
commit,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) released the
song for OpenBSD 6.2!
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: www
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/12/18 20:51:58
Modified files:
. : 62.html lyrics.html
Added files:
images : 62_right.gif
Log message:
Release the 6.2 song! This comes 13 m [...]
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) ...
With this
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) enabled DNSSEC validation in the default
unbound.conf(5)
in -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/12/07 02:21:08
Modified files:
etc : unbound.conf
Log message:
Enable DNSSEC validation.
Requested by & OK claudio
Input & [...]
OpenSMTPD proc filters & fc-rDNS
Gilles Chehade (gilles@) has written another
piece
on progress in
OpenSMTPD
development.
-current now has proc filters!
Otto Moerbeek on the Virtues of OpenB...
Otto Moerbeek (otto@) has issued a
series of Mastodon messages
explaining some of the the virtues of OpenBSD\'s
malloc(3)
implementation.
They provide excellent reading in easily-digestible pieces.
A proposal for a new RPKI validator: ...
Job Snijders (job@) has written an
article at Medium
proposing rpki-client(1),
a new, BSD-licensed
RPKI
validator.
[ TL;DR—$1000 out of $20,000 USD has been pledged! ]
As always, readers are encouraged to contribute!
Update: As noted in the first comment here, the article has been updated (already!) with good news [...]
OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to ...
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) wrote in to let us know that he and Job Snijders (job@) have written
an article about OpenBGPD
for
RIPE Labs.
There has been a lot of activity from my side going to OpenBGPD. Thanks to
some funding by RIPE NCC and many European internet exchange points I was
able to work (Read more...)
OpenBSD Community reaches Iridium in ...
Right on the heels of the previous announcement, Kenneth R. Westerback (krw@)
of the OpenBSD Foundation writes to inform us:
The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to announce that individual
contributions from the OpenBSD commnunity have again exceeded
$100,000, making the community the 2nd Iridium level donor for
2018!
These smaller [...]
Blog post by jcs@ on reverse engineer...
On his blog, joshua stein (jcs@) has a description of the hoops he jumped through to get stereo sound out of his Huawei Matebook X under OpenBSD (something that only worked under Windows with special drivers).
His approach involves logging all PCI device accesses by running Windows in QEMU under Linux with VFIO, parsing that, and making [...]
Microsoft goes Gold for 2018!
Kenneth R. Westerback (krw@) writes to inform us:
Microsoft goes Gold for 2018!
The
OpenBSD Foundation
is happy to announce that
Microsoft
has increased its support level from Silver to Gold for 2018.
This is the
fourth consecutive year
that Microsoft has made a
contribution to the OpenBSD Foundation and we are grateful
for thei [...]
malloc.conf replaced with a sysctl
In this commit, Otto Moerbeek (otto@) moved malloc handling from a softlink in /etc to a sysctl instead.
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OpenSMTPD released and upcoming filte...
Gilles Chehade (gilles@) has written
an article
on recent progress in
OpenSMTPD.
It begins:
TL;DR:
Filters have been a (the most ?) long awaited feature in OpenSMTPD.
I finally committed most of the filters code to OpenBSD.
There is still a bit of work required but the trickiest parts are done.
This article describes how filters are [...]
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualizatio...
Returning readers are likely aware that OpenBSD in its OpenBSD/amd64 and OpenBSD/i386 varieties comes with virtualization built in, brought to you by the vmm(4) subsystem.
Now getting started with OpenBSD virtualization has become even easier: The OpenBSD FAQ has a new Virtualization section, written mainly by Solene Rapenne (solene@) an [...]
