Posts in category OpenBSD Journal
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.
Read more…
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 [...]
The OpenBSD Foundation receives the f...
Earlier this week the OpenBSD foundation received its first Silver donation from an individual contributor. Thank you John Carmack for the very generous contribution! The support will ensure that many important projects are moving forward and continue making impact.
OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Irid...
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his dev hat) wrote in with some great news:
The OpenBSD Foundation is excited to announce that it has received a second 2018 Iridium level (>$100K) donation from Handshake.
Read more…
OpenBSD 6.4 Released
The release of OpenBSD 6.4 has been
announced:
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.4.
This is our 45th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.
[…]
Rather than reproducing the full list of new features here, we refer [...]
New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in about fresh developments in mandoc(1):
During EuroBSDCon 2018 in Bucuresti, Adam Kalisz suggested to add
a table of contents near the top of the HTML output of mandoc,
and i just implemented and committed that.
Read more…
EuroBSDcon 2018 slides available
EuroBSDcon 2018
is now over, and slides for OpenBSD-related presentations are now available
from the
usual place.
As always, there\'s some great reading there (especially for those of us
who were unable to attend the conference).
Unfortunately, there will not be any video this year.
n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerbac...
Fresh from the just concluded n2k18 hackathon comes this report from Ken Westerback
(krw@),
who writes:
How to travel from Dresden to Usti nad Labem for free!
No drama flying to Dresen, from which a train would take me to n2k18\'s
home in Usti nad Labem. Other than being puzzled that it costs less to
fly YYZ -> (Read more...)
vmm(4) gets support for qcow2
In a
short
series
of
commits,
Carlos Cardenas (ccardenas@) added support for
qcow2
image support to vmd(8).
[This builds on an
earlier commit
adding support for pluggable disk backends.]
The code was written by Ori Bernstein, who posted his diffs (thread 1, thread 2) to the tech@openbsd.org mailing list in August.
Read more&hell [...]
Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel
Anton Lindqvist (anton@) gave a talk at
BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3 on the kernel coverage tracing kit he committed recently.
Slides
are now available via the
OpenBSD Events and Papers page.
The slides contain a list of bugs found and fixed as a result of this work.
See also:
kcov(4)
OpenBSD Foundation gets first 2018 Ir...
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his dev hat) wrote in with
some great news:
The OpenBSD Foundation
is excited to announce that it has received
the first 2018 Iridium level donation. This year the first $100K+
donation came from
Handshake (https://www.handshake.org).
We thank Handshake for its very generous support! This donation
wi [...]
Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Int...
In a
message to tech@,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
gives an update on the state-of-play regarding processor vulnerabilities:
Two recently disclosed hardware bugs affected Intel cpus:
- TLBleed
- T1TF (the name "Foreshadow" refers to 1 of 3 aspects of this
bug, more aspects are surely on the way)
Solving t [...]
Fix for L1TF issue in Intel CPUs comm...
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
a diff to mitigate the
"Intel L1TF screwup" for the amd64 platform we reported on earlier:
From: Theo de Raadt (elided)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:04:41 -0600 (MDT)
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes [...]
