Posts in category OpenBSD Journal
docbook2mdoc-1.0.0 released
After doing active development on it for about a month,
i just released version 1.0.0 of the DocBook to mdoc converter,
docbook2mdoc(1).
The OpenBSD port was updated, too.
In a nutshell, docbook2mdoc was brought from experimental status
to an early release that can be considered mostly usable for
production, though no doubt there are s [...]
t2k19 Hackathon Report: On rsync, ssh...
The stream of t2k19 hackathon reports continues with this from Christian Weisgerber (naddy@):
Discounting an airport layover, this was my first trip to Asia.
I guess I picked the right spot. Seeing Taipei felt like stepping
into Ghost in
the Shell. Awesome. But this isn\'t the OpenBSD travel
blog…
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t2k19 Hackathon Report: unwinding in ...
Fresh from the recent t2k19 hackathon in Taipei, Florian Obser (florian@)
writes in with this report:
unwind(8) is weird. It is the first daemon I wrote without having a
constant use for most of its features. slowcgi(8), slaacd(8) and
rad(8) are different, I use them every day and I will notice when I
break stuff.
Read more&hell [...]
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperli...
A new hackathon report has arrived, this time from Stefan Sperling (stsp@), who writes:
This hackathon was an exceptional opportunity for several developers
involved in 802.11 wireless to meet face to face. I spent a lot of time
collaborating with Kevin Lo and Jonathan Matthew throughout the week.
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t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerbac...
Kenneth R Westerback (krw@) wrote in with a
report on his recent participation in
t2k19:
Rule 1 of Taipei travel -- nobody knows what an EasyCard is.
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t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the h...
Fresh from the t2k19 hackathon comes a report from Anthony J. Bentley (bentley@), who writes:
Seeing an Asia hackathon coming up was pretty exciting; I’d never been there before. I spent a month or so preparing by getting through the more mundane things in my backlog, mostly new ports and updates. That left my time in Taipei open (Read m [...]
a2k19 hackathon report from Ken Weste...
Ken Westerback (krw@) writes in with his report from
a2k19,
the hackathon in New Zealand:
Due to an earlier (pre-737Max) airplane problem on the flight back
from n2k18 in Usti nad Labem, a loosely worded compensation coupon and
the cooperation of beck@ in exploiting said wording, I was able to fly
Business Class over the Pacific and [...]
mandoc-1.14.5 released
Ingo Schwarze wrote in with the announcement of a new mandoc release. Ingo writes,
I just released mandoc-1.14.5. This is a regular maintenance
release. As structural changes are quite limited, i expect it to
be very stable, so all downstream systems are encouraged to upgrade
from any earlier version.
Read more…
a2k19 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacou...
We are delighted to have received an
a2k19 hackathon
report: Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) writes:
Better (very) late than never… here\'s my small report about my
a2k19 hackathon
slacking time in Wellington (NZ).
The "Antipodean" hackathon they call it. Indeed, it took me 28h to get there
from Paris via Singapore! [...]
Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH ...
SSH is an awesome tool. Logging into other machines securely is so
pervasive to us sysadmins nowadays that few of us think about what\'s
going on underneath. Even more so once you start using the more
advanced features such as the ssh-agent,
agent-forwarding and
ProxyJump. When
doing so, care must be taken in order to not
compromise [...]
6.5-beta has been tagged
It\'s that time of year again; Theo (deraadt@) has just tagged 6.5-beta. A good reminder for us all run an extra test install and see if your favorite port still works as you expect.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/02/26 15:24:41
Modified files:
etc/root : root.mail
[...]
New VPN FAQ
Landry Breuil (landry@) has
committed
a
work-in-progress
FAQ section
"Virtual Private Networks (VPN)":
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: www
Changes by: landry@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/02/22 15:07:05
Modified files:
faq : index.html
Added files:
faq : faq17.html
Log message:
Add a (wip!) VPN FAQ, [...]
Improvements to X86FixupGadgets pass ...
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
improvements to (the anti-ROP)
"X86FixupGadgets" pass
of
clang(1)
for amd64 and i386:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mortimer@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/02/22 08:28:43
Modified files:
gnu/llvm/lib/Target/X86: X86FixupGadgets.cpp X86InstrCompiler.td
[...]
Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – bl...
Hrvoje Popovski wrote in to alert us that Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) has written a new blog post entitled Faster vlan(4) forwarding?, which leads in with
Two years ago we observed that vlan(4) performances
suffered from the locks added to the queueing API.
At that time, the use of SRP was also
pointed out as a possible responsible for the [...]
openrsync imported into the tree
openrsync,
a clean-room implementation of
rsync,
is being developed by
Kristaps Dzonsons
as part of
the rpki-client(1) project
[featured in an
earlier article].
openrsync(1) has been
imported into the tree
(as "rsync") by Sebastian Benoit (benno@):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: benno@cvs.openbsd.org 201 [...]
Florian Obser on unwind(8)
Florian Obser (florian@) kindly wrote in with news on some recent work:
DNS is easy. You fire up your browser, enter undeadly.org in
its address bar and sooner or later you reach your favourite
OpenBSD journal.
Well, not quite.
Read more…
Security Vulnerability Mitigations
Fresh from the
a2k19 hackathon,
Joel Sing (jsing@) delivered
a presentation
at the
2019 linux.conf.au.
Video is now available.
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:
Read more…
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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