Archive Index for 2016

• January
  • Chromium: now with OpenBSD pledge(2)
  • Pre-5.9 pledge(2) update
  • Xen Support Enabled in -current
  • OpenSSH: client bugs CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778
  • Call for testing: Concurrent malloc(3) calls (to speed up firefox)
• February
  • BSDCan: OpenBSD presentations
  • Linux Emulation goes to the great bitbucket of the sky
• March
  • LibreSSL not affected by DROWN attack
  • OpenBSD 5.9 network improvements
  • Pre-orders for 5.9 are up!
  • 5.9 songs released
  • xterm(1) now UTF-8 by default
  • The VAX platform is no more
  • AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD papers
  • IPv6 errata for 5.7/5.8, pledge errata for 5.9
  • New routing table code (ART) enabled in -current
  • OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!)
• April
  • CfP EuroBSDCon 2016
  • Undeadly and HTTPS
  • The p2k16 hackathon has begun
  • anti-ROP mechanism in libc
  • proot: dpb meets chroot
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: espie@ on proot
• May
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: tb@ on documentation, ports, wireless
  • OpenBSD Foundation Announces Gold Sponsor
  • libcrypto errata - May 2016
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: landry@ on mozilla ports
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: naddy@ on graphics libs progress (yes, packages!)
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: ajacoutot@ on Gnome, rc and rcctl improvements
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: krw@ on pdisk, softraid and more
  • SROP mitigation committed
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: jasper@ on gnome, puppet and more
  • p2k16 Hackathon Report: pirofti@ on octeon and TPM
  • Privilege Separation and Pledge (video)
  • W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD
  • ARMv7 now has a bootloader
• June
  • Understanding the modernization of the OpenBSD network stack, part 1: ART single thread performances
  • BSDCan 2016 Presentations Online
• July
  • mandoc-1.13.4 released
  • Errata and patches released!
  • usermount being removed from OpenBSD
  • OpenBSD 6.0 to be released September 1, 2016
  • n2k16 hackathon report: Stefan Sperling on dhclient bugs, iwm(4) issues
  • OpenBSD 6.0 pre-orders up
  • EuroBSDCon 2016 schedule has been released
• August
  • n2k16 hackathon report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, bridges, routing and more
  • tmpfs on its last legs
  • n2k16 hackathon report: guenther@ on RELRO support in binutils and arch specific cleanup
  • SNI support added to libtls, httpd in -current
  • Reminder: Early registration for EuroBSDcon 2016 ends Aug 24
• September
  • Let's Encrypt client imported into -current
  • OpenBSD 6.0 released
  • Support for zaurus platform discontinued
  • LLVM/Clang imported into -current
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Mike Larkin on vmm + vmd progress
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Marc Espie on package signing evolution
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Adam Wolk on ports, wireless drivers and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Otto Moerbeek on back to malloc, and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Martin Natano on fuse, NTFS and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Giovanni Bechis on ports updates, acpi resume work
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst on doas, signify, code removal
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Brent Cook on Chromebooks, crypto, and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Christian Weisgerber on gettext progress, RTC work, removing kernel cruft
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse on ddb(4) and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Florian Obser on httpd, networking, acme-client, and more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Vincent Gross on iked(8), armv7 and sys/netinet[6]
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on binary patches, ports progress and more
  • DragonFly BSD adopts uses of LibreSSL
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Matthieu Herrb on xenodm
  • Ted Unangst on "doas mastery"
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Martin Pieuchot on USB stack and routing progress, more
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Patrick Wildt on arm, LLVM and other progress
  • g2k16 Hackathon Report: Alexander Bluhm on mbufs and more
  • OpenBSD 6.0 Limited Edition CD set (signed by developers)
• October
  • vmm enabled
• November
  • b2k16 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot on GNOME's path forward, various ports progress
  • b2k16 hackathon report: Landry Breuil on various ports progress
  • b2k16 hackathon report: Jeremy Evans on ports cleaning, progress on postgres, nginx, ruby and more
  • OpenBSD funding request from interesting requester - InfoWorld Magazine
  • b2k16 hackathon report: Daniel Jakots on forward strides in python ports
  • l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manuals now in mdoc(7)
  • Ted Unangst on notable recent changes in OpenBSD
  • OpenBSD Foundation Welcomes First Iridium Donor: Smartisan
  • Kristaps Dzonsons on pledge(2)
• December
  • LibreSSL documentation status report
  • OpenSSH 7.4 released!
  • Peter Hansteen on OpenBSD and you

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