OpenBSD 6.6 Released

Contributed by rueda on 2019-10-13 from the ~1%-of-the-beast dept.

In a message to relevant mailing lists, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) announced that the OpenBSD project's 47^th release, OpenBSD 6.6, is now available from mirror sites worldwide.

Rather than reproducing here the full list of new features, we refer readers to the official OpenBSD 6.6 page, and the detailed changelog.

Notable changes include but are not limited to:

sysupgrade(8) has been added. (Fortunately for those upgrading, this has been retrofitted to 6.5.)
The octeon platform now uses clang(1) as the base compiler.
amdgpu(4), an AMD GPU driver, has been added.
startx(1) and xinit(1) again work on many modern systems.
unveil(2) has been improved, and is now used in 77 base programs.
ntpd(9) now gets and sets the clock in a secure manner when booting, even in the absence of a battery-backed clock.
smtpd(8) now supports builtin and [experimental] standalone filters.

Those upgrading from version 6.5 should read the Upgrade Guide.

As always, readers are encouraged to show their appreciation in the conventional manner.

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