Version 0.94 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated):

* got 0.94; 2023-11-29
  see git repository history for per-change authorship information

Tobias Heider (tobhe@) has announced the release of version 7.3 of OpenIKED:

We have released OpenIKED 7.3, which will be arriving in the OpenIKED
directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.

Omar Polo (op@) has announced the release of version 7.4.0p1 of OpenSMTPD.

It is a bugfix release.

In a long series of commits, Robert Nagy (robert@) updated clang(1)/llvm in -current to version 16:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	robert@cvs.openbsd.org	2023/11/11 11:01:31

Log message:
    import of llvm from LLVM 16.0.6
    
    Status:
    
    Vendor Tag:	LLVM
    Release Tags:	LLVM_16_0_6
    
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/.clang-format
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/.clang-tidy
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/.gitattributes
[…]
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/utils/vscode/llvm/syntaxes/ll.tmLanguage.yaml
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/utils/yaml-bench/CMakeLists.txt
    U src/gnu/llvm/llvm/utils/yaml-bench/YAMLBench.cpp
    
    67 conflicts created by this import.
    Use the following command to help the merge:
    
    cvs checkout -jLLVM:yesterday -jLLVM src/gnu/llvm/llvm

Naturally, this has involved supporting work elsewhere in base, and in ports.

A new stable release of LibreSSL is out, and should be arriving on a mirror near you shortly.

Brent Cook (bcook@)'s announcement reads:

We have released LibreSSL 3.8.2, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is the
first stable release for the 3.8.x branch, also available with OpenBSD 7.4

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) posted to tech@ a message entitled disruptive amd64 snapshot coming. It reads:

There is a pretty disruptive amd64 snapshot coming, so anyone who is
using snapshots for critical stuff should take a pause.  (This warning
about a development step is unusual, I won't make it common practice).

Of course, on non-critical amd64 systems running snapshots, this is a good opportunity to test (and report any problems).

Hot on the heels of the release of OpenBSD 7.4, Omar Polo (op@) has announced the release of OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0. The announcement reads,

Subject:    OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released
From:       Omar Polo <op () openbsd ! org>
Date:       2023-10-25 7:33:43


OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the SMTP protocol with some common
extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with systems
speaking the SMTP protocol. It implements a fairly large part of RFC5321
and can already cover a large range of use-cases.

It runs on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Linux and OSX.

The archives are now available from the main site at www.OpenSMTPD.org

As announced on the misc@ mailing list, Otto Moerbeek (otto@), the author of OpenBSD's malloc(3) implementation [a.k.a. "otto malloc"], has written a tutorial on the new malloc(3) leak detection available in OpenBSD 7.4

Read it at: OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection

Since the publication of that write-up, Otto has committed further enhancements:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	otto@cvs.openbsd.org	2023/10/22 06:19:26

Modified files:
	lib/libc/stdlib: malloc.3 malloc.c 

Log message:
When option D is active, store callers for all chunks; this avoids
the 0x0 call sites for leak reports. Also display more info on
detected write of free chunks: print the info about where the chunk
was allocated, and for the preceding chunk as well.
ok asou@

The OpenBSD project has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.4, the 55^th release of the OpenBSD operating system.

The new release contains a number of innovations and improvements across a number of areas, including

• Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets [See earlier report].
• viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver [See earlier report].
• vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4) block and network devices [See earlier report].
• Virtual machine owners can now override the boot kernel [See earlier report].
• malloc(3) now has built-in leak detection [See earlier report]. Chunk sizes are now fine-grained, and all chunks in the delayed free list are checked for write-after-free.
• In LibreSSL 3.8.2, TLSv1.0 and TLSv 1.1 are disabled in libssl. Ed25519 certificates are now supported in openssl(1) ca and req.
• In OpenSSH 9.5, ssh-kengen(1) generates Ed25519 keys by default. Keystroke timing obfuscation has been added to ssh(1) [See earlier report]. The fingerprint of a newly generated host key is printed on first boot [See commit].
• cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps [See earlier report].
• shutdown(8)/reboot(8) now require membership of group _shutdown [See earlier report].
• sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs [See earlier reports].
• Soft updates (softdep) have been disabled for future VFS work [See earlier report].
• There has been a major rewrite of pfsync(4) [See earlier report].
• AMD processor microcode update is now supported [See earlier report].
• ifconfig(8) has a new wgdescr[iption] option which allows labelling peers.

as well as the general churn of optimizations and fixes across the system.

Package counts (packages prebuilt for this release) for the more popular architectures are
i386: 10603,
amd64: 11845,
aarch64: 11508,
sparc64: 8469,
with more to follow as bulk builds complete.

As always, the release is available for download from mirror sites all over the world; be sure to pick one that is near you, network-wise! Those upgrading from the 7.3 release (or earlier) should consult the Upgrade Guide.

Thanks again to the developers for the dedicated effort that went into producing this new release!