However, given the release notes are rather brief, they are quoted here in their entirety:
We have released LibreSSL 3.5.3, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
It includes the following reliability fix:
* Fix d2i_ASN1_OBJECT(). A confusion of two CBS resulted in advancing
the passed *der_in pointer incorrectly. Thanks to Aram Sargsyan for
reporting the issue and testing the fix.
The LibreSSL project continues improvement of the codebase to reflect modern,
safe programming practices. We welcome feedback and improvements from the
broader community. Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this
release possible.
Crystal Kolipe writes in about her work on the framebuffer console, and provides an article on
… how to add a 'night mode' to the OpenBSD framebuffer console to give the text a yellow tint for more comfortable night time viewing, along with quite a few other cosmetic tweaks such as adding support for strikethrough text and double underlining. The article explains how to dynamically adjust the colour pallette, add a new sysctl value, and add a new escape sequence to the console emulation code in the kernel.
Contributed by
rueda
on
from the and-there-was-much-simultaneous-rejoicing dept.
Following much development and testing,
parallel IP forwarding has been enabled in -current.
The most recent of the relevant commits
are:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org 2022/04/30 15:13:57
Modified files:
sys/net : if.c ifq.c
Log message:
Run IP input and forwarding with shared netlock. Also distribute
packets from the interface receive rings into multiple net task
queues.
Note that we still have only one softnet task. So there will be
no concurrency yet, but we can notice wrong exclusive lock assertions.
Soon the final step will be to increase the NET_TASKQ define.
lots of testing Hrvoje Popovski; OK sashan@
Contributed by
Peter N. M. Hansteen
on
from the [northern] springtime for OpenBSD dept.
The long spring (or fall) wait is over, the OpenBSD project today formally released OpenBSD 7.1, the 52nd release of our favorite open source operating system.
As usual, the release page lists the main highlights of the new release, which include
OpenBSD/arm64 contains greatly improved support for Apple M1 systems
[See earlier article].
loongson platform retired.
Many improvements to wireless networking.
iwm(4) and
iwx(4)
have gained 80MHz channel support
[See earlier article].
mtw(4),
a driver for MediaTek MT7601U Wi-Fi devices, was added
[See earlier article].
The new release supports 13 distinct hardware platforms with thousands of prebuilt packages for all platforms.
If you want to delve further into the details before (or while, after) installing or upgrading to the new release, the detailed changelog has all the details.
Those upgrading from the 7.0 release (or earlier) should consult the
Upgrade Guide.
If you enjoy this release, please remember to donate to the project as a way of saying thanks to the developers for their work.
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) has just announced the release of OpenBGPD 7.3. He writes:
We have released OpenBGPD 7.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
This release includes the following changes to the previous release:
* Macro expansion in the config file is improved. It is now possible
to expand 'set large-community $myAS:$location:$transit'.
* Add initial FIB support for Linux. Routes can be added and removed.
Nexthop tracking and dynamic interface detection are not yet implemented.
* Major refactoring in the RIB codebase to add multipath support in
an upcoming release.
OpenBGPD-portable is known to compile and run on FreeBSD, and
the Linux distributions Alpine, Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.
It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenBGPD-portable
to more distributions.
We welcome feedback and improvements from the broader community.
Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this release
possible.
We are constantly on the lookout for stories of how you put OpenBSD to work.
Please submit any informative articles on how OpenBSD is helping your company.