join-ing any open wifi network is now possible
Contributed by rueda on from the join us on the air dept.
vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current
Contributed by rueda on from the virtually not a vax dept.
OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten
Contributed by rueda on from the Aspire One decayed dept.
Ian Darwin (ian@) wrote in to let us know that he's written an article which is a follow-up to an Undeadly story from a decade ago!
The article provides a fine illustration of benefits of a bloat-free OS.
Thanks very much for the pointer, Ian.
New console font Spleen made default
Contributed by Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd on from the bloody fonts dept.
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has just changed the default console font to Spleen, a font of his own creation:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: fcambus@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/09 04:23:32
Modified files:
sys/dev/rasops : rasops.c
sys/dev/wsfont : wsfont.c
Log message:
Enable Spleen in wsfont and modify the font selection logic at runtime
in rasops(9) to allow selecting larger fonts when available.Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output
Contributed by Ingo Schwarze on from the my manpages are now webscale dept.
Another major step forward just happened in
mandoc(1)
HTML output: paragraphs are now represented with real HTML
<p> elements, and a number of cases were fixed
in which mandoc used to generate output violating HTML syntax,
mostly related to macros and requests that control
line filling
in paragraphs of text.
Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published
Contributed by Tom Smyth on from the buns-and-caffeine dept.
Tom Smyth has another article (and video) for us:
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) delivered a great talk on documentation in EuroBSDCon 2018. Ingo's slides have been on-line since September at OpenBSD events.html under the EuroBSD Con 2018. Anyone who follows the mailing lists would see Ingo's consistent attention to detail. In this talk Ingo interestingly points out that application of consistent attention to detail in documentation, also improves the quality of the software that is being documented. Ingo shows that if a program is difficult to document, then it is likely due to serious flaws in the program's design.
Video of Todd Mortimer Removing ROP gadgets from OpenBSD
Contributed by Tom Smyth on from the ROP no more dept.
This contribution comes directly from Tom Smyth:
Todd Mortimer (mortimier@) gives an excellent presentation on ROP Gadgets, and some of the mitigation strategies he has recently contributed to OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 6.2 song: A 3 line diff
Contributed by rueda on from the a-work-of-art dept.
With the following commit, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) released the song for OpenBSD 6.2!
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: www Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/12/18 20:51:58 Modified files: . : 62.html lyrics.html Added files: images : 62_right.gif Log message: Release the 6.2 song! This comes 13 months late 'cause things came up.
That's a fine solstice present for puffy followers everywhere!
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration
Contributed by rueda on from the +dnssec dept.
With this
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) enabled DNSSEC validation in the default
unbound.conf(5)
in -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/12/07 02:21:08 Modified files: etc : unbound.conf Log message: Enable DNSSEC validation. Requested by & OK claudio Input & OK sthen OK job, solene Various commenting that they run with validation since a long time without issues.
There's also a related
entry
in the
"Following -current and using snapshots" FAQ.
Update: The change has been reverted:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/12/11 12:16:36 Modified files: etc : unbound.conf Log message: the world is not ready for dnssec enabled by default
