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1.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    In what can only be called a great stride forward in routing security, Sebastian Benoit (benno@) announced the availability of rpki-client version 9.0.The announcement reads, Subject: rpki-client 9.0 released From: Sebastian Benoit <benno openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-03-03 17:24:06 rpki-client 9.0 has just been released and will be available in the rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.
    undeadly.org/cgi    2024-02-29T00:00:00.0000000
   
2.  Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
    In a recent message to the tech mailing list, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) summarized the state of the new memory protections work.The thread also includes a followup from Otto Moerbeek (otto@) on consequent changes to the memory allocation mechanisms.. Theo writes, From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt openbsd ! org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:10:05 +0000 To: openbsd-tech Subject: More on mimmutable ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120115616    2022-11-19T00:00:00.0000000
   
3.  20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024 ...
    Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-04-07 from the 20 years a Puffyist dept. It's been 20 years since the first undeadly.org post appeared. At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April's Fool prank when ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953    2024-04-09T04:52:58.0000000
   
4.  OpenBGPD 7.5 released
    We have released OpenBGPD 7.5, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This release includes the following changes to the previous release: Implement RFC 9234 - Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages. Full support for RFC 7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP .
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220716101930    2022-07-15T00:00:00.0000000
   
5.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    In what can only be called a great stride forward in routing security, Sebastian Benoit (benno@) announced the availability of rpki-client version 9.0.The announcement reads, Subject: rpki-client 9.0 released From: Sebastian Benoit <benno openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-03-03 17:24:06 rpki-client 9.0 has just been released and will be available in the rpki-client directory of any OpenBSD mirror soon.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=front    2024-04-07T00:00:00.0000000
   
6.  OpenBSD 7.3 released
    Calgary and elsewhere, 2023-04-10 : The OpenBSD project today announced the release and general availability of its latest stable version, OpenBSD 7.3 . Eagerly anticipated by users, engineers, enthusiasts and industry pundits all over the world, this release contains a number of improvements over earlier versions, including but not limited to.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230410140049    2023-03-06T00:00:00.0000000
   
7.  Index for 2021
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2021. January. Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio; Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool!
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8.  OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland ...
    In a September 1st post to tech@ titled immutable userland mappings, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) gave us a preview of code that may soon land in -current.The message leads in, In the last few years, I have been improving the strictness of userland memory layout. An example is the recent addition of MAP_STACK and msyscall().
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902100648    2022-09-02T00:00:00.0000000
   
9.  About the OpenBSD Journal
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. About the OpenBSD Journal Purpose. The OpenBSD Journal is a site dedicated to providing news and information of interest to members of the OpenBSD community.. The site is run by a small group of volunteers. Although several OpenBSD developers are registered users of the site, and the site receives frequent contributions ...
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10.  OpenBSD KDE Status Report
    OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing. After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine.
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11.  OpenBSD 7.4 Released
    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 ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20231016130614&ref=upstract.com    2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
   
12.  malloc leak detection available in -current
    OpenBSD-current just grew a new tool for developers working on OpenBSD to detect unsafe behaviors in their code.OpenBSD lets you more easily track memory allocations and whether allocations are properly freed after use. In a message to tech@, Otto Moerbeek (otto@) announced the new functionality: . Subject: malloc leak detection available in -current From: Otto Moerbeek <otto drijf ! net> Date ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230417074903    2023-04-17T00:00:00.0000000
   
13.  OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
    OpenSSH 9.3p2 released. Contributed by grey on 2023-07-19 from the It's Wednesday, but you should still patch this now. dept. As announced by Damien Miller: "We've just made an OpenSSH release to fix a remotely exploitable RCE vulnerability in ssh-agent's PKCS#11 support (CVE-2023-38408).
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230719180438    2023-07-19T00:00:00.0000000
   
14.  Index for 2022 - undeadly.org
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2022. January. DRM updated; LibreSSL update; A proof of concept: running OpenBSD on the PinePhone; February. New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published
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15.  SMT Disabled by Default in -current
    Contributed by rueda on 2018-06-20 from the sedulously-mitigating-threats dept. As part of ongoing mitigations against CPU vulnerabilities, -current has gained a new sysctl, " hw.smt ", to control Simultaneous Multi Threading ( SMT ). This is disabled by default (only on Intel® CPUs, for now). The full commit was: sys/arch/amd64/amd64: cpu.c ...
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16.  How to create a USB flash installer for OpenBSD
    The isolinux method is quite interesting, they provide an HD-compatible MBR and post-process the ISO with a program which searches for the location of the actual isolinux boot loader and patches it in.
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17.  Tunneling vxlan(4) over WireGuard wg(4) - undeadly.org
    Rob Turner writes in about a practical guide to running vxlan(4) over a WireGuard (wg(4)) connection. Rob writes, I struggled to find much more info than Reyk's ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230214061330    2023-02-13T00:00:00.0000000
   
18.  OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base - undeadly.org
    support to base and tweaked OpenSSH to use them directly. This means. there will be no additional configuration hoops to jump through to use. U2F/FIDO2 security keys. Hardware backed keys can be generated using " ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk". (or "ed25519-sk" if your token supports it). Many tokens require to be. touched/tapped to confirm this step.
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19.  OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst
    OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst. Date: 2015-10-25. On October 18th 20 years ago the first commits to the OpenBSD project landed in the CVS repository. Today on the anniversary the beastie.pl team invites all readers to a series of interviews that our staff conducted with the project developers. We continue with our eight interview - Ted Unangst. 1.
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20.  Index for 2020
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2020. January. Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. [Updated] u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work
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21.  EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
    Coimbra! dept. EuroBSDCon 2023 has now ended, and slides for many of the OpenBSD developer presentations are now available in the usual place. Video of the presentations can be expected somewhat later. Slides from the tutorial "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" are also available. (Comments are closed)
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230919063240    2023-09-18T00:00:00.0000000
   
22.  Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
    Archive Index for. 2024. January. TSO for em(4) committed to -current. OpenBSD workstation hardening tips. DSA removal from OpenSSH. Effortless OpenBSD Audio and Desktop Screen Recording Guide. pinsyscalls(2) working in anger. KMS for Apple silicon machines.
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23.  OpenBSD in Canada
    According to Theo de Raadt, we only have 4 active OpenBSD developers in Canada. Theo de Raadt and Bob Beck, both Canadian citizens and long-time OpenBSD developers, make a case that Canada isn't special with regards to OpenBSD. But that just isn't true, historically or currently. Like all open source software projects, OpenBSD is inherently an ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230226065006    2023-02-07T00:00:00.0000000