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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.
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2.  LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released
    In a not-quite-unexpected announcement, the LibreSSL development team released the new versions. The announcement reads, Subject: LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released From: Brent Cook <busterb gmail ! com> Date: 2024-03-28 4:47:28 We have released LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
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3.  April 21, 2022: OpenBSD 7.1 Released
    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.
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4.  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 ...
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5.  OpenBSD 7.0 released
    Contributed by rueda on 2021-09-20 from the Undeadly-SYNs dept. The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.0 , the project's 51 st release. As usual, the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
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6.  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 ...
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7.  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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8.  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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9.  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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10.  September 30th, 2021 syspatches: some assembly might be required
    Did you just run syspatch(8) and see it fail? Here's the reason: one of the two root certificates behind the (excellent) Let's Encrypt CA service has expired. A bug in (the "legacy" verifier of) LibreSSL also contributed. The syspatches (for OpenBSD 6.8, 032, for OpenBSD 6.9, 018) mitigate the unfortunate situation. However, your syspatch may fail if your local mirror uses a Let's Encrypt ...
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11.  Initial support for guided disk encryption in the installer
    The OpenBSD installer now has basic support for configuring disk encryption during the regular installation process. Previously, disk encryption needed to be set up manually by dropping to the shell from the installer. Initial support, likely to be expanded upon, was committed by Klemens Nanni ( kn@) on March 7, 2023 . The commit reads,
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12.  Introducing dhcpleased(8)
    Now enabled by default on OpenBSD -current is dhcpleased (8), a dynamic host configuration protocol daemon written by florian@ (Florian Obser), who spoke with us about his work: I suppose this is either the KAME project 's fault, or if we don't want to go that far back, Theo's fault. At g2k16 he floated the idea of a network configuration daemon.
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13.  HEADS UP: ntpd changing
    The ntpd options -s and -S are going to be removed soon and at startup. with print: -s option no longer works and will be removed soon. Please reconfigure to use constraints or trusted servers. Probably after 6.7 we'll delete the warning. Maybe for 6.8 we'll remove. -s and -S from getopt, and starting with those options will fail.
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14.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    A clear sign that the OpenBSD 7.5 release cycle is entering the final phases just emerged.. In this commit, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) changed the version string to 7.5:. From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-02-29 17:05:10 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/02/29 10:05:10 Modified files: sys/conf : newvers.sh Log message: move from 7.5 ...
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15.  Wayland on OpenBSD
    Wayland on OpenBSD. Contributed by rueda on 2023-07-10 from the way to go to land dept. Matthieu Herrb ( matthieu@) has written some notes on his work at the (recently-concluded) g2k23 hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia . His article, Wayland on OpenBSD , starts: These are my notes from experimenting with building Wayland bits on OpenBSD during ...
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16.  Index for 2023
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2023. January. retguard for amd64 system calls; Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64; Game of Trees 0.80 released. sshd random relinking at boot; Game of Trees milestone; amd64 execute-only committed to -current; Game of Trees 0.82 released.
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17.  Help the OpenBSD Foundation Reach Its 2022 Funding Goal
    The OpenBSD Foundation, which is central to funding the OpenBSD project, needs your help to reach its 2022 Fundraising Goal of $300,000. At the time of writing, the amount raised in 2022 stands at a little over 50% of the stated goal. The Foundation needs your help to sustainably fund the project. Please head over to the Foundation's donations ...
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18.  OpenBSD Developer: Henning Brauer
    Date: 2015-10-30. 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 thirteenth interview - Henning Brauer.
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19.  Index for 2019
    OpenBSD Journal. Home Archives About Submit Story Create Account Login. Archive Index for 2019. January. Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation - on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published; Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output; New console font Spleen made default; OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten
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20.  EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
    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.
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21.  Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
    Archive Index for 2024. 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.
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22.  LibreSSL documentation status update
    LibreSSL documentation status update. Contributed by schwarze on 2020-08-16 from the little-strokes-to-great-oaks dept. More than six years ago, LibreSSL was forked from OpenSSL, and almost two years ago, i explained the status of LibreSSL documentation during EuroBSDCon 2018 in Bucuresti. So it seems providing an update might be in order.
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23.  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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