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1.  OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
    The work to improve the capabilities of the network stack is about to take a noticeable step forward. In a message to tech@ titled parallel raw IP input, Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) posted a patch that he describes as. List: openbsd-tech Subject: parallel raw IP input From: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm openbsd ! org> Date: 2024-04-11 20:24:39 Hi, As mvs@ mentioned, running raw IP in parallel is easier ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=front    2024-04-11T00:00:00.0000000
   
2.  OpenBGPD 8.0 released
    The OpenBSD project has released a new version of OpenBGPD, the OpenBSD Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing daemon, version 8.0.The announcement reads, From: Claudio Jeker <claudio openbsd ! org> Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 16:24:30 +0000 To: openbsd-announce Subject: OpenBGPD 8.0 released We have released OpenBGPD 8.0, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror ...
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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    2024-04-07T00:00:00.0000000
   
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 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
   
6.  OpenSSH 9.2/9.2p1 released! - undeadly.org
    OpenSSH 9.2 was released on 2023-02-02. It is available from the mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/. As should be of no surprise to undeadly readers, OpenSSH ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230202205608    2023-02-02T00:00:00.0000000
   
7.  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
   
8.  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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9.  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
   
10.  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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11.  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
   
12.  Game of Trees 0.98 released
    The version control system gameoftrees 0.98 has been released and should soon show up in OpenBSD-current packages.An update for the -portable version will follow as well.. The main improvements in the new release are listed in the release notes as - speed up got tag -l by caching timestamps in got_ref_cmp_tags() - provide a macro for vi(1) path for use by -portable at compile time - avoid a ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240424043509    2024-04-23T00:00:00.0000000
   
13.  rpki-client 9.0 released
    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. It is recommended. that all users update to this version for improved reliability. rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource. Public Key Infrastructure ( RPKI) for Relying ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240304063233    2024-03-03T00:00:00.0000000
   
14.  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,
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230308063109    2023-03-07T00:00:00.0000000
   
15.  OpenSSH 9.3/9.3p1 released - undeadly.org
    On 2023-03-15 , the release of version 9.3 of OpenSSH was announced: […] This release fixes a number of security bugs. safety problem. The memory safety problem is not believed to be. security bugs. * ssh-add(1): when adding smartcard keys to ssh-agent(1) with the. per-hop desination constraints (ssh-add -h ...) added in OpenSSH.
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230316040613    2023-03-15T00:00:00.0000000
   
16.  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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17.  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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18.  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
   
19.  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
   
20.  Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
    It's in -current only, so it will be available in 6.5, out in two months or so. Right now your options are: build it yourself (easy), port the port to 6.4 or upgrade to a snapshot (which is is 6.5-beta since last week).
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21.  Call For Testing: Add TSO support for em(4)
    In a recent message to tech@, Marcus Glocker (mglocker@), asks users running -current for testing of a potenially performance enhancing diff:. List: openbsd-tech Subject: Add TSO support for em(4) From: Marcus Glocker <marcus nazgul ! ch> Date: 2023-12-21 22:42:39 As already discussed with claudio@ and Paul over chat. This diff adds TSO support for the em(4) 82575, 82576, 82580, I350, and I210 ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231227141831    2023-12-26T00:00:00.0000000
   
22.  Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work
    A low key leak from the ongoing g2k23 hackathon comes the news that soft updates (aka softdep) will, for now, be a no-op on OpenBSD-current.. The commit message by Bob Beck (beck@) reads, . From: Bob Beck <beck cvs ! openbsd ! org> Date: 2023-07-05 15:13:28 CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: beck@cvs.openbsd.org 2023/07/05 09:13:28 Modified files: sys/kern : vfs_syscalls.c sys/sys ...
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554    2023-07-05T00:00:00.0000000
   
23.  Passphrase timeout for disk decryption at boot added (potential battery ...
    Add boot.conf(8) 'mach idle [secs]' to halt at idle passphrase prompts. Enable users to power down their machines if there was no input after N. seconds during disk descryption. Motivation is to save battery and prevent pocket heaters when notebooks. unhibernate (e.g. lid accidentially opened) and sit at "Passphrase: ".
    undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240426083308    2024-04-26T00:00:00.0000000