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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.  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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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.  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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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.  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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7.  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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8.  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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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().
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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.  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.
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12.  OpenBSD -current moves to 7.5-beta
    OpenBSD -current moves to 7.5-beta. Contributed by Janne Johansson on 2024-02-17 from the springtime for Puffy dept. It's that time of the year again. With this commit , Theo de Raadt ( deraadt@ ) changed the version string for the OpenBSD development branch ( i.e. -current) to 7.5-beta: CVSROOT:/cvs. Module name:src.
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13.  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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14.  SSH gets protection against side channel attacks
    Damien Miller ( djm@) has just committed a new feature for SSH that should help protect against all the various memory side channel attacks that have surfaced recently. Add protection for private keys at rest in RAM against speculation and memory sidechannel attacks like Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer and Rambleed.
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15.  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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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.  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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18.  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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19.  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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20.  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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21.  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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22.  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 ...
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23.  Smartisan becomes Iridium Donor for 2019 - undeadly.org
    Ken Westerback of The OpenBSD Foundation wrote in with some excellent news on the 2019 fundraising campaign:. The OpenBSD Foundation is excited to announce that it has received its largest ever donation. Smartisan has topped its own previous record donation with a 2019 donation of CDN$380,000.00. This makes Smartisan the first Iridium level donor of 2019.
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