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OpenBSD Journal: A resource for the OpenBSD community
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Every six months, spring and fall, a new OpenBSD release emerges on the web and familiar download mirrors . The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.5, the project's 56 th release, with numerous improvements and support for 14 hardware platforms . Notable enhancements and new features include. Updated versions of LibreSSL (version 3.9.0).
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=front
2024-02-29T00:00:00.0000000
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20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024 ...
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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 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953
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OpenBSD 7.4 Released
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20231016130614&ref=upstract.com
2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
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OpenBSD 7.0 released
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211014144620
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Introducing dhcpleased(8)
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210722072359
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OpenSSH 9.2/9.2p1 released! - undeadly.org
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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 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230202205608
2023-02-02T00:00:00.0000000
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Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120115616
2022-11-19T00:00:00.0000000
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Soft updates (softdep) disabled for future VFS work
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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 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230706044554
2023-07-06T00:00:00.0000000
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Introduction to sysclean(8)
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Introduction to. sysclean(8) Contributed by rueda on 2023-09-27 from the keep-it-clean! dept. Many OpenBSD sysadmins find the sysclean(8) port useful for removing obsolete files following upgrades. Sebastien Marie ( semarie@ ), the author of sysclean(8) , has written a piece giving an under-the-hood look at the operation of this handy utility.
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230927103221
2023-09-27T00:00:00.0000000
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About the OpenBSD Journal
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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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RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH
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In a message to tech@ Damien Miller (djm@) explained the consequences of his recent commit: RSA/SHA1, a.k.a the "ssh-rsa" signature type is now disabled by default in OpenSSH. While The SSH protocol confusingly uses overlapping names for key and signature algorithms, this does not stop the use of RSA keys and there is no need to regenerate "ssh-rsa" keys - most servers released in the last ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210830113413
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EuroBSDCon 2023 presentations
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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)
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230919063240
2023-09-18T00:00:00.0000000
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New versions of LibreSSL released
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The LibreSSL project has announced the release of versions 3.6.3 and 3.7.3, and (development) version 3.8.0 of the software. The announcement for versions 3.6.3 and 3.7.3 reads: We have released LibreSSL 3.6.3 and 3.7.3, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. They include the following fixes: * Bug fix - Hostflags in the verify parameters would not ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230528115900
2023-05-28T00:00:00.0000000
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OpenBSD KDE Status Report
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210124113220
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OpenSSH 9.3p2 released
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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).
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230719180438
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Index for 2024 - undeadly.org
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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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Index for 2022 - undeadly.org
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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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Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190302235509
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Help the OpenBSD Foundation Reach Its 2022 Funding Goal
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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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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221202062601
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In -current, default write format for tar(1) changed to "pax"
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A series of commits by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) has modified tar(1) such that its default write format (for archives) is that of pax(1).The message with the final commit captures the gist of the change: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: jca@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/04/16 17:09:35 Modified files: bin/pax : options.c tar.1 Log message: Switch tar(1) write default format to 'pax' Lets ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240417053301
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OpenBSD Developer: Ted Unangst
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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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undeadly.org/features/2015/10/beastie_pl_interviews/ted-unangst.html
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DRM updated - undeadly.org
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Contributed by rueda on 2022-01-14 from the DRM me up before you go-go dept. Johathan Gray ( jsg@) has updated DRM to Linux 5.15.14 (with support for several additional chips): CVSROOT:/cvs. Module name:src. Changes by:jsg@cvs.openbsd.org2022/01/13 23:53:17. Modified files:
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220115224052
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Coming soon to a -current system near you: parallel raw IP input
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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 ...
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undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20240418050520&ref=upstract.com
2024-04-18T00:00:00.0000000
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