OpenBSD 7.7 Released

Contributed by rueda on 2025-04-22 from the all-the-point-sevens dept.

The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.7, its 58^th release.

The new release contains a number of significant improvements, including but certainly not limited to:

Multiple SMP improvements have been made. TCP output and TCP timers now run in parallel. Only TCP input still uses exclusive netlock.
drm(4) has been updated to to Linux 6.12.21
Performance policy specification is now more flexible. [See earlier report]
sysctl(8) now supports an input file. [See earlier report]
Improvements to network hardware support include new drivers ice(4) for Intel E810 Ethernet devices, and ixv(4) for virtual functions of Intel 82598EB, 82559, and X540.
By default, sysupgrade(8) now upgrades to the next release. [See earlier report]
fw_update(8) now supports arbitrary dmesg files. [See earlier report]
Support for FRAME sockets was added. [See earlier report]
ifconfig scan can now detect/display WPA3 access points.
(Limited) EFI boot manager support has been added to installboot(8).
unwind(8) now supports wildcards in block list. [See earlier report]
rpki-client(8) now has a stricter aging policy for Trust Anchor certificates. [See earlier report]
LibreSSL 4.1.0 [See earlier report for version 4.0.0]
OpenSSH 10.0 [See earlier reports on sshd(8) splitting, and on release]

See the full changelog for more details of the changes made over this latest six month development cycle.

The Installation Guide details how to get the system up and running with a fresh install, while those who already run earlier releases should follow the Upgrade Guide, in most cases using sysupgrade(8).

Readers are encouraged to celebrate the new release by donating to the project to support further development of our favourite OS!

Comments

By Ben (bemc) bemc@sci.eus on 2025-04-28 12:57

I do not see anything about that in the changelist, but since 7.7 Beta I see the filesystem much more robust that before.

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By Noah Altunian (naltun) nbaltunian@gmail.com on 2025-04-28 15:37 https://altun.cc

Congrats to the developers and contributors who helped ship 7.7. Will be upgrading later today.

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