Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-08-05 from the https, really relayed dept.

Returning readers of this site may have noticed that the pace of development in relayd(8) and httpd(8) has been picking up recently. Now Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) has a new blog post out titled Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) where he tells the story.

The article starts with

Start with WHY
As I mentioned in my OpenBSD 7.8 highlights post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) had stalled. Many diffs appeared on the tech@ mailing list from different contributors, but few were committed into the repository. The main reason was simple: Established OpenBSD developers weren’t interested in these daemons anymore. Call it momentum, or timing.

And he goes on to describe his motivation, and the numerous improvements that he and Kirill Korinsky (kirill@) added to those daemons once they got started.

Read the whole thing here: Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8).

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