OpenBSD Journal

OpenBSD 6.5 Released

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on from the Live from Puffystock dept.

2019-04-24, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and elsewhere: With a message sent to relevant mailing lists, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) announced that the OpenBSD project's 46th release, OpenBSD 6.5 is now generally available from mirror sites all over the world.

Notable changes include but are not limited to:

  • On amd64 and i386 platforms, the default linker has been changed to lld.
  • The radeonsi Mesa driver (for hardware acceleration on Southern Islands and Sea Islands radeondrm(4) devices) has been added.
  • pvclock(4), a driver for the KVM paravirtual clock, has been added.
  • Support for isochronous transfers has been added to xhci(4).
  • The (replacement) uaudio(4) driver now supports USB audio class v2.0.
  • There have been numerous improvement in both the IEEE 802.11 wireless and generic network stacks.
  • unveil(2) has been improved considerably, and pledge(2) has gained a new "video" promise.
  • RETGUARD has replaced the stack-protector on amd64 and arm64 architectures.
  • The new pthread rwlock implementation has improved the latency of threaded applications.
  • Xorg(1), the X window server, is no longer installed setuid.
  • bgpd(8) has been enhanced considerably.
  • openrsync(1), rdsetroot(8), and unwind(8) have been added.

For a fuller description, see the OpenBSD 6.5 release page or the detailed changelog of changes since the previous release.

See also the Upgrade Guide.

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  1. By Noryungi (noryungi) noryungi@yahoo.com on

    Congratulations to everyone involved!

    I will donate to the OpenBSD Foundation soon, and I hope everyone reading this article will do so as well.

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    1. By powerolive (powerolive) on

      what?
      this page https://www.openbsd.org/65.html say it is released in Released May 1, 2019

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      1. By powerolive (powerolive) on

        https://web.archive.org/web/20190427004322/https://www.openbsd.org/65.html

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        1. By powerolive (powerolive) on

          https://web.archive.org/web/20190426115748/https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190424132429
          it shows 404

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          1. By d.c. (d.c.) on

            It's just a small time-zone-like time shift. Beware the jetlag!

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