OpenBSD Journal

OpenBSD 7.6 Released

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on from the splash them oars, Puffy dept.

The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release.

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

  • There is initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite [arm64] laptops.
  • Initial support for Suspend-to-Idle has been added on amd64 and i386, enabling suspend on machines which do not support S3.
  • UDP parallel input has been enabled. [See earlier report]
  • Libva's VA-API (Video Acceleration API) was imported into xenocara. [See earlier report]
  • The default write format for tar(1) has changed to "pax". [See earlier report]
  • pfctl(8) and systat(1) now display fragment reassembly statistics. [See earlier report]
  • A configurable passphrase timeout for disk decryption at boot (a potential battery lifesaver) has been added. [See earlier report]
  • Local-to-anchor tables are now available in pf(4) rules. [See earlier report]
  • rport(4), a driver providing point-to-point interfaces for layer 3 connectivity between rdomain(4) instances, has been added.
  • dhcp6leased(8), a DHCPv6 client daemon for IPv6 PD has been added. [See earlier report]
  • dhclient(8) has been removed (now that dhcpleased(8) is well established). [See earlier report]
  • OpenSSH 9.9, featuring:

and of course there is the full changelog which details the changes made over this latest six month development cycle.

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) to upgrade their systems.

Now please dive in and enjoy the new release, and while the installer runs, please do donate to the project to support further development and more future goodies for us all!


Comments
  1. By John McCue (jmcunx) jmcq66@comcast.net on

    Upgrade easy as usual, we are getting spoiled.

    Plus, there is this old song "The Harptones- 'Life is but a Dream' (1955)" :)

    That is based upon the name of the graphic in
    https://www.openbsd.org/76.html

  2. By Honkie Plankie (coff) nelis@freedom.nl on

    I'm confused by the date on this article. It would appear to be incorrect and/or the news items are posted out of order.

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