Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD
Contributed by rueda on from the clash-of-clangs dept.
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@)
has written a
blog entry
regarding the significant differences between the versions of
LLVM in
base and
ports.
OpenBGPD 7.4 released
Contributed by grey on from the SMTP takes precedence over HTTP where would they be without BGP dept.
We wouldn't blame you if you it slipped under your
RADAR that
OpenBGPD 7.4 was released,
since it doesn't appear to have been mentioned on the OpenBGPD website yet.
However, the release notes may be found in
this mailing list post
from June 14th, 2022:
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=165521316007652&w=2
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset from BSDCan 2022
Contributed by grey on from the Not in Ottawa? What even are space or time with Zoom? Why Zoom? dept.
Peter Hansteen, Massimiliano Stucchi and Tom Smyth gave a presentation on pf at BSDCan 2022. While a video recording from the event has yet to appear, the slides from their presentation may be viewed here:
https://home.nuug.no/~peter/pftutorial/
https://home.nuug.no/~peter/pftutorial/
If you want to attend a session like this, the next chance is at EuroBSDCon in Vienna, September 15.
OpenIKED 7.1 released
Contributed by grey on from the In these days of WFH and VPN vendors dept.
OpenIKED 7.1 was released on May 23rd, 2022.
The complete release notes may be read here:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenIKED/openiked-7.1-relnotes.txt
LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3
Contributed by grey on from the TLSten up! dept.
LibreSSL 3.5.3 was released on May 18th, 2022.
The release notes may be found here:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.5.3-relnotes.txt
However, given the release notes are rather brief, they are quoted here in their entirety:
We have released LibreSSL 3.5.3, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
It includes the following reliability fix:
* Fix d2i_ASN1_OBJECT(). A confusion of two CBS resulted in advancing
the passed *der_in pointer incorrectly. Thanks to Aram Sargsyan for
reporting the issue and testing the fix.
The LibreSSL project continues improvement of the codebase to reflect modern,
safe programming practices. We welcome feedback and improvements from the
broader community. Thanks to all of the contributors who helped make this
release possible.
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on from the all night long dept.
Crystal Kolipe writes in about her work on the framebuffer console, and provides an article on
… how to add a 'night mode' to the OpenBSD framebuffer console to give the text a yellow tint for more comfortable night time viewing, along with quite a few other cosmetic tweaks such as adding support for strikethrough text and double underlining. The article explains how to dynamically adjust the colour pallette, add a new sysctl value, and add a new escape sequence to the console emulation code in the kernel.
Parallel IP forwarding activated
Contributed by rueda on from the and-there-was-much-simultaneous-rejoicing dept.
Following much development and testing, parallel IP forwarding has been enabled in -current. The most recent of the relevant commits are:
and:CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org 2022/04/30 15:13:57 Modified files: sys/net : if.c ifq.c Log message: Run IP input and forwarding with shared netlock. Also distribute packets from the interface receive rings into multiple net task queues. Note that we still have only one softnet task. So there will be no concurrency yet, but we can notice wrong exclusive lock assertions. Soon the final step will be to increase the NET_TASKQ define. lots of testing Hrvoje Popovski; OK sashan@
pkg_add(1) speedup
Contributed by rueda on from the cache-me-if-you-can dept.
In -current, the performance of
pkg_add(1)
has been greatly enhanced by the
enabling of caching by default:
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: espie@cvs.openbsd.org 2022/04/29 04:44:05 Modified files: usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD: PackageLocation.pm usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD/PackageRepository: Cache.pm Installed.pm Log message: finally, turn on caching by default change the defines: TEST_CACHING -> !NO_CACHING TEST_CACHING_VERBOSE -> CACHING_VERBOSE TEST_CACHING_RECHECK -> CACHING_RECHECK okay with sthen@
syspatch71-001_wifi reissued
Contributed by rueda on from the back-on-track dept.
syspatch71-001_wifi was somewhat broken (in terms of the housekeeping rather than the functionality of the patch).
On those systems to which the faulty patch was applied, some manual intervention is required. Instructions for this are now on the errata page.
