Download OpenBSD 4.7

On Wednesday, the new semi-annual release of OpenBSD came out. on this page a comprehensive list of ftp and http download locations can be found. OpenBSD descends from the original Berkeley Software Distribution occasionally, and is known for its developers only wanting to use open source software. Furthermore, the OS is known for its excellent documentation and security. As usual with a new version of OpenBSD, there is also a new theme designed around the OS, accompanied by a real theme song and available on audio CD, as a poster and as a T-shirt. This time the title of the theme was ‘I’m still here‘. Below is a detailed overview of the changes implemented in version 4.7.

New/extended platforms:

• OpenBSD/alpha
  • Added support for the DS15/DS25/ES45.
• OpenBSD/loongson
  • New platform for systems based on the Loongson 2E and 2F MIPS-compatible processors. Supported machines include:
  • Lemote Fuloong 2F mini PC
  • Lemote Lynloong all-in-one PC
  • Lemote Yeeloong netbook (8.9″ and 10.1″ models)
  • EMTEC Gdium Liberty 1000 netbook
• OpenBSD/sgi
  • Added support for multi-node SGI Origin systems, in M ​​mode.
  • Added support for the SGI Origin 350, Onyx 350, Onyx 4 and Tezro systems.
  • Added SMP support on the SGI Octane.
  • Support for many more onboard devices on Octane and Origin systems. (see below)
• OpenBSD/socppc
  • Added support for the RouterBOARD RB600A.
• OpenBSD/sparc64
  • Preliminary support for running OpenBSD in a guest domain on top of an OpenBSD control domain on sun4v machines.

Improved hardware support, including:

• Revamped SCSI midlayer and improved driver support.
• UDF 2.5 and 2.6 (HDDVD and Blu-ray) discs support.
• Added mpath(4), a driver that steals paths to scsi devices if they could be available via multiple paths and then made available via mpath(4).
• New aibs(4) driver for ASUSTeK AI Booster hardware monitoring.
• New uthum(4) driver for the TEMPerHUM USB temperature and humidity sensors.
• New utrh(4) driver for USBRH temperature and humidity sensors.
• New uyurex(4) driver for the Maywa-denki & KAYAC YUREX twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
• New urndis(4) driver for remote NDIS Ethernet over USB devices (phones).
• New xf86-video-wsudl(4) Xorg driver for USB DisplayLink devices supported by udl(4).
• New mpii(4) driver for LSI Logic Fusion MPT Message Passing Interface II based SAS 2 controllers.
• New athn(4) driver for Atheros IEEE 802.11a/g/n wireless network devices.
• New alc(4) driver for Atheros AR8131/AR8132 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
• New lisa(4) driver for STMicroelectronics LIS331DL MEMS motion sensors.
• New gcu(4) driver for Intel EP80579 Global Configuration Unit.
• New lom(4) driver for LOMLite and LOMLite2 as found on many of Sun’s UltraSPARC-IIi servers.
• New vsw(4) driver for virtual switches on sun4v machines.
• New vds(4) driver for virtual disk servers on sun4v machines.
• Support for EP80579 integrated Ethernet and ICH9 MV has been added to em(4).
• Support for 82599 and SFP+ 82598 devices has been added to ix(4).
• Support for the Sun GigabitEthernet SBus Adapter 1.0/1.1 has been added to ti(4).
• Support for SBus variants of the QLogic Fiber Channel host adapters has been added to isp(4).
• Support for SBus variants of the Sun Gigabit Ethernet has been added to gem(4).
• Support for Intel WiFi Link 1000 and Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200/Ultimate-N 6300 has been added to iwn(4).
• Support for Ralink RT3572 based 802.11n devices has been added to run(4).
• VIA Tremor 5.1, M-Audio Revolution 5.1 cards has been added to envy(4).
• New uhts(4) driver for USB HID touchscreens.
• Improved touchscreen support in the xf86-input-ws(4) Xorg driver and improved calibration using the new device properties from Xinput.
• Support for ON CAT6095 and ON CAT34TS02 temperature sensors added to sdtemp(4).
• Several improvements and bug fixes to existing Ethernet drivers, including em(4), re(4), ti(4) and vge(4).
• Support for the PIC PCI-X controller added to the SGI xbridge(4) driver.
• Support for the onboard Fast Ethernet interface found on SGI Octane and many SGI Origin family systems, iec(4).
• Support for more SGI input and video devices on Octane and Origin systems, with iockbc(4), impact(4), and odyssey(4).
• Improved PCI resource allocation; more hardware left unconfigured by the machine’s firmware (including hotplugged hardware) should work now.
• Support for recording/full-duplex added to mavb(4).
• Improved support for USB audio devices in uaudio(4).
• Improved support for bwi(4) devices on strict-alignment architectures like armish.
• Eliminate usage of SCSI tagged queuing mechanisms other than simple queuing, thus avoiding incorrect implementations on various disk devices.
• Eliminate spurious dhclient(8) error messages when the specified interface does not exist.
• Eliminate spurious softraid(4) error messages for removable devices without media.

New tools:

• newfs_ext2fs(8) for creating ext2 filesystems.
• mkuboot(8) for creating U-Boot boot loader images.
• midicat(1) MIDI server allowing MIDI programs to communicate
• POSIX-compliant fuser(1) to identify process IDs holding a file open

File system mid-layer improvements:

• Dynamic Buffer Cache now supported to a max size set with sysctl kern.bufcachepercent
• Dynamic VFS name cache rewrite, now uses Red/Black trees instead of linked lists.
• Numerous NFS client stability fixes.
• Fix FAT32 mounting.
• Fix cd9660 directory handling to eliminate looping and random truncation of directory entries.
• Fix various internal locking problems with cd9660, udf, msdosfs and ffs file systems.

pf(4) improvements:

• nat-to, rdr-to, binat-to options replace the nat, rdr and binat translation rules. See 2009/09/01 – pf(4) address translation changes for more info.
• The route-to, reply-to, dup-to and fastroute options in pf.conf move to filteropts. See 2009/09/02 – pf(4) route-to/reply-to syntax change for more info.
• pf(4) can now translate packets between different routing domains.
• Added -S and -L options to pfctl(8) to store and load pf state table from a file.
• Added support for IPV4 and IPv6 divert sockets.

OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:

• Update capability code in bgpd(8) to follow RFC 5492.
• BGP MPLS VPN (RFC 4364) support added to the bgpd RIB.
• In bgpd(8), implement the RFC4486 BGP Cease Notification Message subcodes.
• It is now possible to enable/disable specific BGP capabilities.
• Update bgpctl(8) irrfilter to support IPv6 and 4-byte AS numbers.
• Minimal router-dead-time of 1 second and sub-second hello intervals added to ospfd(8). Additionally it is now possible to specify sub-second SPF timers for faster route fail-over.
• ospf6d(8) is now installed by default. The RIB can be synced with the kernel routing table now. Support for AS-ext LSA has been added. This is still work-in-progress but testing is highly appreciated.
• ldpd — the MPLS label distribution protocol daemon — is now installed by default. A custom kernel with option MPLS is needed to use it.

Generic network stack improvements:

• brconfig is now integrated into ifconfig(8)
• Added vether(4), a virtual Ethernet device.
• Two bugs in IPsec/HMAC-SHA2 were fixed, resulting in an incompatibility with the HMAC-SHA-256/384/512 hash algorithms with previous versions of OpenBSD and other IPsec implementations sharing the bugs.
• In dhcpd(8), echo back the Relay Agent Information option if present, and add support for the ipsec-tunnel hardware type.
• Make dhcrelay(8) pick up the routing domain from the specified interface and use that rdomain for relaying the packets to the server.
• Added support in dhcrelay(8) for RFC3046 “DHCP-over-ipsec”.
• Make the tcpdump(8) BGP OPEN capability parser RFC 5492 compliant.
• Added an exec command to route(8) to run a process and its children in a specified routing domain.
• ifconfig(8) now deals with more than 64 alias addresses.
• Various fixes to mbuf defragmenting and mbuf chain copying improve reliability.

Assorted improvements:

• malloc(3) now has an S flag to turn on the options that help debugging and improve security.
• Updated terminfo(3) database and ncurses(3) library.
• Added support for lazy binding in ld.so(1) on hppa.
• Added POSIX silent check option (-C) to sort(1).
• Added POSIX extended regular expression support to sed(1) (-E option).
• Added GNU-compatible macro prefix option (-P) to m4(1).
• Make it possible to specify a port in resolv.conf(5).
• Improved FILE locking support in stdio(3).
• Added SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO support in pthreads(3).
• cdio(1) no longer prints bogus information if no TOC is found on the disk.
• New -v flag causes cdio(1) to print profile and feature information.
• whois(1) no longer attempts to keep the memory of 6Bone alive.
• Added per-application MIDI-controlled volume knob to aucat(1)
• Added MMC and MTC support to aucat(1) making possible MIDI-to-audio synchronization
• Added mio_open(3) interface to access hardware and software MIDI ports
• Many memory leaks found by parfait and eliminated.
• Make handling of floppy disk disklabels more reliable by properly initializing starting label.

Install/Upgrade process changes:

• Take more care to ensure all filesystems are umount’ed when restarting an install or upgrade.
• If no possible root disk is found, keep checking until one appears.
• The default ftp directory for -stable is now the release directory instead of the snapshot directory.
• Selection of TZ during installs is no longer confused by trailing slashes.
• If /etc/X11 is found during upgrades, add the X sets to the list of default sets to install.