Download OpenBSD 6.1

On Tuesday, 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 and has the characteristic that the developers only want to use open source software. Furthermore, the operating system is known for its excellent documentation and safety. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are being found; Below is an overview of the most important improvements:

This release has several notable changes. The most visible are:

• New syspatch(8) utility for binary base system updates to supported -stable amd64 and i386 releases
• the acme clienta privilege separated ACME client for easy maintenance of Let’s encrypt TLS certificates

We expect these items will make the day to day running of OpenBSD systems significantly easier. Other notable improvements include:

• Several enhancements to vmm(4)including support for third-party BIOSes and Linux guests
• New arm64 platform targeting Pine64, Raspberry Pi 3 and Opteron A1100
• Continuing SMP improvements, particularly in the network stack
• New xenodm(1) X display manager
• Improved capabilities in a number of IEEE 802.11 wireless network drivers
• Updates to the package system tools as well as the package collection itself, with increased number of prebuilt packages for the more popular (and faster) architectures

This release also has updated versions of OpenSMTPD, OpenSSH, LibreSSL, mandoc as well as incremental improvements to all other named subprojects.