Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on from the Puffy's 44th release dept.
A few days ahead of the date hinted at by the work-in-progress release page, OpenBSD 6.2 was released today, October 9th 2017.
Notable changes in this release are as always numerous, and include:
- Improved hardware support on modern platforms including ARM64/ARMv7 and octeon, while amd64 users will appreciate additional support for the Intel Kaby Lake video cards.
- Network stack improvements include extensive SMPization improvements and a new FQ-CoDel queueing discipline, as well as enhanced WiFi support in general and improvements to iwn(4), iwm(4) and anthn(4) drivers.
- Improvements in vmm(4)/vmd include VM migration, as well as various compatibility and performance improvements.
- Security enhancements including a new freezero(3) function, further pledge(2)ing of base system programs and conversion of several daemons to the fork+exec model.
- Trapsleds, KARL, and random linking for libcrypto and ld.so, dramatically increase security by making it harder to find helpful ROP gadgets, and by creating a unique order of objects per-boot.
- The base system compiler on the amd64 and i386 platforms has switched to clang(1).
- New versions of OpenSSH, OpenSMTPd, LibreSSL and mandoc are also included.
The full story is, as always, to be found in the release page, an upgrade guide is available, and of course the project Donations page is always open for business.
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Really excited about the 6.2 release, nice work everyone! :-)
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Seems more stable than 6.1 for me as far as IntelDRM drivers & graphics go, so that's a big +
Now if I could just figure out why some models of mice aggressively attach & detach constantly while other models don't.
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If your platform supprts wsmoused(8), have you tested that as a console-based workaround? Starting that daemon as root, and killing it right before starting X, works for me with non-USB mice which are connected via a PS/2 to USB converter.
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Hello,
I know this is not the ideal place to do this, but OpenBSD 6.2 seems somewhat vulnerable to the issue corrected by "029_tcb" in OpenBSD 6.1.
That should probably be its first errata... ;-)
Please note: since the 6.2 kernel is relinked every reboot, some kernels might be vulnerable, while others are not. I estimate the issue is present around 20% of the time...
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Thanks, looking forward to running 6.2 on some older systems, including several macppc models and an i486 with a special history.
Wondering if there was a typo above?: Under the "Network stack improvements" bullet point, there were two adjacent iwm(4) links. Might one have been meant to indicate a different driver?-
It's IW emm and IW enn :-)
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Updated and donated the usual 45€ of the former CD-Set.
