Catchup 2021-11-03

Interesting developments (in -current) sinceOpenBSD 7.0 include:

• Wireless driversiwm(4) andiwx(4)now support 40MHz channels -seecommits.On tech@, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) hasrequested testingof a diff to add such support toiwn(4).
• A realpath(1)utilitywas added,largely for the benefit of porters.
• scp(1)hasswapped backto using the SFTP protocol by default.See earlier report.
• The implementations ofpoll(2),select(2),ppoll(2),and pselect(2)were changedto be based onkqueue(2).
• httpd(8) hasgained supportfor custom error pages.
• Syscall kevent(2)has beenunlocked.
• Portnet/vpnc-scriptshas gained support forresolvd(8).
• Sysctlhw.perfpolicyis now set to auto by default at startup.See thecommit messagefor the details.
• igc(4),a driver for Intel 2.5Gb Ethernet controllers,has been added.
• Mouse tracking is nowdisabled by defaultin xterm(1).Setting X resourceallowMouseOpsto true reinstates the earlier behaviour.