OpenBSD 6.5 Released
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#4DSPF)
2019-04-24, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and elsewhere: With a message sent to relevant mailing lists, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) announced that the OpenBSD project's 46th release, OpenBSD 6.5 is now generally available from mirror sites all over the world.
Notable changes include but are not limited to:
- On amd64 and i386 platforms, the default linker has been changed to lld.
- The radeonsi Mesa driver (for hardware acceleration on Southern Islands and Sea Islandsradeondrm(4) devices) has been added.
- pvclock(4), a driver for the KVMparavirtual clock, has been added.
- Support for isochronous transfers has been added toxhci(4).
- The (replacement) uaudio(4) driver nowsupports USB audio class v2.0.
- There have been numerous improvement in both the IEEE 802.11 wirelessand generic network stacks.
- unveil(2) has been improved considerably,and pledge(2) has gained a new"video" promise.
- RETGUARD has replaced the stack-protector on amd64 and arm64 architectures.
- The new pthread rwlockimplementation has improved the latency of threaded applications.
- Xorg(1), the X window server,is no longer installed setuid.
- bgpd(8) has been enhanced considerably.
- openrsync(1), rdsetroot(8),and unwind(8) have been added.
For a fuller description, see the OpenBSD 6.5 release page or the detailed changelog of changes since the previous release.
See also the Upgrade Guide.