OpenBSD 6.9 released

The OpenBSD project has releasedOpenBSD 6.9, the project's 50th release. As usual the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog.

Notable improvements include, but are not limited to

• The arm64 platform now has OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1
• Numerous improvements to the relatively fresh powerpc64 platform
• A generous sprinkling of multicore untangling in the network stack
• A fresh virtual Ethernet Bridge device veb(4), more details in Introducing veb(4) - a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge
• New daemons dhcpleased(8) (see also) and resolvd(8) (see also) introduced to make road warriors' lives easier. (These daemons are not enabled by default.)
• rpki-client(8) hasseen major work, including initial support for RRDP(The RPKI Repository Delta Protocol,RFC 8182).
• For enhanced privacy control for video recording, thesysctl(8) parameterkern.video.record was added.(See earlier report).This is analogous to kern.audio.record.
• Major updates to packages

Those upgrading from 6.8 or earlier releases should consult the Upgrade Guide.

Thanks to the developers for all the good work that went into this excellent new release!

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