OpenBSD 6.1 Released

April 11, 2017: The OpenBSD project has announced the availability of the newest release, OpenBSD 6.1:

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.1.This is our 42nd release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of morethan twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install.

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-client, a 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 capabilites 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.

The release page contains a fuller list of changes while the upgrade page gives recommendations on how to upgrade to the new release.