OpenBSD 6.7 Released

The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 6.7, marking the 48th release of our favorite operating system. The announcement message and the release page both have detailed information.

These are some highlights of the improvements in the present release:

• For new installs on nearly all architectures the default file system is now FFS2, sporting 64-bit timestamps and block counters
• There are numerous SMP improvements, including unlocking of several system calls
• Hardware support in all architectures is much improved and expanded, with a number of new drivers including the iwx(4) driver for new Intel WiFi devices as well as significant expansion of arm64 and armv7 hardware support.
• Enabled rpki-client(8), to support Origin Validation in BGP-speaking routers in the base install.
• New versions of programs and subsystems maintained as part of OpenBSD but widely reused elsewhere:
  • LibreSSL 3.1.1, which includes TLS 1.3 support enabled by default on the client side
  • OpenSSH 8.3, which includes FIDO authenticator support [as reported previously]
  • OpenSMTPD 6.7.0

See the release page and the daily changelog for a full list of changes since the previous release.Those upgrading from version 6.6 should read theUpgrade Guide.

Thanks to the developers for all the good work that goes into each release! To support further work on OpenBSD, please see the donations page for ways to contribute even if you can not offer up code yourself.