OpenSSH updated to 8.9
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#5WM7S)
On February 23rd, 2022 OpenSSH was updated to version 8.9.
The complete release notes may be found here:
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.9
For users not running OpenBSD, OpenSSH 8.9p1 portable was also released.
Of particular interest from the release notes is a mitigation for a "Security Near Miss" as well as MD5-hashed passphrases finally being deprecated from the portable release [editor's note: it's about time!].
The complete release notes may be found here:
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.9
For users not running OpenBSD, OpenSSH 8.9p1 portable was also released.
Of particular interest from the release notes is a mitigation for a "Security Near Miss" as well as MD5-hashed passphrases finally being deprecated from the portable release [editor's note: it's about time!].