OpenBSD 7.5 released
The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 7.5, the project's 56th release, with numerous improvements and support for 14 hardwareplatforms.
Notable enhancements and new features include
- clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 [see earlier report]
- malloc(3) leak detection now supports backtraces [see earlier report]
- syscall(2) has been removed [see earlier report]
- TSO for em(4) [see earlier report]
- KMS for Apple silicon machines
- pinsyscalls(2) and related work [see earlier report]
- Soft updates (softdep) support removed [see earlier report]
- New wi-fi driver qwx(4) [see earlier report]
- New code for SIGILL faults to help identify misbranches [see earlier report]
- New wi-fi driver mwx(4) [see earlier report]
- IPv6 support in ppp(4) [see earlier report]
- Improved auto-index in httpd(8) [see commit]
- Updated versions of LibreSSL (version 3.9.0). OpenSSH (version 9.7), OpenSMTPD (version 7.5), rpki-client and more
All this along with added support for various new hardware, numerous performance improvements and of course security enhancements.
See the OpenBSD 7.5 release page for a more detailed list, or the daily changelog for even more day to day detail.
As usual, theInstallation Guidedetails how to get the system up and running with a fresh install,while those who already run earlier releases should follow theUpgrade Guide,in most cases usingsysupgrade(8)to upgrade their systems.
In addition to the base system, the new release comes with a number of prebuilt packages. The number of binary packages available for the more popular architectures are:
amd64: 12309
aarch64: 12145
i386: 10830
sparc64: 9432
Thanks to the developers for all the great work!
And to all OpenBSD users: Happy hacking!