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Details of the2018 campaign have been added to the Foundation's website. The goal for theyear is for $300,000. The total for "smaller" donations has alreadytaken the OpenBSD community to bronze level sponsorship!Please show your support by contributing.
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Patrick Wildt (patrick@) recently committed some code that will update the Intel microcode on many Intel CPUs, a diff initially written by Stefan Fritsch (sf@). The microcode of your CPU is basically the firmware that runs on your (Intel) processor, defining its instruction set in terms of so called "microinstructions". The new code depends, of course, on the corresponding firmware package, ported by Patrick which can be installed using a very recent fw_update(1). Of course, this all plays into the recently revealed problems in Intel (and other) CPUs, Meltdown and Spectre.Read more…
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ITWirehas publishedan articleregarding Theo de Raadt's (deraadt@) reaction to theMeltdown/Spectre disclosures.One choice quote reads:
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If you run a mail service, you probably like to have greylisting in place, via spamd(8) or similar means. However, there are some sites that simply do not play well with greylisting, and for those it's useful to extract SPF information to identify their valid outgoing SMTP hosts. Now OpenBSD offers a straightforward mechanism to do that and fill your nospamd table, right from the smtpctl utility via the subcommand spf walk. Gilles Chehade (gilles@) describes how in a recent blog post titled spfwalk.This feature is still in need of testing, so please grab a snapshot and test!
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Amessage to tech@from Philip Guenther (guenther@) provides the first publicinformation from developers regarding the OpenBSD response to the recentlyannouncedCPU vulnerabilities:
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In amessage to misc@,Tom Smyth wrote (in part):
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In amessage to tech@,Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) provided some insights into ongoingwork on pledge(2):
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arm64 is now anofficially supported platform for OpenBSD.As some readers will have noticed,there's nowsyspatch(8) support, too.Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) committed the following change:
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Another p2k17 hackathon report is just in, from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@), who writes:
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Our dear friend Bob Beck (beck@) writes:
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A new p2k17 hackathon report has arrived, this one from Florian Obser, who writes:
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Landry Breuil (landry@) sent in our next report from the recent ports hackathon:
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The next p2k17 report comes from Anthony J. Bentley (bentley@):
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The next p2k17 report comes from Sebastian Reitenbach (sebastian@):
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The latest hackathon report to come in today came from Christian Weisgerber (naddy@):
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The p2k17 hackathon reports keep flowing in, here's one from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@):
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Here is a new p2k17 hackathon report from Paul Irofti (pirofti@), who writes:
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A new p2k17 hackathon report is in, from Marc Espie, who writes:
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The p2k17 hackathon has concluded, and we have our first report.Matthias Kilian (kili@) wrote in:
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In amessage to tech@,Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) wrote:
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A few days ahead of the date hinted at by the work-in-progress release page, OpenBSD 6.2 was released today, October 9th 2017.Notable changes in this release are as always numerous, and include:Read more…
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Robert Nagy (robert@) wrote in with a fascinating story of hunting down arecent problem with ports:
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TheEvents and Paperspage of theOpenBSD websitehas been updated to includelinksfor the recently-concludedEuroBSDcon 2017.Rather than reproduce the links here, we suggest readers head over tothe authoritative source.Video recordings of individual presentations are not available at the time of writing,but may be found when themulti-session room recordingsare up.Update:Events and Papersnow has links to individual videos, and aplaylistis available.(Thanks Mevene and espie!)
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The next hackathon reports comes from Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
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After a few quiet days, here is a new t2k17 hackathon report, from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse. Jasper writes,
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Kenneth R Westerback (krw@ when wearing hisdeveloper hat) wrote in to let us know:
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The flak reports by Ted Unangst (tedu@) continue withpart 627.Update: Part 628Update: Part 629
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Hrvoje Popovski directed our attention to a new blog post from mpi@ discussing one improvements in the performance of the networking stack.
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The next t2k17 hackathon report comes from first time hackathon participant Aaron Bieber, who writes:
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Next up in our series of t2k17 hackathon reports is this one from Philip Guenther:
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Our next hackathon report comes from Andrew Hewus Fresh, who writes:
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The next t2k17 report comes from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) who writes
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The t2k17 hackathon reports keep trickling in. Here's the one from Ian Sutton, who writes:
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I slacked so much that even portroachstopped mailing the outdated ports I maintained as it noticed how pointless itwas :-)Read more...
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I slacked so much that even portroachstopped mailing the outdated ports I maintained as it noticed how pointless itwas :-)Read more…
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It almost went unnoticed due to the 6.2-beta announcement, but Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) just commited a very useful update to syspatch. In this commit, the groundwork is done for having syspatch update only the kernel object files that have changed. Due to KARL, the scheme to relink the kernel for each reboot, it makes sense to save space and bandwidth that way.The commit message reads:Read more…
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It almost went unnoticed due to the 6.2-beta announcement, but Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) just commited a very useful update to syspatch. In this commit, the groundwork is done for having syspatch update only the kernel object files that have changed. Due to KARL, the scheme to relink the kernel for each reboot, it makes sense to save space and bandwidth that way.The commit message reads:Read more...
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Theo has just committed the diff that marks the end of the development cycle and the beginning of the testing phase for the upcoming 6.2 release:
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Theo has just committed the diff that marks the end of the development cycle and the beginning of the testing phase for the upcoming 6.2 release:
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The second report from the just completed t2k17 hackathoncomes from Ted Unangst (tedu@), who writes:
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In a message to the tech mailling list, Theo de Raadt(deraadt@) offered a preview of the next big thing in exploit mitigation, dubbed RETGUARD:
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In a message to the tech mailling list, Theo de Raadt(deraadt@) offered a preview of the next big thing in exploit mitigation, dubbed RETGUARD:
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As there have been no reports of functional bugs since the last beta, and the primary goal of the work was achieved long ago, the (main) Undeadly server is to be upgraded.The upgrade, which is expected to involve downtime of no more than one hour, is scheduled for next Tuesday, 2017-08-22 07:00 UTC.Changes since the last public beta include:
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As there have been no reports of functional bugs since the last beta, and the primary goal of the work was achieved long ago, the (main) Undeadly server is to be upgraded.The upgrade, which is expected to involve downtime of no more than one hour, is scheduled for next Tuesday, 2017-08-22 07:00 UTC.Changes since the last public beta include:
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The second report from the just completed t2k17 hackathoncomes from Ted Unangst (tedu@), who writes:
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News from the OpenBSD Foundation: The Foundation has this year's first Iridium donor.The official statement from the foundation, via director Ken Westerback reads,
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News from the OpenBSD Foundation: The Foundation has this year's first Iridium donor.The official statement from the foundation, via director Ken Westerback reads,