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Updated 2025-09-15 21:30
n2k15: mpi@ on MP networking progress
Next up in our continuing series of n2k15 hackathon reports comes one from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@), who writes:
n2k15: reyk@ on hosting a hackathon, vmd, and the switch
Our next report comes from the hackathon organizer himself, Reyk Floeter (reyk@).
n2k15: krw@ on fdisk, installboot, dhclient, GPT fixes
The next n2k15 hackathon report comes from Ken Westerback (krw@).
n2k15: vgross@ on deep surgery in TCP/IP stack code
Just in, this report from Vincent Gross (vgross@) on the recent n2k15 hackathon:
n2k15: bluhm@ on MP networking (out from under biglock)
Next up in the ongoing series of n2k15 reports is Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@), who writes:
n2k15: tedu@ on rebound, malloc hardening, removing legacy code
The second n2k15 hackathon report comes from Ted Unangst (tedu@), who writes:
n2k15: sashan@ on PF mpsafe progess
Our first n2k15 hackathon report comes from Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), who writes:
Preparing multitouch support - request for tests
Ulf Brosziewski (bru@) writes to tech@:
Hackfest OpenBSD presentations
Two OpenBSD developers gave presentations at this year's Hackfest security conference in Quebec. The videos of both are now online for your viewing pleasure:"Kernel W^X Improvements In OpenBSD" by Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) (slides)"Pledge: A New Security Technology in OpenBSD" by Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) (slides)
Interview: Renato Westphal (renato@)
Renato Westphal (renato@) recently agreed to answer some questions in the wake ofcommittingeigrpd(8):
vmm(4) userland bits vmd(8), vmmctl(8) hit -current
The long-anticipated native OpenBSD amd64 and i386 hypervisor vmm(4) has been committed, with userland tools, to the public CVS repository. If you've been following source changes closely, you probably noticed the series of commits like this one from Mike Larkin (mlarkin@), supplemented with one by Reyk Floeter (reyk@). In an announcement and overview sent to tech@, Mike writes:
u2k15: mikeb@ on IPSEC progress (Chacha20-Poly1305)
In our ongoing series of ü2k15 hackathon reports, here is Mike Belopuhov's (mikeb@) entry:
u2k15: florian@ on IPv6 hackery
The next hackathon report is from Florian Obser (florian@), who writes:
Status of pledge(2)
For those wondering about the ongoing integration progress of OpenBSD's pledge(2) subsystem, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has an informative update.
u2k15: stsp@ on hackathon shirts, setup, UTF-8 and more
Our next u2k15 hackathon report comes from none other than Stefan Sperling (stsp@), who writes:
Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4)
Stefan Sperling (stsp@) writes in to the tech@ list with a great announcement for WiFi users:
u2k15: sebastia@ on packages progress
The next u2k15 hackathon report comes from Sebastian Reitenbach (sebastia@), with adventures from packages land:
u2k15: jung@ on asmc(4), ports work, EFI testing
The next report from the 2k15 hackathon comes from Joerg Jung (jung@), chronicling among other things the introduction of asmc(4):
u2k15: mpi@ on network SMPization cleanup
Our next u2k15 report comes from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@):
OpenBGPd and route filters
Many moons ago, OpenBGPd was extensively used throughout the networking world as a Route Server. However, over the years, many have stopped using it and have migrated away to other implementations. Recently, I have been getting more involved with the networking community, so I decided to ask "why?"Read more...
less less and more less
Nicholas Marriott (nicm@) has replaced the aging version of less(1) in the OpenBSD base system with a more modern fork from illumos founder Garrett D'Amore.Read more...
vmm(4) update: it boots!
Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) is making progress on vmm(4), the upcoming OpenBSD-native hypervisor. He shared a status update today on Twitter, showcasing a VM booting to multiuser login.Read more...
u2k15: krw@ on msdosfs fixes, installer cleanup, GPT fdisk, softraid, dhclient
The first report to come in from the newly completed u2k15 hackathon in Berlin is from Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
Developer interview roundup
Polish BSD news site beastie.pl has been conducting interviews with various OpenBSD developers for the 20th anniversary. Each one covers some background info on the interviewee, how and why they got into OpenBSD and what they're looking forward to. The series has just concluded, and you can find the complete list here:Read more...
Developer interview roundup
Polish BSD news site beastie.pl has been conducting interviews with various OpenBSD developers for the 20th anniversary. Each one covers some background info on the interviewee, how and why they got into OpenBSD and what they're looking forward to. The series has just concluded, and you can find the complete list here:Read more...
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online
No, that's not a typo; the videos for EuroBSDCon 2014 are finallyonline. The OpenBSD presentations were:
W^X enabled in Firefox port
After recent discussions of revisiting W^X support in Mozilla Firefox, David Coppa (dcoppa@) has flipped the switch to enable it for OpenBSD users running -current.Read more...
OpenBSD 5.8 released
October 18th, 2015: The OpenBSD team marks the 20th anniversary of the project today with the general availability of OpenBSD 5.8.
BSDNow Episode 111: Xenocratic Oath
On this week'sepisodeofBSDNow,the hosts interview OpenBSD's Brandon Mercer (bmercer@) about how and why he became an OpenBSD developer, the unfortunate state of IT in the health care industry and how OpenBSD has a part to play in fixing that, and his insights into how OpenBSD's 1-year support cycle can help you to 'clean out your fridge' for better overall tech results.As always, they have a roundup of the week's odds and ends in the world of BSD.[Video|HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent]
Preordered OpenBSD 5.8 CD Sets Arriving
The first CD set arrived report to appear on misc@ was the one from M Wheeler, located somewhere in the UK, who wrote:
Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
As noted in a previous story, the new pledge(2) privilege restriction syscall (formerly known as tame(2)) has been inserted into large swathes of the base system. Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) asked tech readers to look closely for any failures:
The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
As mentioned in a previous article, the OpenSMTPD code has seen its first independent audit, which lead to a series of errata and commits. Now main OpenSMTPD developer Gilles Chehade (gilles@) posted a summary of the audit and recent events to the misc@opensmptd.org mailing list, with discussion of the bugs found and some forward-looking statements:
tame(2) is now pledge(2)
The tame(2) privilege restriction syscall has now been renamed to pledge(2) by Theo de Raadt in this commit:
EuroBSDCon 2015 OpenBSD Presentations Online
This year's EuroBSDCon in Stockholm, Sweden was a quite successful conference with approximately 250 attendees and a fairly strong showing of OpenBSD developers presenting:
Recent OpenSMTPD errata and you
OpenSMTPD has bumped its version number a couple times in the last few days, and there's been some confusion about the included security fixes. This post will bring you up to speed on what's affected and what's not.Read more...
Call for Testing: tame userland diff
After recently publishing theslidesfrom his talk on the subject,Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has justmailedthe masses, letting us know where we are withtame(2):
l2k15 Hackathon Report: beck@ on libtls
Our next l2k15 hackathon report comes from Bob Beck (beck@):
l2k15 Hackathon Report: dlg@ on SMP networking
David Gwynne (dlg@) writes in with our next report from the l2k15 hackathon, detailing all the networking dragons he and the crew faced.Read more...
l2k15 Hackathon Report: Bernard Spil on portable LibreSSL
The next trip report comes from hackathon invitee Bernard Spil, who's been upstreaming LibreSSL-related ports fixes and integrating it into other projects.Read more...
OpenBSD 5.8 CD sets and swag shipping soon
The OpenBSD 5.8 pre-orders are about to ship. The OpenBSD Store twitter account tweeted with a picture of soon-to-be-shipped CD sets on Saturday, September 26th:
DRM updated, includes Broadwell support
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has just committed a large update to the drm(4) graphics code, syncing with upstream Linux 3.14.52 and introducing Broadwell GPU support.Read more...
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released
The LibreSSL project has started a new development release branch, LibreSSL 2.3.0. The announcement posted by Brent Cook (bcook@) says,
l2k15: (mpi@) The first rule of the Hackathon is...
l2k15: guenther@ on hacking libc symbols
Fresh from the l2k15 hackathon, here comes Philip Guenther's (guenther@) report:
l2k15 Hackathon Report: krw@ on GPT
With the l2k15 hackathon having just wrapped up, Ken Westerback (krw@) writes in to tell us how it went.Read more...
GPT support enabled
Amongst the flurry of commits from the l2k15 hackathon, Ken Westerback (krw@) has been hacking away on GPT support, and it's now enabled in the GENERIC kernel.Read more...
Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD
As the j2k15 hackathon comes to a close, OpenBSD gets its very own native EFI bootloader.On Twitter, Yojiro UO (yuo@-san) posted a list of systems tested and working with the new bootloader.
OpenBSD 5.8's third song announced
The third of the expected four OpenBSD 5.8 release songs, A Year in the Life, has been released.The song is available in mp3 and ogg formats, with lyrics mainly about the LibreSSL story (remember this?), but as the song notes point out,
Coming Soon to OpenBSD/amd64: A Native Hypervisor
Earlier today, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) publisheda teaser for something he's been working on for a while. Then a little later in the day, an announcement appeared on tech@:
BSDNow Episode 104: Beverly Hills 25519
This weekon BSDNow,the hosts have an interview with Damien Miller (djm@) of OpenSSH fame. He talks about the recent scrubbing of the default crypto options in OpenSSH, the reasons behind the move to ChaCha20 and the problems with CBC-mode ciphers, the issue of obsolete OpenSSH releases in the wild, code refactoring for the purpose of automated testing, and a list of ideas for future improvements.Additionally, they have the usual roundup of the week's happenings in all things BSD.[Video|HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent]
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