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With the l2k15 hackathon having just wrapped up, Ken Westerback (krw@) writes in to tell us how it went.Read more...
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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...
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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.
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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,
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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@:
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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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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has justreleaseda call for testing of an initial conversions of programs in OpenBSD baseto use thetame(2)API:
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Earlier today, Doug Hogan (doug@) committed the first parts of the removal of SSLv3 support from LibreSSL:
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As mentioned back in January, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) has been working on improving W^X protections in the OpenBSD kernel. The bulk of the work was focused on the amd64 architecture, but he recently committed similar support for the i386 architecture as well.Read more...
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The second of an anticipated four songs for the OpenBSD 5.8 release has ben published, this one written and performed by Alexandre Ratchov (ratchov@). In the announcement he says:
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Two important events of the OpenBSD 5.8 release cycle happened today:
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For your reading pleasure, here is the c2k15 report from Bob Beck (beck@):
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The OpenBSD Foundation's 2015 fundraising campaign is picking up steam. The Foundation's directors wrote in to announce yet another Silver-class donor:
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Our next c2k15 report comes from Renato Westphal (renato@), who writes,
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Our next c2k15 report comes from Philip Guenther (guenther@), who writes,
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Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) wrote in with this report from the recently completed c2k15 hackathon:
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Our next c2k15 report comes from Florian Obser (florian@).
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We have a platinum donor. The OpenBSD Foundation has announced the name of the first platinum donor:
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Next up in the c2k15 reports series is Paul Irofti (pirofti@), who writes:
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Our next c2k15 report comes from Andrew Fresh (afresh1@). Andrew writes,
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One of our new developers, Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), writes in to tell us about his trip to the lovely locale of Calgary for c2k15.
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The next c2k15 hackathon report comes from Jonathan Gray (jsg@), who got a lot done this time:
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For our next c2k15 installment, we welcome new developer Rafael Zalamena (rzalamena@), who just submitted his first-ever hackathon report:
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Our series of c2k15 hackathon reports continues with this entry from Jeremy Evans (jeremy@):
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Our next c2k15 report comes from Martin Pieuchot (mpi@), who appears to have had a quite productive hackathon:
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This just in - a fresh hackathon report, this time from Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@). Jasper writes,
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Next up in our series of c2k15 hackathon reports is from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@), who writes:
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Stefan Sperling (stsp@) may not have landed just yet, but he did file this report from the newly concluded hackathon:
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Kenneth Westerback (krw@) just came back from c2k15 and filed his report:
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One of our favorite developers Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in about a new feature that he just added to mandoc(1).
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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has pulled back the curtainon his entry into the process sandboxing contest:
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The long international nightmareis over, now that Ted Unangst (tedu@) hasimporteddoas(1):
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Registration for this year's European BSDs conference is now open at registration.eurobsdcon.org, open up until right before the conference starts but early bird discounts end on August 31st (midnight CEST). And to help you plan your conference, the you can look up the talks and tutorials (with a useful portion of OpenBSD stuff in all tracks) by clicking the links.See you in Stockholm October 1st through 4th, 2015!
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Darren Moffat, who led the original effort to include an SSH implementation in Solaris,announcedthat the SunSSH fork would be phased out in favor of OpenSSH:
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The EuroBSDCon 2015 organizers have published the initial list of accepted talks and tutorials, with a useful portion of OpenBSD stuff in all tracks.It is worth noting that this is a preliminary version (the schedule is not yet finalized), but barring the usual human and practical factors, this is likely close to the conference's final program.
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On the heels ofannouncing supportfor SSH, and specificallyOpenSSH,Microsoft has become theOpenBSD Foundation's first-everGoldcontributor:
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Masao Uebayashi (uebayasi@) has given us a call for testing cleverly disguised asa quick how-to on using valgrind natively on OpenBSD:
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Ted Unangst (tedu@) has given out ablog postdetailing some of the recent work going into OpenBSD:
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Christian Weisberger (naddy@)let us all knowwhat we need to do to prepare for the impending leap second:
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The videos of the recently-concluded BSDCan are coming online at record speed. The OpenBSD videos online are:
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Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in with an analysis of the issues found by afl in mandoc:After realizing that I have nine topics for my BSDCan talk and that I can't cover them all in the depth they deserve, here are a few more details about afl and mandoc than I can't cover in the talk. Not a spoiler, there is still plenty of material for the talk!Read more...
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On this week'sepisodeofBSDNow,Marc Espie (espie@) talks about dpb, OpenBSD's distributed package builder,which runs the binary package builds in Theo'sbasement.He talks about why it came about, the security measures built in, and the minimalistic and works-out-of-the-box configuration, among other things.The hosts also talk about their experiences at the recent BSDCan, and,ss usual, they have the roundup of the news, big and small, in the world of allthings BSD.[Video|HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent]
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Alexandre Ratchov (ratchov@)posteda call for testing of a newaudio(4)driver:
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Brent Cook (bcook@) hasannouncedthe latest LibreSSL releases, which contain fixes for several CVEs:
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Windows admins rejoice! Microsoft's PowerShell Teamannouncedfuture support for SSH, specificallyOpenSSH:
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With a recentcommit,Reyk Flöter (reyk@) flipped the switch onspamd(8)'spf interfacement:
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OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) outlined some issues with the CD plant, which led to an incorrectly-finished CD 2, some of which were, unfortunately, shipped prior to the issue being found.
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On this week'sepisodeof BSDNow, the hosts interview Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) abouthow he got started in OpenBSD, hisrecentand upcoming work on W^X,and how that fits into the OpenBSD exploit mitigation ecosystem.As always, they also have all the news and reviews in the world of all things BSD.[Video | HD Video|MP3 Audio|OGG Audio|Torrent| YouTube]
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After a delay due to unfortunate production problems (the first such delay in 20 years), the OpenBSD Store announced that all pre-orders had been shipped.And it seemed like only moments later that Raf Czlonka was the first to report on the misc@ mailing list that his pre-ordered OpenBSD 5.7 CD set had arrived.Even if you hadn't preordered, you still have a chance to order your CD set and other swag by visting the OpenBSD Store. If you want to support the project financially in other ways, the Donations page is, as always, a good place to start.
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In a this commit, a first in a series, Henning Brauer (henning@) made disk allocations during automatic installs much more flexible via the introduction of diskablel templates. The matching installer bits came along via this commit by Robert Peichaer (rpe@).Quoting the updated disklabel(8) man page,