OpenBSD Journal As previously reported, Ori Bernstein is working on GEFS, the “Good Enough File System” imported to OpenBSD, and his EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation was very well received. In fact, the video is among the most frequently played from the conference.
No…
LibreSSL 4.4.0, 4.3.4 and 4.2.3 have been released.
From the release notes:
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In his message to the ports@ mailing list, Thomas Frohwein (thfr@) leads in,
In what might the most surprising port proposal of the year, I’m proud
to present a new port for wine.
talking not about the beverage, but the Windows Emulator t…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
to -current
a (WIP) new utility for updating system databases:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2026/10/20 19:08:58
Added files:
usr.sbin/dbupdate: Makefile dbupda…
The OpenBSD project has
announced
OpenBSD 8.0,
its 61st release.
The new release
contains a number of significant improvements, including but certainly
not limited to:
OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB [See earlier r…
Version 0.130
of Game of Trees
has been released (and the port
updated).
Complete release notes are as follows:
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In a post to tech@, Jan Schreiber submitted a driver for USB network control mode, uncm(4). Jan writes:
I noticed newer Android devices (since Android 6 if I’m not mistaken)
do not use urndis(4) for USB tethering any more.
They now use CDC NCM…
We have to admit that even users of a well rounded operation system like OpenBSD sometimes encounter hardware that is not quite supported yet.
Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Dar…
In their usual, unassuming fashion, the OpenSSH project have released a new version, release 10.6.
The full text of the 10.6 release nodes reads:
OpenSSH 10.6 was released on 2026-10-06. It is available from the
mirrors listed at https://ww…
In a move that hints strongly that the new OpenBSD release is about to drop soon, the LibreSSL project have announced the new stable releases.
The announcement reads,
List: openbsd-announce
Subject: LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 release…
As previously noted, Rafael Sadowski (radowski@) has been behind a recent pickup in development of httpd(8)
and
relayd(8).
Now Rafael has written a new piece,
entitled
Headers Up! What’s New in httpd and relayd,
on some of his recent work on
…
In another hint that a
new OpenBSD release
is close,
the
OpenBGPD project has
announced
a new release of its software, version 9.3:
We have released OpenBGPD 9.3, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirro…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
updated the version
of
OpenBSD
-current
from "8.0"
to "8.0-current".
List: openbsd-cvs
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt () cvs ! openbsd ! or…
The OpenBSD
8.0 release cycle is entering its final phases…
With the following
commit,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) moved -current
to version 8.0
(dropping the "-beta"):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs….
Job Snijders (job@)
imported
rtrd(8),
and its associated control program,
rtrctl(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: job@cvs.openbsd.org 2026/09/16 10:11:46
Added files:
usr.sbin/rtrctl: Makefile ometric.c ometric.h rtrctl.8…
Mike Larkin (mlarkin@)
committed
support for multi-processor virtual machines (i.e. guests):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mlarkin@cvs.openbsd.org 2026/09/17 20:35:55
Modified files:
sys/arch/amd64/amd64: vmm_machdep.c
sy…
Version 0.129 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated). Complete release notes are as follows:
Read more…
Filesystems on OpenBSD have come in two varieties, UFS1 or UFS2. Ori Bernstein has set out to possibly introduce a new option, the “Good Enough File System”, which Ori describes as
“a
new, crash-safe, snapshotting, copy on write FS
that I wrote …
In an annoucement that vastly understates the usefulness of their code, the OpenSMTPD project have announced their new OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 release.
The announcement says,
List: openbsd-announce
Subject: OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0
From: …
Last weekend was the EuroBSDCon conference, this time in Brussels, Belgium. Several talks were held, with quite a few on OpenBSD.
You can watch all the talks on peer tube, check the dedicated OpenBSD playlist, or pick your favorite talk from the li…