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OpenBSD 4.0

Started by Wimpie, November 03, 2006, 08:15:38 AM

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De ontwikkelaars van OpenBSD hebben volgens het releaseschema versie 4.0 van hun besturingssysteem uitgegeven. OpenBSD is een Unix-achtig besturingssysteem met zijn wortels in de 4.4 BSD-tak en ondersteunt binaire emulatie voor de meeste SVR4- (Solaris), FreeBSD-, Linux-, BSD/OS-, SunOS- en HP-UX-programma's. Zoals gewoonlijk met een nieuwe versie van OpenBSD is er ook een nieuw thema ontworpen dat verkrijgbaar is als een t-shirt en poster. Als titel van het thema heeft men deze keer gekozen voor "Pufferix and the Three Discs of Freedom". De aankondiging van deze nieuwe telg ziet er als volgt uit:



This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.0. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 4.0.

New/extended platforms:

    * OpenBSD/armish.
      Various ARM-based appliances, using the Redboot boot loader, currently only supporting the Thecus N2100 and IOData HDL-G.
    * OpenBSD/sparc64.
      UltraSPARC III based machines are now supported!
    * OpenBSD/zaurus.
      Support for the Zaurus SL-C3200.

Improved hardware support, including:

    * New msk(4) driver for Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon-2 Gigabit Ethernet.
    * New bnx(4) driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet.
    * New xge(4) driver for Neterion Xframe/Xframe II 10Gb Ethernet.
    * New rum(4) driver for Ralink Technology 2nd gen USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless.
    * New acx(4) driver for Texas Instruments ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless.
    * New pgt(4) driver for Connexant/Intersil Prism GT Full-MAC IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless.
    * New uath(4) driver for Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless.
    * New binary blob free wpi(4) driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless.
    * New arc(4) driver for Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID; including RAID management via bio(4).
    * New mfi(4) driver for LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID; including RAID management via bio(4).
    * New azalia(4) driver for generic High Definition Audio.
    * New SD/MMC/SDIO drivers (sdhc(4), sdmmc(4)), currently supporting SD memory cards as fake SCSI sd(4) drives.
    * New udcf(4) driver for Gude ADS Expert mouseCLOCK DCF77/HBG time signal station receivers.
    * New uslcom(4) driver for Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102 based USB serial adapters.
    * New ucycom(4) driver for Cypress microcontroller based USB serial adapters.
    * New uark(4) driver for Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial adapters.
    * New umsm(4) driver for Qualcomm MSM EVDO based modems.
    * New Dallas/Maxim 1-Wire bus support, including:
          o New gpioow(4) driver for 1-Wire bus bit-banging through GPIO pin
          o New onewire(4) 1-Wire bus driver
          o New owid(4) 1-Wire ID family driver
          o New owtemp(4) 1-Wire temperature family driver
    * New isagpio(4) driver for ISA I/O mapped as GPIO.
    * New nmea(4) line discipline for NMEA 0183 (GPS) devices. The new nmeaattach(8) utility can be used to receive NMEA 0183 data and provide the time received as a timedelta sensor to be used by, for example, ntpd(8).
    * New VAX framebuffer drivers:
          o New lcg(4) driver for VAXstation 4000/60 and VLC color frame buffers
          o New lcspx(4) driver for Low-Cost SPX color frame buffers
          o New gpx(4) driver for GPX color frame buffers
          o smg(4) driver for Small Monochrome Graphics frame buffers heavily updated to be a modern wscons(4) driver
    * Support for VAX-based Digital VXT2000 and VXT2000+ terminals.
    * The bge(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as the Broadcom BCM5754, BCM5755, BCM5786, and BCM5787.
    * The em(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as the Intel ESB2 and ICH8.
    * The nfe(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as the NVIDIA MCP61 and MCP65.
    * The re(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as the Realtek RT8101E, RT8168, and RT8169SC.
    * The dc(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as the ADMtek ADM9511 and ADM9513.
    * The pciide(4) driver supporting newer chipsets, such as:
          o ATI IXP300 SATA, IXP600 IDE
          o Intel 6321ESB IDE/SATA, 82801G SATA, and 82801H SATA
          o IT Express IT8211F IDE
          o NVIDIA MCP61 SATA, MCP65 SATA
          o Promise PDC205xx SATA
          o ServerWorks SATA
          o VIA VT8237A SATA
    * The mpt(4) driver has been replaced with mpi(4), a more stable driver that supports more hardware.
    * The com(4) driver now supports pcmcia and cardbus cards on macppc.
    * Working interrupt routing on Sun Netra t1 105, Ultra 60 and possibly other sparc64 systems.
    * Work around broken VIA and NVIDIA MPBIOSes, fixes interrupt routing with GENERIC.MP on several systems.
    * Initial bio(4) support for Compaq/HP ciss(4) Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SCSI RAID controllers.
    * Improved speed control on some systems:
          o New SpeedStep detection code, also adds support for VIA C7-M, and several newer Pentium M's.
          o Support SpeedStep in rudimentary fashion on most unknown CPU's that advertise the feature.
          o Zaurus can be moved into slower speeds now too.
          o The Pentium 4 Thermal Clock Control driver now supports more CPU's including the Intel Pentium M and Xeon, and provides an estimated performance impact.
          o Numerous improvements to PowerNow K7 and K8 support on i386, and support for K8 was added to amd64.
    * Support for Intel 945G/GM video chipsets (on i386).
    * Support for additional I2C sensors:
          o The adt(4) driver now supports the National Semiconductor LM9600, SMSC EMC6D10x and SMSC SCH5017 chips.
          o The admtemp(4) driver now supports the Analog Devices ADM1023, Genesys Logic GL523SM and Global Mixed-mode Technology G781 chips.

New tools:

    * GNU RCS has been replaced with OpenRCS.

New functionality:

    * IPsec has been greatly improved:
          o ipsecctl(8) has been greatly extended and completely supersedes ipsecadm(8):
                + Lots of documentation improvements (man ipsec.conf)
                + IPv6 support
                + AH support
                + Transport mode support
                + Dynamic IKE support for roaming users
                + USER_FQDN id support
          o sasyncd(8) works much better:
                + communicates with isakmpd(8), telling it to run active or passive depending on the master/slave state of the carp(4) interfaces. This makes IPsec failover setups much more robust.
                + looks at the carp(4) interface group by default to suppress preemption of IPsec traffic during system boot.
          o isakmpd(8) can now be safely configured by ipsecctl(8) on startup.
    * ftp(1) now supports HTTPS.
    * cdio(1) can now perform track-at-once burning and rewritable blanking.
    * spppcontrol(8) and wicontrol(8) functionality has been merged into ifconfig(8).
    * gcc(1) provides a new warning, -Wstack-larger-than-N, to report functions which are too greedy in stack variables, see gcc-local(1) for details.
    * An in-kernel getcwd(3) implementation.
    * A new system call adjfreq(2) to allow ntpd(8) to adjust the tick rate of the system clock automatically.
    * Support for X11 on VAX has been added
    * Virtual Allocation Table (VAT) support for UDF.
    * C99 functions round(3), roundf(3), trunc(3), and truncf(3) have been added to libm, the math library.
    * pf(4) now supports Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) checks for simplified ingress filtering.
    * bpf(4) can now ignore packets based on their direction (inbound/outbound) using the BIOCSDIRFILT ioctl.
    * pdisk(8) can now set up slices on HFS(DPME) partitioned disks on mac68k.
    * New dissectors have been added to tcpdump(8):
          o Cisco's VQP (VLAN Query Protocol)
          o IEEE 802.1AB LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
    * trunk(4) now supports the new loadbalance mode to balance outgoing traffic based on hashed protocol header information.
    * bioctl(8) has been extended to provide runtime information on rebuilds, scrubs and initialization.
    * New sysctls to check the system vendor, product, version, serial number, and UUID.
    * Equal cost multipath routing support. Needs to be enabled by a sysctl.
    * Prebind, a secure implementation of prelinking, has been added to ldconfig(8), it speeds up launching of shared binaries. Prebind is compatible with address space randomization, unlike prelink.
    * vnconfig(8) can now use PKCS #5 PBKDF2 to create a more secure key when using encryption.

Assorted improvements and code cleanup:

    * Much better time keeping for multiprocessor OpenBSD/i386 systems.
    * Much improved implementation of telldir(3) and friends.
    * Replacement of many malloc(3) calls that follow a pattern prone to integer overflow with safer constructs.
    * Improved failover handling in carp(4):
          o Extend the carp protocol with the demotion counter to act smarter on multiple failures.
          o Group failovers now work without carp running preempt mode.
          o Demotion can now be controlled via interface groups.
    * chio(1) is now a useful tool for controlling tape changers.
    * Much improved st(4) device setup, tape handling and error processing.
    * Many dhclient(8) fixes, including 'alias' handling and improved interface initialization.
    * scsi(4) devices detect the correct SCSI version.
    * More umass(4) devices properly detected.
    * Improved detection of fibre channel devices and devices in SCSI enclosures.
    * The new RSSI header has been added to the ieee80211_radiotap(9) framework as a replacement for ANTSIGNAL headers.
    * Many integer type safety cleanups with lint(1).

Install/Upgrade process changes:

    * Host specific site files add easy customization for individual hosts
    * X Window aperture support, where available, now defaults to off

New functionality for hostapd(8), the Host Access Point Daemon:

    * IP based roaming to build wireless networks without the requirement of a single broadcast domain.
    * New event rules to match optional elements of radiotap headers: signal percentage, transmit rate and channel frequency.
    * Various bug fixes and improvements.

OpenSSH 4.4:

    * Conditional configuration in sshd_config(5) using the Match directive. This allows some configuration options to be selectively overridden if specific criteria (based on user, group, hostname and/or address) are met.
    * Add support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange key agreement with a final hash of SHA256.
    * Added a ForceCommand directive to sshd_config(5), similar to the command="..." option in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
    * Added a PermitOpen directive to sshd_config(5), similar to the permitopen="..." option in authorized_keys, to allow control over the port-forwardings that a user is allowed to establish.
    * Added an ExitOnForwardFailure option to cause ssh(1) to exit (with a non-zero exit code) when requested port forwardings could not be established.
    * Added optional logging of transactions to sftp-server(8).
    * ssh(1) will now record port numbers for hosts stored in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys when a non-standard port has been requested.
    * Extended the sshd_config(5) "SubSystem" directive to allow the specification of commandline arguments.
    * Many manpage fixes and improvements

OpenBGPD 4.0:

    * new nexthop selection logic ignoring bgpd routes, helps in complex setups with ospfd
    * add a "detailed" show rib view to bgpctl, including communities
    * allow requesting a route refresh from a peer that supports it
    * have bgpd always report back the result of an operation to bgpctl, so the operator can spot errors quicker
    * allow bgpd to manipulate carp demotion counters based on session states, gives even greater failover support
    * support restarting sessions that reached max-prefix after a given time
    * bgpctl can now show all routes received from a neighbor before filters were applied, and routes sent to neighbors
    * assorted fixes and improvements, as usual

OpenOSPFD 4.0:

    * Track uptime of the daemon itself.
    * Track uptime of all ospf enabled interfaces.
    * Adjust logging behaviour to prevent unwanted logging.
    * Delay LSA updates when removing and adding - prevent flapping.
    * Fix plaintext authentication.
    * Improve the output of 'ospfctl show interfaces'.
    * Support rtlabels when redistributing routes.

OpenNTPD 4.0:

    * support timedelta sensors, such as DCF77 receivers supported by udcf(4) and GPS receivers supported by nmea(4).
    * Adjust the kernel tick frequency, using adjfreq(2), improving accuracy on many machines.
    * allow for weight to be added to sensors or servers, so that one can weight timedelta sensors higher than ntp peers

Over 3700 ports, 3400 pre-built packages, improved package tools.
Full support for pkg_add(1) over ssh(1), using one single connection.
As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.

The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:

    * X.Org 6.9.0 (+ patches, and i386 contains XFree86 3.3.6 servers (+ patches) for legacy chipsets not supported by X.Org)
    * Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.5 (+ patches)
    * Perl 5.8.8 (+ patches)
    * Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches)
    * OpenSSL 0.9.7j (+ patches)
    * Groff 1.15
    * Sendmail 8.13.8, with libmilter
    * Bind 9.3.2-P1 (+ patches)
    * Lynx 2.8.5rel.4 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
    * Sudo 1.6.8p9
    * Ncurses 5.2
    * Latest KAME IPv6
    * Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
    * Arla 0.35.7
    * Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
    * Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)