This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.6.
For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading
to 4.6.
- New/extended platforms:
- mvme68k
- Added support for the MVME141 and MVME165 boards.
- sparc
- The bootblock load address was moved so that larger kernels
can be loaded.
- sparc64
- Added acceleration support for many of the PCI frame buffer
drivers, such as Sun PGX, PGX64 and XVR-100, and Tech Source
Raptor GFX graphics cards.
- sgi
- Added support for the SGI Octane, SGI Origin 200 and SGI Fuel
families of systems.
- Several bugs in interrupt handling have been fixed, resulting
in much snappier system response.
- Improved hardware support, including:
- Several new/improved drivers for sensors, including:
- The ips(4) driver now has sensor support, complementing the bio support.
- The acpithinkpad(4) driver now has temperature and fan sensor support.
- New endrun(4) driver for the EndRun Technologies timedelta sensor.
- The fins(4) driver now has support for F71806, F71862 and F71882.
- The acpitz(4) driver now shows correct decimals for temperature.
- Added radeonfb(4) to sparc64, an accelerated framebuffer for
Sun XVR-100 boards.
- Added support in re(4) for RTL8103E and RTL8168DP devices.
- Added support for BCM5709/BCM5716 devices in the bnx(4) driver.
- Added support for ICH10 variants of em(4).
- Added support for VIA VX855 chipset in the viapm(4) and pciide(4) drivers.
- Added support for Intel SCH IDE to pciide(4).
- Added support for the Broadcom HT-1100 chipset in the piixpm(4) driver.
- Added support for 82574L based devices in the em(4) driver.
- A number of network drivers including ix(4), sis(4), msk(4), bnx(4), and vr(4) now
use MCLGETI(9) to reduce memory usage and increase performance under load
and attack.
- Added support for VIA CX800 south bridge to the viapm(4) driver.
- Added support in em(4) for the newer 82575 (and maybe 82576) chips.
- zyd(4) now supports devices with Airoha AL2230S radios.
- zyd(4) now works on big-endian machines
- urtw(4) now supports RTL8187B based devices.
- New otus(4) driver for Atheros AR9001U USB 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N
wireless devices.
- New berkwdt(4) driver for Berkshire Products PCI watchdog timers.
- New udl(4) driver for USB video devices.
- Support for a variety of newer models in bge(4).
- Initial version of vsw(4), a driver for the virtual network switch on
sun4v sparc64s.
- Implemented machfb(4), an accelerated driver for the sparc64 PGX/PGX64
framebuffers.
- Added a vcc(4) and vcctty(4) driver for the "Virtual Console Concentrator"
found on the control domain of sun4v systems.
- Implemented 64-bit FIFO modes for ciss(4) devices.
- Enable hardware VLAN tagging/stripping on ix(4).
- Added basic support for Envy24HT chips in the envy(4) driver.
- Many improvements and updates to the isp(4) driver.
- Added support for 88E8057-based Yukon 2 Ultra 2-devices in msk(4).
- The ips(4) driver now works reliably.
- Added raptor(4), an accelerated framebuffer driver for the Tech Source
Raptor GFX cards on the sparc64 platform.
- Enabled schsio(4) on i386 and amd64 and added watchdog timer support.
- New acpivideo(4) driver for ACPI display switching and brightness control.
- New tools:
- Added smtpd(8), a new privilege-separated SMTP daemon.
- Imported the tmux(1) terminal multiplexer, replacing window(1).
- pf(4) improvements:
- Enabled pf(4) by default in the rc.conf(8).
- Removed pf(4) scrub rules, and only do one kind of packet reassembly.
Rulesets with scrub rules need to be modified because of this.
- Regular rules can now have per-rule scrub options.
- Added new "match" keyword which only applies rule options but does
not change the current pass/block state.
- Make all pf(4) operations transactional to improve atomicity of reloads.
- Stricter pf(4) checking for ICMP and ICMPv6 packets.
- Various improvements to pfsync(4) to lower sync traffic bandwidth and
optionally allow active-active firewall setups.
- Fix pf(4) scrub max-mss for IPv6 traffic.
- OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
- In bgpd(8), rework most of the RDE to allow multiple RIBs.
It is possible to filter per-RIB and attach neighbors to a specific RIB.
- Added an option to bgpd(8) to change the "connect-retry" timer.
- Allow bgpd.conf(5) and bgpctl(8) to contain 32-bit ASN numbers written in
ASPLAIN format.
- Fix bgpd(8) to correctly encode MP unreachable NLRI so IPv6 prefixes get
removed correctly.
- Changed the behaviour of "redistribute default" for ospfd(8) and ripd(8).
A default route has to be present in the FIB to be correctly advertised.
- Make ospfd(8) and ripd(8) track reject and blackhole routes and allow
them to be redistributed even if pointing to 127.0.0.1.
- Allow to specify an alternate control socket for ospfd(8).
- ospfd(8) can now be bound into an alternate routing domain.
- Fix ospfd(8) route metric for "redistribute default".
- Initial version of ldpctl(8) and ldpd(8), a label distribution protocol
daemon for mpls.
- Make dvmrp(8) RDE aware of multicast group members per interface.
- Support for pruning in dvmrp(8).
- Generic Network-Stack improvements:
- Support for virtual routing and firewalling with the addition of routing
domains.
- Add code in ifconfig(8) to bind an interface to a routing domain.
- Add support to ping(8), traceroute(8), arp(8), nc(1) and telnet(1) to
specify which routing domain to use.
- Allow ifconfig(8) to turn off IPv6 completely for an interface and
make rtsold(8) turn on inet6 on the interface.
- Routes track the interface link state.
- route(8) flush accepts "-iface" or "-priority" to only flush routes
matching these conditions.
- Multiple dhclients can now coexist without causing mayhem.
- Make wireless interfaces have an interface priority of 4 by default.
Makes them less preferred then wired interfaces.
- Do not accept IPv4 ICMP redirects by default.
- Added the MAC address to the log entries in dhclient(8).
- Make systat(1) show interface description names in the interface view, and add new NFS server and client views.
- Make tun(4) emulate link state depending on the open and close of the
device fd.
- Use pf state-table information to speed up decision on whether a packet
is to be delivered locally or forwarded.
- More routing socket checks added to make userland applications more
resilient to kernel changes.
- Install/Upgrade process changes:
- New disklabel(8) automatic partition allocator with a variety of
smart heuristics.
- The installer has been nearly rewritten mostly with a focus on
simplifying installation.
- OpenSSH 5.3:
- Do not limit home directory paths to 256 characters. (bz #1615)
- Several minor documentation and correctness fixes.
- Over 5,800 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools.
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
- i386: 5606
- sparc64: 5413
- alpha: 5346
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- sh: 1261
- amd64: 5544
- powerpc: 5427
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- sparc: 3711
- arm: 5291
- hppa: 4790
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Some highlights:
- Gnome 2.24.3.
- KDE 3.5.10.
- Xfce 4.6.1.
- MySQL 5.0.83.
- PostgreSQL 8.3.7.
- Postfix 2.6.2.
- OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 and 3.5.
- Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.22.
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.0.
- Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
- Vim 7.2.190.
- PHP 5.2.10.
- Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.2.
- Ruby 1.8.6.369.
- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
- The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
- Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.4 + patches, freetype 2.3.9,
fontconfig 2.6.0, Mesa 7.4.2, xterm 243 and more)
- Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.5 (+ patches)
- Perl 5.10.0 (+ patches)
- Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
and DSO support
- OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
- Groff 1.15
- Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
- Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
- Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
- Sudo 1.7.2
- Ncurses 5.2
- Latest KAME IPv6
- Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
- Arla 0.35.7
- Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
- Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
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