- Improved hardware support, including:

- New functionality for bgpd(8), the Border Gateway Protocol Daemon:

- Improved NFS performance and reliability. - Shared libraries and gcc 3.3.2 on the OpenBSD/hppa port.

- Privilege separation or revocation for the following programs:

- Over 2700 ports, 2500 pre-built packages. - Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red   print in the complete changelog). - As usual, many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.

- OpenSSH 3.9:

- This release of OpenBSD includes the following major components from   outside suppliers:

If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6, look at
http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus36.html
Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list.

26Aug2004: OpenBSD 3.6 Pre-orders and Information

From: "Todd C. Miller" [Todd.Miller@courtesan.com]
To: announce@openbsd.org

We have just activated pre-orders for the OpenBSD 3.6 release, which will be released and start shipping Nov 1, 2004.  As always, those who pre-order will receive their CDs first.

There is a new 3-CD set and a new poster which can be ordered from:
        http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html
An OpenBSD 3.6 T-Shirt will be added in the coming weeks.

OpenBSD 3.6 contains numerous improvements over previous releases-- most notably SMP support on i386 and amd64.  For a summary of major changes in 3.6, see: http://www.openbsd.org/36.html
A much more detailed summary is also available: http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

Please keep in mind that this project is completely funded by CD sales and donations from our user community.

Thank you.

01May2004: OpenBSD 3.5 Announced

May 1, 2004.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.5. This is our 15th release on CD-ROM (and 16th via FTP).  We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of eight years with only a single remote hole in the default install.  As in our previous releases, 3.5 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:

11Mar2004: Open BSD Support

31Oct2003: OpenBSD 3.4 Released

Just in time to protect your systems from the dreaded Halloween Hackers, OpenBSD 3.4 represents hundreds of changes that improve its security. The change summary list, linked below, is very extensive, and the detailed list even longer.

So thank these hard working folks by purchasing a CDROM set and/or a T shirt to support future OpenBSD work. IMNSHO, it's clearly the best OS available for firewall and web server use.

From the Announcement List:

Subject: OpenBSD 3.4 Released
Date:   Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:22:32 -0500 (EST)
From:   Ted Unangst
To:     announce@openbsd.org

We just couldn't wait another 2 days, so now you can enjoy OpenBSD 3.4 a little early and protect yourself from ghosts and goblins.

Nov 1, 2003: OpenBSD 3.4 RELEASED

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.4. This is our 14th release on CD-ROM (and 15th via FTP).  We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of seven years with only a single remote hole in the default install.  As in our previous releases, 3.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:

• - Ever-improving security            (http://www.OpenBSD.org/security.html)


• o W^X (pronounced: "W xor X") improvements, especially on the i386  architecture.  Native i386 binaries have their executable segments     rearranged to support isolating code from data, and the cpu CS limit  is used to impose a best effort limit on code execution.
• ld.so on ELF platforms now loads libraries in a randomized order.     Furthermore, on the i386 architecture, libraries and executable code   are mapped at random addresses.  Together with W^X and ProPolice, these  changes increase the difficulty of successfully exploiting an     application error.
 
• A static bounds checker has been added to the system compiler, designed    to detect improper use of string and buffer manipulation functions.     Through use of this checker, hundreds of bugs of in the source and     ports trees were found and fixed.
 
• Privilege separation has been implemented for the syslog daemon, making    it much more robust against future errors. The child which listens to    network traffic now runs as a normal user and chroots itself, while     the parent process tracks the state of the child and performs privileged    operations on its behalf.
 
• Thousands of occurrences of unsafe library calls such as strcpy(),     strcat() and sprintf() have been changed to the safer alternatives     strlcpy(), strlcat(), and snprintf() or asprintf() in one of the most    intensive audits yet performed by the OpenBSD project.  The kernel is    now completely free of these functions, as is most of the userland     source tree.
 
• Many improvements and bug fixes in the ProPolice stack protector.    Several other code generation bugs for RISC architectures were also    found and fixed.
 
• The kernel is now also compiled with the ProPolice stack protector.
 
• Privilege separation has been implemented in the X server.     The privileged child process is responsible for the operations that     cannot be done after the main process has switched to a non-privileged    user.  This greatly reduces the potential damage that could be caused    by malicious X clients, in case of bugs in the X server.
 
• Emulation support for binary compatibility is now controlled via     sysctl.  Emulation is now disabled by default to limit exposure to     malicious binaries, and can be enabled in sysctl.conf(5).
 
• The ports tree now supports building programs with systrace(1),     reducing the risk of harm at compile time via trojaned configure     scripts.


• - Improved hardware support             (http://www.OpenBSD.org/plat.html)
 
• Support for AES instruction on just released VIA C3 processors,     capable of 1.6Gbit/s AES128-CBC in openssl(1) speed tests.
 
• Kauai ATA controllers (Apple ATA100 wdc) enabling support for     Powerbook 12" and 17" models.
 
• Support for controlling LongRun registers on Transmeta CPUs.
 
• Many fixes to aac(4), ahc(4), osiop(4), siop(4) SCSI drivers.
 
• New it(4), lm(4) and viaenv(4) hardware monitor drivers.
 
• New safe(4) driver for SafeNet crypto accelerators.
 
• New mtd(4) driver for Myson Technologies network cards.
 
• More ethernet cards supported by sk(4), wi(4), fxp(4), and dc(4).
 
• Massive overhaul and sync with NetBSD of the entire usb(4) system.
 
• New and better support for various controllers in pciide(4), including     experimental support for Serial ATA controllers.
 
• New drivers to support mgx(4) and pninek(4) SPARC framebuffers.     The vigra(4) driver also supports more models.
 
• pcmcia(4) support for Tadpole SPARCBooks and SPARCs with pcmcia-sbus     bridges.


• - Major improvements in the pf packet filter, including:
 
• Packet tagging (e.g. filter on tags added by bridge based on MAC address)
 
• Stateful TCP normalization (prevent uptime calculation and NAT detection)
 
• Passive OS detection (filter or redirect connections based on source OS)
 
• SYN proxy (protect servers against SYN flood attacks)
 
• Adaptive state timeouts (prevent state table overflows under attack)


• - New features and significant bug-fixes included with 3.4
 
• Symbol caching in ld.so reducing the start up time of large applications.
 
• More licenses fixes, including the removal of the advertising clause     for large parts of the source tree.
 
• Replacement of GNU diff/diff3, grep/egrep/fgrep/zgrep/zegrep/zfgrep,     and gzip/zcat/gunzip/gzcat/zcmp/zmore/zdiff/zforce/gzexe/znew with BSD     licensed equivalents.
 
• Addition of read-only support for NTFS file systems.
 
• Reliability improvements to layered file systems, enabling NULLFS     to work again.
 
• Import of growfs(8) utility, allowing expansion of existing file systems.
 
• Improvements to the Linux emulator enabling more applications to run     with greater stability.
 
• Significant improvements to the pthread library.
 
• Replace many static fd_set uses, to instead use poll(2) or dynamic     allocation.
 
• ANSIfication and stricter prototypes for a large portion of the source tree.
 
• Legacy KerberosIV support has been removed, and the remaining KerberosV     codebase has been restructured for easier management.
 
• USER_LDT option now controllable via sysctl.
 
• Many, many man page improvements.


• - The "ports" tree is greatly improved  (http://www.OpenBSD.org/ports.html)
 
• The 3.4 CD-ROMs ship with many pre-built packages for the common     architectures.  The FTP site contains hundreds more packages     (for the important architectures) which we could not fit onto     the CD-ROMs (or which had prohibitive licenses).


• - The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
 
• XFree86 4.3.0 (+ patches).
 
• gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches and ProPolice).
 
• Perl 5.8.0 (+ patches).
 
• Apache 1.3.28 and mod_ssl 2.8.15, DSO support (+ patches).
 
• OpenSSL 0.9.7b (+ patches).
 
• Groff 1.15.
 
• Sendmail 8.12.9.
 
• Bind 9.2.2 (+ patches).
 
• Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
 
• Sudo 1.6.7p5.
 
• Ncurses 5.2.
 
• KAME-stable IPv6
.  
• Heimdal 0.6rc1 (+ patches)
 
• Arla-current
 
• OpenSSH 3.7.1

If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 3.3 and 3.4, look at
        http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus34.html
Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list.

- SECURITY AND ERRATA

We provide patches for known security threats and other important issues discovered after each CD release.  As usual, between the creation of the OpenBSD 3.4 FTP/CD-ROM binaries and the actual 3.4 release date, our team found and fixed some new reliability problems (note: most are minor, and in subsystems that are not enabled by default).  Our continued research into security means we will find new security problems -- and we always provide patches as soon as possible.  Therefore, we advise regular visits to:

Security patch announcements are sent to the security-announce@OpenBSD.org mailing list.  For information on OpenBSD mailing lists, please see:

- CD-ROM SALES

OpenBSD 3.4 is also available on CD-ROM.  The 3-CD set costs $40USD (EUR 45) and is available via mail order and from a number of contacts around the world.  The set includes a colorful booklet which carefully explains the installation of OpenBSD.  A new set of cute little stickers are also included (sorry, but our FTP mirror sites do not support STP, the Sticker Transfer Protocol).  As an added bonus, the second CD contains an exclusive audio track, "The Legend of Puffy Hood."  Lyrics for the song may be found at:

Profits from CD sales are the primary income source for the OpenBSD project -- in essence selling these CD-ROM units ensures that OpenBSD will continue to make another release six months from now.

The OpenBSD 3.4 CD-ROMs are bootable on the following four platforms:

 
• i386
 
• macppc
 
• sparc
 
• sparc64 (UltraSPARC)

For more information on ordering CD-ROMs, see:
        http://www.OpenBSD.org/orders.html
The above web page lists a number of places where OpenBSD CD-ROMs can be purchased from.  For our default mail order, go directly to:
        https://https.OpenBSD.org/cgi-bin/order
or, for European orders:
        https://https.OpenBSD.org/cgi-bin/order.eu

All of our developers strongly urge you to buy a CD-ROM and support our future efforts.  Additionally, donations to the project are highly appreciated, as described in more detail at:
        http://www.OpenBSD.org/goals.html#funding

- T-SHIRT SALES

The project continues to expand its funding base by selling t-shirts and polo shirts.  And our users like them too.  We have a variety of shirts available, with the new and old designs, from our web ordering system at:
        https://https.OpenBSD.org/cgi-bin/order
and for Europe:
        https://https.OpenBSD.org/cgi-bin/order.eu
The OpenBSD 3.4 and OpenSSH t-shirts are available now!

- FTP INSTALLS

If you choose not to buy an OpenBSD CD-ROM, OpenBSD can be easily installed via FTP.  Typically you need a single small piece of boot media (e.g., a boot floppy) and then the rest of the files can be installed from a number of locations, including directly off the Internet.  Follow this simple set of instructions to ensure that you find all of the documentation you will need while performing an install via FTP.  With the CD-ROMs, the necessary documentation is easier to find.

1) Read either of the following two files for a list of ftp
   mirrors which provide OpenBSD, then choose one near you:

        http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html
        ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/ftplist

   As of Nov 1, 2003, the following ftp sites have the 3.4 release:

        ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/       Alberta, Canada
        (above is master site, please USE A MIRROR below)
        ftp://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/      Boulder, CO,USA
        ftp://ftp7.usa.openbsd.org/pub/os/OpenBSD/3.4/  West Lafayette, IN, USA
        ftp://openbsd.wiretapped.net/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/   Sydney, Australia
        ftp://ftp.kd85.com/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/             Lovendegem, Belgium
        ftp://ftp.calyx.nl/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/             Amsterdam, Netherlands
        ftp://ftp.se.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/       Stockholm,Sweden
        ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/         Turkey

   Other mirrors will take a day or two to update.


2) Connect to that ftp mirror site and go into the directory
   pub/OpenBSD/3.4/ which contains these files and directories.
   This is a list of what you will see:

        ANNOUNCEMENT   XF4.tar.gz     mac68k/        sparc/
        Changelogs/    alpha/         macppc/        sparc64/
        HARDWARE       ftplist        mvme68k/       src.tar.gz
        PACKAGES       hp300/         packages/      sys.tar.gz
        PORTS          hppa/          ports.tar.gz   tools/
        README         i386/          root.mail      vax/

   It is quite likely that you will want at LEAST the following
   files which apply to all the architectures OpenBSD supports.

        README          - generic README
        HARDWARE        - list of hardware we support
        PORTS           - description of our "ports" tree
        PACKAGES        - description of pre-compiled packages
        root.mail       - a copy of root's mail at initial login.
                          (This is really worthwhile reading).

3) Read the README file.  It is short, and a quick read will make
   sure you understand what else you need to fetch.

4) Next, go into the directory that applies to your architecture,
   for example, i386.  This is a list of what you will see:

        CKSUM          INSTALL.os2br  cdrom34.fs     index.txt
        INSTALL.ata    INSTALL.pt     comp34.tgz     man34.tgz
        INSTALL.chs    MD5            etc34.tgz      misc34.tgz
        INSTALL.dbr    base34.tgz     floppy34.fs    xbase34.tgz
        INSTALL.i386   bsd            floppyB34.fs   xfont34.tgz
        INSTALL.linux  bsd.rd         floppyC34.fs   xserv34.tgz
        INSTALL.mbr    cd34.iso       game34.tgz     xshare34.tgz

   If you are new to OpenBSD, fetch _at least_ the file INSTALL.i386
   and the appropriate floppy*.fs or cd34.iso file.  Consult the
   INSTALL.i386 file if you don't know which of the floppy images
   you need (or simply fetch all of them).

5) If you are an expert, follow the instructions in the file called
   README; otherwise, use the more complete instructions in the
   file called INSTALL.i386.  INSTALL.i386 may tell you that you
   need to fetch other files.

6) Just in case, take a peek at:

        http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html

   This is the page where we talk about the mistakes we made while
   creating the 3.4 release, or the significant bugs we fixed
   post-release which we think our users should have fixes for.
   Patches and workarounds are clearly described there.

Note: If you end up needing to write a raw floppy using Windows,
      you can use "fdimage.exe" located in the pub/OpenBSD/3.4/tools
      directory to do so.

- XFree86 FOR MOST ARCHITECTURES

XFree86 has been integrated more closely into the system.  This
release contains XFree86 4.3.0.  Most of our architectures ship
with XFree86, including sparc, sparc64 and macppc.  During installation,
you can install XFree86 quite easily.  Be sure to try out xdm(1)
and see how we have customized it for OpenBSD.

On the i386 platform a few older X servers are included from XFree86
3.3.6.  These can be used for cards that are not supported by XFree86
4.3.0 or where XFree86 4.3.0 support is buggy.  Please read the
/usr/X11R6/README file for post-installation information.

- PORTS TREE

The OpenBSD ports tree contains automated instructions for building third party software.  The software has been verified to build and run on the various OpenBSD architectures.  The 3.4 ports collection, including many of the distribution files, is included on the 3-CD set.  Please see the PORTS file for more information.

Note: some of the most popular ports, e.g., the Apache web server and several X applications, come standard with OpenBSD.  Also, many popular ports have been pre-compiled for those who do not desire to build their own binaries (see BINARY PACKAGES, below).

- BINARY PACKAGES WE PROVIDE

A large number of binary packages are provided.  Please see the PACKAGES file (ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/PACKAGES) for more details.

- SYSTEM SOURCE CODE

The CD-ROMs contain source code for all the subsystems explained above, and the README ( ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.4/README) file explains how to deal with these source files.  For those who are doing an FTP install, the source code for all four subsystems can be found in the pub/OpenBSD/3.4/ directory:

- THANKS

OpenBSD 3.4 includes artwork and CD artistic layout by Ty Semaka, who also wrote the lyrics and arranged an audio track on the OpenBSD 3.4 CD set.  Ports tree and package building by Christian Weisgerber and Peter Valchev.  System builds by Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Michael Shalayeff.  ISO-9660 filesystem layout by Theo de Raadt.

We would like to thank all of the people who sent in bug reports, bug fixes, donation cheques, and hardware that we use.  We would also like to thank those who pre-ordered the 3.4 CD-ROM or bought our previous CD-ROMs.  Those who did not support us financially have still helped us with our goal of improving the quality of the software.

Our developers are:

    Aaron Campbell, Alexander Yurchenko, Andreas Gunnarsson,
    Angelos D. Keromytis, Anil Madhavapeddy, Artur Grabowski,
    Ben Lindstrom, Bjorn Sandell, Bob Beck, Brad Smith, Brandon
Creighton,
    Brian Caswell, Brian Somers, Bruno Rohee, Camiel Dobbelaar,
    Can Erkin Acar, Cedric Berger, Chad Loder, Chris Cappuccio,
    Christian Weisgerber, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Dale Rahn,
    Damien Couderc, Damien Miller, Dan Harnett, Daniel Hartmeier,
    David B Terrell, David Krause, David Lebel, David Leonard, Dug
Song,
    Eric Jackson, Federico G. Schwindt, Grigoriy Orlov, Hakan
Olsson,
    Hans Insulander, Heikki Korpela, Henning Brauer, Henric
Jungheim,
    Hiroaki Etoh, Horacio Menezo Ganau, Hugh Graham, Ian Darwin,
    Jakob Schlyter, Jan-Uwe Finck, Jason Ish, Jason McIntyre, Jason
Peel,
    Jason Wright, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Jean-Francois Brousseau,
    Jean-Jacques Bernard-Gundol, Jim Rees, Jolan Luff, Jose Nazario,
    Joshua Stein, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, Kenjiro Cho,
    Kenneth R Westerback, Kevin Lo, Kevin Steves, Kjell Wooding,
    Louis Bertrand, Magnus Holmberg, Marc Espie, Marc Matteo,
Marco S Hyman,
    Marcus Watts, Margarida Sequeira, Mark Grimes, Markus Friedl,
    Mats O Jansson, Matt Behrens, Matt Smart, Matthew Jacob,
Matthieu Herrb,
    Michael Shalayeff, Michael T. Stolarchuk, Mike Frantzen, Mike
Pechkin,
    Miod Vallat, Nathan Binkert, Nick Holland, Niels Provos, Niklas
Hallqvist,
    Nikolay Sturm, Nils Nordman, Oleg Safiullin, Otto Moerbeek,
Paul Janzen,
    Peter Galbavy, Peter Stromberg, Peter Valchev, Philipp Buehler,
    Reinhard J. Sammer, Rich Cannings, Ryan Thomas McBride,
    Shell Hin-lik Hung, Steve Murphree, Ted Unangst, Theo de
Raadt,
    Thierry Deval, Thomas Nordin, Thorsten Lockert, Tobias
Weingartner,
    Todd C. Miller, Todd T. Fries, Vincent Labrecque, Wilbern Cobb,
    Wim Vandeputte.