Open BSD
-current Changelog
This selection is intended to include all important
and all user-visible changes.
For a complete record of all changes, please see the "source-changes"
mailing list, called "OpenBSD CVS"
in the archives ,
or use CVS .
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Changes made between OpenBSD 8.0 and -current
Improved apm(8) info for machines without a battery.
Fix calculation of i/o size needed to read FSInfo struct in mount_msdos(8) .
Properly activate aq(4) when detected at boot time.
Added RX queues/RSS/TSO support and update microcode for rge(4) RTL8127.
Fixed pppoe(4) out-of-bounds memory write, stack disclosure, and SIGSEGV.
Added unveil(2) to npppd(8) ; fixed stack leak.
Stopped npppd(8) from allowing a non-privileged process to open any file.
Multiple drm(4) bugfixes.
Improved mandoc(1) error messages with '-mdoc -T' markdown mode.
Updated libexpat to version 2.8.5.
Fixed llvm compiler-rt __clear_cache() on mips64.
Fix initialisation sequence required by virtio(4) 3.1.1.
Fixed uncm(4) link establishment on Pixel 7a.
Simplified video(4) kern.video.record logic to avoid bcopy with unchecked parameters.
Updated to makedepend(1) 1.0.10.
Updated to xserver(1) 21.1.25, libpng(3) 1.6.59, xclipboard(1) 1.1.6, xclock(1) 1.2.1, xfd(1) 1.1.6, xkbprint(1) 1.0.8, xload(1) 1.2.2, xmodmap(1) 1.0.12, xpr(1) 1.2.1, xwininfo(1) 1.1.7.
Fixed an off-by-one error in bsd_decompress().
Fixed ld.so(1) information leaks with AUX_openbsd_execmode.
Made binutils aware of the AUX_openbsd_execmode variable.
Cope with dates after 2040 on ADB macppc systems and macppc laptops.
Cleanup and refactoring of rc.subr(8) .
More complete parsing sanity checks in rc.subr(8) .
If rc.d run script was updated, ensure rc.subr(8) uses original values until restart.
unveil(2) and pledge(2) for ypmatch(1) , ypwhich(1) , and yppoll(8) .
Avoid infinite loop in pcidump(8) when encountering misbehaving devices.
Add extra vmd(8) mmio region, allows i686 linux kernels work with less RAM.
unveil(2) and pledge(2) for fgen(1) and ypbind(8) .
Reworked handling of the rpki-client(8) certificate expire time.
Fixed race condition in rc.subr(8) .
Updated to pkgconf(1) 3.0.8.
In pf(4) , check AH extension header length.
Added mwx(4) driver for Mediatek MT792x wifi devices.
Better malloc(3) boundscheck and low-memory behaviour in wsdisplay(4) WSDISPLAYIO_LDFONT.
Implemented mwx(4) MT7925 association to open APs in 11a/b/g modes.
Add tmux(1) commands to copy mode to select, pipe and open OSC 133 command output.
Don't allow mwx(4) deep sleep in ASSOC state, more stable connection and roaming.
Added vmd(8) queue size checks and reject malformed descriptor chains.
Enabled ssh(1) ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 as an allowed CA signature algorithm.
Added truncation detection to the vmd(8) instruction decoder.
In pf(4) , check extension header length does not exceed packet length.
Made mandoc(1) map '\:' to U+200B, to improve html output.
Fixed mandoc(1) handling of special character escape sequences used as delimiters.
Fixed mandoc(1) rendering of the \l (horizontal line) escape sequence.
Made dhcpd(8) siscard packets with unsupported htype's.
Show match count in tmux(1) copy mode.
Added tmux(1) window-default-command option to override default-command per window.
In mandoc(1) '-T utf8' output mode, made '\:' correctly output a line break not a glyph.
Implemented mediaopt monitor for MT7925 with mwx(4) .
Enables urndis(4) in the installer on amd64.
Fix refcnt bug in mwx(4) tx path, fixes hangs on MT7921.
Added preliminary support of RTL8159 to ure(4) .
Fixed tmux(1) tty_clamp_area with status lines at the top and a smaller display.
Added uncm(4) to i386 GENERIC config, and uncm(4) and urndis(4) to RAMDISK_CD.
Fixed mandoc(1) HTML formatter when encountering nonsensical sequence of macros.
Enabled uncm(4) in the installer on amd64 (allows firmware-less network installs).
Added uncm(4) , a driver for USB CDC NCM (i.e. USB phone tethering).
Fixed GPIO wakeup masking during suspend.
First bits of scan code added for the mwx(4) MT7925 chip.
Do not lose a pending pane resize when entering the alternate tmux(1) screen.
In tmux(1) , adjust widths of a few codepoints incorrectly set to double width.
Multiple bugfixes for drm(4) , amdgpu(4) , inteldrm(4) , and radeondrm(4) .
Further restrict the characters allowed in a ssh(1) command-line-supplied user name.
In drm(4) , fixed drm_pending_vblank_event leak in error path for out_fence_ptr.
Reserve a 16K-byte gap at start swap partitions, for upcoming disklabel changes.
In sysv_shm, fixed ordering claim on vm_shm slot.
Made mandoc(1) follow groff_mdoc(7) behaviour for width of a .Bl macro.
Made rpki-client(8) use SOCK_NONBLOCK where possible; handle errors for fcntl().
Improved mandoc(1) section identifier handling.