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* Code from the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]] licensed <ref>{{cite web|title=p0f|url=http://www.stearns.org/p0f/p0f|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> was relicensed to allow pf to feature passive operating system detection. |
* Code from the [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPL]] licensed <ref>{{cite web|title=p0f|url=http://www.stearns.org/p0f/p0f|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> was relicensed to allow pf to feature passive operating system detection. |
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* [[Address space layout randomization]] (ALSR) by default<ref name="OpenBSD_Innovations-ASLR-PIE">{{cite web|title=OpenBSD Innovations|url=https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html|publisher=The OpenBSD project|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref> |
* [[Address space layout randomization]] (ALSR) by default<ref name="OpenBSD_Innovations-ASLR-PIE">{{cite web|title=OpenBSD Innovations|url=https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html|publisher=The OpenBSD project|accessdate=12 September 2016}}</ref> |
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* Basic sysctl [[hw.sensors]] API introduced for [[hardware monitoring]].<ref name=sensors-abc2009/> |
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''Attack of the Binary BLOB'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/39.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> which chronicles the developer's fight against [[binary blobs]] and [[vendor lock-in]], a parody of the 1958 film [[The Blob]] and the pop-rock music of the era. |
''Attack of the Binary BLOB'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/39.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> which chronicles the developer's fight against [[binary blobs]] and [[vendor lock-in]], a parody of the 1958 film [[The Blob]] and the pop-rock music of the era. |
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* Enhanced [[OpenBGPD]] feature-set. |
* Enhanced [[OpenBGPD]] feature-set. |
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* Improved [[hw.sensors|hardware sensors]] support, including a new [[Intelligent Platform Management Interface|IPMI]] subsystem and a new [[I²C]] scan subsystem; number of drivers using the sensors framework increased to a total of 33 drivers (compared to 9 in the prior 3.8 release 6 months ago).<ref name=sensors-abc2009/> |
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* Improved hardware sensors framework. |
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| ''Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/41.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> a parody of the [[Arabic]] [[fable]] [[Ali Baba]] and the Forty Thieves, part of the book of [[One Thousand and One Nights]], in which [[Linux]] developers are mocked over their allowance of [[non-disclosure agreement]]s when developing software while at the same time implying hardware vendors are [[criminals]] for not releasing documentation required to make reliable device drivers. |
| ''Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/41.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> a parody of the [[Arabic]] [[fable]] [[Ali Baba]] and the Forty Thieves, part of the book of [[One Thousand and One Nights]], in which [[Linux]] developers are mocked over their allowance of [[non-disclosure agreement]]s when developing software while at the same time implying hardware vendors are [[criminals]] for not releasing documentation required to make reliable device drivers. |
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* Redesigned sysctl [[hw.sensors]] into a two-level sensor API;<ref name=sensors-undeadly06>{{Cite web |
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|url= http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20061230235005 |
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|title= New two-level sensor API |
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|website = [[OpenBSD Journal]] |
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}}</ref><ref name=sensors-ieee07>{{Cite conference |
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|author= Constantine A. Murenin |date= 2007-04-17 |
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|url = http://sensors.cnst.su/IEEE_ICNSC_2007 |
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|section = 4.3. What we have proposed and implemented |
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|title= Generalised Interfacing with Microprocessor System Hardware Monitors |
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|conference= Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 15–17 April 2007. |
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|location= London, United Kingdom |
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|publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] |
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|pages = 901-906 |doi = 10.1109/ICNSC.2007.372901 |isbn = 1-4244-1076-2 |
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|id = IEEE ICNSC 2007, pp. 901—906. |
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}}</ref> a total of 46 device drivers exporting sensors through the framework with this release.<ref name=sensors-abc2009>{{Cite conference |
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|author1= Constantine A. Murenin |
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|author2= Raouf Boutaba |
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|author2-link = Raouf Boutaba |
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|date= 2009-03-17 |
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|url= http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-sensors-paper.pdf |
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|section= 6. Evolution of the framework |
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|title= OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework. |
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|conference= AsiaBSDCon 2009 Proceedings, 12–15 March 2009 |
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|location= Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan |
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|publication-date= 2009-03-14 |
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|archive-url= https://2009.asiabsdcon.org/papers/abc2009-P3B-paper.pdf |
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| ''100001 1010101'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/42.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> the Linux kernel developers gets a knock for violating the ISC-style license of OpenBSD's open hardware abstraction layer for Atheros wireless cards. |
| ''100001 1010101'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Release Notes|url=https://www.openbsd.org/42.html|accessdate=9 October 2018}}</ref> the Linux kernel developers gets a knock for violating the ISC-style license of OpenBSD's open hardware abstraction layer for Atheros wireless cards. |
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* Usability of sensorsd improved, allowing zero-configuration monitoring of smart sensors from the [[hw.sensors]] framework, and easier configuration for monitoring of non-smart sensors.<ref name=onlamp-42>{{cite web |
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|url= http://web.archive.org/web/20111013021755/http://onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155 |
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|title= Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2 |
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|author= Federico Biancuzzi |
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|publisher= [[O'Reilly Media]] |
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* sparc64 port now supports many recent processors: [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] [[UltraSPARC IV]], [[UltraSPARC T1|T1]], and [[UltraSPARC T2|T2]]; [[Fujitsu]] [[SPARC64 V]], [[SPARC64 VI|VI]], and [[SPARC64 VII|VII]]. |
* sparc64 port now supports many recent processors: [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] [[UltraSPARC IV]], [[UltraSPARC T1|T1]], and [[UltraSPARC T2|T2]]; [[Fujitsu]] [[SPARC64 V]], [[SPARC64 VI|VI]], and [[SPARC64 VII|VII]]. |
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* New System-on-a-Chip PowerPC port for Freescale devices |
* New System-on-a-Chip PowerPC port for Freescale devices |
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* [[C_dynamic_memory_allocation#OpenBSD.27s_malloc|malloc(3)]] [[Address_space_layout_randomization#OpenBSD|randomization]], guard pages, and randomized (delayed) free<ref name="OpenBSD-PIE">{{cite web|url=https://www.openbsd.org/papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/|title=OpenBSD's Position Independent Executable (PIE) Implementation|author=Kurt Miller|year=2008|accessdate=22 July 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110612150147/http://openbsd.org/papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/| archivedate= 12 June 2011 | deadurl= no}}</ref><ref name="OpenBSD_Innovations-ASLR-PIE"/> |
* [[C_dynamic_memory_allocation#OpenBSD.27s_malloc|malloc(3)]] [[Address_space_layout_randomization#OpenBSD|randomization]], guard pages, and randomized (delayed) free<ref name="OpenBSD-PIE">{{cite web|url=https://www.openbsd.org/papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/|title=OpenBSD's Position Independent Executable (PIE) Implementation|author=Kurt Miller|year=2008|accessdate=22 July 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110612150147/http://openbsd.org/papers/nycbsdcon08-pie/| archivedate= 12 June 2011 | deadurl= no}}</ref><ref name="OpenBSD_Innovations-ASLR-PIE"/><ref name=onlamp-44/> |
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* The [[hw.sensors]] framework is used by 68 device drivers, after 7 new drivers were added as of this release.<ref name=onlamp-44>{{cite web |
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|url= http://web.archive.org/web/20120524040127/http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/source-wars---return-of-the-pu.html |
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|title= Source Wars - Return of the Puffy: What's New in OpenBSD 4.4 |
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|author= Federico Biancuzzi |
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Revision as of 23:13, 19 March 2019
Version history
The following table summarizes the version history of the OpenBSD operating system.
Legend: | Old version, not maintained | Old version, still maintained | Current stable version | Future release |
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Version | Release date | Supported until | Significant changes |
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1.1 | 18 October 1995 |
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1.2 | 1 July 1996 |
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2.0 | 1 October 1996 | ||
2.1 | 1 June 1997 | Replacement of the older sh with pdksh.[4] | |
2.2 | 1 December 1997 | Addition of the afterboot(8) man page.[5]
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2.3 | 19 May 1998 | Introduced the haloed daemon, or aureola beastie, in head-only form created by Erick Green.[6] | |
2.4 | 1 December 1998 | Featured the complete haloed daemon, with trident and a finished body.[7] | |
2.5 | 19 May 1999 | Introduced the Cop daemon image done by Ty Semaka.[8] | |
2.6 | 1 December 1999 | Based on the original SSH suite and developed further by the OpenBSD team, 2.6 saw the first release of OpenSSH, which is now available standard on most Unix-like operating systems and is the most widely used SSH suite.[9] | |
2.7 | 15 June 2000 | Support for SSH2 added to OpenSSH.[10] | |
2.8 | 1 December 2000 | isakmpd(8) [11]
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2.9 | 1 June 2001 | ||
3.0 | 1 December 2001 |
E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix),[13] a techno track performed by the release mascot Puff Daddy, the famed rapper and political icon.
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3.1 | 19 May 2002 | Systemagic,[14] where Puffy, the Kitten Slayer, battles evil script kitties. Inspired by the works of Rammstein and a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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3.2 | 1 November 2002 | Goldflipper,[16] a tale in which James Pond, agent 077, super spy and suave lady's man, deals with the dangers of a hostile internet. Styled after the orchestral introductory ballads of James Bond films. | |
3.3 | 1 May 2003 |
Puff the Barbarian,[17] born in a tiny bowl; Puff was a slave, now he hacks through the C, searching for the Hammer. It is an 80s rock-style song and parody of Conan the Barbarian dealing with open documentation.
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3.4 | 1 November 2003 |
The Legend of Puffy Hood where Sir Puffy of Ramsay,[18] a freedom fighter who, with Little Bob of Beckley, took from the rich and gave to all. Tells of the POSSE project's cancellation. An unusual blend of both hip-hop and medieval-style music, a parody of the tale of Robin Hood intended to express OpenBSD's attitude to free speech.
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3.5 | 1 May 2004 |
CARP License and Redundancy must be free,[22] where a fish seeking to license his free redundancy protocol, CARP, finds trouble with the red tape. A parody of the Fish License skit and Eric the Half-a-Bee Song by Monty Python, with an anti-software patents message.
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3.6 | 1 November 2004 |
Pond-erosa Puff (live) was the tale of Pond-erosa Puff,[27] a no-guff freedom fighter from the wild west, set to hang a lickin' on no-good bureaucratic nerds who encumber software with needless words and restrictions. The song was styled after the works of Johnny Cash, a parody of the Spaghetti Western and Clint Eastwood and inspired by liberal license enforcement.
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3.7 | 19 May 2005 | The Wizard of OS,[29] where Puffathy, a little Alberta girl, must work with Taiwan to save the day by getting unencumbered wireless. This release was styled after the works of Pink Floyd and a parody of The Wizard of Oz; this dealt with wireless hacking. | |
3.8 | 1 November 2005 | 1 November 2006 | Hackers of the Lost RAID,[30] which detailed the exploits of Puffiana Jones, famed hackologist and adventurer, seeking out the Lost RAID, Styled after the radio serials of the 1930s and 40s, this was a parody of Indiana Jones and was linked to the new RAID tools featured as part of this release. This is the first version released without the telnet daemon which was completely removed from the source tree by Theo de Raadt in May 2005.[31] |
3.9 | 1 May 2006 | 1 May 2007 |
Attack of the Binary BLOB,[32] which chronicles the developer's fight against binary blobs and vendor lock-in, a parody of the 1958 film The Blob and the pop-rock music of the era.
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4.0 | 1 November 2006 | 1 November 2007 | Humppa Negala,[33] a Hava Nagilah parody with a portion of Entrance of the Gladiators and Humppa music fused together, with no story behind it, simply a homage to one of the OpenBSD developers' favorite genres of music. |
4.1 | 1 May 2007 | 1 May 2008 | Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors,[35] a parody of the Arabic fable Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part of the book of One Thousand and One Nights, in which Linux developers are mocked over their allowance of non-disclosure agreements when developing software while at the same time implying hardware vendors are criminals for not releasing documentation required to make reliable device drivers.
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4.2 | 1 November 2007 | 1 November 2008 | 100001 1010101,[38] the Linux kernel developers gets a knock for violating the ISC-style license of OpenBSD's open hardware abstraction layer for Atheros wireless cards.
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4.3 | 1 May 2008 | 1 May 2009 | Home to Hypocrisy[40] |
4.4 | 1 November 2008 | 18 October 2009 |
Trial of the BSD Knights,[41] summarizes the history of BSD including the USL v. BSDi lawsuit. The song was styled after the works of Star Wars.
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4.5 | 1 May 2009 | 19 May 2010 | Games. It was styled after the works of Tron.[44] |
4.6 | 18 October 2009 | 1 November 2010 | Planet of the Users.[45] In the style of Planet of the Apes, Puffy travels in time to find a dumbed-down dystopia, where "one very rich man runs the earth with one multinational". Open-source software has since been replaced by one-button computers, one-channel televisions, and closed-source software which, after you purchase it, becomes obsolete before you have a chance to use it. People subsist on soylent green. The theme song is performed in the reggae rock style of The Police.
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4.7 | 19 May 2010 | 1 May 2011 | I'm Still Here [46] |
4.8 | 1 November 2010 | 1 November 2011 | El Puffiachi. [47][48]
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4.9 | 1 May 2011 | 1 May 2012 | The Answer. [49]
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5.0 | 1 November 2011 | 1 November 2012 | What Me Worry?. [50] |
5.1 | 1 May 2012 | 1 May 2014 | Bug Busters. The song was styled after the works of Ghostbusters. [51] |
5.2 | 1 November 2012 | 1 November 2013 | Aquarela do Linux. [52]
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5.3 | 1 May 2013 | 1 May 2014 | Blade Swimmer. The song was styled after the works of Roy Lee, a parody of Blade Runner. [53]
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5.4 | 1 November 2013 | 1 November 2014 | Our favorite hacks. [54] |
5.5 | 1 May 2014 | 1 May 2015 | Wrap in Time.[55]
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5.6 | 1 November 2014 | 18 October 2015 | Ride of the Valkyries. [56]
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5.7 | 1 May 2015 | 29 March 2016 | Source Fish. [57]
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5.8 | 18 October 2015 | 1 September 2016 | 20 years ago today, Fanza, So much better, A Year in the Life. [58] (20th anniversary release[59])
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5.9 | 29 March 2016 | 11 April 2017 | Doctor W^X, Systemagic (Anniversary Edition). [60]
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6.0 | 1 September 2016 | 9 October 2017 | Another Smash of the Stack, Black Hat, Money, Comfortably Dumb (the misc song), Mother, Goodbye and Wish you were Secure, Release songs parodies Pink Floyd's The Wall and Wish You Were Here[61] |
6.1 | 11 April 2017 | 15 April 2018 | Winter of 95[64]
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6.2 | 9 October 2017 | 18 October 2018 | [citation needed]
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6.3 | 2 April 2018 |
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6.4 | 18 October 2018 |
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Version | Release date | Supported until | Significant changes |
Notes
- ^ Compare release history of NetBSD, which OpenBSD branched from
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