In another move that signals a new OpenBSD release is in the works, the OpenSSH project has released without fanfare its new version, OpenSSH 10.5. The release notes read, OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (2026-08-11) OpenSSH 10.5 was released on 2026-0…
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-08-06 from the not the roto-router dept. If you do any routing at all and want to test the code, please do, and report back! Copyright © 2004-2008 Daniel Hartmeier. All rights reserved. Articles a…
Returning readers of this site may have noticed that the pace of development in relayd(8) and httpd(8) has been picking up recently. Now Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) has a new blog post out titled Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolutio…
Thanks to the tireless work of among others Dave Voutila (dv@), development of the OpenBSD/amd64 virtualization system vmm(4)/vmd(8) continues to make progress. Now breaking changes, but with with potential benefits in both process isolatio…
Yes, you read that right. Modern development tools in the form of the LLVM compiler infrastructure is well on its way to supporting OpenBSD/sparc64 along with other more conventional architectures. The support is now ready for testing, via
In a change likely to be widely welcomed, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) committed support for custom HTTP headers in httpd(8). This obviates the need to use FastCGI support or relayd(8) to achieve things like adding SSL/TLS security headers.…
Up until quite recently, relayd(8) did not actually support ECDSA keys and certificates, as described in the Relayd doesn't like ecdsa thread on the tech@ mailing list. The problem is now solved. In this commit by Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski…
Contributed by græy on 2026-07-20 from the not as many -Vs as Trogdor yet --version functions too! dept. Copyright © 2004-2008 Daniel Hartmeier. All rights reserved. Articles and comments are copyright their respective authors, submission i…
OpenBSD is moving closer to adding WPA3 support. Stefan Sperling (stsp@) posted a message with the subject add WPA3 support to the tech mailling list with a patch that implements WPA3 in OpenBSD's net80211 subsystem including ifconfig(8), a…
OpenBSD development is an ever ongoing activity, and when the feature set of a new release has been set and the stabilization phase leading up to the release starts, -current becomes $NEXTRELEASE-beta. The switch to 8.0-beta happened with t…
The OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform has been retired. The commit message by Miod Vallat (miod@) explains the reason(s). List: openbsd-cvs Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src From: Miod Vallat Date: 2026-07-15 18:59:19 Message-ID: 17bf9b1b…
Sometimes I like to think of OpenBSD development as a form of spiritual discipline. The project is a decades-long painstaking labor of love with hackers carefully rearranging source code by hand. In Dutch you'd call this monnikenwerk. So wh…