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Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) wrote in with a report from g2k19: I was particularly excited to attend this year's general hackathon. I arrived without expectation. My goal was to have a fresh look at the kernel and discuss pending issues in a new way. ... [More] Since I haven't really hacked on OpenBSD during the last year, I wasn't sure what to do next. Read more… [Less]

Otto Moerbeek (otto@) has been working on improving the behaviour of ntpd(8) during system boot, especially for machines whose time is way off (e.g. for machines without a battery-backed clock (RTC)). One recently committed improvement dealt with ... [More] the problem of bad time in a DNSSEC environment, but Otto is working on more changes in this area. Read more… [Less]

With this commit, Reyk Floeter (reyk@) completed the addition of Server Name Indication (SNI) to relayd(8): CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2019/05/31 09:25:57 Modified files: usr.sbin/relayd: config.c parse.y ... [More] relayd.c relayd.conf.5 relayd.h Log message: Add support for SNI with new "tls keypair" option to load additional certs. Tested by many (thanks!) Feedback & OK rob@ [Less]

With the latest hackathon finished, the subsequent BSDCan completed and its attendees having returned home, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) writes in with the first report from g2k19: Travelling to the hackathon was a bit of an adventure this year. The ... [More] software troubles with the 737 MAX caused frequent scheduling changes. At Montreal airport I ran into tb@ and naddy@ but all of us were on different airplanes to Ottawa. When I finally arrived a different crew of people were waiting for me and my luggage. It is pretty clear that this is a general hackathon if you run into developers everywhere along the way. The last todo item after a long travel day was beer and food at the local pub where all the others were. Read more… [Less]

2019-04-24, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and elsewhere: With a message sent to relevant mailing lists, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) announced that the OpenBSD project's 46th release, OpenBSD 6.5 is now generally available from mirror sites all over the ... [More] world. Notable changes include but are not limited to: On amd64 and i386 platforms, the default linker has been changed to lld. The radeonsi Mesa driver (for hardware acceleration on Southern Islands and Sea Islands radeondrm(4) devices) has been added. pvclock(4), a driver for the KVM paravirtual clock, has been added. Support for isochronous transfers has been added to xhci(4). The (replacement) uaudio(4) driver now supports USB audio class v2.0. There have been numerous improvement in both the IEEE 802.11 wireless and generic network stacks. unveil(2) has been improved considerably, and pledge(2) has gained a new "video" promise. RETGUARD has replaced the stack-protector on amd64 and arm64 architectures. The new pthread rwlock implementation has improved the latency of threaded applications. Xorg(1), the X window server, is no longer installed setuid. bgpd(8) has been enhanced considerably. openrsync(1), rdsetroot(8), and unwind(8) have been added. For a fuller description, see the OpenBSD 6.5 release page or the detailed changelog of changes since the previous release. See also the Upgrade Guide. [Less]

After doing active development on it for about a month, i just released version 1.0.0 of the DocBook to mdoc converter, docbook2mdoc(1). The OpenBSD port was updated, too. In a nutshell, docbook2mdoc was brought from experimental status to an early ... [More] release that can be considered mostly usable for production, though no doubt there are still many rough edges. That's why i called it 1.0.0 and not 1.1.1. Read more… [Less]

The stream of t2k19 hackathon reports continues with this from Christian Weisgerber (naddy@): Discounting an airport layover, this was my first trip to Asia. I guess I picked the right spot. Seeing Taipei felt like stepping into Ghost in the Shell. Awesome. But this isn't the OpenBSD travel blog… Read more…

Fresh from the recent t2k19 hackathon in Taipei, Florian Obser (florian@) writes in with this report: unwind(8) is weird. It is the first daemon I wrote without having a constant use for most of its features. slowcgi(8), slaacd(8) and rad(8) are different, I use them every day and I will notice when I break stuff. Read more…

A new hackathon report has arrived, this time from Stefan Sperling (stsp@), who writes: This hackathon was an exceptional opportunity for several developers involved in 802.11 wireless to meet face to face. I spent a lot of time collaborating with Kevin Lo and Jonathan Matthew throughout the week. Read more…

Kenneth R Westerback (krw@) wrote in with a report on his recent participation in t2k19: Rule 1 of Taipei travel -- nobody knows what an EasyCard is. Read more…