Some minor things I noticed, the following is still at 3.8 http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html should link to a http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable38.html, rather than the above. As an example in pkg-stable.html the package clamav-0.88.1.tgz only exists for 3.7, 3.8 and current. 3.9 only has clamav-0.88.tgz available. There appears to be an issue here also with the CVS ports tree, as clamav has been updated to 0.88.1 for 3.7, 3.8 stable and current is now at 0.88.2, while 3.9 stable has been left at version 0.88. gnupg also appears to have been left behind at version 1.4.2.1 for 3.9 in CVS while 3.8 moved on to 1.4.2.2 and current is at 1.4.3. Both these are in the ports/security CVS tree. Regards Nigel Bob Beck wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > May 1, 2006. > > We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.9. > This is our 19th release on CD-ROM (and 18th 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, 3.9 > provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly > all areas of the system: > > - Improved hardware support, including: > o Some G5-based Apple Macintosh machines, including W^X support (currently > restricted to 32-bit mode). > o Many more audio drivers in the OpenBSD/macppc port. > o Support for many system sensors (temperature, voltage, fan speed) via > the following subsystems: > o Dell's Embedded Server Management (esm) > o Intelligent Platform Management Interface (ipmi) > o I2C/SMBus sensor subsystems found on most motherboards (iic) > o Touchpad on recent Apple laptops (tpms). > o nfe, a binary blob free driver for the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet interface. > o Opteron systems now have all their PCI buses detected. > o CardBus and PCMCIA support on OpenBSD/amd64. > o ixgb, Intel PRO/10GbE Ethernet. > o Support for new Intel i82571, i82572 and i82573 PCI Express based > devices > in the em(4) driver. > o Support for new Broadcom BCM5714, BCM5715 and BCM5903M based devices in > the bge(4) driver. > o Support for new Ralink RT2501 and RT2600 based devices in ral. > o Support for ASIX AX88178 Gigabit and AX88772 10/100 based devices > in axe(4). > o Support for devices incorporating GCT RF transceivers in rtw. > o Zaurus remote control (zrc) support. > o Initial Sound Blaster Audigy support in the emu(4) driver. > o The Level 1 LXT1001 Gigabit driver has been fixed and now works > (lge(4)). > o More HP Smart ARRAY controllers recognized by the ciss(4) driver. > o Support the Intel i915 AGP. > o Support for both older and newer IDE and SATA controllers in the > pciide(4) driver, including: > o ATI's IXP 200/300/400 IDE controllers > o Broadcom's ServerWorks HT-1000 IDE controller > o a few older Intel PIIX IDE controllers > o Broadcom's ServerWorks K2 and HT-1000 SATA controllers > o VIA's VT6410 and VT8251 SATA controllers > o some newer NVIDIA SATA controllers > o Added IBSS support to the iwi(4) driver. > o Added bus_dma support to the de(4) and san(4) drivers. > o A lot of fixes and improvements to the uaudio(4) audio driver. > o Support for the SMC SMC91C1xx Ethernet chips in the sm(4) driver as well > as MII support. > o New adb(4) and framebuffer (macfb(4)) drivers on OpenBSD/mac68k, plus > switch to wscons(4). > > - New tools: > o ftp-proxy(8) has been rewritten, and a tftp version, tftp-proxy, > has been added. > o sdiff(1), a side-by-side file comparison tool, rewritten by us. > o getent(1), a tool to get entries from the administrative databases. > > - New functionality: > o ancontrol functionality has been completely merged into ifconfig. > o apmd(8) can be used to increase or decrease CPU speed automatically, > depending on CPU usage and, if supported, battery status. > o nc(1) now supports HTTP Proxy authentication, making it very useful as > a ssh ProxyCommand. > o Userland ppp(8) has IPv6 support. > o A number of fixes and new functionality for trunk(4): > o New active/passive failover mode > o Fixed multicast support, for carp(4) and pfsync(4) over trunk > interfaces. > o Interface capabilities depending on the trunk ports, for > full-size vlan(4) MTUs. > o Improved functionality for ipsecctl(8). > o Added multicast routing to GENERIC. It is now possible to enable > multicast routing in the kernel with the > sysctl(8) option net.inet.ip.mforwarding=1. > o It is now possible to set a default vlan(4) priority via ifconfig(8). > > - Assorted improvements and code cleanup: > o libpcap has been updated with most of tcpdump.org's libpcap-0.9.4 API, > without the clutter. > o System libraries on most architectures are now compiled with debugging > symbols, which makes tools like gdb(1) much more useable. > o Header files have been rewritten to provide better C99 support. > o Linted versions of system libraries are now provided and lint(1) has > been substantially overhauled to produce less false positives and find > new classes of problems. > o The ieee80211(9) wireless framework has been cleaned up and changed to > use red-black tree(3)s instead of hash tables. > o The complete source tree has been audited for wrong usage of the > queue(3) macros and facilities have been added to detect misuse. > o The mg(1) editor now includes an editable minibuffer, vastly improved > undo, completion buffers, and many other emacs-like improvements. > > - New functionality for hostapd(8), the Host Access Point Daemon: > o Support for multiple wireless interfaces and per-interface event rules. > o New rate keyword for event rules, a requirement for using hostapd > as a WIDS. > o Replaced hash tables with safer red-black tree(3)s. > o Improved multicast support and configuration options. > o Various bug fixes and improvements. > > - OpenSSH 4.3: > o Generate protocol 2 RSA keys in ssh-keygen by default. > o Support for tunneling arbitrary network packets over a connection > between an OpenSSH client and server, as a true VPN. > o Many additional bug fixes, as described in the release announcement. > > - OpenBGPD 3.9: > o Support for inbound and outbound soft reconfiguration. > o Added possibility to remove communities. > o Added new special community value "neighbor-as" which is expanded to > the remote-AS of the current neighbor. > o Support for a unprivileged bgpctl socket added, which can be used > for looking glass style applications. > o Even better IPv6 support. > > - OpenOSPFD 3.9: > o Neighbor Finite State Machine has been greatly improved. > o Network redistribution has been reworked. > o CARP interfaces and their behaviour is now respected. > o LSA Retransmission has been greatly improved. > o Each area is now calculated individually when needed. > o OSPF packet reception performance has been improved. > o Neighbor uptimes are now displayed with "ospfctl show neighbor". > o RIB uptimes are now displayed with "ospfctl show rib". > > - Over 3200 ports, 3000 pre-built packages, improved package tools > (updating packages from the previous release is now possible). > > - As usual, many improvements in manual pages and other documentation. > > - This release of OpenBSD includes the following major components from > outside suppliers: > o X.Org 6.9.0 (+ patches, and i386 contains XFree86 3.3.6 servers > (+ patches) for legacy chipsets not supported by X.Org) > o Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.5 (+ patches) > o Perl 5.8.6 (+ patches) > o Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches) > o OpenSSL 0.9.7g (+ patches) > o Groff 1.15 > o Sendmail 8.13.4, with libmilter > o Bind 9.3.1 (+ patches) > o Lynx 2.8.5rel.4 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches) > o Sudo 1.6.8p9 > o Ncurses 5.2 > o Latest KAME IPv6 > o Heimdal 0.7 (+ patches) > o Arla 0.35.7 > o Binutils 2.15 (+ patches) > o Gdb 6.3 > > If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 3.8 > and 3.9, look at > > http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus39.html > > Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes > made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list. > We provide patches for known security threats and other important > issues discovered after each CD release. As usual, between the > creation of the OpenBSD 3.9 FTP/CD-ROM binaries and the actual 3.9 > 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 > > http://www.OpenBSD.org/security.html > and > http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html > > Security patch announcements are sent to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list. For information on OpenBSD mailing lists, please see: > > http://www.OpenBSD.org/mail.html > > We wish to draw special attention to the new sendmail errata that > missed our release cycle. By default sendmail does not answer remote > requests, but the patch supplied is worth applying. > > http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html#sendmail > OpenBSD 3.9 is also available on CD-ROM. The 3-CD set costs $45USD > (EUR 45) and is available via mail order and from a number of > contacts around the world. The set includes a colourful booklet > which carefully explains the installation of OpenBSD. A new set > of cute little stickers is 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 audio track, a song entitled > "Blob!". Lyrics (and an explanation) for the song may be found at: > > http://www.OpenBSD.org/lyrics.html#39 > > 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 3.9 CD-ROMs are bootable on the following five platforms: > > o i386 > o amd64 > o macppc > o sparc > o sparc64 (UltraSPARC) > > (Other platforms must boot from floppy, network, or other method). > > 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 > 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 3.9 t-shirts are available now. The new shirt for 3.9 is > an assertive statement regarding the increasing proliferation of vendor > supplied binary device drivers. We also sell our older shirts, as well > as a selection of OpenSSH t-shirts. > 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/3.9/ftplist > > As of May 1, 2006, the following ftp mirror sites have the 3.9 release: > > ftp://ftp.kd85.com/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Austria > ftp://openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Germany > ftp://muk.kd85.com/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Netherlands > ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Sweden > ftp://ftp2.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ New York City, NY, USA > ftp://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Boulder, CO, USA > ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Redwood City, CA, USA > ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Lake in the Hills, IL, > USA > > The release is also available at the master site: > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ Alberta, Canada > > However it is strongly suggested you use a mirror. > > Other mirror sites may take a day or two to update. > > 2) Connect to that ftp mirror site and go into the directory > pub/OpenBSD/3.9/ which contains these files and directories. > This is a list of what you will see: > > ANNOUNCEMENT alpha/ mac68k/ sparc/ > Changelogs/ amd64/ macppc/ sparc64/ > HARDWARE cats/ mvme68k/ src.tar.gz > PACKAGES ftplist mvme88k/ sys.tar.gz > PORTS hp300/ packages/ tools/ > README hppa/ ports.tar.gz vax/ > SIZES i386/ root.mail zaurus/ > XF4.tar.gz luna88k/ sgi/ > > 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 bsd.rd etc39.tgz misc39.tgz > INSTALL.i396 cd39.iso floppy39.fs pxeboot > INSTALL.linux cdboot floppyB39.fs xbase39.tgz > MD5 cdbr floppyC39.fs xetc39.tgz > base39.tgz cdemu39.iso game39.tgz xfont39.tgz > bsd cdrom39.fs index.txt xserv39.tgz > bsd.mp comp39.tgz man39.tgz xshare39.tgz > > If you are new to OpenBSD, fetch _at least_ the file INSTALL.i386 > and the appropriate floppy*.fs or cd39.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 3.9 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/3.9/tools > directory to do so. > X.Org has been integrated more closely into the system. This release > contains X.Org 6.9.0. Most of our architectures ship with X.Org, including > amd64, sparc, sparc64 and macppc. During installation, you can install > X.Org 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 X.Org > or where X.Org support is buggy. Please read the /usr/X11R6/README file > for post-installation information. > 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 3.9 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). > A large number of binary packages are provided. Please see the PACKAGES > file (ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/PACKAGES) for more details. > The CD-ROMs contain source code for all the subsystems explained > above, and the README (ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/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/3.9/ directory: > > XF4.tar.gz ports.tar.gz src.tar.gz sys.tar.gz > OpenBSD 3.9 includes artwork and CD artistic layout by Ty Semaka, > who also arranged an audio track on the OpenBSD 3.9 CD set. Ports > tree and package building by Peter Valchev, Nikolay Sturm and > Christian Weisgerber. System builds by Theo de Raadt and Kenji Aoyama. > X11 builds by Todd Fries. 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 3.9 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, Aleksander Piotrowski, Alex Feldman, Alexander Guy, > Alexander von Gernler, Alexander Yurchenko, Alexandre Anriot, > Andreas Gunnarsson, Angelos D. Keromytis, Anil Madhavapeddy, > Artur Grabowski, Ben Lindstrom, Bernd Ahlers, 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, > Christopher Pascoe, Claudio Jeker, Constantine Sapuntzakis, > Dale Rahn, Damien Bergamini, Damien Couderc, Damien Miller, > Dan Harnett, Daniel Hartmeier, Darren Tucker, David B Terrell, > David Gwynne, David Krause, David Lebel, David Leonard, Don Stewart, > Dug Song, Eric Jackson, Esben Norby, Federico G. Schwindt, > Fernando Gont, Greg Taleck, Grigoriy Orlov, Hakan Olsson, > Hans Insulander, Hans-Joerg Hoexer, Heikki Korpela, Henning Brauer, > Henric Jungheim, Hiroaki Etoh, Horacio Menezo Ganau, Hugh Graham, > Ian Darwin, Jacob Meuser, Jakob Schlyter, Jan-Uwe Finck, > Jared J. Yanovich, Jason Ish, Jason McIntyre, Jason Peel, > Jason Wright, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Jean-Francois Brousseau, > Jean-Jacques Bernard-Gundol, Jim Rees, Joel Knight, Jolan Luff, > Jonathan Gray, Jordan Hargrave, Joris Vink, Jose Nazario, > Joshua Stein, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, Kenji Aoyama, Kenjiro Cho, > Kenneth R Westerback, Kevin Lo, Kevin Steves, Kjell Wooding, > Kurt Miller, Louis Bertrand, Magnus Holmberg, Marc Balmer, > Marc Espie, Marc Matteo, Marco Peereboom, Marco Pfatschbacher, > Marco S Hyman, Marcus Watts, Margarida Sequeira, Marius Eriksen, > Mark Grimes, Mark Kettenis, Markus Friedl, Martin Reindl, > Mathieu Sauve-Frankel, Mats O Jansson, Matt Behrens, Matt Smart, > Matthew Jacob, Matthieu Herrb, Michael Coulter, Michael Shalayeff, > Michael T. Stolarchuk, Mike Frantzen, Mike Pechkin, Miod Vallat, > Moritz Jodeit, Nathan Binkert, Niall O'Higgins, Nick Holland, > Niels Provos, Niklas Hallqvist, Nikolay Sturm, Nils Nordman, > Oleg Safiullin, Otto Moerbeek, Patrick Latifi, Paul Janzen, > Pedro Martelletto, Peter Galbavy, Peter Stromberg, Peter Valchev, > Philipp Buehler, Reinhard J. Sammer, Ray Lai, Reyk Floeter, > Rich Cannings, Robert Nagy, Ryan Thomas McBride, Saad Kadhi, > Shell Hin-lik Hung, Stephen Kirkham, Steve Murphree, Ted Unangst, > Theo de Raadt, Thierry Deval, Thomas Nordin, Thorsten Lockert, > Tobias Weingartner, Todd C. Miller, Todd T. Fries, > Tom Cosgrove, Uwe Stuehler, Vincent Labrecque, Wilbern Cobb, > Wim Vandeputte, Xavier Santolaria.
