OpenBSD 3.9 preorders are up!

[n0cmonkey]

Order page.

The current theme is "attack of the binary blob," highlighting the insanity of hardware vendors trying to push binary blobs on the populace. Support free software, buy a copy. I'll probably be ordering mine this weekend.
Definitely buying a shirt this time. 😉
If I had a place to put it, I'd buy another poster.

 

[cleverhandle]

Excellent. My servers are due for an update now, and that is definitely a great shirt. I have way too many OpenBSD shirts as it is, but they're just always so much fun. I don't see anything in the What's New? list that jumps out at me, though. Is there any particularly nifty new toy, or is this more of an "all-around improvement" kind of release?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle
Excellent. My servers are due for an update now, and that is definitely a great shirt. I have way too many OpenBSD shirts as it is, but they're just always so much fun. I don't see anything in the What's New? list that jumps out at me, though. Is there any particularly nifty new toy, or is this more of an "all-around improvement" kind of release?

Some highlights that I think are pretty big:

G5-based Apple Macintosh machines, including W^X support (currently restricted to 32-bit mode).

Support for many system sensors (temperature, voltage, fan speed) via the following subsystems:

* Dell's Embedded Server Management (esm)
* Intelligent Platform Management Interface (ipmi)
* I2C/SMBus sensor subsystems found on most motherboards (iic)

nfe, a binary blob free driver for the NVIDIA nForce Ethernet interface.

ftp-proxy has been rewritten, and a tftp version, tftp-proxy, has been added.

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.

OpenSSH 4.3

OpenBGPD 3.9:
* Support for inbound and outbound soft reconfiguration.

And of course major improvements to plenty of other things, including increased network device driver support (hello 10gb!).

 

[n0cmonkey]

ACPI might be in the next release. 😀

 

[n0cmonkey]

Remember, donate if you can. These are the people that put out OpenSSH too, so if you peeked at the thread you probably use some of their software. 😉

 

[CTho9305]

Do you still have to reinstall your packages every update?

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
Do you still have to reinstall your packages every update?

Well, insofar as there may be newer versions of packages, yes. But if you mean the "B depends on A, updating A removes B" issue, I heard they recently eliminated that behavior.

 

[kamper]

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade38.html implies that you can go either route. I've never tried an update (still have a machine running 3.7, which is where I started) but I imagine doing the update and then using pkg_add -u should do the trick, with PKG_PATH pointing to the new repo, of course.

I have placed my order so I will take my own advice in a few months 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
Do you still have to reinstall your packages every update?

Upgrades are possible. When you update the system it keeps older libraries around, so running old binaries is often possible...