OpenBSD 6.6

I've really been enjoying using OpenBSD full time, both on my desktop (AMD Ryzen build) as well as laptops (Lenovo X230, X1 Carbon). Everything literally "just works", the documentation is impeccable, and I love being able to install a new kernel and base system with one simple command ("sysupgrade"). About the only thing I still use Linux for is a browser with U2F support and Bluetooth - both are disabled in OpenBSD for security.

I read about the &quot;sysupgrade&quot; tool and concluded that the upgrade to 6.7 in another 6 months will be awfully seamless... But I see from this that they backported the tool as a syspatch for 6.5! So from 6.5 we will be able to do <i>syspatch &amp;&amp; sysupgrade</i> to get to 6.6. Sounds nice.

You can also browse the source with the OPENBSD_6_6 tag in cvsweb.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;src&#x2F;?only_with_tag=OPENBSD_6_6" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cvsweb.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;src&#x2F;?only_with_tag=...</a>

Just keeps getting better and better every release. I wish they would add an easy encryption option in the installer. You can enable full disk encryption, but you have to mess with the bioctl settings, which potentially scares off new users.

Announcement email: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-announce&amp;m=157132045926047&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-announce&amp;m=157132045926047&amp;w=2</a>

&gt; ssh-keygen(1): add an experimental lightweight signature and verification ability. Signatures may be made using regular ssh keys held on disk or stored in a ssh-agent and verified against an authorized_keys-like list of allowed keys. Signatures embed a namespace that prevents confusion and attacks between different usage domains (e.g. files vs email).<p>Nice! I hope this will eventually be used for various signature systems like for git commits.

&gt; Fixed support for amd64 machines with greater than 1023GB physical memory.<p>Don&#x27;t I wish. What would be the memory test time for something like that?

If you support OpenBSD in spirit and love what they do, consider making a donation to help the developers out. Most devs work for free and every little bit helps :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;donations.html</a>

Love the release poster for this one.

The OpenBSD developers are not too thrilled to hear about these sorts of issues, but looks like sysupgrade installed sets I didn&#x27;t have before (x*66.tgz, game66.tgz).

&gt; Added mcx(4) driver for Mellanox ConnectX-4 (and later) Ethernet controllers.<p>Interesting. Sounds like work is being done to support higher network throughput rates. :)

Just a reminder: you still have to read the preupgrade stuff before and do the manual file deletion stuff afterwards even if you do sysupgrade. Most will need to do the pkg_add -u after all that. Here is the link (I always have to look for it):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;upgrade66.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;upgrade66.html</a>

ghc bumped to 8.6.4 and sbcl with threading support!

I still desperately want docker support. I know I can bhive and friends - but native docker support is critical to my every day, unfortunately. Heck, I&#x27;ll take super decayed docker support!

Can OpenBSD run Sway? Or is that only supported on FreeBSD&#x2F;Linux?

Can&#x27;t wait to try if this release will improve wireless performance when configured as an AP, until now I have never been able to get speeds above 10 Mbps with OpenBSD.

&gt; Disabled gcc in base on armv7 and i386.<p>Is gcc disabled in base on amd64? Are the OpenBSD distributions for amd64 compiled with gcc or clang?

Thanks to all the OpenBSD developers and supporters for making another amazing release!

Now that they have the amdgpu driver in, it&#x27;s time to run this on my Ryzen box.

prgmr.com has an updated netboot installer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prgmr.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;17&#x2F;openbsd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prgmr.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;17&#x2F;openbsd.html</a>

The release artwork gets better each time!

sysupgrade from 6.5 works amazingly!