OpenBSD 5.7 Released
30 April, 2015 by stsp@openbsd.org | openbsd
May 1, 2015.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.7.
This is our 37th release on CD-ROM (and 38th via FTP/HTTP). We remain
proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote
holes in the default install.
As in our previous releases, 5.7 provides significant improvements,
including new features, in nearly all areas of the system:
- Improved hardware support, including:
o New xhci(4) driver for USB 3.0 host controllers.
o New umcs(4) driver for MosChip Semiconductor 78x0 USB multiport
serial adapters.
o New skgpio(4) driver for Soekris net6501 GPIO and LEDs.
o New uslhcom(4) driver for Silicon Labs CP2110 USB HID based UART.
o New nep(4) driver for Sun Neptune 10Gb Ethernet devices.
o New iwm(4) driver for Intel 7260, 7265, and 3160 wifi cards.
o The rtsx(4) driver now supports RTS5227 and RTL8411B card readers.
o The bge(4) driver now supports jumbo frames on various additional
BCM57xx chipsets.
o The ciss(4) driver now supports HP Gen9 Smart Array/Smart HBA
devices.
o The mpi(4) and mfi(4) drivers now have mpsafe interrupt handlers
running without the big lock.
o The ppb(4) driver now supports PCI bridges that support
subtractive decoding (fixes PCMCIA behind the ATI SB400 PCI
bridge), and devices with 64-bit BARs behind PCI-PCI bridges as
seen on SPARC T5-2 systems.
o The puc(4) driver now supports Winchiphead CH382 devices.
o The sdmmc(4) driver now supports eMMC storage devices larger than
2GB.
o The sdhc(4) driver can properly resume on Ricoh controllers.
o The sdhc(4) driver now supports Ricoh R5U822 and R5U823 card
readers.
o The mfii(4) driver now supports the Megaraid 3008 (Fury) and 3108
(Invader) cards.
o The myx(4) driver runs less code under the big lock.
o The msk(4) driver now supports Yukon Prime, Yukon Optima 2, Yukon
88E8079, and various EC U and Supreme chipsets.
o The umass(4) driver now supports Archos 24y Vision devices.
o The athn(4) driver now supports Atheros UB94 devices.
o The azalia(4) driver now supports Realtek ALC885 codecs and Bay
Trail HD Audio devices.
o The ix(4) driver now supports onboard Ethernet devices in SPARC T5
machines.
o The upd(4) driver now handles UPSes with broken report descriptors.
o The ums(4) driver now supports the USB Tablet device emulated by
Qemu.
o The umsm(4) driver now supports MEDION S4222 devices.
o The pciide(4) driver now supports Intel C610 chipsets.
o The ukbd(4) driver now supports "wellspring" Apple keyboards.
o The pms(4) driver now supports click-and-drag with Elantech v4
touchpads.
o The umodem(4) driver now supports Arduino Leonardo devices.
o The sk(4) driver now supports receive ring scaling.
o Replaced custom jumbo allocators in sk(4), nge(4), lge(4), and
ti(4) with MCLGETI(9).
o Wireless network scanning problems with the iwn(4) driver have
been fixed.
o Support for RS* IGP Radeon devices in the radeondrm(4) driver has
been fixed.
o PowerMac7,2 and PowerMac7,3 can now boot with a multiprocessor
kernel.
- Removed hardware support:
o The lofn(4) and nofn(4) drivers for Hifn crypto accelerator
devices have been removed.
o The art(4) driver for Accoom Networks Artery T1/E1 devices has been
removed.
o The urio(4) driver for Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 players has been
removed.
- Generic network stack improvements:
o The routing table is now used for most of the address lookup
operations superseding the RB-tree and IPv4 address list.
o The SipHash algorithm is now used for PCB hashing, trunk(4)
loadbalancing, pf(4) and bridge(4).
o Traffic destinated to link-local IPv6 addresses can now be seen
with tcpdump(8).
o A carp(4) now needs to be configured with an explicit carpdev
parent interface.
o The mbuf(9) layer has been made mpsafe.
o Introduce mbuf_list and mbuf_queue structures and APIs.
o Support changing the IPv6 input queue length via sysctl(1) and
net.inet6.ip6.ifq.
- Installer improvements:
o The etc and xetc sets are now part of base and xbase and are not
distributed separately anymore. They are extracted from base and
xbase during installation and upgrades.
Note that this includes the rc and rc.conf files!
o The installer now supports trunk(4) interfaces during upgrades.
o The discovery of the responsefile location for unattended
installation and upgrades has been extended to be more flexible.
- Ask for the location if DHCP discovery fails for location or
mode.
- Provide a default URL if the 'next-server' DHCP option is found.
- Use /auto_install.conf or /auto_upgrade.conf if present.
- Automatically start the installer in unattended mode if either
one of these files is present when the system boots.
o Ignore hostname.if.* files when upgrading.
o Configure all physical interfaces before any dynamic interface
types (e.g. trunks, vlans) when upgrading.
o fdisk(8) now zeros out GPT signatures found when writing out an
MBR that has been re-initialized and has no EFI or EFISYS
partition.
o Fixed manipulation of 'ro' and 'rw' fstab options to avoid damage
to other options that happen to contain 'ro' or 'rw'.
o The ramdisk binary (one binary contains all the commands) is now
compiled without optimization and security features. The benefit
is a substantial saving in space, allowing more features in the
future.
- Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
o nginx has been removed from base -- use the package if you need it.
o sliplogin has been removed.
o Sendmail has been removed from base -- use the package if you need
it.
o IPv6 router solicitations are now sent by the kernel ("inet6
autoconf"); rtsol(8) and rtsold(8) are no longer necessary and
have been removed.
o Enhancements and bugfixes in arp(8) and ndp(8)
o The effects of the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag on getaddrinfo(3) results
are limited to DNS queries. This avoids erratic behavior with
transient network problems, "raw" addresses and localhost entries
in /etc/hosts.
o gethostbyname(3) now no longer fails when more than 16
addresses/aliases are returned. The original pre-asr limit of 35
has been restored, with additional results being truncated.
o tftp(1) now supports sending or receiving files larger than 65536
blocks in size.
- Security improvements:
o Stricter enforcement of W^X in the kernel address space,
especially on architectures with the right featureset (amd64, in
particular, has seen substantial improvements).
o Support for loadable kernel modules has been removed.
o procfs has been removed.
o Comprehensive audit of the tree to use the reallocarray(3) idiom
throughout.
o Many conversions from select(2) to poll(2).
o /var/tmp is now a symbolic link to /tmp, as a first step towards
reducing the "fill it up" attack surface against the /var
partition.
o memcpy(3) with overlapping arguments now aborts a program (with a
syslog report), allowing these problems to be found. Overlapping
copies should use memmove(3). Sometime after 5.7 release, having
learned more about the situation and repairing instances that are
discovered by users during release use, we will go back to the
optimized version.
o Change rand(3), random(3), drand48(3), lrand48(3), mrand48(3),
srand48(3) to return non-deterministic strong random values by
default, sourced from arc4random(3). New functions
srand_deterministic(3), srandom_deterministic(3),
seed48_deterministic(3) and lcong48_deterministic(3) are added for
cases where determinism needs to be requested.
o At resume (or unhibernate) time, use a variety of methods to
reseed the random number generator. This also works on VMs which
wake up (if a wakeup event is seen).
o All architectures have been transitioned to static PIE, meaning
the statically linked binaries in /bin and /sbin now have randomly
located text segments.
o Allow larger .openbsd.randomdata ELF segments.
o Sync kernel AES code and ssh(1) AES code to the one shipped with
OpenSSL/LibreSSL.
o Removed passwd(1) support for all password ciphers except
blowfish(3).
o Use sha512 instead of md5 for tcp(4) initial sequence number.
o Use sha512 instead of md5 in the random number generator.
o Delete secret or secret-derived data in many base utilities with
explicit_bzero(3).
- Assorted improvements:
o New rcctl(8) utility to control daemons.
o fw_update(1) has been rewritten to be faster and smarter.
o Cleanup libevent(3), the compatibility layer for other operating
systems has been removed. The API is still compatible with
upstream libevent 1.4.15-stable.
o openssl(1) s_client now supports a -proxy parameter for connecting
over an HTTP proxy.
o gzsig has been removed.
o Switch to fast assembly versions of some libc functions on amd64.
o Frequency scaling has been moved from apmd(8) to the kernel with
an improved algorithm.
o Switch last workq API uses to taskq API and remove all traces of
workq.
o Use services(5) names in the default pf rules in force during
startup.
o what(1) now correctly displays $OpenBSD$ expansions.
o dhcpd(8) now removes addresses from its pf table a single time
when they expire, rather than at every timeout after the expiry.
o dhcpd(8) now ensures that the pf table process exits when the main
process does.
o dhcpd(8) has more informative log entries for DHCPACKs issued in
response to DHCPINFORM messages.
o Added POSIX types blkcnt_t (int64) and blksize_t (int32), and used
them for st_blocks (formerly int64_t) and st_blksize (formerly
u_int32_t) in struct stat.
o Improved typography for banner(6).
o dhclient(8) adjusts MTU when the interface-mtu DHCP option is
provided.
o Various memory leaks in dhclient(8) plugged, providing more
stability for long running (in terms of time or renewals)
instances.
o The dhclient(8) command line options -q (quiet) and -d (don't
daemonize) are now mutually exclusive.
o The communication between the privileged and unprivileged
dhclient(8) processes was reworked to further minimize information
sharing.
o dhclient(8) ensures lease timeouts (renew, rebind, expire) are
sane and uses default values closer to RFC suggestions.
o dhclient(8) no longer crashes when a lease expires and cannot be
renewed or replaced.
o dhclient(8) improved tracking network interface link states.
o Improved network error tracking and accounting in dhclient(8).
o Private number conversion functions in dhclient(8) eliminated in
favour of standard library functions.
o Further signal race cleanups in ftp(1).
o BIND has been retired, encouraging use of nsd(8) and unbound(8).
o Significant namespace cleanup in the /usr/include files,
especially related to <sys/param.h> and <limits.h>.
o softraid(4) RAID1 and CRYPTO volumes are now bootable on the
sparc64 platform.
o relayd(8) now uses "TLS" rather than "SSL" terminology to reflect
the deprecation of the latter.
o relayd(8) now supports the random and source-hash modes with
redirections.
o relayd(8) now supports the OPENBSD-RELAYD-MIB via agentx with
snmpd(8).
o Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag and/or
non-blocking mode on new file descriptors: pipe2(2), dup3(2),
accept4(2), mkostemp(3), mkostemps(3), the SOCK_CLOEXEC and
SOCK_NONBLOCK flags for socket(2) and socketpair(2), and the
MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag for recvmsg(2). In addition,
posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(3) now always clears the
close-on-exec flag.
o Added interfaces for setting the close-on-exec flag on new FILE
handles and for requesting exclusive creation via the the 'e' and
'x' mode letters for fopen(3), fdopen(3), freopen(3), and popen(3).
o Many library functions and programs changed to use the above for
safety or simplicity.
o Added chflagsat(2), sockatmark(3), and stravis(3).
o Merged performance and safety fixes for fts(3) from FreeBSD.
o Merged fixes for file descriptor leaks in various rpc(3) functions
from NetBSD.
o Added a kern.global_ptrace sysctl(1) to disable, by default, the
ability to ptrace(2) processes that aren't your descendent.
o kdump(1) now always displays both the numeric and the textual
forms for users, groups, timestamps, and sysctl ids, eliminating
the -r option. It also auto-selects between decimal and hex format
for arguments, renders more types of flags, and is more robust
when parsing corrupt ktrace files.
o chmod(1)/chgrp(1)/chown(8) now comply with POSIX's requirements
when they encounter symlinks when the -R option is used, and are
safe from race conditions when doing so.
o The dmesg(8) utility can now display the console message buffer in
addition to the system message buffer.
o inetd(8) now uses libevent instead of select(3).
o Reworking of the kernel pool(9) implementation to provide mpsafety
and pave the way for performance improvements.
o Removed the workq API after replacing it with the task API.
o Add support for creating kernel threads that cannot sleep to
taskq_create(9).
o Completed the implementation of the atomic (eg, atomic_cas_uint(9),
atomic_swap_uint(9), atomic_add_int(9), atomic_sub_int(9),
atomic_inc_int(9), and atomic_dec_int(9)) and membar
(membar_sync(9)) APIs across all supported architectures.
- OpenBSD httpd(8):
o SSLv2/3 is not supported anymore; renamed all occurrences of "SSL"
to "TLS".
o Various TLS improvements with better support for ECDHE/DHE forward
secrecy.
o Improved support for virtual hosts by supporting name- and IP-
ibased aliases.
o Added support for basic authentication by checking against files
created with htpasswd(1).
o Added support for custom error codes, blocking and dropping of
connections.
o Added support for redirections and macros in specified target URLs.
o Added the "root strip" option to sanitize PATH_INFO for some CGI
scripts.
o Added an option to specify an alternative log directory instead of
/var/www/logs.
o Various FastCGI improvements; httpd(8) is now compatible with many
well-known web applications.
o Various other fixes and improvements.
- OpenSMTPD 5.4.4:
o SSLv3 is not supported anymore.
o Added support for a new message and headers parser.
o Added support for append-domain.
o Restricted address lookups to configured address families.
o Domain is no longer required when mailing a local user.
o Various other fixes and improvements.
- OpenSSH 6.8:
o Potentially-incompatible changes:
- sshd(8): UseDNS now defaults to 'no'. Configurations that match
against the client host name (via sshd_config(5) or
authorized_keys) may need to re-enable it or convert to
matching against addresses.
o New/changed features:
- Much of OpenSSH's internal code has been re-factored to be more
library-like. These changes are mostly not user-visible, but
have greatly improved OpenSSH's testability and internal layout.
- Add FingerprintHash option to ssh(1) and sshd(8), and
equivalent command-line flags to the other tools to control
algorithm used for key fingerprints. The default changes from
MD5 to SHA256 and format from hex to base64. Fingerprints now
have the hash algorithm prepended. Please note that visual host
keys will also be different.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): Experimental host key rotation support. Add a
protocol extension for a server to inform a client of all its
available host keys after authentication has completed. The
client may record the keys in known_hosts, allowing it to
upgrade to better host key algorithms and a server to
gracefully rotate its keys. The client side of this is
controlled by a UpdateHostkeys config option (default off).
- ssh(1): Add a ssh_config(5) HostbasedKeyType option to control
which host public key types are tried during host-based
authentication.
- ssh(1), sshd(8): fix connection-killing host key mismatch
errors when sshd(8) offers multiple ECDSA keys of different
lengths.
- ssh(1): when host name canonicalisation is enabled, try to
parse host names as addresses before looking them up for
canonicalisation. Fixes bz#2074 and avoiding needless DNS
lookups in some cases.
- ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8): Key Revocation Lists (KRLs) no longer
require OpenSSH to be compiled with OpenSSL support.
- ssh(1), ssh-keysign(8): Make ed25519 keys work for host based
authentication.
- sshd(8): SSH protocol v.1 workaround for the Meyer, et al.,
Bleichenbacher Side Channel Attack. Fake up a bignum key before
RSA decryption.
- sshd(8): Remember which public keys have been used for
authentication and refuse to accept previously-used keys. This
allows AuthenticationMethods=publickey,publickey to require
that users authenticate using two different public keys.
- sshd(8): add sshd_config(5) HostbasedAcceptedKeyTypes and
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes options to allow sshd(8) to control what
public key types will be accepted. Currently defaults to all.
- sshd(8): Don't count partial authentication success as a
failure against MaxAuthTries.
- ssh(1): Add RevokedHostKeys option for the client to allow
text-file or KRL-based revocation of host keys.
- ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8): Permit KRLs that revoke certificates by
serial number or key ID without scoping to a particular CA.
- ssh(1): Add a "Match canonical" criteria that allows
ssh_config(5) Match blocks to trigger only in the second config
pass.
- ssh(1): Add a -G option to ssh(1) that causes it to parse its
configuration and dump the result to stdout, similar to "sshd
-T".
- ssh(1): Allow Match criteria to be negated (e.g. "Match !host").
- The regression test suite has been extended to cover more
OpenSSH features. The unit tests have been expanded and now
cover key exchange.
o The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
- ssh-keyscan(1): ssh-keyscan(1) has been made much more robust
again servers that hang or violate the SSH protocol.
- ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): Fix regression bz#2306: Key path names
were being lost as comment fields.
- ssh(1): Allow ssh_config(5) Port options set in the second
config parse phase to be applied (they were being ignored).
(bz#2286)
- ssh(1): Tweak config re-parsing with host canonicalisation --
make the second pass through the config files always run when
host name canonicalisation is enabled (and not whenever the
host name changes). (bz#2267)
- ssh(1): Fix passing of wildcard forward bind addresses when
connection multiplexing is in use. (bz#2324)
- ssh-keygen(1): Fix broken private key conversion from
non-OpenSSH formats. (bz#2345)
- ssh-keygen(1): Fix KRL generation bug when multiple CAs are in
use.
- Various fixes to manual pages. (bz#2273, bz#2288 and bz#2316)
- LibreSSL
o User-visible features:
- Reluctantly add server-side support for TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV.
- Import BoringSSL's crypto bytestring and crypto bytebuilder
APIs.
- Jettison DTLS over SCTP.
- Move openssl(1) from /usr/sbin/openssl to /usr/bin/openssl.
- Two important cipher suites, GOST and Camellia, have been
reworked or reenabled, providing better interoperability with
systems around the world.
- libtls: New API for loading CA chains directly from memory
instead of a file, allowing verification with privilege
separation in a chroot(8) without direct access to CA
certificate files.
- libtls: Ciphers default to TLSv1.2 with AEAD and PFS.
- libtls: Improved error handling and message generation.
- Added X509_STORE_load_mem API for loading certificates from
memory. This facilitates accessing certificates from a chrooted
environment.
- New AEAD "MAC alias" allows configuring TLSv1.2 AEAD ciphers by
using 'TLSv1.2+AEAD' as the cipher selection string.
- New openssl(1) command 'certhash' replaces the c_rehash script.
- Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) support.
o Code improvements:
- Dead and disabled code removal including MD5, Netscape
workarounds, non-POSIX IO, SCTP, RFC 3779 support, "#if 0"
sections, and more.
- The ASN1 macros are expanded to aid readability and
maintainability.
- Various NULL pointer asserts removed in favor of letting the
OS/signal handler catch them.
- Dozens of issues found with the Coverity scanner fixed.
o Security updates:
- Fix a Bleichenbacher style timing oracle with bad PKCS padding.
- Fix memory leaks.
- Address POODLE attack by disabling SSLv3 by default.
- SHA256 Camellia cipher suites for TLS 1.2 from RFC 5932.
- Earlier libtls support for non-blocking sockets and randomized
session ID contexts.
- Ensure the stack is marked non-executable for assembly sections.
- Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507,
CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511,
CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0205 and
CVE-2015-0206.
- mandoc 1.13.3:
o man(1), apropos(1), and mandoc(1) now have a unified user
interface, all with the same options, and are in fact all
implemented by the same binary program.
o For man(1), this implies new options -l and -IKOTW, and it now
finds manual pages by the names in their NAME sections even if
they lack matching file names.
o For apropos(1), this implies new options -acfhklw and -IKOTW.
o For mandoc(1), this implies new options -acfhkl.
o mandoc(1) now automatically detects and transparently accepts
input encoded in utf-8 and iso-8859-1, and provides a new option
-K to explicitly specify the input encoding.
o The mandoc(1) default output mode now is -Tlocale rather than
-Tascii.
o eqn(7) now supports in-line equations, and terminal rendering of
equations is considerably improved.
o mandoc(1) -Thtml now generates polyglot HTML5 and renders eqn(7)
using MathML.
o mandoc(1) can no longer fail with fatal errors, no matter how
broken the input file may be, and the -Wfatal message level no
longer has any effect. A new diagnostic level -Wunsupp is
provided. Besides, many diagnostic messages are now more specific.
o Many crashes were fixed that Jonathan Gray found with the American
Fuzzy Lop (afl).
- Syslogd:
o OpenBSD syslogd(8) is based on libevent now.
o Sending and receiving UDP messages works with both IPv4 and IPv6.
o Syslog messages can also be sent over TCP or TLS. The syntax to
specify the loghost is documented in syslog.conf(5).
o Sending over TCP and TLS is reliable. If a connection terminates,
syslogd tries to reconnect. When the message buffer in memory gets
full, the number of dropped messages is counted and logged.
o With TLS, the x509 certificate of the syslog server is verified.
o The maximum message size has been increased according to newer RFC.
- Ports and packages:
o Over 9,000 ports.
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
o i386: 8722 o sparc64: 8184
o alpha: 6811 o sh: 0
o amd64: 8745 o powerpc: 8286
o sparc: 4026 o arm: 0
o hppa: 6718 o vax: 1550
o mips64: 1595 o mips64el: 6914
o m88k: 1148
- Some highlights:
o Chromium 40.0.2214.115 o Node.js 0.10.35
o Emacs 21.4 and 24.4 o OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.40
o GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2 o PHP 5.3.29, 5.4.38, 5.5.22 and
o GHC 7.8.4 5.6.5
o GNOME 3.14.2 o Postfix 2.11.4
o Go 1.4.1 o PostgreSQL 9.4.1
o Groff 1.22.3 o Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
o JDK 1.7.0.71 o R 3.1.2
o KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3 o Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551,
o LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228) 2.0.0.598, 2.1.5, and 2.2.0
o LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 o Sendmail 8.15.1
o MariaDB 10.0.16 o Tcl/Tk 8.5.16 and 8.6.2
o Mono 3.12.0 o TeX Live 20
o Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0esr and o Vim 7.4.475
35.0.1 o Xfce 4.10
o Mozilla Thunderbird 31.4.0
- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
- The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
o Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
freetype 2.5.5, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
xkeyboard-config 2.13 and more)
o Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
o Perl 5.20.1 (+ patches)
o SQLite 3.8.6 (+ patches)
o NSD 4.1.1
o Unbound 1.5.2
o Sudo 1.7.2p8
o Ncurses 5.7
o Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
o Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
o Less 458 (+ patches)
o Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
If you'd like to see a list of what has changed between OpenBSD 5.6
and 5.7, look at
http://www.OpenBSD.org/plus57.html
Even though the list is a summary of the most important changes
made to OpenBSD, it still is a very very long list.
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since the Foundation may be interested in participating in press releases.
In turn, the Foundation then uses these contributions to assist OpenBSD's
infrastructure needs. Contact the foundation directors at
directors@openbsdfoundation.org for more information.
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- T-SHIRT SALES --------------------------------------------------------
The OpenBSD distribution companies also sell T-shirts and polo shirts,
with new and old designs, available from our web ordering system.
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- HTTP INSTALLS --------------------------------------------------------
If you choose not to buy an OpenBSD CD-ROM, OpenBSD can be easily
installed via HTTP downloads. Typically you need a single
small piece of boot media (e.g., a USB flash drive) 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 HTTP. With the CD-ROMs,
the necessary documentation is easier to find.
1) Read either of the following two files for a list of HTTP
mirrors which provide OpenBSD, then choose one near you:
http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ftplist
As of May 1, 2015, the following HTTP mirror sites have the 5.7 release:
http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Stockholm, Sweden
http://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Oldenburg, Germany
http://ftp.ch.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Zurich, Switzerland
http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Paris, France
http://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Vienna, Austria
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ Brisbane, Australia
http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ CO, USA
http://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ CA, USA
http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ TX, USA
The release is also available at the master site:
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ 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 HTTP mirror site and go into the directory
pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ which contains these files and directories.
This is a list of what you will see:
ANNOUNCEMENT alpha/ luna88k/ sparc/
Changelogs/ amd64/ macppc/ sparc64/
HARDWARE armv7/ octeon/ src.tar.gz
PACKAGES aviion/ packages/ sys.tar.gz
PORTS hppa/ ports.tar.gz tools/
README i386/ root.mail vax/
SHA256 landisk/ sgi/ xenocara.tar.gz
SHA256.sig loongson/ socppc/ zaurus/
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, amd64. This is a list of what you will see:
INSTALL.amd64 bsd.rd* game57.tgz pxeboot*
SHA256 cd57.iso index.txt xbase57.tgz
SHA256.sig cdboot* install57.fs xfont57.tgz
base57.tgz cdbr* install57.iso xserv57.tgz
bsd* comp57.tgz man57.tgz xshare57.tgz
bsd.mp* floppy57.fs miniroot57.fs
If you are new to OpenBSD, fetch _at least_ the file INSTALL.amd64
and install57.iso. The install57.iso file (roughly 250MB in size)
is a one-step ISO-format install CD image which contains the various
*.tgz files so you do not need to fetch them separately.
If you prefer to use a USB flash drive, fetch install57.fs and
follow the instructions in INSTALL.amd64.
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.amd64. INSTALL.amd64 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 5.7 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/5.7/tools
directory to do so.
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- X.ORG FOR MOST ARCHITECTURES -----------------------------------------
X.Org has been integrated more closely into the system. This release
contains X.Org 7.7. 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.
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- PORTS TREE -----------------------------------------------------------
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 5.7 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 nginx 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).
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- BINARY PACKAGES WE PROVIDE -------------------------------------------
A large number of binary packages are provided. Please see the PACKAGES
file (http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/PACKAGES) for more details.
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- SYSTEM SOURCE CODE ---------------------------------------------------
The CD-ROMs contain source code for all the subsystems explained
above, and the README (http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/README)
file explains how to deal with these source files. For those who
are doing an HTTP install, the source code for all four subsystems
can be found in the pub/OpenBSD/5.7/ directory:
xenocara.tar.gz ports.tar.gz src.tar.gz sys.tar.gz
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- THANKS ---------------------------------------------------------------
Ports tree and package building by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse,
Pierre-Emmanuel Andre, Landry Breuil, Stuart Henderson, Peter Hessler,
Paul Irofti, Sebastian Reitenbach, Miod Vallat, and Christian Weisgerber.
System builds by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse, Kenji Aoyama, Theo de Raadt,
Jonathan Gray, Mark Kettenis, and Miod Vallat. X11 builds by
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse, Kenji Aoyama, Todd Fries, and Miod Vallat.
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 5.7 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 Bieber, Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, Alexandr Shadchin,
Alexandre Ratchov, Andrew Fresh, Anil Madhavapeddy,
Anthony J. Bentley, Antoine Jacoutot, Benoit Lecocq, Bob Beck,
Brandon Mercer, Brent Cook, Bret Lambert, Brett Mahar,
Brian Callahan, Bryan Steele, Camiel Dobbelaar, Charles Longeau,
Chris Cappuccio, Christian Weisgerber, Christopher Zimmermann,
Claudio Jeker, Damien Miller, Daniel Dickman, Darren Tucker,
David Coppa, David Gwynne, Doug Hogan, Edd Barrett, Eric Faurot,
Federico G. Schwindt, Florian Obser, Gerhard Roth, Gilles Chehade,
Giovanni Bechis, Gleydson Soares, Gonzalo L. Rodriguez,
Henning Brauer, Ian Darwin, Igor Sobrado, Ingo Schwarze,
Jakob Schlyter, James Turner, Jason McIntyre,
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas, Jeremy Evans,
Jim Razmus II, Joel Sing, Joerg Jung, Jonathan Armani,
Jonathan Gray, Jonathan Matthew, Joshua Elsasser, Joshua Stein,
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado, Kenji Aoyama, Kenneth R Westerback,
Kent R. Spillner, Kirill Bychkov, Kurt Miller, Landry Breuil,
Lawrence Teo, Loganaden Velvindron, Luke Tymowski, Marc Espie,
Marco Pfatschbacher, Mark Kettenis, Mark Lumsden, Markus Friedl,
Martin Pelikan, Martin Pieuchot, Martin Reindl, Martynas Venckus,
Masao Uebayashi, Mats O Jansson, Matthew Dempsky, Matthias Kilian,
Matthieu Herrb, Mike Belopuhov, Mike Larkin, Miod Vallat,
Naoya Kaneko, Nayden Markatchev, Nicholas Marriott, Nick Holland,
Nigel Taylor, Okan Demirmen, Otto Moerbeek, Pascal Stumpf,
Paul de Weerd, Paul Irofti, Peter Hessler, Philip Guenther,
Pierre-Emmanuel Andre, Raphael Graf, Remi Pointel, Renato Westphal,
Reyk Floeter, Robert Nagy, Robert Peichaer, Ryan Thomas McBride,
Sasano Takayoshi, Sebastian Benoit, Sebastian Reitenbach,
Simon Perreault, Stefan Fritsch, Stefan Sperling, Stephan Rickauer,
Steven Mestdagh, Stuart Cassoff, Stuart Henderson, Sylvestre Gallon,
Ted Unangst, Theo de Raadt, Tobias Stoeckmann, Tobias Ulmer,
Todd C. Miller, Todd Fries, Vadim Zhukov, William Yodlowsky,
Yasuoka Masahiko, Yojiro Uo