OpenBSD

Coverage of OpenBSD, the project famous for its relentless focus on security, correctness and clean code — releases, features and the ideas worth borrowing.

  
The release of OpenBSD 4.6 is unfortunately postponed to Nov 1 due to serious CD production problems. Theo de Raadt announced the delay on openbsd-misc today. The developers intended to bring out the release on Oct 1 because the tree was frozen earlier than normal. They are sorry about the dalay and stick to the traditional release date Nov 1 in the future.

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OpenBSD 4.6 is scheduled for release on 2009-10-01. Pre-Orders are now accepted. The new release brings a new privilege-separated SMTP daemon, improvements over OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemons, a per default enabled pf(4) that has stricter checking for ICMP and ICMP6 packets, improved driver support and many more changes. Here is the full list of changelog for OpenBSD 4.6

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OpenBSD releases every half year a new version, usually at 1st of May and 1st of Nov. Now the upcoming version 4.5 has been tagged as BETA which should be available on the OpenBSD mirrors soon. You are invited to check it out and report bugs you find to make this release also a good and stable system. Reference: OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat tagged the operating system to 4.5-BETA.

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