OpenBSD 4.9 Released
For those of you on the more tech-y end of the internet, OpenBSD4.9 was released. There’s a whole host of new features, all of which can be read in the changelog. Main new features include:
- New/extended platforms
- Improved hardware support (lots of new hardware)
- Generic network stack improvements
- OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements
- pf(4) improvements
- IPsec stack audit was performed
- SCSI improvements
- Other assorted improvements
- Install/Upgrade process changes
- New rc.d(8) for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons
- OpenSSH 5.8
- Mandoc 1.10.9
- Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture
- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation
Read here about all of the new things, including details of what’s above.