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Headlines

OpenBSD 5.8 is released on the 20th birthday of the OpenBSD project

• 5.8 has landed, and just in time for the 20th birthday of OpenBSD, Oct 18th
• A long list of changes can be found on the release announcement, but here’s a small scattering of them
• Drivers for new hardware, such as:
  • rtwn = Realtek RTL8188CE wifi
  • hpb = HyperTransport bridge in IBM CPC945
  • Improved sensor support for upd driver (USB power devices)
  • Jumbo frame support on re driver, using RTL8168C/D/E/F/G and RTL8411
• Updated to installer, improve autoinstall, and questions about SSH setup
• Sudo in base has been replace with “doas”, sudo moved to package tree
• New file(1) command with sandboxing and priv separation
• The tame(2) API WiP
• Improvements to the httpd(8) daemon, such as support for lua pattern matching redirections
• Bugfixes and the security updates to OpenSMTPD 5.4.4
• LibreSSL security fixes, removed SSLv3 support from openssl(1) (Still working on nuking SSLv3 from all ports)
• And much more, too much to mention here, read the notes for all the gory details!

OpenBSD Developer Interviews

• To go along with the 20th birthday, we have a whole slew of new interviews brought to us by the beastie.pl team. English and Polish are both provided, so be sure not to miss these!
  • Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
  • Vadim Zhukov
  • Marc Espie
  • Bryan Steele
  • Ingo Schwarze
  • Gilles Chehade

Jean-Sébastien Pédron has submitted a call for testing out the neIntel i915 driver

• A very eagerly awaited feature, Haswell GPU support has begun the testing process
• The main developer, Jean-Sébastien Pédron dumbbell@freebsd.org looking for users to test the patch, both those that have older supported cards (Sandybridge, Ivybridge) that are curr