On a quiet autumn evening, OpenBSD 7.6 has been released. As always, there are many changes.
The main ones are:
- initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite system on a chip (SoC);
- additional mitigations for the Spectre-V4 vulnerability for the ARM64 architecture;
- implementation of AVX-512 instruction set support for the AMD64 architecture;
- mitigation of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability on Intel Atom processors;
- initiation of work on S0 sleep mode support for AMD64 systems;
- a multitude of changes to SMP operation;
- synchronization of the DRM driver with Linux 6.6.52 and support for Intel Meteor Lake graphics;
- support for AMD SEV technology in virtual machines (vmm);
- libva imported for VA-API support in video acceleration;
- a variety of changes to the networking stack;
- and, of course, many ports have been updated.
Source: linux.org.ru
