On October 17, a new release of the OpenBSD operating system was announced — OpenBSD 6.6.
Release Cover: https://www.openbsd.org/images/sixdotsix.gif
Key changes in the release:
- You can now upgrade to the new release using the sysupgrade utility. In release 6.5, it is provided through the syspatch utility. The upgrade from 6.5 to 6.6 is possible on architectures amd64, arm64, i386.
- Added driver amdgpu(4).
- startx and xinit now work again on modern systems using inteldrm(4), radeondrm(4) and amdgpu(4)
- The transition to the clang compiler continues:
- Now on the platform octeon clang is used as the base system compiler.
- Architecture powerpc it now comes with this compiler by default. Following other architectures such as: aarch64, amd64, arm7, i386, mips64el, sparc64.
- The gcc compiler has been removed from the base distribution on architectures arm7 and i386.
- Fixed support for amd64-systems with more than 1023 gigabytes of memory.
- OpenSMTPD 6.6.0
- LibreSSL 3.0.2
- OpenSSH 8.1
The release can be downloaded from this link, where mirrors for download are listed.
Source: linux.org.ru
