OpenBSD 6.6 released

On October 17, a new release of the OpenBSD operating system took place - OpenBSD 6.6.

Release cover: https://www.openbsd.org/images/sixdotsix.gif

Main changes in the release:

  • Now you can upgrade to a new release through the sysupgrade utility. As of release 6.5, it is delivered via the syspatch utility. Migration from 6.5 to 6.6 is possible on architectures amd64, arm64, i386.
  • Driver added amdgpu(4).
  • startx and xinit now work again on modern systems using inteldrm(4), radeondrm(4) ΠΈ amdgpu(4)
  • The transition to the clang compiler continues:

    • Now on the platform octeon clang is used as the base system compiler.

    • Architecture powerpc now comes with this compiler by default. In pursuit of other architectures such as: aarch64, amd64, arm7, i386, mips64el, sparc64.

    • The gcc compiler is excluded from the base distribution on architectures arm7 ΠΈ i386.
  • Fixed support amd64systems with more than 1023 gigabytes of memory.
  • OpenSMTPD 6.6.0
  • LibreSSL 3.0.2
  • OpenSSH 8.1

The release can be downloaded from link, where mirrors for downloading are indicated.

Source: linux.org.ru

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