7.4

OpenBSD 7.4

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.4 finally released

Today, the 55th Release of OpenBSD was announced. My Upgrade Script is available here.

Highlights

  • vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4) block and network devices
  • malloc(3) now has built-in leak detection
  • In OpenSSH 9.5, ssh-kengen(1) generates Ed25519 keys by default
  • sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs

see the Post on Undeadly for more Details, or the OpenBSD Page …

Script

doas su -
cd /root
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/.helpers
ftp https://blog.stoege.net/scripts/upgrade_to_74.sh
chmod u+x upgrade_to_74.sh

Execute

do the Upgrade

OpenBSD 7.4 DevBox

Python, OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.4

… will be released next week (23. Oct 2023). Why not have a look at the upcomming OS and prepare a VM for Software Development ?

Preparation

grab a fresh VM and Install OpenBSD 7.4

os version

puffy74# sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1396: Sun Oct  8 09:20:40 MDT 2023
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

empty vm

puffy74# pkg_info
quirks-6.159        exceptions to pkg_add rules and cache

add go, rust, python

puffy74# pkg_add go rust python3
quirks-6.159 signed on 2023-10-07T10:09:24Z
go-1.21.1: ok
rust-1.72.1:nghttp2-1.56.0: ok
rust-1.72.1:nghttp3-0.15.0: ok
rust-1.72.1:ngtcp2-0.19.1: ok
rust-1.72.1:curl-8.3.0p0: ok
rust-1.72.1:libssh2-1.11.0: ok
rust-1.72.1: ok
python3-3.10p2:xz-5.4.4: ok
python3-3.10p2:sqlite3-3.42.0: ok
python3-3.10p2:libiconv-1.17: ok
python3-3.10p2:gettext-runtime-0.22.2: ok
python3-3.10p2:libffi-3.4.4: ok
python3-3.10p2:bzip2-1.0.8p0: ok
python3-3.10p2:python-3.10.13: ok
python3-3.10p2: ok

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