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Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.7, which is scheduled for release on May 19th, 2010.

Fresh from the keyboards of the developers, this release brings us support for a new platform, Loongson, expanded SGI systems support, a large pf rewrite, a collection of new (athn(4), urndis(4), lom(4), etc) and improved drivers, a major overhaul of the pkg_*(1) tools and OpenSSH 5.4 to name just a few. Visit the 4.7 release page (which is at this moment still under construction) for more details.

Of course, a t-shirt and a poster are available too. Order your set NOW!

A short while ago, Marc Espie (espie@) wrote to the ports mailinglist with a short rant about autoconf. His mail gives good insights into the problems porters face when dealing with GNU software, especially those using autoconf.

Please read on for Marc's post: Read more...

Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.

Please read on for the full release announcement: Read more...

Some time ago, we featured an article with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) was looking for a Lemote Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors and received his machine less than two weeks after the article was posted.

Quite a few commits have hit the tree (eg. here, here, and here) since then, mostly from otto and miod for src/ and jasper for ports/ and it looks like the 4.7 release will feature an OpenBSD/Loongson port that should work on the Lemote Yeeloong, the Lemote Fuloong and the EMTEC Gdium.

Undeadly followed up on the donations and asked Miod Vallat (miod@), Otto and Jasper about the porting efforts, please read on for their story: Read more...