The OpenBSD project has shipped version 8.0, its 61st release following a semiannual schedule dating to 1996. The update adds support for Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards, expands kernel virtual address space on AMD64 from 4 GB to 512 GB to allow mapping VRAM above 4 GB, and introduces ARM64 hibernation support, a new RPKI-to-router daemon, RISC-V vector extension support, and updates to LibreSSL and OpenSSH, while dropping Loongson architecture support.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-20
OpenBSD 8.0, the 61st release of the security-focused Unix-like OS, has launched with virtualization upgrades supporting up to 64 vCPUs per VM, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. The release also adds Intel Arc A-Series graphics support via updated DRM drivers, expands the amd64 kernel's virtual address space from 4GB to 512GB, and includes security hardening to pledge, unveil, and executable validation.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-20
The OpenBSD project has shipped OpenBSD 8.0, with installation images and documentation available for platforms including alpha, amd64, arm64, armv7, hppa and i386. Source and system code is distributed via src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz and ports.tar.gz, with a changelog detailing new features leading up to the release.
openbsd.org
· 2026-10-20
The OpenBSD project released version 8.0 on October 20, 2026, marking its 61st release. The update brings architecture-specific improvements across amd64, arm64, riscv64, sparc64 and luna88k, including a larger amd64 kernel address space, faster swap encryption via AES instructions, hibernate support on arm64, and new RISC-V extensions support. The project also retired support for the loongson architecture.
marc.info
· 2026-10-20
OpenBSD's upcoming 8.0 release will ship inteldrm, radeondrm and amdgpu graphics drivers synced to the Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53 driver stack, according to developer Jonathan Gray. The update adds support for Intel's Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) GPUs, and amd64 kernel virtual address space has been expanded to 512G, allowing more than 4G of VRAM to be mapped for uses like Vulkan GPU compute. The release also makes Clang/LLVM 22 the base compiler across Clang-supported architectures, including sparc64, which has now switched to Clang by default.
bsd.network
· 2026-10-19
Developers have successfully ported Wine to OpenBSD, enabling dozens of 64-bit Windows applications to run on the operating system. OpenBSD developer Thomas Frohwein noted that even the recent remaster of The Witcher 3 runs well under the new port. The port currently lacks WoW64 support, meaning 32-bit Windows software remains incompatible.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-19
Security firm Calif reported a decades-old integer overflow bug in OpenBSD's shared memory attachment counter, tracing back to original BSD source code. Combined with a separate out-of-bounds write flaw, attackers could exploit a race condition to achieve local root access even with protections like KARL, SMAP, and SMEP enabled. OpenBSD has since patched both issues through errata 026 and 018.
calif.io
· 2026-10-16
Kcgi, an open source minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C and C++, has released version 1.0.1 dated 2025-11-17. The update is described as a hot-fix to 1.0.0 that corrects the naming of shared libraries on Mac OS X, which follows a different versioning suffix convention than other Unix-like systems. The library remains available via system package managers or as a source archive with SHA-512 verification.
kristaps.bsd.lv
· 2026-10-12
Corey Prophitt shipped a commercial product, marketyour.games, built with the BCHS stack: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite. The app includes user accounts, a search dashboard, folder organization, Stripe payments and Postmark emails, served through CGI binaries rather than a modern framework. Deployment consists of replacing a single statically linked binary, relying on only three external libraries: libcurl, libsodium and libcjson.
prophitt.me
· 2026-10-12
A developer blog post examines whether the cp command's -r and -R recursive-copy flags have ever behaved differently. It traces GNU coreutils source code back to 1992, finding the two flags originally set different internal variables, before being merged into identical behavior in 2002. The post also checks OpenBSD 7.9 and NetBSD 11, finding both still treat -r and -R as distinct, with manuals recommending -R.
movq.de
· 2026-09-30
Developer ori has released a very early, buggy preview of GEFS—a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally built for Plan 9's 9front—running on OpenBSD. The port, under 9,000 lines of kernel code, is not intended for production use, with data loss expected especially during error conditions, and is not being proposed for inclusion in the OpenBSD tree yet.
marc.info
· 2026-09-15
A retrospective on OpenBSD's history blog describes SMD (Storage Module Device) disks, a storage interface standardized in 1982 and revised in 1987, which powered high-capacity systems throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The piece details how Sun Microsystems used SMD disks paired with Xylogics controllers in its early high-end servers and workstations, noting the drives' massive size, weight, and power draw compared to later interfaces like ESDI and SCSI.
miod.online.fr
· 2026-09-02
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