GoKawiilOpenBSD 8.0 ships as 61st release with kernel and architecture upgrades
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.